The effect of nuclear Coulomb potential in rotating nuclei has been studied in the Thomas-Fermi approach. The numerical calculations of typical rotating nuclei show that Coulomb potential plays an important role in the rotational mass regions 150–190 and >224.

TheL-shell internal excitation accompanyingL-capture has been treated relativistically by the use of hydrogenic wave functions. Numerical calculations for the nuclides³⁷Ar,⁵⁵Fe,⁷⁷Ge,¹³¹Cs,¹⁵⁷Tb,¹⁶⁵Er,¹⁷⁹Ta and¹⁹³Pt have been performed for the first-time. The present calculations show that doubleL_i-hole production probability decreases with increasing atomic number and it is almost independent of transition energy for a particular shell. Possible experiments to detect this phenomenon in atoms for whichK-K processes are energetically forbidden are discussed briefly.

Epitaxial La_0.2Nd_0.4Ca_0.4MnO₃ thin films have been deposited at 800°C on LaAlO₃ substrate using pulsed laser deposition technique. The structural and magnetotransport properties of the films have been studied. The sharp peak in the temperature dependence of the resistance corresponding to metal-to-insulator transition (T_p) has been observed at a temperature of T_p=82 K, 97 K and 110 K for 0 Oe, 20 kOe and 40 kOe magnetic fields, respectively. The film exhibits a large nearly temperature-independent magnetoresistance around 99% in the temperature regime below T_p. The zero field-cooled (ZFC) and field-cooled (FC) magnetization data at 50 Oe shows irreversibility between the ZFC and FC close to the ferromagnetic transition temperature T_c=250 K. The ZFC temperature data of the film displays ferromagnetic behavior for higher temperature regime T_c=250 K>T>T_p=82 K, and a decrease in magnetization with decreasing temperature up to 5 K below 82 K exhibiting a sort of antiferromagnetic behavior in the low temperature regime (T<82 K=T_p=T_N).