Acta Physica Polonica A
Vol. 97 No 4 April 2000
 
MAGNETIC TRANSLATIONS FOR A SPATIALLY PERIODIC MAGNETIC FIELD

W. Florek

Computational Physics Division, Institute of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland

Received: November 29, 1999

It is shown that in the case of a free electron in a spatially periodic magnetic field the concept of magnetic translations operators is still valid and, moreover, these operators can be defined in the same way as for a Bloch electron in a uniform magnetic field. The results can be a useful tool in the investigation of recently observed phenomena in 2D electron gas with spatially modulated density.
 
PACS numbers: 02.20.-a, 73.40.Hm, 71.70.Di, 71.10.-w
 
KINETIC ENERGIES IN THE DIRECT DOUBLE PHOTOIONIZATION OF HELIUM AND THE ELECTRON-ELECTRON CORRELATION

J. Bauer

Katedra Fizyki Jadrowej i Bezpieczeństwa Radiacyjnego Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego, Pomorska 149/153, 90-236 Lódz, Poland

Received: October 28, 1999

We present a simple model describing kinetic energy probability distributions of outgoing electrons in the direct double photoionization of helium. The model applies to photons of energy greater than the binding energy of the atom and to radiation intensities extending from perturbation regime to the strong-field one. It appears that the shape of probability distribution is mainly determined by the electron-electron correlation in their final state. For nonperturbative intensities the distribution depends strongly on polarization of incident radiation.
 
PACS numbers: 32.80.Rm, 33.80.Rv
 
ULTRASONIC WAVES IN MAGNETIC LIQUIDS: TWO-PHASE APPROACH AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

M. Kaczmareka, T. Hornowskib, A. Skumielb and M. Labowskib

a Department of Environmental Mechanics Pedagogical University in Bydgoszcz Chodkiewicza 30, 85-064 Bydgoszcz, Poland
b Institute of Acoustics Adam Mickiewicz University Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland

Received: September 6, 1999; revised version November 29, 1999; in final form February 2, 2000

A two-phase model of dynamical behavior of magnetic liquid influenced by constant magnetic field is considered. The model takes into account mutual interaction of clusters giving skeleton's stiffness and interaction of clusters with free liquid producing attenuation and dispersion of waves for transversally isotropic system. Rotational degrees of freedom are disregarded. Predictions of the model are discussed for variable amount of clusters and compared with experimental data for different magnetic fields.
 
PACS numbers: 47.35.+i, 75.50.-y, 62.60.+v
 
EFFECTIVE PAIR INTERACTION FROM AB INITIO PSEUDOPOTENTIALS - IMPORTANCE AND APPLICATIONS

S. Haldar

Condensed Matter Physics Research Centre, Physics Dept. Jadavpur University, Calcutta - 700 032, India

A. Sarkar

B.K. Girls' College, Howrah 711101, India

and D. Sen

Barasat Govt. College, Barasat 743201, West Bengal, India

Received: August 12, 1999; in final form January 12, 2000

Computation of reliable effective interionic pair interaction for simple metals has been discussed on the basis of localised ab initio pseudopotential within linear screening approximation. The influence of different commonly used screening functions on the shape of pair potential is examined and the temperature dependence of the interaction is also investigated. Various features of the potential are studied and compared with empirical and available first principle results. Importance of the present study and some related problems are also analysed.
 
PACS numbers: 63.10.+a, 65.90.+i
 
STRUCTURAL STUDY OF (NH4)4H2(SeO4)3 IN THE LOW-TEMPERATURE PHASE

T. Fukami, N. Higa

Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan

and R.H. Chen

Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, Taiwan, 117, Republic of China

Received: October 7, 1999, revised version December 21, 1999

The crystal structure of tetraammonium dihydrogen triselenate, (NH4)4H2(SeO4)3, in the low-temperature phase at 141 K is studied by X-ray diffraction. The space group symmetry (triclinic P1) and the structure parameters are determined. By the shift of the Se atom from the center of the SeO4 tetrahedron, it is suggested that the (NH4)4H2 (SeO4)3 crystal in the low-temperature phase is ferroelectric with the electric dipole moment along the c-axis. The rotation of the SeO4 tetrahedron suggested by electron paramagnetic resonance measurements is discussed.
 
PACS numbers: 61.66.Fn, 64.60.Fr
 
A GREEN FUNCTION ESTIMATION OF CORRECTION TO VEGARD'S LAW FOR ISOVALENT SUBSTITUTIONAL DEFECTS IN ALKALI HALIDE CRYSTALS

S. Datta Roy (Paul)a and S.K. Dasb

a Department of Physics, Bethune College, Calcutta 700 006, India
b Azad Physics Centre, Department of Physics Maulana Azad College, Calcutta 700 013, India

Received: October 25, 1999; revised version January 25, 2000

A Green function method is developed for estimation of lattice parameter r(chi) of an AX-BX solid solution over entire composition range (chi=0 to 1). The r(chi) obtained in the present method is different from the value rV(chi) suggested by Vegard's law. We estimated the deviation from Vegard's law, r(chi)-rV(chi), over entire composition range for isovalent substitutional defect in alkali halide crystals. When compared to X-ray diffraction measurements, we find that the deviation is in correct direction, variation of r(chi) with chi is consistent with experiment and the overall agreement is fairly good considering the accuracy of the experiment.
 
