A generalization of the classical Hertz-Knudsen and Schrage laws for the evaporation mass and energy fluxes at a liquid-vapor interface is derived from kinetic theory and a simple model for a velocity dependent condensation coefficient. These expressions, as well as the classical laws and simple phenomenological expressions, are then considered for the simulation of recent experiments [Phys. Re...

Transitions between states of a magnetic system can occur by jumps over an energy barrier or by quantum mechanical tunneling through the energy barrier. The rate of such transitions is an important consideration when the stability of magnetic states is assessed for example for nanoscale candidates for data storage devices. The shift in transition mechanism from jumps to tunneling as the tempera...

We investigate the nature of the phase transition in Josephson junctions arranged on a Kagomé lattice. We find that an applied magnetic field corresponding to 1/2 flux quanta per elementary triangle results in a π phase shift in the current phase relation for all bonds, resulting in an XY antiferromagnet. This corresponds to the order-from-disorder selected highly-degenerate coplanar state of t...

We study the behaviour of the electronic chemical potential in YBa2Cu3O6+δ near the superconducting transition using the spin-wave exchange theory of pairing. We find that the experimental value of the jump in the temperature derivative of the chemical potential is inconsistent with the theoretical value calculated under the assumption of constant hole concentration. It is suggested that charge...

Low-temperature thermodynamic properties of strongly interacting Fermi liquids with a fermion condensate are investigated. We demonstrate that the spin susceptibility of these systems exhibits the Curie-Weiss law, and the entropy contains a temperature-independent term. The excessive entropy is released at the superconducting transition, enhancing the specific heat jump deltaC and rendering it ...

A temperature jump in the water traveling through a pipe is delayed by the absorption of heat into the pipe wall. The convective transport of heat by the water and the conductive exchange with the interior pipe wall are described by a singular micromodel. The limiting form is a distributed microstructure model, which is successively better approximated by simpler firstand second-order kinetic m...

A one-electron oscillator is cooled from 5.2 K to 850 mK using electronic feedback. Novel quantum jump thermometry reveals a Boltzmann distribution of oscillator energies and directly measures the corresponding temperature. The ratio of electron temperature and damping rate (also directly measured) is observed to be a fluctuation-dissipation invariant, independent of feedback gain, as predicted...

We show that the particle number density derived from the thermodynamic Green’s function at temperature zero constructed in the second part of this series has a jump across the Fermi curve, a basic property of a Fermi liquid. We further show that the two particle thermodynamic Green’s function at temperature zero has the regularity behavior expected in a Fermi liquid. ∗ Research supported in pa...