Anomalous Rutherford Scattering Solved Magnetically

After one century of nuclear physics, the anomalous Rutherford scattering remains a puzzle: its underlying fundamental laws are still missing. The only presently recognized electromagnetic interaction in a nucleus is the so-called Coulomb electric force, in 1/r, only positive thus repulsive in official nuclear physics, explaining the Rutherford scattering at low kinetic energy of the impacting alpha particles. At high kinetic energy the Rutherford scattering formula doesn’t work, thus called “anomalous scattering”. I have discovered that, to solve the problem, it needs only to replace, at high kinetic energy, the Coulomb repulsive electric potential in 1/r, by the also repulsive magnetic Poisson potential in 1/r3. In log-log coordinates, one observes two straight lines of slopes, respectively −2 and −6. They correspond with the −1 and −3 exponents of the only repulsive electric and magnetic interactions, multiplied by 2 due to the cross-sections. Both Rutherford (normal and anomalous) scattering have been calculated electromagnetically. No attractive force needed.

Hardening of Thermal Photons Through Inverse Compton Scattering in Strong Magnetic Fields

A new spectrum function is obtained by use of the Compton scattering cross section in the laboratory frame derived earlier. This spectrum function, besides some modifications in the coefficients of the resonant term, contains also a non-resonant term which is inversely proportional to the square of the magnetic field. Based on this spectrum function, the hardening of thermal photons through inverse Compton scattering by relativistic electron beams on the surface of a strongly magnetized neutron star is investigated. Two new features are found. First, there is a maximum scattered photon energy for a given resonant scattering, beyond which resonance disappears. This maximum depends on the electron energy and the magnetic field, but is independent of the incident photon energy. Second, beyond each resonant scattering, there is a high-energy tail, resulting from non-resonant scattering. It is also found that all the tails have a common upper limit which is the highest scattered photon energy for the given incident photon and electron energies. These two new features are absent in the Monte Carlo simulations and therefore, may have physical implications for y-ray emissions.

Spin—Dependent Scattering Effects and Dimensional Crossover in a Quasi—Two—Dimensional Disordered Electron System

Two kinds of spin-dependent scattering effects (magnetic-impurity and spin-orbit scatterings) are investigated theoretically in a quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) disordered electron system. By making use of the diagrammatic techniques in perturbation theory, we have calculated the dc conductivity and magnetoresistance due to weak-localization effects, the analytical expressions of them are obtained as functions of the interlayer hopping energy and the characteristic times: elastic, inelastic, magnetic and spin-orbit scattering times. The relevant dimensional crossover behavior from 3D to 2D with decreasing the interlayer coupling is discussed, and the condition for the crossover is shown to be dependent on the aforementioned scattering times. At low temperature there exists a spin-dependent-scattering-induced dimensional crossover in this system.

Tunneling Conductance and Magnetoresistance in Ferromagnet／Ferromagnet／d-WaveSuperconductor Double Tunnel Junctions

The tunneling conductance and tunneling magnetoresistance(TMR)are investigated in ferromagnet/insulator/ferromagnet/insulator/d-wave superconductor(FM/I/FM/I/d-wave SC)structures by applying an extended Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk(BTK)approach.We study the effects of the exchange splitting in the FM, the magnetic impurity scattering in the thin insulator interface of FM/I/FM,and noncollinear magnetizations in adja- cent magnetic layers on the TMR.It is shown(1)that the tunneling conductance and TMR exhibit amplitude-varying oscillating behavior with exchange splitting,(2)that with the presence of spin-flip scattering in insulator interface of FM/I/FM,the TMR can be dramatically enhanced,and(3)that the TMR depends strongly on the angle between the magnetization of two FMs.

Total ionizing radiation-induced read bit-errors in toggle magnetoresistive random-access memory devices

The 1-Mb and 4-Mb commercial toggle magnetoresistive random-access memories（MRAMs） with 0.13 μm and 0.18-μm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor（CMOS） process respectively and different magnetic tunneling junctions（MTJs） are irradiated with a Cobalt-60 gamma source. The electrical functions of devices during the irradiation and the room temperature annealing behavior are measured. Electrical failures are observed until the dose accumulates to 120-krad（Si） in 4-Mb MRAM while the 1-Mb MRAM keeps normal. Thus, the 0.13-μm process circuit exhibits better radiation tolerance than the 0.18-μm process circuit. However, a small quantity of read bit-errors randomly occurs only in 1-Mb MRAM during the irradiation while their electrical function is normal. It indicates that the store states of MTJ may be influenced by gamma radiation, although the electrical transport and magnetic properties are inherently immune to the radiation. We propose that the magnetic Compton scattering in the interaction of gamma ray with magnetic free layer may be the origin of the read bit-errors. Our results are useful for MRAM toward space application.

The effect of magnetic impurity scattering in Au films

The magnetic impurity scattering plays an important role in the phase coherence behavior of thin films.By using the thickness and disorder dependences of the low temperature logarithmic anomaly in resistivity we are able to determine the concentration of magnetic impurities in Au films and demonstrate that the low temperature saturation or plateau in phase decoherence time is closely related with the Kondo effect.

Backward Compton scattering and QED with noncommutative plane in the strong uniform magnetic field

In the strong uniform magnetic field, the noncommutative plane （NCP） caused by the lowest Landau level （LLL） effect, and QED with NCP （QED-NCP） are studied. Being similar to the condensed matter theory of quantum Hall effect, an effective filling factor f（B） is introduced to characterize the possibility that the electrons stay on the LLL. The analytic and numerical results of the differential cross section for the process of backward Compton scattering in accelerator with unpolarized or polarized initial photons are calculated. The existing data of BL38B2 in Spring-8 have been analyzed roughly and compared with the numerical predictions primitively. We propose a precise measurement of the differential cross sections of backward Compton scattering in a strong perpendicular magnetic field, which may reveal the effects of NCP.