The effect of a magnetic field on the thermal conductivity of paramagnetic crystals: cerium ethylsulphate

The thermal conductivity of crystals of concentrated cerium ethylsulphate has been measured in the range 1 to 4·58°K and in magnetic fields of up to 53 kG. In zero field there is a marked anomaly at 2·5°K in the variation of conductivity with temperature. Owing to the anisotropy of the g -values the magnetic field dependence of the thermal resistivity at constant temperature depends on the field direction; with the field parallel to the hexagonal axis, a maximum occurs in the resistivity which moves roughly linearly with temperature, and in very high fields it is always less than in zero field; with the field applied in the perpendicular direction a resistivity maximum is only observed above 2°K, and in the highest available field it is always much greater than in zero field. These results are explained by assuming that direct process phonon-spin interactions scatter certain bands of phonons whose frequency depends on the separation of the energy levels produced by the applied magnetic field. A statistical theory is used to determine the relative populations of the energy levels in the calculation of the thermal resistivity. It is assumed that the spin-phonon absorption lineshape is Gaussian. By fitting the theory to the experimental data, approximate values of the spin-lattice coupling constant, the linewidth of the transitions and the mean free paths for boundary and point-defect scattering are obtained.

The thermal conductivity of crystals of holmium ethylsulphate has been measured in the range 1 to 4·25°K in zero magnetic field and also in fields up to 53 kG, applied parallel to the hexagonal axis. The change in the thermal resistivity in a field is characterized by two maxima separated by a local, temperature-independent minimum at ca . 5·5 kG and another one, observable at 3°K and above at ca . 17 kG. The resistivity in very high fields is constant and is lower than that in zero field. The results are explained by assuming that direct process phonon-spin interactions scatter certain bands of phonons whose frequency depends on the separation of the energy levels produced by the applied field. A good quantitative fit to the experimental data is only obtained by calculating the total thermal resistivity (including boundary and point defect scattering) rather than the individual contribution due to spin scattering alone. A statistical model is used which takes account of the relative populations of the various energy levels and assumes a Gaussian lineshape for them. The line widths and the relative transition probabilities between the levels may be estimated from the theory since the calculations are very sensitive to the values of these parameters.


The thermal conductivity between 0.4 and 4.2 K and in magnetic fields up to 50 kOe of KMgF 3 doped with Ni 2+ has been measured. The results are analysed to give values of the average spin-lattice coupling constants ( x Sl ) for the Ni 2+ ion. These are in agreement with values calculated using the magneto-elastic constants (GX1 and 6r44) derived from acoustic paramagnetic resonance (a.p.r.) experiments. Below IK the thermal resistivity as a function of magnetic field shows a number of anomalies, for which possible causes are discussed; it is concluded that they result from phonon interactions with exchange-coupled pairs of Ni 2+ ions. Such pairs are also observed in a.p.r. experiments.


1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 679-681
Author(s):  
M. Landolfi

The observational quantities commonly used to study the magnetic field of CP stars – the mean field modulus and the mean longitudinal field, as well as the ‘mean asymmetry of the longitudinal field’ and the ‘mean quadratic field’ recently introduced by Mathys (1995a,b) – are based either on the Stokes parameter / or on the Stokes parameter V. However, a complete description of polarized radiation requires the knowledge of the full Stokes vector: in other words, we should expect that useful information is also contained in linear polarization (the Stokes parameters Q and U); or rather we should expect the information contained in (Q, U) and in V to be complementary, since linear and circular polarization are basically related to the transverse and the longitudinal component of the magnetic field, respectively.


2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (H16) ◽  
pp. 101-103
Author(s):  
A. S. Brun ◽  
A. Strugarek

AbstractWe briefly present recent progress using the ASH code to model in 3-D the solar convection, dynamo and its coupling to the deep radiative interior. We show how the presence of a self-consistent tachocline influences greatly the organization of the magnetic field and modifies the thermal structure of the convection zone leading to realistic profiles of the mean flows as deduced by helioseismology.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Luis M. Moreno-Ramírez ◽  
Victorino Franco

