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<p> This thesis examines available x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) data for NiO, NaNi02 , and LiNi02 . The XAS examined is the Ni L-edge, 3d^n2p^6 →t 3d^(n+1)2p^5 . The experimental spectra are compared to spectra calculated using a configuration interaction approach. This approach reproduces the spectra accurately. The NaNi02 spectrum is shown to be sensitive to the Jahn-Teller distortion, while the LiNi02 spectrum is reproduced by a hybridized d^7-d^8 state that explains the lack of Jahn-Teller distortion in LiNi02 </p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

The three-dimensional x-ray structure of 2,2'-bipyridylglycinatochloro copper(II) dihydrate has been fully refined to a final R factor of 0.081. The bipyridyl and glycine ligands are arranged about the central copper atom in a square planar configuration while the chlorine atom is 2.635 angstroms above this plane directly over the copper atom. This unusually long distance is explained by the positioning of a glycine group on the opposite side of the square plane, resulting in a distorted octahedral arrangement. Also, the chlorine atom is linked to three oxygen atoms via hydrogen bonding, thus stabilizing the distorted octahedral complex.

Cette étude propose l'idée des aimants dits de ferrite tétragonale en rendant la symétrie cristalline des ferrites de spinelle cubique afin d'améliorer l'anisotropie magnétique (et donc, d'améliorer la coercivité). Pour concrétiser cette idée, nous avons synthétisé des particules (Cu, Co) -ferrite à distorsion tétragonale et caractérisé systématiquement les propriétés magnétiques en conséquence avec leurs distorsions de réseau. Les facteurs intrinsèques et extrinsèques contribuant à la coercivité ont été étudiés. Pour élucider l'anisotropie magnétique, nous avons démontré un modèle de couplage physique de l'effet Jahn-Teller (JT) et de l'effet magnétoélastique (ME) au sein de la théorie phénoménologique. Ensuite, nous avons effectué une analyse de coercivité dans deux modèles généraux de coercivité afin de clarifier les paramètres de la microstructure contribuant au mécanisme d'inversion de la magnétisation. À partir de l'analyse du modèle magnétoélastique, nous avons démontré l'expression linéaire de l'anisotropie magnétique en utilisant le paramètre tétragonal obtenu à partir de la distorsion JT. Les valeurs du coefficient magnétoélastique pour Cu (B1Cu = 2 MJ / m3) et Co (B1Co = 40 MJ / m3) déduites de la courbe expérimentale étaient acceptables avec la valeur calculée pour le ferrite de cuivre en vrac (B1Cu en vrac = 4 MJ / m3) et le cobalt. ferrite (masse B1Co = 55 MJ / m3). Les résultats suggèrent que l’anisotropie magnétique peut être attribuée au couplage de la distorsion JT avec l’effet magnétoélastique de Co. Au lieu d’une augmentation indéfinie avec x, l’anisotropie magnétique Ku tend à atteindre une valeur de saturation en raison de la concurrence entre les effet magnétoélastique de Co et le JT de Cu. Entre le x tétragonal x = 0,1 et le x cubique = 0,2, les valeurs de Ku constantes d'anisotropie magnétique intrinsèque ne varient pas de manière aussi significative que la différence entre les champs de coercivité et d'anisotropie. La réduction des champs d'anisotropie supérieurs à x = 0,1 peut alors être attribuée à l'augmentation de l'aimantation spontanée. L'analyse de la coercivité au sein du modèle micromagnétique a révélé une contribution importante à la coercivité de la microstructure et de l'effet démagnétisant local. Le paramètre de microstructure αMM = 0,25 obtenu était une valeur classique de l'analyse micromagnétique, suggérant le départ du champ d'anisotropie avec ce facteur de réduction. Les facteurs démagnétisants locaux effectifs NeffMM d’environ 1,4 obtenus étaient plutôt importants, ce qui suggère un effet démagnétisant significatif. Dans l'analyse du modèle global (GM), les valeurs de NeffGM obtenues étaient were 0,38 pour l'échantillon x = 0,1. La valeur négative suggère la présence d'une interaction d'échange agissant efficacement en opposition à l'interaction dipolaire. En deçà de 100 K, une différence dans le modèle suggère l’idée d’un réchauffement local consécutif à l’activation thermique due au changement d’énergie Zeeman et à une dissipation de chaleur inefficace. Cet événement peut avoir conduit à la réduction du champ coercitif à une température suffisamment basse dans l'échantillon x = 0.1 en supposant que les grains sont fortement couplés en échange. / This study proposes the idea of the so-called tetragonal ferrite magnets by rendering the crystal symmetry of the cubic spinel ferrites to enhance the magnetic anisotropy (and hence, enhance the coercivity). To realize this idea, we synthesized tetragonally distorted (Cu,Co)-ferrite particles and systematically characterized the magnetic properties accordingly with their lattice distortions. The intrinsic and extrinsic factors contributing to coercivity were investigated. To elucidate the magnetic anisotropy, we demonstrated a physical coupling model of the Jahn-Teller (JT) effect and the magnetoelastic (ME) effect within the phenomenological theory. Then, we performed coercivity analysis within two general models of coercivity to clarify the microstructure parameters contributing to the magnetization reversal mechanism. From the magnetoelastic model analysis, we demonstrated the linear expression of the magnetic anisotropy using the tetragonal parameter obtained from the JT distortion. The magnetoelastic coefficient values for Cu (B1Cu = 2 MJ/m3) and Co (B1Co = 40 MJ/m3) deduced from the experimental curve were agreeable with the value calculated for bulk copper ferrite (B1Cu bulk= 4 MJ/m3) and cobalt ferrite (B1Co bulk= 55 MJ/m3). The results suggests that the source of magnetic anisotropy can be attributed to the coupling of the JT distortion with the magnetoelastic effect of Co. Instead of an indefinite increase with x, the magnetic anisotropy Ku tends to reach a saturation value due to the competition between the magnetoelastic effect of Co and the JT effect of Cu. Between the tetragonal x = 0.1 and the cubic x = 0.2 samples, the intrinsic magnetic anisotropy constant Ku values do not vary as significantly compared to the difference in the coercivity and the anisotropy fields. The reduction of anisotropy fields above x = 0.1 then can be attributed to the increase in the spontaneous magnetization.The coercivity analysis within the micromagnetic model revealed significant contribution to the coercivity by the microstructure and the local demagnetizing effect. The microstructure parameter αMM = 0.25 obtained was a classical value in the micromagnetic analysis, suggesting the departure of anisotropy field with this reduction factor. The effective local demagnetizing factor NeffMM of about 1.4 obtained were rather large suggesting a significant demagnetizing effect. Within the global model (GM) analysis, the values of NeffGM obtained were －0.38 for the x = 0.1 sample. The negative value suggests the presence of an exchange interaction acting effectively in opposition to the dipolar interaction. Below 100 K, discrepancy in the GM suggests the idea of a local heating event following the thermal activation due to the change in Zeeman energy and ineffective heat dissipation. This event may have led to the reduction of coercive field at sufficiently low temperature in the x = 0.1 sample assuming the grains are strongly exchange-coupled.

