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Neutron scattering study of tantalum monohydride and monodeuteride
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2021. Vol. 46. No. 39. P. 20630–20639.
Kuzovnikov M., Antonov V., Ivanov A., Hansen T., Savvin S., Kulakov V., Tkacz M., Kolesnikov A.
Powder samples of TaH0.89 and TaD0.96 are synthesized under a hydrogen (deuterium) pressure of 2.8 GPa and a temperature of 250 °C, then quenched to the liquid nitrogen temperature, recovered to ambient pressure and studied by neutron diffraction (ND) and inelastic neutron scattering (INS). The ND study shows that both hydrogen and deuterium atoms occupy tetrahedral interstitial sites in a distorted body centered cubic (bcc) crystal structure of metal atoms, while the ordering scenarios in TaH0.89 and TaD0.96 are different. Hydrogen and deuterium atoms are ordered in a layered fashion, forming long period superstructures with space groups P-4 and P222, respectively, so that the unit cells of the crystal structures of TaH0.89 and TaD0.96 are sqrt(2)xsqrt(2)x2 and sqrt(2)xsqrt(2)x3 supercells of the initial cubic unit cell. The INS study demonstrates a pronounced “soft” (trumpet-like) anharmonicity of the potential well for H and D atoms.
Bisnovatyi-Kogan G., Kondratyev I., Moiseenko S. G., International Journal of Modern Physics A 2025 Vol. 40 No. 7 Article 2550018
Bright transient objects in different wave bands have been discovered in recent years.
To explain these short (from ms to s), and very powerful events, different models, galactic and
extragalactic, have been considered. One of the popular models is based on the suggestion of
transformation of the magnetized plasma blob, presumably a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)
shock wave, moving with relativistic ...
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Торопина О. Д., Бисноватый-Коган Г. С., Moiseenko S. G., Astronomy Reports 2025 Vol. 69 No. Suppl. 1 P. 80–90
The results of MHD simulations of supersonic astrophysical and laboratory jets in an external
poloidal magnetic field (Br,Bz) taking into account the rotation of the matter, are presented. The ejected
matter is collimated by the magnetic field, the degree of collimation and the flow structure depend on the
relation between of the magnetic field induction and the angular ...
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Morozov E. V., Demin A. S., Borovitskaya I. V. et al., Inorganic Materials: Applied Research 2026 Vol. 17 No. 3 P. 619–626
This article presents the results of experiments on the impact of powerful pulsed ion-plasma and
electron flows generated in the working chamber of the Plasma Focus PF-5M installation during each highvoltage
discharge on a model aluminum alloy B95. It is shown that the general characteristics of the alloy’s
damage upon exposure to pulsed flows of helium ions (HI) ...
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A. A. Ponomarev, N. L. Aleksandrov, Plasma Physics Reports 2026 Vol. 52 No. 3 P. 367–378
An approximate method for calculating drift velocity and other kinetic coefficients of heavy ions
in a light gas is generalized to gaseous mixtures. Obtained equations are used to calculate the mobilities of
and ions, as well as rate constants for inelastic ion–molecule processes with these ions in helium with
small additions of O2 under an electric field. Calculated ...
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Domrin V. I., Malova H. V., V. Yu. Popov et al., Cosmic Research 2026 Vol. 64 No. 2 P. 238–252
During magnetospheric perturbations a relatively thin current sheet with thickness about several
proton gyroradii forms in the Earth’s magnetotail. In a framework of the kinetic model describing current
sheet thinning in the magnetotail, the processes of its formation are investigated depending on the normal
magnetic field magnitude which affects both the current sheet structure and particle dynamics within ...
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Tsareva O. O., Malova H. V., V. Yu. Popov et al., Plasma Physics Reports 2026 Vol. 52 No. 2 P. 179–185
The influence of asymmetry of plasma sources on the structure and spatial localization of a superthin
current sheet (STCS) supported by demagnetized electrons is studied using a self-consistent model. The
simulation takes into account the presence of a single plasma source in the northern hemisphere, which
makes the plasma flow asymmetric. It is demonstrated that the asymmetry of ...
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П.А.Беспалов, О.Н. Савина, Геомагнетизм и аэрономия 2025 Т. 65 № 5 С. 620–628
Several basic models of frequency dynamics in quasi-periodic VLF emissions with spectral form repetition
periods from 10 to 300 s are considered. In all cases, we are talking about manifestations of cyclotron instability
of electron radiation belts thet are well described within the framework of the plasma magnetospheric maser
theory based an the averaged self-consistent system of quasi-linear ...