PACS numbers: 61.72.Bb, 61.82.Bg
 
NUCLEATION AND CRYSTAL GROWTH OF Cu ON Ir TIPS UNDER ULTRA-HIGH VACUUM AND IN THE PRESENCE OF OXYGEN

S.M. Zuber and A. Ciszewski

Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wroclaw pl. Maxa Borna 9, 50-204 Wroclaw, Poland

Received: November 19, 1999

Results concerning the morphology of Cu adsorption layers deposited from vapor under ultrahigh vacuum on Ir tip and the influence of oxygen on this morphology are reported. The method employed was field electron emission microscopy. It was found that the presence of oxygen decreases the copper wettability of iridium. Preadsorption of oxygen on the Ir surface is followed by an increase in cohesion interaction between atoms of the Cu deposited onto the tip at room temperature. Coadsorption of Cu and O on the Ir tip surface at liquid nitrogen temperature, when followed by gradually heating the adlayer, results in crystallization of the deposit in the temperature range from 430 K to about 700 K. Some evidence indicates the formation of Cu2O with a high degree of crystallinity under these conditions. Cu and O coadsorption on the Ir surface at a temperature higher than 1090 K leads to selective accumulation of Cu on the {111} faces and to formation of epitaxial crystals which are oriented to the substrate in the same manner as the Cu crystals grown at ultra-high vacuum from Cu flux containing no oxygen. Oxygen incorporated into the Cu beam interact preferentially with {011} and {001} Ir faces, where it can produce oxide layers.
 
PACS numbers: 61.16.Fk, 81.15.Ef, 68.35.Bs
 
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF D-WAVE PAIRED SUPERCONDUCTORS IN THE LOW TEMPERATURE AND SUBCRITICAL REGIONS

W. Kumala, R. Gonczarek and M. Mulak

Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology Wybrzeze Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland

Received: May 11, 1999; revised version October 13, 1999; in final form February 11, 2000

D-wave paired isotropic Fermi system in the limiting cases T -> Tc and T -> 0 is considered. Values of the energy gap, the thermodynamic potential, and the specific heat as a function of temperature are given for admissible solutions and compared with values for S-wave paired system. It is shown that the linear term of low temperature specific heat vanishes likewise in case of S-wave pairing. The obtained results make prospects to define the geometry of the energy gap in virtue of the behavior of the specific heat in the limiting temperature cases for heavy-fermion superconductors.
 
PACS numbers: 74.20.-z
 
PECULIAR PROPERTIES OF ULTRATHIN FCC IRON FILMS EPITAXIALLY GROWN ON Cu(001)

R. Wojneckia and A. Sukiennickia,b

a Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
b Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

Received: November 3, 1999

Very peculiar electronic structure and local magnetic moment distribution for fcc Fe ultrathin films of 1, 2, 3, and 4 monolayers of thickness, epitaxially grown on Cu(001) substrates and covered with some layers of Cu, are calculated. The lattice constant of the Fe film is assumed to be equal to that of Cu, homogeneously in the whole film. The competition between the surface ferromagnetism and bulk antiferromagnetism results in ferromagnetism of 2-monolayer film, asymmetric solution for 3-monolayer film and antisymmetric solution for 4-monolayer film.
 
PACS numbers: 75.70.Ak
 
PHASE TRANSITIONS IN MAGNETIC AND SUPERCONDUCTING SYSTEMS WITH FLUCTUATING VALENCE. CHEMICAL POTENTIAL EVIDENCE

E. Goslawskaa, M. Matlaka and Kh. Eidb

a Institute of Physics, Silesian University Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland
bPhysics Department, Faculty of Education Ain-Shams University, Roxy, Cairo, Egypt

Received: November 18, 1999

We investigate the critical behaviour of the chemical potential and average occupation numbers using the extended s -f model with intersite Cooper pairing for systems with fluctuating valence. The model is able to describe phase transitions from normal ferromagnet to normal paramagnet at T=TC, from superconducting paramagnet to normal paramagnet at T=TS, as well as reentrant phase transitions with three critical temperatures TS1, TC and TS2 (TS1 < TC < TS2). Present investigation, as well as recent results obtained for another models suggest one-to-one correspondence between critical temperatures of the system and kinks appearing in the temperature dependence of the chemical potential and average occupation numbers. This, in turn, indicates a possibility to apply the measurement of the chemical potential vs. temperature as an experimental universal tool when looking for phase transitions in solids.
 
PACS numbers: 75.30.Kz, 75.40.Cx
 
MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY DISACCOMMODATION AND MÖSSBAUER EFFECT IN MICROCRYSTALLINE Fe-Si RIBBONS

W.H. Ciurzyńska

Institute of Physics, Technical University of Czestochowa Al. Armii Krajowej 19, 42-200 Czestochowa, Poland

Received: November 30, 1999 In memory of Professor Jerzy Wojciech Moroń

The magnetic susceptibility disaccommodation of the microcrystalline Fe-xSi (x=3, 5, 6.5, and 7.2 wt%) ribbons in the as-quenched state and after annealing at 1370 K for 1 h was investigated in the temperature range from 220 to 410 K. Simultaneously, the microstructure of those samples was studied using the Mössbauer spectroscopy. It is found that the isochronal disaccommodation curves may be decomposed into five elementary processes. Taking into account the results obtained from the Mössbauer spectra analysis, the relaxational process with activation energy equal to 0.84 eV may be considered as the Snoek relaxation. However, the relaxational processes of higher activation energy seem to be connected with jumps of C atoms in the vicinity of Fe atoms surrounded by 1, 2, 3, and 4 silicon atoms.
 
PACS numbers: 75.60.Lr, 76.80.+y
 
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