Spin-lattice model

Analogies between replication dynamics and spin lattice models were investigated in recent publications by Demetrius [45] and Leuthausser [46,47]. Both approaches are based on a common concept, and we shall discuss them here together. Replication dynamics is considered as a dynamical system in discrete time and modeled by the difference equation... 

Figure 8. Polynucleotide replication as multitype branching process is compared with spin lattice models (A) One-dimensional model is based on generalized one-dimensional Ising lattice Every spin is assumed to exist in n different states corresponding to n different polynucleotide sequences. Genealogy of branching process is considered as analog of particular one-dimensional arrary of spins.

The Blume-Emery-Griffiths (BEG) model is one of the well-known spin lattice models in equilibrium statistical mechanics. It was originally introduced with the aim to account for phase separation in helium mixtures [30]. Besides various thermodynamic properties, the model has been extended to study the structural phase transitions in many bulk systems. By... 

Sorella was able to improve this method significantly by making use of the Hessian matrix. He termed this method stochastic reconfiguration with Hessian acceleration (SRH) and showed in an application to spin lattice models that it is much more efficient than original stochastic reconfiguration-based method and more efficient than the simple Newton-Raphson method. ... 

On the other hand, Gompper and Schick [2] have proposed the following equation for scattering on the basis of spin-lattice model of ternary systems ... 

In terms of interaction parameters J and L within the spin-lattice model, Gompper and Schick have calculated the structure function of bicontinuous microemulsion systems. Comparing the structure functions obtainable from SANS with those calculated ones by Gompper and Schick, we could determine the interaction parameters in right order of magnitude. 

Key words Interaction parameter -lamella - microemulsion - structure parameter spin-lattice model... 

Our main purpose in this paper is to clarify the essential differences of structures and interaction parameters among middle-temperature lamellar (MTL) phase and the two microemulsion, LTM and HTM, phases. We have determined the structural parameters by phenomenological model analysis and the microscopic interaction parameters by microscopic spin-lattice model analysis, respectively. 

In order to determine the structural parameters and the interactions from the small-angle scattering experiments, scattering curves were analyzed in terms of both the phenomenological model of Teubner Strey [5] and the microscopic spin-lattice model of Gompper and Schick [6]. 

In this paper we have determined the partial structure functions and explained the nature of different phases as a function of temperature in terms of Gompper and Schick s spin-lattice model [9, 10]. We measured partial structure functions in order to determine mean curvature from it. The mean curvature was measured as a function of temperatures using the method proposed by Lee and Chen [6]. 

As early as 1969, Wlieeler and Widom [73] fomuilated a simple lattice model to describe ternary mixtures. The bonds between lattice sites are conceived as particles. A bond between two positive spins corresponds to water, a bond between two negative spins corresponds to oil and a bond coimecting opposite spins is identified with an amphiphile. The contact between hydrophilic and hydrophobic units is made infinitely repulsive hence each lattice site is occupied by eitlier hydrophilic or hydrophobic units. These two states of a site are described by a spin variable s., which can take the values +1 and -1. Obviously, oil/water interfaces are always completely covered by amphiphilic molecules. The Hamiltonian of this Widom model takes the form... 

More recently suggested models for bulk systems treat oil, water and amphiphiles on equal footing and place them all on lattice sites. They are thus basically lattice models for ternary fluids, which are generalized to capture the essential properties of the amphiphiles. Oil, water, and amphiphiles are represented by Ising spins 5 = -1,0 and +1. If one considers all possible nearest-neighbor interactions between these three types of particle, one obtains a total number of three independent interaction parameters, and... 

The measurement of correlation times in molten salts and ionic liquids has recently been reviewed [11] (for more recent references refer to Carper et al. [12]). We have measured the spin-lattice relaxation rates l/Tj and nuclear Overhauser factors p in temperature ranges in and outside the extreme narrowing region for the neat ionic liquid [BMIM][PFg], in order to observe the temperature dependence of the spectral density. Subsequently, the models for the description of the reorientation-al dynamics introduced in the theoretical section (Section 4.5.3) were fitted to the experimental relaxation data. The nuclei of the aliphatic chains can be assumed to relax only through the dipolar mechanism. This is in contrast to the aromatic nuclei, which can also relax to some extent through the chemical-shift anisotropy mechanism. The latter mechanism has to be taken into account to fit the models to the experimental relaxation data (cf [1] or [3] for more details). Preliminary results are shown in Figures 4.5-1 and 4.5-2, together with the curves for the fitted functions. 

