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Ce-induced effects on the self-assembly of arachidic acid Langmuir monolayers was studied in this work. The monolayers were formed on the liquid subphase in the presence of Ce(III) ions. A new type of structural configuration is found for such monolayers, in which the monolayer maintains its structural ordering despite being compressed beyond the collapse point. Instead of forming 3D aggregates as in the typical collapsed state, the monolayer appears to be corrugated. Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction and X-ray standing waves confirm these findings. The diffraction pattern for the monolayer in a new state is represented by the unclosed diffraction rings with maxima near the sample horizon. This diffraction pattern is quantitatively reproduced in the numerical simulations by assuming the corrugated monolayer. The details of the conditions under which these corrugated Langmuir monolayers were observed and the analysis of the diffraction data are described., Comment: This is an original manuscript consisting of 18 pages, 2 tables and 10 figures. To be submitted for publication in the (IUCr) Journal of Applied Crystallography

We consider the effect of the nematic order on the formation of the superconducting state in iron pnictides and chalcogenides. Nematic order with the $B_{2g}$ symmetry is modelled as the $d$-type Pomeranchuk instability and treated within the mean-field approach. Calculated nematic order parameter depends on the nematic interaction coefficient and abruptly changes with the coefficient's increase. The superconducting solution is obtained within the spin-fluctuation pairing theory. We show that the leading solution in the nematic phase has a $s_{\pi\pm}$ structure. From the critical temperature $T_c$ estimations, we conclude that the nematic superconducting state of the $s_{\pi\pm}$ type is more favorable than the usual $s_\pm$ and $d_{x^2-y^2}$ type states appearing in the absence of the nematicity., Comment: 5 pages, published version

The effect of violation of $T$-invariance, provided that $P$-parity is preserved, is given by the total cross section of the interaction of a vector-polarized particle with a tensor-polarized target. A formalism for calculating this effect developed previously and based on the spin-dependent Glauber theory of elastic $pd$ scattering is used here to calculate the effect under discussion in the range of collision energies corresponding to the invariant mass of the $pN$ system $\sqrt{s_{pN}}=5$--$30$ GeV. The spin-dependent amplitudes of elastic $pN$ scattering required for this calculation are taken from existing phenomenological models for $pN$ scattering in the energy region considered., Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure;in Russian, presented at Scientific session of Nuclear Physics section of Physics Division of RAS, submitted to PEPAN

A formalism has been developed for calculating the signal of violation of $T$ invariance, provided that $P$ invariance is preserved during the scattering of tensor-polarized deuterons on vector-polarized ones based on the Glauber theory with the full consideration of spin dependence of $NN$ elastic scattering amplitudes and spin structure of colliding deuterons. The numerical calculations have been carried out in the range of laboratory proton energies $T_p=0.1$--$1.2$ GeV using the SAID database for spin amplitudes and in the energy region of the SPD NICA experiment corresponding to the invariant mass of the interacting nucleon pairs $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 2.5$--$25$ GeV, using two phenomenological models of $pN$ elastic scattering. It is found that only one type of the $T$ non-invariant $P$-invariant $NN$ interaction gives a non-zero contribution to the signal in question, that is important for isolating an unknown constant of this interaction from the corresponding data., Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Chinese Physics C

We study the Poincar\'e gauge theory of gravity with the most general Lagrangian quadratic in curvature and torsion, focusing on the possible interaction of the axial torsion with the electromagnetic field. From the analysis of the closed system of field equations, we identify the magnetic helicity density and the spin density of the electromagnetic field as the components of the source for the torsion field. We consider the propagation of a linearly polarized plane electromagnetic wave and demonstrate the ``dichroism'' or the polarization rotation effect under the action of external electric and magnetic fields orthogonal to the direction of wave propagation., Comment: Contributed paper for MG2024 proceedings

