The exoelectric e ect provides a linear coupling between electric polarization and orientational deformation in liquid crystals. It in uences many electrooptical phenomena and it is used in some bistable nematic devices. A statistical theory of dipole exoelectric polarization in biaxial nematic liquid crystals is used to calculate temperature dependence of order parameters, elastic constants, a...

In the present work we discuss the contribution of the vacuum polarization on the nuclear pairing, in the context of the relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) approximation. The polarization effects on the pairing, as a function of Fermi momentum, is shown with the scalar and vector meson-nucleon coupling constants scaled by a parameter x. We have obtained that the nuclear pairing is affec...

A combined theoretical and experimental study of the depolarization of selected NO(X(2)Π, v = 0, j, F, ɛ) levels in collisions with a thermal bath of Ar has been carried out. Rate constants for elastic depolarization of rank K = 1 (orientation) and K = 2 (alignment) were extracted from collision-energy-dependent quantum scattering calculations, along with those for inelastic population transfer...

In the present work we discuss the effects of the medium polarization on the nuclear pairing, in the context of the relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) approximation. The medium polarization effects on the scalar and vector masses, as well on the pairing, as a function of Fermi momentum, are shown for several values of the coupling constants scaled by a parameter x. We find have obtained...

We use laser high-order harmonics and a polarization-ratio-reflectance technique to determine the optical constants of copper and oxidized copper in the wavelength range 10-35 nm. This measurement resolves previously conflicting data sets, where disagreement on optical constants of copper in the extreme ultraviolet most likely arises from inadvertent oxidation of samples before measurement.

We show how frustrations in molecular packing generated by molecular substitutions and electrostatic potentials necessitate a local C1 symmetry and lead to spontaneous polarization splay and layer bending in bent-core liquid crystals. By estimation of the entropic changes due to curvature, we calculated the elastic constants that drive the spontaneous layer bend and polarization splay and obtai...

In this study, effect of immersion time on the electrochemical behaviour of AISI 321 stainless steel (AISI 321) in 0.1 M H 2SO 4 solution under open circuit potential (OCP) conditions was evaluated by potentiodynamic polarization, Mott–Schottky analysis and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Mott–Schottky analysis revealed that the passive films behave as n-type and p-type s...