Microstructure in Powders

Microstructure in Powders
Author: Robert Anders Andersson
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781586039066

"A Spin-Echo Small Angle Scattering (SESANS) instrument is capable of studying samples containing large inhomogeneities, large in a sense that they extend across the mesoscopic and microscopic domains. Thus, being applicable to samples of polymers, colloids, dairy products, powders, clays, etc. All of this in a simple and more direct way than existing small-angle neutron-scattering instruments. In essence, there is confidence enough to start exploring the real samples - samples that SESANS is made for. The SESANS experiments conducted and presented in this book will bring insight in the relationship between micro- and macroscopics of fine cohesive powders. The aim is to inspire for future research on samples made up of large disordered heterogeneities through discussing many of the correlation functions expected in these systems."--BOOK JACKET.

Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy

Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy
Author: Ferenc Mezei
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2008-01-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540458239

Neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy is the highest energy resolution neutron scattering technique available for examining a large area (in time and space) in condensed matter physics. This broad dynamic and spatial range is extensively exploited in the study of a wide range of scientific problems ranging from the dynamics of glasses, polymer melts, complex fluids and microemulsions to the elementary excitations in superfluid 4He and to ferromagnets and spin glasses. This book reviews the current status and future prospects in NSE spectroscopy describing the method, latest instrumentation and also the use of NSE in fundamental, hard- and soft-matter science. It provides first-hand information for researchers working in the fields touched by NSE. In addition, young researchers, PhD students and graduates interested in the method will obtain a comprehensive overview and guidelines to implementing the NSE technique.

Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy

Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy
Author: Ferenc Mezei
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2002-12-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783540442936

Neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy is the highest energy resolution neutron scattering technique available for examining a large area (in time and space) in condensed matter physics. This broad dynamic and spatial range is extensively exploited in the study of a wide range of scientific problems ranging from the dynamics of glasses, polymer melts, complex fluids and microemulsions to the elementary excitations in superfluid 4He and to ferromagnets and spin glasses. This book reviews the current status and future prospects in NSE spectroscopy describing the method, latest instrumentation and also the use of NSE in fundamental, hard- and soft-matter science. It provides first-hand information for researchers working in the fields touched by NSE. In addition, young researchers, PhD students and graduates interested in the method will obtain a comprehensive overview and guidelines to implementing the NSE technique.

Spin-Echo Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Applied to Colloidal Systems

Spin-Echo Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Applied to Colloidal Systems
Author: T. Kruglov
Publisher: Ios PressInc
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789040725937

A new technique has its value as long as it is known what it measures, not only how it measures. Paradoxically the actual development and application of Spin-echo Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SESANS) started before its measured quantities were fully interpreted. This publication provides a manual on the methodology and interpretation of the SESANS measurements. Chapter 'Theory' could also have been named 'What SESANS actually measures'. Chapter 'Experiment' could have been named 'What SESANS is actually able to measure'. The subject of this book, both theoretical and experimental, is focused on isotropic particles (solid spheres, shells and gaussian coils) and structures formed by spherical particles.

Quantum Description and Applications of Neutron Spin-echo Devices

Quantum Description and Applications of Neutron Spin-echo Devices
Author: Jiazhou Shen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Neutron spin echoes
ISBN:

Neutron spin echo techniques have the capability to construct and manipulate entangled quantum neutron beams, which were used to answer fundamental questions of quantum mechanics and can serve as potential probes for material research. Modern spin-echo devices, such as Magnetic Wollaston Prisms(MWP) and resonance radiofrequency(RF) neutron flippers, can produce and control quantum neutron states with high fidelity, thanks to their magnetic fields with well-defined shapes and boundaries. Mathematical descriptions of the mechanism of these devices are introduced in this thesis based purely on quantum mechanics and solvable ideal models. Specifically a quantum wave packet description of such neutron beams is established to express Bell states entangling spatial paths and spin or Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(GHZ) states having paths, spin, and total energies entangled together. Meanwhile, we proposed novel RF flipper designs inheriting the same idea from MWP using the Meissner effect of superconductors to shape the magnetic fields. The magnetic field simulation program MagNet was used to design and optimize the magnetic components in these RF flippers and guide the construction of these devices. Existing spin echo devices including MWPs and RF flippers are turned into quantum interferometers in experiments that investigate hidden variable theories and quantum contextuality. Given the Bell and GHZ states prepared by these devices, we tested both Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt(CHSH) version quantum contextuality inequalities and Mermin contextuality inequalities. The final results of violations of classically predicted limits strengthened the theoretical foundation of quantum mechanics but more importantly, proved the creation of mode entangled neutron beams using spin echo devices. The wave packet model along with the experimental results, enlightened a route to interesting material research fields, where the new RF flippers ready to be tested should make a difference.

Soft-Matter Characterization

Soft-Matter Characterization
Author: Redouane Borsali
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1490
Release: 2008-07-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 140204464X

This 2-volume set includes extensive discussions of scattering techniques (light, neutron and X-ray) and related fluctuation and grating techniques that are at the forefront of this field. Most of the scattering techniques are Fourier space techniques. Recent advances have seen the development of powerful direct imaging methods such as atomic force microscopy and scanning probe microscopy. In addition, techniques that can be used to manipulate soft matter on the nanometer scale are also in rapid development. These include the scanning probe microscopy technique mentioned above as well as optical and magnetic tweezers.