卷 104, 编号 8 (2016)

The structural properties of the simulated Cu_αZr_1-α glassy alloys are studied in the wide range of the copper concentration to clarify the impact of the composition on the number density of the icosahedral clusters. Both bond orientational order parameters and Voronoi tessellation methods are used to identify these clusters. Our analysis shows that abundance of the icosahedral clusters and the chemical composition of these clusters are essentially nonmonotonic versus and demonstrate local extrema. That qualitatively explains the existence of pinpoint compositions of high glass-forming ability observing in Cu Zr alloys. Finally, it has been shown that Voronoi method overestimates drastically the abundance of the icosahedral clusters in comparison with the bond orientational order parameters one.

Neutron diffraction studies of the Fe_0.735Al_0.265 compound are performed in a wide temperature range (20–900°C) in order to determine its structural states and the mechanism of ordering of atoms. The combination of high-resolution diffraction and the real-time detection of diffraction spectra makes it possible to establish that, in contrast to traditional notions, the structure of this compound at room temperature is a phase with only a partially ordered arrangement of Fe and Al in a unit cell. A completely ordered phase (such as Fe₃Al) is present in the form of mesoscopic (~200Å) clusters coherently incorporated into the disordered matrix of the main phase. After the transition of the sample to a disordered state (T> 740°С) and slow cooling to room temperature, the size of structurally ordered clusters increases to ~900 Å. A high contrast in the coherent neutron scattering lengths of iron and gallium nuclei allows the accurate determination of the temperature dependence of the occupancy factors of sites by Fe and Al atoms up to a phase transition to the disordered state.

Features of the propagation of magnetostatic waves in a tangentially magnetized magnonic crystal structure based on iron–yttrium garnet with a two-dimensional array of grooves on the surface are studied. Numerical simulation is performed by the finite element method and the dispersion characteristics and the spatial distribution of fields of eigenmodes of surface magnetostatic waves propagating in this structure are calculated. The characteristics of waves in the magnonic crystal structure are experimentally studied by means of Brillouin scattering. It is shown that the formation of waveguide channels is possible when the frequency of the input signal is close to the frequency of the band gap of the structure.

The polarization effects of the τ → K–π⁰ν_τ process are described in the framework of the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model. The intermediate vector meson K*(892) is taken into account. The contribution of these effects to the differential decay width is obtained.

Time-resolved optical reflection microscopy studies demonstrate spatiotemporal dynamics of melting and ablation of graphite surface molten by single IR femtosecond laser pulses, which are revealed by monitoring picosecond oscillations of the probe reflectivity modulated by transient acoustic reverberations in the surface melt. Temporal periods and amplitudes of the reverberations are affected through transient variations of melt thickness and acoustic impedance by melting, thermal expansion, spallation and fragmentation processes, thus enabling quantitative evaluation of their contributions and basic parameters.

Flows of a viscous incompressible fluid in a spherical layer that are due to rotational oscillations of its inner boundary at two frequencies with respect to the state of rest are numerically studied. It is found that an increase in the amplitude of oscillations of the boundary at the higher frequency can result in a significant enhancement of the low-frequency mode in a flow near the outer boundary. The direction of propagation of the low-frequency wave changes from radial to meridional, whereas the high-frequency wave propagates in the radial direction in a limited inner region of the spherical layer. The role of the meridional circulation in the energy exchange between spaced waves is demonstrated.

Recent theoretical studies of coherent charge transport in junctions involving unconventional superconducting materials such as high-temperature superconducting iron-based pnictides (FeBS) and in structures with induced superconductivity which are formed of a thin metal layer with spin–orbit coupling in contact with an s-wave superconductor (S_SO) are reported. The theoretical analysis is performed with our unified approach based on the tight-binding method and boundary conditions obtained for it. This approach makes it possible to take into account a complex nonparabolic and anisotropic spectrum of normal excitations in unconventional superconducting materials and their multiband character, as well as unusual types of symmetries of the superconducting order parameter in them. The possibility of a semiclassical description in the case of intraorbital superconducting pairing is demonstrated. The method of calculations and their results are presented for the conductivities of junctions between a normal metal and unconventional superconducting materials, as well as for the Josephson current. Comparison with the experiment for the junction with FeBS is performed and indicates the presence of the unusual s_± symmetry of the order parameter. An experiment is proposed to test our theoretical results for S_SO.