The applicability of magnetocaloric materials is limited by irreversibility. In this work, we evaluate the reversible magnetocaloric response associated with magnetoelastic transitions in the framework of the Bean-Rodbell model. This model allows the description of both second- and first-order magnetoelastic transitions by the modification of the η parameter (η<1 for second-order and η>1 for first-order ones). The response is quantified via the Temperature-averaged Entropy Change (TEC), which has been shown to be an easy and effective figure of merit for magnetocaloric materials. A strong magnetic field dependence of TEC is found for first-order transitions, having a significant increase when the magnetic field is large enough to overcome the thermal hysteresis of the material observed at zero field. This field value, as well as the magnetic field evolution of the transition temperature, strongly depend on the atomic magnetic moment of the material. For a moderate magnetic field change of 2 T, first-order transitions with η≈1.3−1.8 have better TEC than those corresponding to stronger first-order transitions and even second-order ones.


1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. T. Chien ◽  
R. E. Bardsley ◽  
F. W. Dalby

Zero-field level-crossing techniques have been used to measure some upper-state lifetimes of the helium atom. The half-widths of curves obtained by plotting the polarization against the magnetic field strength for the n1D–21D transitions yielded lifetimes of 2.03 × 10−8 s for the 31D state, 3.36 × 10−8 s for the 41D state, and 7.44 × 10−8 s for the 51D state. Collision cross sections for these 1D levels were also determined.


2018 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
Polya Dobreva ◽  
Olga Nitcheva ◽  
Monio Kartalev

This paper presents a case study of the plasma parameters in the magnetosheath, based on THEMIS measurements. As a theoretical tool we apply the self-consistent magnetosheath-magnetosphere model. A specific aspect of the model is that the positions of the bow shock and the magnetopause are self-consistently determined. In the magnetosheath the distribution of the velocity, density and temperature is calculated, based on the gas-dynamic theory. The magnetosphere module allows for the calculation of the magnetopause currents, confining the magnetic field into an arbitrary non-axisymmetric magnetopause. The variant of the Tsyganenko magnetic field model is applied as an internal magnetic field model. As solar wind monitor we use measurements from the WIND spacecraft. The results show that the model quite well reproduces the values of the ion density and velocity in the magnetosheath. The simlicity of the model allows calulations to be perforemed on a personal computer, which is one of the mean advantages of our model.


Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 467
Author(s):  
Fayçal Hammad ◽  
Alexandre Landry ◽  
Parvaneh Sadeghi

The relativistic wave equation for spin-1/2 particles in the interior Schwarzschild solution in the presence of a uniform magnetic field is obtained. The fully relativistic regime is considered, and the energy levels occupied by the particles are derived as functions of the magnetic field, the radius of the massive sphere and the total mass of the latter. As no assumption is made on the relative strengths of the particles’ interaction with the gravitational and magnetic fields, the relevance of our results to the physics of the interior of neutron stars, where both the gravitational and the magnetic fields are very intense, is discussed.


1970 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 608-611
Author(s):  
P. Zimmermann

Observing the change of the Hanle effect under the influence of a homogeneous electric field E the Stark effect of the (5p1/25d5/2)j=2-state in Sn I was studied. Due to the tensorial part β Jz2E2 in the Hamiltonian of the second order Stark effect the signal of the zero field crossing (M ∓ 2, M′ = 0 β ≷ 0 ) is shifted to the magnetic field H with gJμBH=2 | β | E2. From these shifts for different electric field strengths the value of the Stark parameter|β| = 0.21(2) MHz/(kV/cm)2 · gJ/1.13was deduced. A theoretical value of ß using Coulomb wave functions is discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
P. Pereyra

We study the time evolution of the survival probability and the spin polarization of a dissipative nondegenerate two-level system in the presence of a magnetic field in the Faraday configuration. We apply the Extended Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble approach to model the stochastic system-environment interaction and calculate the survival and spin polarization to first and second order of the interaction picture. We present also the time evolution of the thermal average of these quantities as functions of the temperature, the magnetic field, and the energy-levels density, for ρ(ϵ)∝ϵs, in the subohmic, ohmic, and superohmic dissipation forms. We show that the behavior of the spin polarization calculated here agrees rather well with the time evolution of spin polarization observed and calculated, recently, for the electron-nucleus dynamics of Ga centers in dilute (Ga,N)As semiconductors.


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