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Bondarenko G.G., Fisher M. R., Kristya V. I., Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics 2026 Vol. 90 No. 4 P. 572–576
A model of the cathode layer of a glow gas discharge with a thin dielectric film on a fraction of the
cathode’s working surface is formulated. It is shown that a glow discharge most rapidly transits to an arc discharge,
accompanied by a significant increase in discharge current density and a decrease in cathode voltage
drop, if the ...
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Lu X., Tognazzi A., Klimov V. et al., Plasmonics 2026 Vol. 21 P. 1503–1512
Plasmonic nanostructures typically exhibit shifts in their resonant wavelength in response to changes in the refractive index of the surrounding medium. This limits their applications in scenarios requiring stable optical resonances. Here we present a metallic-dielectric hybrid metasurface that exhibits stable multi-wavelength resonance even if the refractive index of its surrounding varies. To quantitatively evaluate the stability of ...
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Shchur L., Antonov D., Burovski E., International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering 2026 P. 1–9
We present a simple model that simulates the possible influence of one society on another. Specifically, two societies evolve deterministically according to the well-known Nowak-May spatial game with the addition of mutual influence through connections that reflect the current states of the societies. This may be related to the influence of a global information resource ...
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Qin X., Deng Y., Shchur L. et al., / Series arXiv "math". 2026. No. 2603.02962.
We perform a Monte Carlo analysis of the Ising model on many three-dimensional lattices. By means of finite-size scaling we obtain the critical points and determine the scaling dimensions. As expected, the critical exponents agree with the three-dimensional Ising universality class for all models. The irrelevant field, as revealed by the correction-to-scaling amplitudes, appears to ...
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Pilé I., Deng Y., Shchur L., / Series arXiv "math". 2026. No. 2604.10254.
We investigate the spatial overlap of successive spin configurations in Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations using the local Metropolis algorithm and the Svendsen-Wang and Wolff cluster algorithms. We examine the dynamics of these algorithms for two models in different universality classes: the Ising model and the Potts model with three components. The overlap of two ...
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Doronin S. V., Budkov Y., Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 2026 Vol. 57 Article 101853
The electric double layer (EDL) governs charge distribution at electrode–electrolyte interfaces, controlling reaction kinetics and energy storage performance. This mini review surveys the evolution of EDL theory—from the classical Gouy-Chapman-Stern framework to modern coupled quantum-continuum schemes that integrate electronic structure with statistical mechanics. We show how modified Poisson–Boltzmann (mPB) formu-lations incorporating finite ion size, dielectric ...
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Nikolai N. Kalikin, Petr E. Brandyshev, Yury A. Budkov, Journal of Chemical Physics 2026 Vol. 164 No. 15 Article 154904
This study presents a mean-field theory for zwitterionic polymer solutions confined within attractive slit-like nanopores. Building upon our prior model for self-coacervation [Budkov et al., Soft Matter 19, 3281–3289 (2023)], we demonstrate that strong electrostatic dipole–dipole correlations between monomeric units, coupled with attraction to pore walls, can induce capillary-driven liquid–liquid phase separation inside the pore—a ...
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Moiseev E., D.A. Masyutin, I.A. Melnichenko et al., Optics and Laser Technology 2026 Vol. 201 No. 115289 Article 115289
Lasing at a wavelength near 255 nm is demonstrated in AlGaN whispering gallery mode microlasers with radii ranging from 1 to 3 µm fabricated on sapphire substrates, representing one of the shortest-wavelength realizations of microdisk lasers on this technologically relevant platform. The minimum threshold energy was 8.8 pJ (power density ≈ 280 kW/cm2) for a microlaser with a ...
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Vladimir E. Antonov, Materials Chemistry and Physics 2025 Vol. 332 Article 130232
Multilayer graphane (hydride of graphite) is a crystalline hydrocarbon of composition CH, which can be synthesized
from graphite and molecular hydrogen at pressures above 2 GPa [V.E. Antonov et al. Carbon 100 (2016)
465]. Using X-ray diffraction, this compound was tentatively identified as the “graphane II” phase of 3D-graphane
predicted by ab initio calculations [X.-D. Wen et al. ...
