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Computational studies of torsional properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes
2010
Current thesis presents computational studies of the torsional twist in single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Since SWCNTs can be viewed as rolled up graphene sheets, our aim is to explain their torsion constants via shear mod- ulus of graphene in pristine, and single- and double vacancy cases. In addition, fundamental energy gap response to torsion is investigated. Calculations of defected structures is computationally expensive as it requires larger simula- tion cell with large number of atoms. To reduce the cost of computations we take the advantage of chiral symmetry of nanotubes instead of translational one, and faster performance of density-functional tight-binding method compared …
Spin-transfer torque driven motion, deformation, and instabilities of magnetic skyrmions at high currents
2020
In chiral magnets, localized topological magnetic whirls, magnetic skyrmions, can be moved by spin polarized electric currents. Upon increasing the current strength, with prospects for high-speed skyrmion motion for spintronics applications in mind, isolated skyrmions deform away from their typical circular shape. We analyze the influence of spin-transfer torques on the shape of a single skyrmion, including its stability upon adiabatically increasing the strength of the applied electric current. For rather compact skyrmions at uniaxial anisotropies well above the critical anisotropy for domain wall formation, we find for high current densities that the skyrmion assumes a non-circular shape …
New expressions for string loop amplitudes leading to an ultrasimple conception of string dynamics
1991
New expressions are derived for string loop amplitudes as overlap integrals of string wave functionals. They are shown to take the form of exchange terms coming from the Bose-Einstein symmetrization between string segments. One is thus led to the ultrasimple conception that string theory is basically free, and that ``string interactions'' are merely due to the fact that strings are composite objects with Bose-Einstein segments as constituents.
Solitons and their observable signatures in quasi-one-dimensional systems
2005
We give an overview of the experimental signatures of nonlinear waves: notably topological and non topological solitons, in specific quasi-one-dimensional devices and condensed matter systems. Non topological solitons can be easily observed and manipulated, on a macroscopic scale, in optical fibers and electrical transmission lines. Topological solitons have been clearly identified as fluxons in Josephson transmission lines and as domain walls in condensed matter systems such as magnetic chains and synthetic polymers. By contrast, at the present time the observable signatures of nonlinear excitations such as pulse or envelope solitons and polarons, which are predicted to occur on a microsco…
Scaling Behavior in Non-Hookean Compression of Thin-Walled Structures
2010
The mechanics and stability of thin-walled structures is a challenging and important branch in structural mechanics. Under vertical compression the deformation of a thin-walled box differs from that of, e.g., a cylindrical shell. It is demonstrated here that compression of a box can be described by a set of generic scaling laws representing three successive regimes: a linear, wrinkled, and collapsed regime. The linear Hookean regime represents the normal behavior before any instability sets in, while the following wrinkled regime is shown to be analogous to compression of thin-film blisters. The compression force reaches its maximum at the onset of the final collapsed regime that has all th…
X-ray-absorption fine-structure study of ZnSexTe1−x alloys
2004
X-ray-absorption fine-structure experiments at different temperatures in ZnSexTe1−x (x=0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.55, 0.81, 0.93, 0.99, and 1.0) have been performed in order to obtain information about the structural relaxation and disorder effects occurring in the alloys. First and second neighbor distance distributions have been characterized at the Se and Zn K edges, using multiple-edge and multiple-scattering data analysis. The first neighbor distance distribution was found to be bimodal. The static disorder associated with the Zn–Te distance variance did not depend appreciably on composition. On the other hand, the static disorder associated with the Zn–Se distance increased as the Se content dimi…
Domain wall splitting and creation of the fine domain structure
1998
Abstract The study of the movement of the paraelectric-ferroelectric interphase boundary in (Ba,Sr)TiO 3 with concentration change is provided in the framework of the mean-field theory. The analytical solution for the parameters of motion of the interphase boundary is applied to the calculations of the splitting of domain walls in (Ba,Sr)TiO 3 for different concentrations of Sr. The calculations are based on the experimental data for the Curie–Weiss constant and for the parameters of the Landau–Ginzburg expression for the free energy.
Debye-Waller factor in the spin crossover complex Fe(ppi)2(NCS)2
1997
Abstract Mossbauer spectroscopy and magnetic susceptibility measurements for the complex Fe(ppi) 2 (NCS) 2 in the temperature range 11–300 K indicate that the spin transition of this compound is incomplete until 11 K. The similar Debye-Waller factors in high spin (HS) and low spin (LS) states is shown by the comparison of the HS fractions from the two different methods. The Debye temperature of the compound was calculated from the defined Debye-Waller factors obtained from Mossbauer measurement at each experimental temperature and was found to depend on the temperature as well as on the HS fraction. The modification of the Debye-Waller factors in the HS and LS states for the HS fraction fro…
Electron–phonon effects on the direct band gap in semiconductors: LCAO calculations
2002
Abstract Using a perturbative treatment of the electron–phonon interaction, we have studied the effect of phonons on the direct band gap of conventional semiconductors. Our calculations are performed in the framework of the tight-binding linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) approach. Within this scheme we have calculated the temperature and isotopic mass dependence of the lowest direct band gap of several semiconductors with diamond and zincblende structure. Our results reproduce the overall trend of available experimental data for the band gap as a function of temperature, as well as give correctly the mass dependence of the band gap on isotopic. A calculation of conduction band in…
Characterization of electrospun poly(lactide) composites containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes
2019
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, for funding projects III45022 and 172056 and European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action CA15107.