We present the Pilot Survey Phase 2 data release for the Wide-field ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind surveY (WALLABY), carried-out using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP). We present 1760 HI detections (with a default spatial resolution of 30") from three pilot fields including the NGC 5044 and NGC 4808 groups as well as the Vela field, covering a total of ~180 deg$^2$ of the sky and spanning a redshift up to $z \simeq 0.09$. This release also includes kinematic models for over 126 spatially resolved galaxies. The observed median rms noise in the image cubes is 1.7 mJy per 30" beam and 18.5 kHz channel. This corresponds to a 5$\sigma$ HI column density sensitivity of $\sim 9.1\times10^{19}(1 + z)^4$ cm$^{-2}$ per 30" beam and $\sim 20$ km/s channel, and a 5$\sigma$ HI mass sensitivity of $\sim 5.5\times10^8 (D/100$ Mpc)$^{2}$ M$_{\odot}$ for point sources. Furthermore, we also present for the first time 12" high-resolution images ("cut-outs") and catalogues for a sub-sample of 80 sources from the Pilot Survey Phase 2 fields. While we are able to recover sources with lower signal-to-noise ratio compared to sources in the Public Data Release 1, we do note that some data quality issues still persist, notably, flux discrepancies that are linked to the impact of side lobes associated with the dirty beams due to inadequate deconvolution. However, in spite of these limitations, the WALLABY Pilot Survey Phase 2 has already produced roughly a third of the number of HIPASS sources, making this the largest spatially resolved HI sample from a single survey to date., Comment: 25 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA)

In this paper, an approach to training and evaluating an adapter model for the popular language model "zephyr-7b-beta" is described. The adapter was developed to improve the performance of the base model in tasks related to programming and understanding the Russian language. Considering the high quality of the original model in tasks in the English language, the goal of the research was to expand its linguistic and technical spectrum. The proposed adapter was trained using a large and diverse dataset, including question-answer pairs related to programming, as well code-related texts in Russian language. The applied training methodology ensures an improvement in the model's quality of answers in understanding and generating Python code based on Russian instructions. We evaluated the performance of the base model with the installed adapter using various metrics, comparing it to the base model as well as other state-of-the-art models in this field. The obtained results showed significant improvement, both in tasks related to writing Python code and in processing the Russian language, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed adapter., Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures

A surprisingly large number of galaxies with masses of $\sim10^9-10^{10}M_\odot$ at redshifts of $z\geq9$ are discovered with the James Webb Space Telescope. A possible explanation for the increase in the mass function can be the presence of a local maximum (bump) in the power spectrum of density perturbations on the corresponding scale. In this paper, it is shown that simultaneously with the growth of the mass function, galaxies from the bump region must have a higher density (compactness) compared to cosmological models without a bump. These more compact galaxies have been partially included in larger galaxies and have been subjected to tidal gravitational disruption. They have been less destructed than ``ordinary'' galaxies of the same mass, and some of them could survive to $z = 0$ and persist on the periphery of some galaxies. The formation and evolution of compact halos in a cube with a volume of $(47 \,\text{Mpc})^3$ with $(1024)^3$ dark matter particles in the redshift range from 120 to 0 have been numerically simulated and observational implications of the presence of such galaxies in the current Universe have been discussed., Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures

We continue to study the ultra-luminous X-ray source NGC 7793 P13 in the optical range. In this work, we are testing the model of a spherically symmetric wind atmosphere of the donor star, previously identified as a B9 Ia supergiant. The model spectrum has shown good agreement with the observed one at a relatively high mass loss rate of $\dot{M} \approx 6\times10^{-6}\,M_{\odot}\,\text{yr}^{-1}$; other parameters turned out to be close to those expected for late B-supergiants. The increased mass loss rate can be explained by the high rotation velocity of the star. In addition, we have qualitatively demonstrated the effect of X-ray irradiation on the observed spectrum and discuss the fundamental possibility of wind acceleration under conditions of powerful irradiation., Comment: 17 pages, 6 figure; Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Bulletin

Halide perovskite-based photodiodes are promising for efficient detection across a broad spectral range. Perovskite absorber thin-films have a microcrystalline morphology, characterized by a high density of surface states and defects at inter-grain interfaces. In this work, we used dielectric-ferroelectric poly(vinylidene-fluoride-trifluoroethylene-P(VDF-TrFE) to modify the bulk interfaces and electron transport junction in p-i-n perovskite photodiodes. Our complex work demonstrates that interface engineering with P(VDF-TrFE) induces significant Fermi level pinning, reducing from 4.85 eV for intrinsic perovskite to 4.28 eV for the configuration with dielectric interlayers. The integration of P(VDF-TrFE) into the perovskite film did not affect the morphology and crystal structure, but significantly changed the charge transport and device performance. IV curve analysis and 2-diode model calculations showed enhanced shunt properties, a decreased non-ideality factor, and reduced saturation dark current. We have shown that the complex introduction of P(VDF-TrFE) into the absorbers bulk and on its surface is essential to reduce the impact of the trapping processes. For P(VDF-TrFE) containing devices, we increased the specific detectivity from 10^11 to 10^12 Jones, expanded the linear dynamic range up to 100 dB, and reduced the equivalent noise power to 10^-13 W*Hz^-0.5. Reducing non-radiative recombination contributions significantly enhanced device performance, improving rise/fall times from 6.3/10.9 us to 4.6/6.5 us. The cut-off frequency (3dB) increased from 64.8 kHz to 74.8 kHz following the introduction of the dielectric. These results provide new insights into the use of organic dielectrics and an improved understanding of trap-states and ion defect compensation for detectors based on perovskite heterostructures.