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Кондрина К. М., Уродкова Е. К., Senchikhin I. et al., Журнал технической физики 2025 Т. 95 № 3 С. 489–497
Изучение свойств водных дисперсий легированных бором наноалмазов показывает их высокую устойчивость к агрегации и выпадению в осадок по сравнению с детонационными наноалмазами. Легированные бором наноалмазы получены пиролизом 9-борабицикло[3.3.1]нонан димера C16H30B2 под давлением 8−9GPa и температурах 1250 ◦C−1300 ◦С. Оцененная из спектров комбинационного рассеяния света концентрация бора синтезированных наноалмазов составила 1021 cm−3, что соответствует сильному легированию. ...
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Semenok D., Zhou D., Chen W. et al., Annalen der Physik 2025 Vol. 538 No. 1 Article e00467
We review five years of experimental and theoretical attempts (2020–2025) to enhance the superconducting critical temperature (Tc) of hydrogen-rich compounds by alloying binary superhydrides with additional elements. Despite predictions of higher Tc in ternary systems such as La–Y–H, La–Ce–H, and Ca–Mg–H, experiments consistently show that the maximum Tc in disordered ternary superhydrides does not exceed that of the ...
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Kuzovnikov M., Antonov Vladimir E., Kulakov V. et al., PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS 2023 Vol. 7 No. 2 Article 024803
Zirconium trihydride and, for comparison, trideuteride with hexagonal close-packed (hcp) metal lattices
were synthesized at a hydrogen/deuterium pressure of 9 GPa and a temperature of 873 K using toroid-type
high-pressure chambers. After a rapid cooling (quenching) to 100 K and lowering the pressure to atmospheric,
the quenched sample was removed from the chamber and studied by hot extraction ...
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Tararushkin E., Pisarev V., Kalinichev A. G., Minerals 2023 Vol. 13 No. 3 Article 408
The behavior of brucite over wide ranges of temperatures and pressures is of great interest
for fundamental geochemistry and geophysics. Brucite layers and their octahedral Mg(OH)6 structural
units constitute an important structural part of layered dense magnesium hydrous silicates
(DMHS), which play a major role in mineral equilibria controlling water balance in the subduction
zones of the upper mantle. ...
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Рыжкин М. И., Рыжкин И. А., Кашин А. М. et al., Письма в Журнал экспериментальной и теоретической физики 2020 Т. 112 № 7-8(10) С. 531–538
The pressure dependence of the proton conductivity of water ice is studied theoretically. It is shown that the decrease in the hydrogen bond length leads to the decrease in the formation energy of ionic defects and to the increase in the formation energy of bond defects. As a result, the partial conductivity of ionic defects, ...
Added: October 31, 2022
Iskrina A., Bobrov A., Spivak A. et al., Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 2022 Vol. 171 Article 111031
Synchrotron-based high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments were conducted on a new CaFe1.2Al0.8O4 phase at ambient temperature and up to a maximum pressure of 61 GPa. Crystals of CaFe1.2Al0.8O4 were synthesized at 24 GPa and 1500 °C. This phase has orthorhombic unit cell parameters (a = 8.9785(1) Å, b = 2.9158(1) Å, c = 10.4253(6) Å, V = 286(3) Å3, Z = 8), crystallizes with a space group Pnma, ...
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Semeno A. V., Okubo S., Ohta H. et al., Applied Magnetic Resonance 2021 Vol. 52 No. 4 P. 459–472
Cerium hexaboride attracts attention of solid-state community for almost 50 years. Nowadays, this material is considered as a unique example of a system with orbital ordering resulting in formation of low-temperature magnetic phase with quadrupolar order, the so-called antiferroquadrupole phase. In crystal electric field 4f 1 state of Ce³⁺ splits into Γ7 doublet and Γ8 ...
Added: October 25, 2022
Alexey V. Kuzmin, Meletov K., Salavat S. Khasanov et al., Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2021 Vol. 125 No. 30 P. 16576–16582
The pressure-induced charge transfer in a molecular complex of fullerene with ferrocene, C60·{Fe2+(η5 -C5H5)2•}2, was studied by ab initio calculations, single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, and Raman spectroscopy at pressures up to 5.3 GPa. The calculations based on high-pressure crystal structure data, performed by the fragment molecular orbital method and hybrid density functional level chemistry, show ...
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