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Lo Loc Ping = 多體量子系統問題 / 盧樂平. / Thesis submitted in: October 2004. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-171). / Text in English; abstracts in English and Chinese. / Lo Loc Ping = Duo ti liang zi xi tong wen ti / Lu Leping. / Abstract --- p.i / 摘要 --- p.ii / Acknowledgment --- p.iii / Chapter I --- Computational Quantum Mechanics and Its Applications 電算量子力學及其應用 --- p.1 / Chapter 1 --- An Overview of Quantum Mechanics and Some Important Tools of Theory --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Schrodinger Equation --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Variational Method --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Rayleigh-Ritz Approach --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Linear Variation --- p.5 / Chapter 2 --- Theoretical Methodology of Electronic Structures: Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Theory --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Molecular Hamiltonian --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2 --- Hartree Description and Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals Expan- sion --- p.8 / Chapter 2.3 --- Slater Determinant and the Pauli Exclusion Principle --- p.9 / Chapter 2.4 --- The Expansion of E in Terms of Integrals over MOs --- p.11 / Chapter 2.5 --- Derivation of the Hartree´ؤFock Equations --- p.15 / Chapter 2.6 --- The Self-Consistent Field Calculation --- p.18 / Chapter 2.7 --- Koopmans' Theorem --- p.19 / Chapter 2.8 --- Orbital and the Total SCF Electronic Energy --- p.20 / Chapter 2.9 --- AO Basic Sets --- p.21 / Chapter 2.9.1 --- Slater-Type Orbitals --- p.21 / Chapter 2.9.2 --- Gaussian Functions --- p.22 / Chapter 2.10 --- The Hartree-Fock Limit --- p.23 / Chapter 2.11 --- Electron Correlation --- p.23 / Chapter 2.11.1 --- Weakness in the Single Determinant Model --- p.23 / Chapter 2.11.2 --- Configuration Interaction --- p.24 / Chapter 2.11.3 --- The Coupled-Cluster Method --- p.25 / Chapter 2.11.4 --- Density Functional Theory --- p.26 / Chapter 2.12 --- Frontier Orbitals --- p.31 / Chapter 3 --- Theoretical Investigation of the Interaction between Metal and Tris(8- hydroxyquinoline) aluminum in Organic Light Emitting Diodes --- p.32 / Chapter 3.1 --- Organic Light Emitting Diodes and Tris(8-hydro-xyquinoline) aluminum --- p.32 / Chapter 3.2 --- Computational Methodology --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3 --- Alq3 --- p.34 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Molecular Structure --- p.34 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Electronic Structure --- p.36 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Transition and Relaxation Energies --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Interactions with Metals --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4 --- "Li-Alq3, Na-Alq3 and K-Alq3 Complexes" --- p.46 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Molecular Structure --- p.46 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Ground-State Electronic Structure --- p.55 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Transition and Relaxation Energies --- p.67 / Chapter 3.5 --- "Be-Alq3, Mg´ؤAlq3 and Ca´ؤAlq3 Complexes" --- p.68 / Chapter 3.5.1 --- Molecular Structure --- p.68 / Chapter 3.5.2 --- Ground-State Electronic Structure --- p.76 / Chapter 3.5.3 --- Transition and Relaxation Energies --- p.87 / Chapter 3.6 --- "B-Alq3, Al-Alq3 and Ga-Alq3 Complexes" --- p.87 / Chapter 3.6.1 --- Molecular Structure --- p.87 / Chapter 3.6.2 --- Ground-State Electronic Structure --- p.95 / Chapter 3.6.3 --- Transition and Relaxation Energies --- p.106 / Chapter II --- Analytical Studies of Polarons and the Electron-Phonon Interaction 極子與電子一聲子相互作用的 解析研究 --- p.107 / Chapter 4 --- Optimal Coupled-Cluster Approximation of the Ground-State Energy of the E× (α1 + α1) Jahn-Teller System --- p.108 / Chapter 4.1 --- The Jahn-Teller Effect --- p.108 / Chapter 4.2 --- Approximation in the Coupled-Cluster Method and the Jahn-Teller Hamiltonian --- p.110 / Chapter 4.3 --- Variational Coupled-Cluster Approximation --- p.112 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- The Zeroth Level --- p.113 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- The First Level --- p.113 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- The Second and the Third Levels --- p.114 / Chapter 4.4 --- An 'Optimal' Hamiltonian --- p.115 / Chapter 4.5 --- Treatment for the k> 1 Case --- p.117 / Chapter 4.6 --- Energies and Other Physical Phenomena --- p.118 / Chapter 5 --- Small-to-Large Ground-State Polaron Crossover in One-Dimension Extended E×e Jahn-Teller System Using Variational Coupled-Cluster Approximation --- p.134 / Chapter 5.1 --- Polaron Formation --- p.134 / Chapter 5.2 --- Model Hamiltonian and the MLF Transformation --- p.135 / Chapter 5.3 --- Variatonal Coupled-Cluster Approximation --- p.137 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Zeorth Level --- p.139 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- First Level --- p.139 / Chapter 5.3.3 --- Second Level --- p.142 / Chapter 5.4 --- Energies and Static Correlation Functions --- p.142 / Chapter 5.5 --- Approximate Form of the MLF Transformation for K = 0 --- p.153 / Chapter 5.5.1 --- Zeroth Level --- p.154 / Chapter 5.5.2 --- First Level --- p.155 / Chapter 5.5.3 --- Second Level --- p.156 / Chapter 5.5.4 --- Energies and Static Correlation Functions --- p.157 / Chapter 5.6 --- Synopsis --- p.167 / Bibliography --- p.171

