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Plastic deformation of crystalline methane at low temperatures

A. V. Leont’evaPhysicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, DonetskA. D. AlekseevPhysicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, DonetskV. A. RomanushaPhysicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, DonetskVictor A. StreltsovPhysicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, DonetskA. Yu. ProkhorovPhysicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, DonetskL. V. StepanchukPhysicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, DonetskL. A. VashchenkoPhysicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Donetsk
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Experimental investigations of creep in crystalline methane revealed a considerable increase in the steady-state creep rate in the vicinity of phase transition (by a factor of 40 to 100 under stresses of 300 and 440 gf/mm2, respectively) and between 9 and 4.5 K (by a factor of three under a stress of 200 gf/mm2). The low-temperature anomaly in the creep rate is attributed to the spin quantum conversion in methane.

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