The effects of Coulomb interaction screening on electron-hydrogen atom excitation in the n=2 threshold region are investigated by using the R-matrix method with pseudostates. The interaction screening lifts the l dege...
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The effects of Coulomb interaction screening on electron-hydrogen atom excitation in the n=2 threshold region are investigated by using the R-matrix method with pseudostates. The interaction screening lifts the l degeneracy of n=2 Coulomb energy level, producing two distinct thresholds for 2s and 2p states. The phenomenon of transformation of P1,3 and D1 Feshbach resonances into shape-type resonances is observed when they pass across the 2s and 2p threshold, respectively, as the interaction screening increases. It is shown that this resonance transformation leads to dramatic effects in the 1s→2s and 1s→2p excitation collision strengths in the n=2 threshold collision energy region.
Our understanding of earthquakes is based on the theory of plate tectonics. Earthquake dynamics is the study of the interactions of plates (solid disjoint parts of the lithosphere) which produce seismic activity. Over...
Our understanding of earthquakes is based on the theory of plate tectonics. Earthquake dynamics is the study of the interactions of plates (solid disjoint parts of the lithosphere) which produce seismic activity. Over the last about fifty years many models have come up which try to simulate seismic activity by mimicking plate plate interactions. The validity of a given model is subject to the compliance of the synthetic seismic activity it produces to the well known empirical laws which describe the statistical features of observed seismic activity. Here we present a review of one such, purely geometric, model of earthquake dynamics, namely The Two Fractal Overlap Model. The model tries to emulate the stick-slip dynamics of lithospheric plates with fractal surfaces by evaluating the time-evolution of overlap lengths of two identical Cantor sets sliding over each other. As we show later in the text, some statistical aspects of natural seismicity are naturally captured by this simple model. More importantly, however, this model also reveals a new statistical feature of aftershock sequences which we have verified to be present in nature as well. We show that, both in the model as well as in nature, the cumulative integral of aftershock magnitudes over time is a remarkable straight line with a characteristic slope. This slope is closely related to the fractal geometry of the fault surface that produces most of thee aftershocks. We also go on to discuss the implications that this feature may have in possible predictions of aftershock magnitudes or times of occurrence.
The magnetic substate-selective single-electron-capture cross sections in collisions of N5+ with He and H2 are calculated using the two-center atomic orbital close-coupling method, and the polarization of emitted radi...
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The magnetic substate-selective single-electron-capture cross sections in collisions of N5+ with He and H2 are calculated using the two-center atomic orbital close-coupling method, and the polarization of emitted radiation from the excited state of N4+ is investigated for projectile energies between 1.2 and 7 keV/u. The polarization degrees for the 3p 2P3/2–3s 2S1/2 transition of N4+(3p 2P3/2) produced in N5++He and N5++H2 electron-capture collisions are in general agreement with the experimental measurements. It is found both experimentally and theoretically that there exists a large difference between the polarization degrees of this radiation resulting from the N5++He and N5++H2 electron-capture collisions, namely, ~0.25 and ~0, respectively. By studying the time evolution of electron-capture dynamics in the two systems we have found that this difference is caused mainly by the difference in the interactions in the two systems at relatively small internuclear distances, consistent with the molecular picture of the collision dynamics.
The fiber bundle model describes a collection of elastic fibers under load. The fibers fail successively and, for each failure, the load distribution among the surviving fibers changes. Even though very simple, this m...
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The fiber bundle model describes a collection of elastic fibers under load. The fibers fail successively and, for each failure, the load distribution among the surviving fibers changes. Even though very simple, this model captures the essentials of failure processes in a large number of materials and settings. A review of the fiber bundle model is presented with different load redistribution mechanisms from the point of view of statistics and statistical physics rather than materials science, with a focus on concepts such as criticality, universality, and fluctuations. The fiber bundle model is discussed as a tool for understanding phenomena such as creep and fatigue and how it is used to describe the behavior of fiber-reinforced composites as well as modeling, e.g., network failure, traffic jams, and earthquake dynamics.
Differential, integral, and momentum-transfer cross sections for the rotationally elastic and inelastic scattering of electron by the BH2 radical at low collision energies (0–8 eV) are reported in a 22-state molecula...
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Differential, integral, and momentum-transfer cross sections for the rotationally elastic and inelastic scattering of electron by the BH2 radical at low collision energies (0–8 eV) are reported in a 22-state molecular R-matrix method. The excitation cross sections from the ground X 2A1 state to the first two excited states 2B1 and 4A2 are calculated as well, for incident electron energies from the respective thresholds up to 8 eV. Configuration-interaction wave functions are used to represent the target states which account for the correlation effects. Four shape and three Feshbach resonances are detected. The Born-closure approximation is applied for the elastic and dipole-allowed transitions to account for the l>4 partial waves excluded from the R-matrix calculations.
This paper reports a systematic study of the dependence on atomic number of the dielectronic recombination resonance strengths for He-like, Li-like and Be-like ions. Recent measurements of dielectronic recombination r...