In this report the emphasis is on an alternative representation of the Magnus series by proper operator (matrix) exponential solutions to differential equations (systems), both linear and nonlinear ODEs and PDEs. The main idea here is in \emph{exact} \emph{linear} representations of the \emph{nonlinear} DEs. We proceeded from Dyson's time-ordered solutions, and using only generalizations of the well-known Baker-Campbell- Hausdorff (BCH) and Zassenhaus formulae for $t$-dependent operators directly converted them to simple proper operator exponents. The method being explicit both in terms of the operator and in terms of expressing the formal solution as an ordinary exponential, makes it quite easy to calculate analytical expressions to solutions in the form of a Taylor function series in one variable $t$. If introduce a mutually invertible change of variable $t$ into the original equations and then find a solution to this new equation in the form with ordinary exponential, one can obtain a completely different Taylor expansion of the desired function. The essence of this method comes down to resuming the series., Comment: 11 pages

The use of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) with anchoring groups was considered as an effective approach for interface engineering in perovskite solar cells with metal oxide charge transporting layers. However, the coating of SAM layers in PSMs by means of a slot-die is a challenging process due to the low viscosity of the solutions and the low wettability of the films. In this study, we integrate a triphenylamine-based polymer, pTPA-TDP, blended with SAM based on 5-[4-[4-(diphenylamino) phenyl] thiophene-2-carboxylic acid (TPATC), to address the challenges of uniform slot-die coating and interface passivation in large-area modules. We fabricated p-i-n oriented PSMs on 50x50 mm2 substrates (12-sub-cells) with NiO hole transport layer (HTL) and organic interlayers for surface modification. Wetting angle mapping demonstrated that ununiform regions of the slot-die coated SAM have hydrophobicity with contact angle values up to 90{\deg}, causing fluctuations in absorber thickness and the presence of macro-defects at buried interfaces. The incorporation of the blended interlayer to NiO/perovskite junction homogenized the surface wettability (contact angle=40{\deg}) and mitigated lattice strain in the absorber. This enabled the effective use of SAM properties on a large-area surface, improving energy level alignment and enhancing the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the modules from 13.98% to 15.83% and stability (ISOS-L-2, T80 period) from 500-1000 hours to 1630 hours. Investigation of PSMs upon cooling till -5 {\deg}C showed that the PCE increased by +0.19%/{\deg}C for samples with NiO HTL, while using SAM and blended interlayers raised the coefficient to ~0.40%/{\deg}C due to changes in activation energy and trap contributions to device performance across a wide temperature range.

Relativistic beams of heavy ions interacting with various nuclear targets allow to study a broad range of problems starting from nuclear equation of state to the traditional nuclear structure. Some questions which were impossible to answer heretofore -- can be addressed nowadays by using inverse kinematics. These includes the structure of short-lived nuclei and the precision study of exclusive channels with production of residual nuclei in certain quantum states. Theoretical understanding such processes is so far based on factorization models which combine the single-step amplitude of the reaction on a bound nucleon or nuclear cluster with a certain wave function of its relative motion with respect to the residual nucleus. The nuclear structure information is encoded in the spectroscopic amplitude, calculable within nuclear many-body theories. In this work, we use for this purpose the translationally-invariant shell model with configuration mixing and demonstrate that it successfully reproduces the single-differential and integrated cross sections of the quasielastic proton knockout, $^{12}\mbox{C}(p,2p)^{11}\mbox{B}$, with outgoing $^{11}$B in the ground state and low-lying excited states measured at GSI at 400 MeV/nucleon., Comment: 26 pages, 6 figures, model description extended, version accepted in Phys. Rev. C

The direct detection of dark matter constituents, in particular the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), is central to particle physics and cosmology. In this paper we study WIMP induced transitions from isomeric nuclear states for two possible isomeric candidates: $\rm^{180}Ta$ and $\rm^{166}Ho$. The experimental setup, which can measure the possible decay of $\rm^{180}Ta$ induced by WIMPs, was proposed. The corresponding estimates of the half-life of $\rm^{180}Ta$ are given in the sense that the WIMP-nucleon interaction can be interpreted as ordinary radioactive decay.