Experimental data on nitrogen obtained from spin-lattice relaxation time (Ti) in [71] also show that tj is monotonically reduced with condensation. Furthermore, when a gas turns into a liquid or when a liquid changes to the solid state, no breaks occur (Fig. 1.17). The change in density within the temperature interval under analysis is also shown in Fig. 1.17 for comparison. It cannot be ruled out that condensation of the medium results in increase in rotational relaxation rate primarily due to decrease in free volume. In the rigid sphere model used in [72] for nitrogen, this phenomenon is taken into account by introducing the factor g(ri) into the angular momentum relaxation rate... 

Given the specific, internuclear dipole-dipole contribution terms, p,y, or the cross-relaxation terms, determined by the methods just described, internuclear distances, r , can be calculated according to Eq. 30, assuming isotropic motion in the extreme narrowing region. The values for T<.(y) can be readily estimated from carbon-13 or deuterium spin-lattice relaxation-times. For most organic molecules in solution, carbon-13 / , values conveniently provide the motional information necessary, and, hence, the type of relaxation model to be used, for a pertinent description of molecular reorientations. A prerequisite to this treatment is the assumption that interproton vectors and C- H vectors are characterized by the same rotational correlation-time. For rotational isotropic motion, internuclear distances can be compared according to... 

Often the electronic spin states are not stationary with respect to the Mossbauer time scale but fluctuate and show transitions due to coupling to the vibrational states of the chemical environment (the lattice vibrations or phonons). The rate l/Tj of this spin-lattice relaxation depends among other variables on temperature and energy splitting (see also Appendix H). Alternatively, spin transitions can be caused by spin-spin interactions with rates 1/T2 that depend on the distance between the paramagnetic centers. In densely packed solids of inorganic compounds or concentrated solutions, the spin-spin relaxation may dominate the total spin relaxation 1/r = l/Ti + 1/+2 [104]. Whenever the relaxation time is comparable to the nuclear Larmor frequency S)A/h) or the rate of the nuclear decay ( 10 s ), the stationary solutions above do not apply and a dynamic model has to be invoked... 

Several types of spin-lattice relaxation processes have been described in the literature [31]. Here a brief overview of some of the most important ones is given. The simplest spin-lattice process is the direct process in which a spin transition is accompanied by the creation or annihilation of a single phonon such that the electronic spin transition energy, A, is exchanged by the phonon energy, hcoq. Using the Debye model for the phonon spectrum, one finds for k T A that... 

Ammonium alums undergo phase transitions at Tc 80 K. The phase transitions result in critical lattice fluctuations which are very slow close to Tc. The contribution to the relaxation frequency, shown by the dotted line in Fig. 6.7, was calculated using a model for direct spin-lattice relaxation processes due to interaction between the low-energy critical phonon modes and electronic spins. 

Fig. 3.5.1 Spin-lattice relaxation data for (a) CF4 and (b) c-C4F8 gas as a function of pressure. The solid curve is the model prediction. Data for CF4 were measured at 181, 294 and 362 K. Small temperature variations were measured for each data point, and were...

In the theory of deuteron spin-lattice relaxation we apply a simple model to describe the relaxation of the magnetizations T and (A+E), for symmetry species of four coupled deuterons in CD4 free rotators. Expressions are derived for their direct relaxation rate via the intra and external quadrupole couplings. The jump motion between the equilibrium positions averages the relaxation rate within the same symmetry species. Spin conversion transitions couple the relaxation of T and (A+E). This mixing is included in the calculations by reapplying the simple model under somewhat different conditions. The results compare favorably with the experimental data for the zeolites HY, NaA and NaMordenite [6] and NaY presented here. Incoherent tunnelling is believed to dominate the relaxation process at lowest temperatures as soon as CD4 molecules become localized. 

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