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This paper reports a systematic study of the dependence on atomic number of the dielectronic recombination resonance strengths for He-like, Li-like and Be-like ions. Recent measurements of dielectronic recombination resonance strengths for the KLL and KLM manifolds for iron, yttrium, iodine, holmium, and bismuth are also described. The resonance strengths were normalized to calculated electron impact ionization cross sections. The measured resonance strengths generally agree well with theoretical calculations using the distorted wave approximation. However, KLM resonance strength measurements on high atomic number open-shell ions gave higher values than those suggested by calculations. Using recently measured data, along with existing results, scaling laws have been generated as a function of atomic number for He-like, Li-like, and Be-like ions in the KLL and KLM manifolds.
The collision cross sections of sodium from the ground state to the first four excited states at the incident energy ranging from 0 to 5.4 eV are calculated using the R-matrix method. The convergences of the cross sec...
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The collision cross sections of sodium from the ground state to the first four excited states at the incident energy ranging from 0 to 5.4 eV are calculated using the R-matrix method. The convergences of the cross sections are checked systematically by using four sets of high-quality target states, i.e., 5, 9, 14, and 19 physical target states. The influence of the Rydberg target states on the collision cross sections is also elucidated at higher incident energies; i.e., the amplitude of resonance structures will decrease with respect to the effective quantum number υ of the Rydberg target states. This result is very useful for the calculations of these cross sections at intermediate energy with finite target states by combining the partial-wave-expansion methods valid at low energy with the first Born approximation method valid at high energy, which would be of great importance in obtaining complete cross-section data for related scientific fields.
Premelting describes the confluence of phenomena that are responsible for the stable existence of the liquid phase of matter in the solid region of its bulk phase diagram. Here we develop a theoretical description of ...
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Premelting describes the confluence of phenomena that are responsible for the stable existence of the liquid phase of matter in the solid region of its bulk phase diagram. Here we develop a theoretical description of the premelting of water ice contained in a porous matrix, made of a material with a melting temperature substantially larger than ice itself, to predict the amount of liquid water in the matrix at temperatures below its bulk freezing point. Our theory combines the interfacial premelting of ice in contact with the matrix, grain-boundary melting in the ice, and impurity and curvature induced premelting, with the latter occurring in regions which force the ice-liquid interface into a high curvature configuration. These regions are typically found at points where the matrix surface is concave, along contact lines of a grain boundary with the matrix, and in liquid veins. Both interfacial premelting and curvature induced premelting depend on the concentration of impurities in the liquid, which, due to the small segregation coefficient of impurities in ice are treated as homogeneously distributed in the premelted liquid. Our principal result is an equation for the fraction of liquid in the porous medium as a function of the undercooling, which embodies the combined effects of interfacial premelting, curvature induced premelting, and impurities. The result is analyzed in detail and applied to a range of experimentally relevant settings.
The electron capture in O6+-H collisions is studied by the two-center atomic orbital close-coupling (TC-AOCC) method when the interactions of charged particles are screened and have a Yukawa form. Atomic orbitals and ...
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The electron capture in O6+-H collisions is studied by the two-center atomic orbital close-coupling (TC-AOCC) method when the interactions of charged particles are screened and have a Yukawa form. Atomic orbitals and eigenenergies of n ⩽ 6 states on O5+ and n ⩽ 2 states on H are calculated as a function of the interaction screening parameter and used in the AOCC dynamics scheme to calculate the electron capture cross sections in the energy range 1–200 keV/u. It is shown that the degree of interaction screening reduces the electron binding energies, the number of open electron capture channels, and the strength of exchange couplings, thus affecting the entire collision dynamics and the magnitude and energy behavior of electron capture cross sections. The state-selective electron capture cross sections in this collision system, as well as the intensities of a number of charge exchange spectral lines, for a number of representative interaction screening strengths are presented and discussed.
Point configurations have been widely used as model systems in condensed-matter physics, materials science, and biology. Statistical descriptors, such as the n-body distribution function gn, are usually employed to ch...
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Point configurations have been widely used as model systems in condensed-matter physics, materials science, and biology. Statistical descriptors, such as the n-body distribution function gn, are usually employed to characterize point configurations, among which the most extensively used is the pair distribution function g2. An intriguing inverse problem of practical importance that has been receiving considerable attention is the degree to which a point configuration can be reconstructed from the pair distribution function of a target configuration. Although it is known that the pair-distance information contained in g2 is, in general, insufficient to uniquely determine a point configuration, this concept does not seem to be widely appreciated and general claims of uniqueness of the reconstructions using pair information have been made based on numerical studies. In this paper, we present the idea of the distance space called the D space. The pair distances of a specific point configuration are then represented by a single point in the D space. We derive the conditions on the pair distances that can be associated with a point configuration, which are equivalent to the realizability conditions of the pair distribution function g2. Moreover, we derive the conditions on the pair distances that can be assembled into distinct configurations, i.e., with structural degeneracy. These conditions define a bounded region in the D space. By explicitly constructing a variety of degenerate point configurations using the D space, we show that pair information is indeed insufficient to uniquely determine the configuration in general. We also discuss several important problems in statistical physics based on the D space, including the reconstruction of atomic structures from experimentally obtained g2 and a recently proposed “decorrelation” principle. The degenerate configurations have relevance to open questions involving the famous traveling salesman problem.
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