This paper discusses the mechanical effect of water on the deformation of silicon monocrystals under nano-indentation with the aid of molecular dynamics analysis. The rigid TIP4P model was used to simulate the interactions between water molecules while the long-ranged non-bonded Lennard-Jones potential was applied for the pairs of unlike molecules. It was found that upon loading water molecules are lodged into the cavities of the silicon substrate, causing subsurface damage. The diamond cubic structure in the indentation zone transforms into an amorphous state with a body-centred tetragonal form (β-silicon) below the indentor. The presence of water significantly reduces the indentor-silicon adhesion that alters the structure of the residual deformation zone after complete unloading.
Novel periodic oscillations of magnetoresistance observed in a recent quantum Hall effect experiment on a narrow two-dimensional sample have been explained on the basis of a Josephson-type effect. The calculated values of the period of oscillation in the regions of plateaux 2 and 4 agree excellently with the measured values.
An alternative approach to the Jaynes-Cummings model (JCM) with dissipation at a Unite environmental temperature is presented in terms of a new master equation under Born-Markovian approximation. An analytic solution of the dissipation JCM is obtained. A variety of physical quantities of interest are calculated analytically. Dynamical properties of the atom and the held are investigated in some detail. It is shown that both cavity damping and environmental temperature strongly affect nonclassical effects in JCM, such as collapse and revivals of the atomic inversion, oscillations of the photon-number distribution, quadrature squeezing of the Held and sub-Poissonian photon statistics.
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