Quantization of electromagnetic field in quadratic continuous nonlinear absorptive dielectrics

This paper reports that in the quantization of electromagnetic field in the dielectrics, the wave equation with regard to the Green function is analytically solved by a direct integral method for a quadratic continuous nonlinear absorptive dielectric medium. The quantization of the electromagnetic field in such a nonlinear absorptive dielectric is carried out for which the material dielectric function is assumed as a separable variable about the frequency and the space coordinate. The vacuum field fluctuations for different spatial continuous variations of dielectric function are numerically calculated, which shows that the present result is self-consistent.

Parameter of dielectric loss distribution in the new model for complex conductivity based on Havriliak-Negami formula

This paper is focused on the comparison of the results of various approximation models describing the frequency dependences of the dielectric constanε'/ε_(0)(f)andε"/ε_(0)(f),the tangent of the loss angle tgδ(f)T and the electrical conductivityγ'(f)T andγ"(f)T of nonlinear dielectrics.The classic ferroelectric material of the PZT system with x=0.50 was chosen as the object of study.Based on the analysis of temperature-frequency dependences of the“empirical”parametersαandβ,a regularity has been revealed that allows them to be calculated.A new relationship has been established through the parameterα,which allows to relate the temperature and frequency dependences of the complex electrical conductivity asω→∞and asω→0 in the Havriliak-Negami approximation models and in the new model for the description of the complex electrical conductivityγ*.It is shown thatαis a parameter of the temperature-frequency distribution of dielectric losses.Using the obtained expressions,a new theoretical description of experimental spectra having a relaxation character was proposed.It has been proven that the use of the new model makes it possible to accurately describe the set of studied spectra,including the high and low frequencies,in the frequency range from 10^(-3) to 10^(8) Hz.

Triethylammonium picrate： An above-room-temperature phase transition material to switch quadratic nonlinear optical properties

To switch quadratic nonlinear optical（NLO） effects has become an exciting branch of the NLO material science. However, solid-state molecular crystals showing tunable and switchable NLO behaviors remain scarce. Here, we report an organic picrate-based binary molecular crystal, triethylammonium picrate（TEAP）, which undergoes an above-room-temperature phase transition at T_c=319 K, being solidly confirmed by the thermal and dielectric measurements. A large thermal hysteresis of ~7 K discloses the first-order feature for its phase transition. More strikingly, the quadratic NLO effects of TEAP can be switched in the vicinity of Tc. That is, TEAP exhibits NLO-active response of ~1.5 times as large as that of KDP below T_c（i.e., NLO-on state）, while its NLO effects totally disappear above T_c（NLO-off state）. Structure analyses disclose that the order-disorder transformations of triethylammonium cations and picrate anions collectively contribute to its phase transition, as well as switchable NLO behaviors. This work opens up a new pathway to the designing and assembling of stimuli-responsive materials.

Avalanche boron fusion by laser picosecond block ignition with magnetic trapping for clean and economic reactor

Measured highly elevated gains of proton–boron(HB11) fusion(Picciotto et al., Phys. Rev. X 4, 031030(2014))confirmed the exceptional avalanche reaction process(Lalousis et al., Laser Part. Beams 32, 409(2014); Hora et al.,Laser Part. Beams 33, 607(2015)) for the combination of the non-thermal block ignition using ultrahigh intensity laser pulses of picoseconds duration. The ultrahigh acceleration above 10^(20) cm s^(-2)for plasma blocks was theoretically and numerically predicted since 1978(Hora, Physics of Laser Driven Plasmas(Wiley, 1981), pp. 178 and 179) and measured(Sauerbrey, Phys. Plasmas 3, 4712(1996)) in exact agreement(Hora et al., Phys. Plasmas 14, 072701(2007)) when the dominating force was overcoming thermal processes. This is based on Maxwell's stress tensor by the dielectric properties of plasma leading to the nonlinear(ponderomotive) force f_(NL)resulting in ultra-fast expanding plasma blocks by a dielectric explosion. Combining this with measured ultrahigh magnetic fields and the avalanche process opens an option for an environmentally absolute clean and economic boron fusion power reactor. This is supported also by other experiments with very high HB11 reactions under different conditions(Labaune et al., Nature Commun.4, 2506(2013)).