We report a strong discontinuous orientational transition (anchoring transition) of liquid-crystal molecules with a large transverse dipole moment. A perfluoropolymer was used as an alignment layer and the transition was observed from planar to homeotropic with decreasing temperature in the nematic phase. Conversely a gradual variation in tilt angle from homeotropic to conical was observed in a...

The method of QCD sum rules in the presence of the external electromagnetic Fμν field is used to calculate the Ω magnetic moment μΩ and the Σ Λ transition magnetic moment μΣ0Λ, with the susceptibilities obtained previously from the study of octet baryon magnetic moments. The results μΩ = −1.92μN and μΣ0Λ = 1.5μN are in good agreement with the recent experimental data.

spin-lattice relaxation time Ti and second moment M 2 have been studied as a function of temperature over the temperature range 445 to 77 K. A discontinuous change in Ti at 365 K, indicates the presence of a phase transition, while the slope change at 152 K, is attributed to a change in the TMA ion dynamics from tumbling to torsion. The 7i results could be explained in terms of inequivalent TMA...

This paper reports on recent experimental studies of quadrupole moments and reduced transition probabilities in atomic nuclei. First, based on the deduced B(E2) transition strength from a measurement of lifetimes, Ce is suggested as a benchmark for the X(5) critical point symmetry in the mass A ≈ 130 region. Next, a quadrupole moment measurement of the 29 2 − bandhead of a magnetic rotational b...

We consider the scaling of the mean square dipole moment in a plasma with logarithmic interactions in a two- and three-dimensional systems. In both cases, we establish the existence of a low-temperature regime where the mean square dipole moment does not scale with system size and a high-temperature regime where it does scale with system size. Thus, there is a nonanalytic change in the polariza...

Temperature and applied magnetic field dependent magnetization measurements on 34 single crystalline samples of (R, R’,R”...)Ni2Ge2 compounds (R, R’, R”, etc. being primarily Gd−Lu, Y), were made. These measurements reveal that, despite extremes in local moment anisotropy, the average de Gennes parameter is a remarkably good predictor of the paramagnetic to antiferromagnetic ordering temperatur...

We discuss the possibility of spin glass order in the vicinity of the unexpected metallic state of the two-dimensional electron gas in zero applied magnetic field. An average ferromagnetic moment may also be present, and the spin glass order then resides in the plane orthogonal to the ferromagnetic moment. We argue that a quantum transition involving the destruction of the spin glass order in a...

The experimental circular dichroism (CD) spectra of uridine and NH2-uridine that were different in the intensity and shape were studied in the light of the ChiraSac method. The theoretical CD spectra at several different conformations using the symmetry-adapted-cluster configuration-interaction (SAC-CI) theory largely depended on the conformational angle, but those of the anti-conformers and th...

The structure of benzimidazole has been determined in the electronic ground and excited states using rotationally resolved electronic spectroscopy. The rovibronic spectra of four isotopomers and subsequently the structure of benzimidazole have been automatically assigned and fitted using a genetic algorithm based fitting strategy. The lifetimes of the deuterated isotopomers have been shown to d...