The direct electrical method was used to study the behavior of the spin Hall effect in a magnetic field perpendicular to the injection current in aluminum samples with resistivities that differed by two orders of magnitude at a temperature of 4.2 K. The parabolic behavior of the spin-Hall voltage curves with maxima at the same value of the magnetic field was discovered. It was proposed an explanation which is based on the competition of two universal mechanisms associated with the accumulation of spins - the dependences of spin magnetization and spin relaxation length on the magnetic field strength.

In recent years, evidence has been obtained that in the outer region of the Solar System (in the inner part of the Oort cloud), at a distance $\sim300-700$ AU from the Sun, there may be a captured planet or a primordial black hole. In this paper, we show that the gravitational scattering of dust particles in the same region on this object can transfer them to new elongated orbits reaching the Earth's orbit. With the mass of the captured object of the order of 5-10 Earth masses, the calculated dust flow near the Earth $\sim0.1-3$$\mu$g m$^{-2}$ yr$^{-1}$ is comparable in order of magnitude with the observed flow. This effect gives a joint restriction on the parameters of the captured object and on the amount of dust in the Oort cloud., Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, preprint version

The FAST All Sky HI survey (FASHI) was designed to cover the entire sky observable by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), spanning approximately 22000 square degrees of declination between -14 deg and +66 deg, and in the frequency range of 1050-1450 MHz, with the expectation of eventually detecting more than 100000 HI sources. Between August 2020 and June 2023, FASHI had covered more than 7600 square degrees, which is approximately 35% of the total sky observable by FAST. It has a median detection sensitivity of around 0.76 mJy/beam and a spectral line velocity resolution of ~6.4 km/s at a frequency of ~1.4 GHz. As of now, a total of 41741 extragalactic HI sources have been detected in the frequency range 1305.5-1419.5 MHz, corresponding to a redshift limit of z<0.09. By cross-matching FASHI sources with the Siena Galaxy Atlas (SGA) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) catalogs, we found that 16972 (40.7%) sources have spectroscopic redshifts and 10975 (26.3%) sources have only photometric redshifts. Most of the remaining 13794 (33.0%) HI sources are located in the direction of the Galactic plane, making their optical counterparts difficult to identify due to high extinction or high contamination of Galactic stellar sources. Based on current survey results, the FASHI survey is an unprecedented blind extragalactic HI survey. It has higher spectral and spatial resolution and broader coverage than the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA). When completed, FASHI will provide the largest extragalactic HI catalog and an objective view of HI content and large-scale structure in the local universe., Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures, published in SCPMA. All catalogs are available at https://zcp521.github.io/fashi and https://fast.bao.ac.cn/cms/article/271/

A study of the inelastic scattering of neutrons with an energy of $14.1$~MeV on the nuclei of oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur was carried out at the TANGRA facility at JINR (Dubna). The purpose of the experiment was to refine existing and obtain new data on the yields and angular distributions of $\gamma$-quanta emitted by the studied nuclei as a result of neutron-induced nuclear reactions using the tagged neutron method. Two types of detector systems were used to register $\gamma$-quanta. The $\gamma$-ray yields were measured using a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector. The angular distributions of $\gamma$-rays were obtained using a system of 18 scintillation detectors based on bismuth germanite Bi$_{4}$Ge$_{3}$O$_{12}$ (BGO) located around the sample. As a result of the studies carried out, the yields of two transitions for the reaction of tagged neutrons with $^{16}$O, nine transitions for the reaction with $^{31}$P, and nine transitions for the reaction with $^{32}$S were measured for the first time. The angular anisotropy of the $\gamma$-radiation accompanying the inelastic scattering of neutrons with an energy of $14.1$~MeV on $^{31}$P nuclei was also measured for the first time., Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Chinese Physics C