Hole-doped manganite La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 (LCMO) was extensively studied because of its colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) characteristic in a magnetic field. Recently, a new member of CMR family La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 (LCeMO), an electron-doped manganite, raises a new wave of attention for possible application in p-n junction. In this present study, LCMO and LCeMO single layer and bi-layer were grown on SrTiO3 (100) substrate by a pulse laser ablation technique. Due to the neutralization at the p-n junction a possible insulating layer with the anti-ferromagnetic (AFM) property is expected. There is no systematically study of this matter up to date, thus, it is worth to systematically investigate the physical properties of this junction. The result indicates the possible neutralization layer exhibits huge resistance comparison with two lateral layers, the bias current is constrained on the limited thickness of the top layer, which implies the neutralization layer forms a depletion layer that block the current to flow through to the bottom layer. Its electric and magnetic properties may similar to the parent compound LaMnO3 with insulating and anti-ferromagnetic characteristics. Separated by this possible layer, the magnetic coupling between lateral layers is weak. However, the possible AFM layer does pin the magnetic moment of the top layer along the direction perpendicular to the substrate that make a distinct magnetoresistance at low magnetic field.

Hole-doped maganite with middle to narrow bandwidth La1-xCaxMnO3 was extensively studied because of its colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) characteristic under a magnetic field. These kind of materials show un- common magnetic and electric properties. The charge order phase only happens to the region x> 0.5, and along with decreasing temperature, its phase goes from para-insulator to charge-ordered then to antiferromagne- tism. In our studies, we apply correlation function of Green¡¦s function to LCMO and get susceptibility of charge and spin. Then we can get the cri- tical value of Coulomb repulsion inside the material by substituting the experimental values of phase transition temperature. This critical values is the key point of charge-ordered. Then we can also get the size of char- ge gap which decides the stability of charge-ordered phase. After know- ing the Coulomb repulsion and charge gap, we can picture the relation of inside and on-site Coulomb repulsion qualitatively while the transition happens. Here the on-site Coulomb repulsion means to the Hund¡¦s coupl- ing between d electrons. And by this we¡¦ll understand the physics inside CMR materials.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第25014号 / 工博第5191号 / 新制||工||1991(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科分子工学専攻 / (主査)教授 佐藤 徹, 教授 田中 庸裕, 教授 佐藤 啓文 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DGAM