Introduction to Neutron Radiography Facilities at the Japan Research Reactor-3

Kurita, Keisuke; Iikura, Hiroshi; Tsuchikawa, Yusuke; Kai, Tetsuya; Shinohara, Takenao; Odaira, Naoya*; Ito, Daisuke*; Saito, Yasushi*; Matsubayashi, Masahito

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 2605, p.012005_1 - 012005_6, 2023/10

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2605/1/012005

The Japan Research Ractor-3 (JRR-3) is operation resumed on February 26, 2021, and the shared use was also restarted in July, 2021. With the resumption of JRR-3 operation, two imaging facilities called TNRF and CNRF have also resumed their utilization. In this presentation, we report the details of these two neutron facilities.

An Experimental setup for creating and imaging He excimer cluster tracers in superfluid helium-4 via neutron-He absorption reaction

Sonnenschein, V.*; Tsuji, Yoshiyuki*; Kokuryu, Shoma*; Kubo, Wataru*; Suzuki, So*; Tomita, Hideki*; Kiyanagi, Yoshiaki*; Iguchi, Tetsuo*; Matsushita, Taku*; Wada, Nobuo*; et al.

Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(3), p.033318_1 - 033318_12, 2020/03

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5130919

Generation of He clusters via neutron-He absorption reaction toward visualization of full velocity field in quantum turbulence

Matsushita, Taku*; Sonnenschein, V.*; Guo, W.*; Hayashida, Hirotoshi*; Hiroi, Kosuke; Hirota, Katsuya*; Iguchi, Tetsuo*; Ito, Daisuke*; Kitaguchi, Masaaki*; Kiyanagi, Yoshiaki*; et al.

Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 196(1-2), p.275 - 282, 2019/07

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-02112-3

Reduced-shifted conjugate-gradient method for a Green's function; Efficient numerical approach in a nano-structured superconductor

Nagai, Yuki; Shinohara, Yasushi*; Futamura, Yasunori*; Sakurai, Tetsuya*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 86(1), p.014708_1 - 014708_9, 2017/01

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.86.014708

no abstracts in English

Time-dependent density functional theory of high-intensity short-pulse laser irradiation on insulators

Sato, Shunsuke*; Yabana, Kazuhiro*; Shinohara, Yasushi*; Otobe, Tomohito; Lee, K.-M.*; Bertsch, G. F.*

Physical Review B, 92(20), p.205413_1 - 205413_6, 2015/11

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.205413

We calculate the energy deposition by very short laser pulses in SiO (-quartz) with a view to establishing systematics for predicting damage and nanoparticle production. The theoretical framework is time-dependent density functional theory, implemented by the real-time method in a multiscale representation. We find that the deposited energy in the medium can be accurately modeled as a function of the local electromagnetic pulse fluence. The energy deposition function can in turn be quite well fitted to the strong-field Keldysh formula. We find reasonable agreement between the damage threshold and the energy required to melt the substrate. The ablation threshold estimated by the energy to convert the substrate to an atomic fluid is higher than the measurement, indicating significance of nonthermal nature of the process. A fair agreement is found for the depth of the ablation.

Dynamics of low- shear Alfvn modes driven by energetic N-NB ions in JT-60U

Bierwage, A.; Todo, Yasushi*; Aiba, Nobuyuki; Shinohara, Koji

Nuclear Fusion, 54(10), p.104001_1 - 104001_14, 2014/10

https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/54/10/104001

First-principles simulation of the optical response of bulk and thin-film -quartz irradiated with an ultrashort intense laser pulse

Lee, K.-M.*; Kim, C. M.*; Sato, Shunsuke*; Otobe, Tomohito; Shinohara, Yasushi*; Yabana, Kazuhiro; Jeong, T. M.*

Journal of Applied Physics, 115(5), p.053519_1 - 053519_8, 2014/02

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4864662

A computational method based on a first-principles multiscale simulation has been used for calculating the optical response and the ablation threshold of an optical material irradiated with an ultrashort intense laser pulse. The method was applied to investigate the changes in the optical reflectance of quartz bulk, half-wavelength thin-film and quarter-wavelength thin-film and to estimate their ablation thresholds. Despite the adiabatic local density approximation used in calculating the exchange-correlation potential, the reflectance and the ablation threshold obtained from our method agree well with the previous theoretical and experimental results. The method can be applied to estimate the ablation thresholds for optical materials in general.

Numerical construction of a low-energy effective Hamiltonian in a self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes approach of superconductivity

Nagai, Yuki; Shinohara, Yasushi*; Futamura, Yasunori*; Ota, Yukihiro*; Sakurai, Tetsuya*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 82(9), p.094701_1 - 094701_10, 2013/09

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.82.094701

no abstracts in English

First-principles calculation to explore mechanisms of coherent phonon generation

Shinohara, Yasushi*; Otobe, Tomohito; Iwata, Junichi*; Yabana, Kazuhiro*

Nihon Butsuri Gakkai-Shi, 67(10), p.685 - 689, 2012/10

https://doi.org/10.11316/butsuri.67.10_685

Coherent phonon is the macroscopic coherent oscillation of atoms in a solid state generating under the ultrafast laser pulse which is shorter than the frequency of the phonon. Some physical processes for the coherent phonon have been proposed. We are studying the computational method describing the dynamics of the electron and atom employing the time-dependent density functional theory. Our computational results show the origine of the coherent phonon in Si quantitatively.

Nonadiabatic generation of coherent phonons

Shinohara, Yasushi*; Sato, Shunsuke*; Yabana, Kazuhiro*; Iwata, Junichi*; Otobe, Tomohito; Bertsch, G. F.*

Journal of Chemical Physics, 137(22), p.22A527_1 - 22A527_8, 2012/08

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4739844

The time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is the leading computationally feasible theory to treat excitations by strong electromagnetic fields. Here the theory is applied to coherent optical phonon generation. We examine the process in the crystalline semimetal antimony (Sb), where nonadiabatic coupling and optical phonon of different symmetries can be observed. The TDDFT is able to account for a number of qualitative features of the observed coherent phonon.