Abstract

Resonant dislocation motions in NaCl(Ca) crystals under the simultaneous action of the Earth’s magnetic field BEarth (∼66 μT) and a pulsed pump field \(\tilde B\) of sufficient amplitude \(\tilde B_m \) and certain duration τ have been detected and studied. The measured dislocation path peaks l(τ) have a maximum at τ = τr ≈ 0.53 μs. The resonance criterion has been found to be the ordinary EPR condition in which the g-factor is close to 2 and the optimum inverse pulse duration τr−1 is used instead of the harmonic pump field frequency νr. The largest peak l(τ) height is reached at mutually orthogonal dislocation (L) and magnetic field (BEarth and \(\tilde B\)) orientations. Pulsed field rotation to the position \(\tilde B\) ‖ BEarth significantly decreases but does not “kill” the effect. For dislocations parallel to the Earth’s field (L ‖ BEarth), the resonance almost disappears even at \(\tilde B\) ⊥ BEarth. In the optimum geometry of experiments, as the pump field amplitude \(\tilde B_m \) decreases from 17.6 to 10 μT, the path peak height lr = l(τr) decreases only by 7.5%, remaining at the level of lr ∼ 102 μm, and at a \(\tilde B_m \) further fall-off to 4 μT, it rapidly decreases to background values. In this case, the relative density of mobile dislocations similarly decreases from ∼90 to 40%. Possible physical mechanisms of the observed effect have been discussed.

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