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More Variations On Aharonov-Bohm, Peter A. Sturock, Timothy R. Groves, Alexander Ershkovich, C. Alden Mead, Herman Batelaan And Akira Tonomura: Batelaan And Tonomura Reply, Herman Batelaan, Akira Tonomura
More Variations On Aharonov-Bohm, Peter A. Sturock, Timothy R. Groves, Alexander Ershkovich, C. Alden Mead, Herman Batelaan And Akira Tonomura: Batelaan And Tonomura Reply, Herman Batelaan, Akira Tonomura
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications
First paragraph: Werner Ehrenberg and Raymond Siday did propose the magnetic version of what is now called the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect, as Peter Sturrock and Timothy Groves point out. We had included this reference in the early versions of our manuscript. However, limited space directed the focus of the paper to the "effect without a force" discussion, rather than a historic perspective.
Orientational Order Of A Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal With Small Layer Contraction, Rafal Korlacki, Vitaly P. Panov, Atsuo Fukuda, Jagdish K. Vij, Christopher M. Spillmann, Jawad Naciri
Orientational Order Of A Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal With Small Layer Contraction, Rafal Korlacki, Vitaly P. Panov, Atsuo Fukuda, Jagdish K. Vij, Christopher M. Spillmann, Jawad Naciri
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications
We present spectroscopic and optical studies of a non-layer-shrinkage ferroelectric liquid crystal DSiKN65. The orientational order parameters S, measured with respect to the smectic layer normal using IR spectroscopy on a sample aligned homeotropically, does not exhibit any significant variation between the smectic-A* and smectic-C* phases. In contrast the birefringence of a planar homogenous sample abruptly increases at the smectic-A* to smectic-C* transition. This suggests a general increase in the orientational order, which can be described by the orientational order parameters S' defined with respect to the director. Simultaneous increase of S' and the director …
Magnetic And Optical Properties Of Multiferroic Gdmno3 Nanoparticles, X. L. Wang, D. Li, T. Y. Cui, Parashu Kharel, W. Liu, Z. D. Zhang
Magnetic And Optical Properties Of Multiferroic Gdmno3 Nanoparticles, X. L. Wang, D. Li, T. Y. Cui, Parashu Kharel, W. Liu, Z. D. Zhang
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications
The magnetic and optical properties of multiferroic GdMnO3 nanoparticles synthesized by a polymerized complex method have been investigated. The GdMnO3 nanoparticles crystallized in orthorhombic perovskite-type structure. The zero-field-cooled and field-cooled magnetizations show that complicated magnetic transitions occur in a temperature range from 2 to 60 K, which were confirmed by magnetic hysteresis loops. Three shoulder absorption peaks centered at about 2.0, 2.3, and 2.7 eV are attributed to the Mn (3d)-electronic transitions, while an absorption peak at around 4.1 eV corresponds to the charge-transfer transitions between O (2p) and Mn (3d) states. UV emission at about 396 and …