拓扑荷在圆盘状向列相液晶薄膜中的尺寸效应

拓扑现象对于病毒颗粒的空间分布、高分子聚合物纳米囊泡的成型以及玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚物等方面都发挥着重要作用.本文利用Landau-de Gennes理论,构建模型来模拟液晶中拓扑荷分布及其他现象.通过对数值模型序参量场的演化,以及模拟液晶薄膜中所生成的拓扑荷之间的相互作用来分析液晶(Lqc)薄膜的尺寸对拓扑荷的影响.研究结果表明,随着液晶盘半径增大,拓扑荷间最优距离与半径之比渐增并趋于稳定.此研究结论对利用拓扑荷凝聚颗粒物效应设计分离容器有指导意义,有助于进一步理解拓扑胶体和液晶以及液晶共聚物等软物质中的拓扑现象.     

Multi-phase-field simulation of austenite peritectic solidification based on a ferrite grain

A multi-phase-field model is implemented to investigate the peritectic solidification of Fe-C alloy. The nucleation mode of austenite is based on the local driving force, and two different thicknesses of the primary austenite on the surface of the ferrite equiaxed crystal grain are used as the initial conditions. The simulation shows the multiple interactions of ferrite, austenite, and liquid phases, and the effects of carbon diffusion, which presents the non-equilibrium dynamic process during Fe-C peritectic solidification at the mesoscopic scale. This work not only reveals the influence of the austenite nucleation position, but also clarifies the formation mechanism of liquid phase channels and molten pools. Therefore, the present study contributes to the understanding of the micro-morphology and micro-segregation evolution mechanisms of Fe-C alloy during peritectic solidification.     

Designing current-strain-assisted superconductor-ferromagnet multi-bit memories

Current superconducting memory devices lack the basic quality of high memory density for practical memories, mainly due to the size limitations of superconducting quantum interference devices. Here, we propose a superconductor-ferromagnet bilayer device with strain-pulse-assisted multi-bit ladder-type memory, by using strain-engineered ferromagnet domain structure to control carrier concentration in the superconductor, which is simulated by coupled Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert and Ginzburg-Landau equations. Current- and strain-pulses are observed to deterministically control the resistivity of superconductor for one and two-bit device arrangements. The average carrier concentration of superconductor is observed to have multiple metastable states that can be controllably switched using current-pulse and strain-pulse to determine multiple resistivity states. These findings confirm the eligibility of superconductor-ferromagnet bilayers to be used as ladder-type multibit memories and open a new way for further theoretical and experimental investigations of the cryogenic memories.     

First-principles calculations on elastic,magnetoelastic, and phonon properties of Ni_2FeGa magnetic shape memory alloys

The elastic, magnetoelastic, and phonon properties of Ni_2FeGa were investigated through first-principles calculations.The obtained elastic and phonon dispersion curves for the austenite and martensite phases agree well with available theoretical and experimental results. The isotropic elastic moduli are also predicted along with the polycrystalline aggregate properties including the bulk modulus, shear modulus, Young's modulus, and Poisson's ratio. The Pugh ratio indicates that Ni_2FeGa shows ductility, especially the austenite phase, which is consistent with the experimental results. The Debye temperatures of the Ni_2FeGa in the austenite and martensite phases are 344 K and 392 K, respectively. It is predicted that the magnetoelastic coefficient is -5.3 × 10~6 J/m~3 and magnetostriction coefficient is between 135 and 55 ppm in the Ni_2FeGa austenite phase.     

Magnetic properties of L1_0 FePt thin film influenced by recoverable strains stemmed from the polarization of Pb(Mg_(1/3)Nb_(2/3))O_3–PbTiO_3 substrate

The magnetic properties and magnetization reversible processes of L1_0 FePt(3 nm)/Pb(Mg_(1/3)Nb_(2/3))O_3–PbTiO_3(PMN–PT) heterostructure were investigated by using the phase field model. The simulation results show that the magnetic coercivities and magnetic domains evolution in the L1_0 FePt thin film are significantly influenced by the compressive strains stemming from the polarization of single crystal PMN–PT substrate under an applied electric field. It is found that the magnetic coercivities increase with increasing of the compressive strain. A large compressive strain is beneficial to aligning the magnetic moments along the out-of-plane direction and to the enhancement of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The variations of magnetic energy densities show that when compressive strains are different at the magnetization reversible processes, the magnetic anisotropy energies and the magnetic exchange energies firstly increase and then decrease, the negative demagnetization energy peaks appear at coercivities fields, and the magnetoelastic energies are invariable at large external magnetic field with the energy maximum appearing at coercivities fields. The variations of the magnetoelastic energies bring about the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy so that the magnetoelastic energy is lower at the large external magnetic fields, whereas the appearance of magnetoelastic energy peaks is due to the magnetization-altered direction from the normal direction of the plane of the L1_0 FePt thin film at coercivities fields.