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Scalable syntheses of well-defined pentadecablock bipolymer and quintopolymer
The one-pot syntheses of two pentadeca-(15)-block methacrylate-based amphiphilic copolymers, specifically a bipolymer (AB)7A and a quintopolymer (ABCDE)3, are being reported using a fast and easy to scale up procedure that does not require any intermediate purification steps. Both syntheses were carried out using sequential group transfer polymerisation (GTP) and took under 3.5 h. Amino-containing (DMAEMA, DEAEMA), ether (THFMA, MEGMA) and alkyl (EtMA) methacrylates were used to produce the multiblock copolymers with a final Ä < 1.3
Six-Quark Amplitudes from Fermionic MHV Vertices
The fermionic extension of the CSW approach to perturbative gauge theory
coupled with fermions is used to compute the six-quark QCD amplitudes. We find
complete agreement with the results obtained by using the usual Feynman rules.Comment: Latex file, 16 pages, 4 figure
A virtual earth model of the dementias in China
© 2017 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press. This developmental project was undertaken to explore how applying spatial science analysis and visualisation methods might inform societies undergoing significant structural and demographic change. China is rapidly transitioning to an aged society. It already exceeds all other countries in its population aged 65 years and over. Dementia is closely correlated with ageing and intersects with a variety of physical and cognitive disabilities. Information dashboards are a growing part of health and social policy data environments. These visual data applications increasingly include mapping capabilities. In this paper, we explore the utility of a geographic modelling approach to exploring the complex nature of population ageing and the dementias in China
Instanton test of non-supersymmetric deformations of the AdS_5 x S^5
We consider instanton effects in a non-supersymmetric gauge theory obtained
by marginal deformations of the N=4 SYM. This gauge theory is expected to be
dual to type IIB string theory on the AdS_5 times deformed-S^5 background. From
an instanton calculation in the deformed gauge theory we extract the prediction
for the dilaton-axion field \tau in dual string theory. In the limit of small
deformations where the supergravity regime is valid, our instanton result
reproduces the expression for \tau of the supergravity solution found by
Frolov.Comment: 15 page
Self-Organization in Multimode Microwave Phonon Laser (Phaser): Experimental Observation of Spin-Phonon Cooperative Motions
An unusual nonlinear resonance was experimentally observed in a ruby phonon
laser (phaser) operating at 9 GHz with an electromagnetic pumping at 23 GHz.
The resonance is manifested by very slow cooperative self-detunings in the
microwave spectra of stimulated phonon emission when pumping is modulated at a
superlow frequency (less than 10 Hz). During the self-detuning cycle new and
new narrow phonon modes are sequentially ``fired'' on one side of the spectrum
and approximately the same number of modes are ``extinguished'' on the other
side, up to a complete generation breakdown in a certain final portion of the
frequency axis. This is usually followed by a short-time refractority, after
which the generation is fired again in the opposite (starting) portion of the
frequency axis. The entire process of such cooperative spectral motions is
repeated with high degree of regularity. The self-detuning period strongly
depends on difference between the modulation frequency and the resonance
frequency. This period is incommensurable with period of modulation. It
increases to very large values (more than 100 s) when pointed difference is
less than 0.05 Hz. The revealed phenomenon is a kind of global spin-phonon
self- organization. All microwave modes of phonon laser oscillate with the same
period, but with different, strongly determined phase shifts - as in optical
lasers with antiphase motions.Comment: LaTeX2e file (REVTeX4), 5 pages, 5 Postscript figures. Extended and
revised version of journal publication. More convenient terminology is used.
Many new bibliographic references are added, including main early theoretical
and experimental papers on microwave phonon lasers (in English and in
Russian
Wang-Landau study of the random bond square Ising model with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor interactions
We report results of a Wang-Landau study of the random bond square Ising
model with nearest- () and next-nearest-neighbor ()
antiferromagnetic interactions. We consider the case for
which the competitive nature of interactions produces a sublattice ordering
known as superantiferromagnetism and the pure system undergoes a second-order
transition with a positive specific heat exponent . For a particular
disorder strength we study the effects of bond randomness and we find that,
while the critical exponents of the correlation length , magnetization
, and magnetic susceptibility increase when compared to the
pure model, the ratios and remain unchanged. Thus, the
disordered system obeys weak universality and hyperscaling similarly to other
two-dimensional disordered systems. However, the specific heat exhibits an
unusually strong saturating behavior which distinguishes the present case of
competing interactions from other two-dimensional random bond systems studied
previously.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, version as accepted for publicatio
An Optically-Programmable Absorbing Metasurface
A tunable metasurface absorber is presented in this work using an optically-programmable capacitor as the tuning element. The tuning element does not employ conventional semiconductor technologies to operate but rather a bases its tuning by changing the optomechanical properties of its dielectric, poly disperse red 1 acrylate (PDR1A). Doing so there are no conventional semiconductor devices in the RF signal path. The metasurface operates at a design frequency of 5.5 GHz and it achieves an optically-tuned bandwidth of 150 MHz, from 5.50 GHz to 5.65 GHz
A note on spin chain/string duality
Recently a significant progress in matching the anomalous dimensions of
certain class of operators in N=4 SYM theory and rotating strings was made. The
correspondence was established mainly using Bethe ansatz technique applied to
the spin s Heisenberg model. In a recent paper Kruczenski (hep-th/0311203)
suggested to solve the Heisenberg model by using of sigme model approach. In
this paper we generalize the solutions obtained by Kruczenski and comment on
the dual string theory. It turns out that our solutions are related to the so
called Neumann-Rosochatius integrable system. We comment on the spin chain
solutions and on the string/gauge theory correspondence.Comment: v.2 One reference added, typos corrected, 21 page
Chua mem-components for adaptive RF metamaterials
Chua's mem-components are ideal for creating adaptive metasurfaces for manipulating EM waves given that they hold their state without external biases. In this paper, we propose a generic adaptive reactive element that is in fact a memcapacitor/meminductor. This element makes use of a polymer that demonstrates reversible trans-cis photochemical isomerization, thus making it possible to change the distance between two conductive plates by up to 25%. Furthermore, a design methodology for utilizing these devices is presented
Loops in Twistor Space
We elucidate the one-loop twistor-space structure corresponding to
momentum-space MHV diagrams. We also discuss the infrared divergences, and
argue that only a limited set of MHV diagrams contain them. We show how to
introduce a twistor-space regulator corresponding to dimensional regularization
for the infrared-divergent diagrams. We also evaluate explicitly the
`holomorphic anomaly' pointed out by Cachazo, Svrcek, and Witten, and use the
result to define modified differential operators which can be used to probe the
twistor-space structure of one-loop amplitudes.Comment: 21 pages, TeX. v3. missing citations added. v4. subtlety with the i
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