Ž . Plume clouds resulting from wildland fires pyrocumulus sometimes produce lightning discharges to ground. These discharges were found to carry positive charge to ground exclusively in several cases. Emission of space charge was observed from woody materials burned in the presence of an external electric field. Measurements done in a large wind tunnel for this study confirm and extend measure...

The perpendicular exchange bias field, H(EB), of the magnetoelectric heterostructure Cr2O3(111)/(Co/Pt)(3) changes sign after field cooling to below the Néel temperature of Cr2O3 in either parallel or antiparallel axial magnetic and electric freezing fields. The switching of H(EB) is explained by magnetoelectrically induced antiferromagnetic single domains which extend to the interface, where t...

The interaction between the quadrupole moment of nuclear spins I > + with the electric-field-gradient (EFG) tensor leads to a splitting of the energy of the nuclear spin states. We show how the combination of laser and radio-frequency irradiation allows measurements of nuclear spin transitions in quadrupolar systems that are, in contrast to purely magnetic experiments, sensitive to the absolute...

We show that the Landau levels cease to be eigenvalues if we perturb the 2D Schrödinger operator with constant magnetic field, by bounded electric potentials of fixed sign. We also show that, if the perturbation is not of fixed sign, then any Landau level may be an eigenvalue of arbitrary, finite or infinite, multiplicity of the perturbed problem. AMS 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 35...

An experimental method is demonstrated that allows determination of the ratio between the electric (E1) and magnetic (M1) transition dipole moments in the A-X band of OH, including their relative sign. Although the transition strengths differ by more than 3 orders of magnitude, the measured M1-to-E1 ratio agrees with the ratio of the ab initio calculated values to within 3%. The relative sign i...

Polyamines (spermine, spermidine) are commonly used as stabilizing cations in the chromatin preparation media. Their residual binding to chromatin is not easily reversed at low ionic strength, even after extensive dialysis, as evidenced by the use of labelled spermidine. Electric dichroism measurements show that their presence interferes with the physico-chemical characterization of chromatin b...

We present two novel derivations of the recently established (−) factor in the charge quantization condition for p-brane dyon sources in spacetime dimension D=2p+2. The first requires consistency of the condition under the charge shifts produced by (generalized) θ-terms. The second traces the sign difference between adjoining dimensions to compactification effects. [email protected]; ...

Electric field effects in ferromagnetic metal/dielectric structures provide a new route to control domain wall dynamics with low-power dissipation. However, electric field effects on domain wall velocities have only been observed so far in the creep regime where domain wall velocities are low due to strong interactions with pinning sites. Here we show gate voltage modulation of domain wall velo...

If a laser beam is to have radial transverse polarization, the transverse electric must vanish on the symmetry axis, which is charge free in vacuum. However, we can expect a nonzero longitudinal electric field on the axis, noting that the projections onto the axis of the electric field vectors of rays all have the same sign, as shown in Fig. 2a. This contrasts with the case of linearly polarize...

Correlations of the topological charge Q, the electric current J and the magnetic current J in SU(2) lattice gauge theory in the Maximal Abelian projection are investigated. It occurs that the correlator ≪ QJJ ≫ is nonzero for a wide range of values of the bare charge. It is shown that: (i) the abelian monopoles in the Maximal Abelian projection are dyons which carry fluctuating electric charge...