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LB-MAC: A Lifetime-Balanced MAC Protocol for Sensor Networks
Abstract. This paper presents LB-MAC, a new MAC protocol for asyn-chronous, duty cycle sensor networks. Different from existing sensor network MAC protocols that usually focus on reducing energy consump-tion and extending lifetime of individual sensor nodes, LB-MAC aims at prolonging the network lifetime through balancing the nodal lifetime between neighboring sensors. LB-MAC is lightweight and scalable as the required control information is only exchanged locally between neighbors. LB-MAC has been implemented in TinyOS and evaluated on a sensor network testbed with extensive experiments. Results show that LB-MAC is able to achieve a significantly longer network lifetime than state-of-the-art MAC protocols such as X-MAC, RI-MAC and SEESAW, while maintaining comparable levels of network power consumption, packet delay and delivery ratio.
Coherent Phonons in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
We review recent studies of coherent phonons (CPs) corresponding to the
radial breathing mode (RBM) and G-mode in single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)
and graphene. Because of the bandgap-diameter relationship, RBM-CPs cause
bandgap oscillations in SWCNTs, modulating interband transitions at terahertz
frequencies. Interband resonances enhance CP signals, allowing for chirality
determination. Using pulse shaping, one can selectively excite
speci!c-chirality SWCNTs within an ensemble. G-mode CPs exhibit
temperature-dependent dephasing via interaction with RBM phonons. Our
microscopic theory derives a driven oscillator equation with a
density-dependent driving term, which correctly predicts CP trends within and
between (2n+m) families. We also find that the diameter can initially increase
or decrease. Finally, we theoretically study the radial breathing like mode in
graphene nanoribbons. For excitation near the absorption edge, the driving term
is much larger for zigzag nanoribbons. We also explain how the armchair
nanoribbon width changes in response to laser excitation.Comment: 48 pages, 41 figure
Wave Function Based Characteristics of Hybrid Mesons
We propose some extensions of the quark potential model to hybrids, fit them
to the lattice data and use them for the purpose of calculating the masses,
root mean square radii and wave functions at the origin of the conventional and
hybrid charmonium mesons. We treat the ground and excited gluonic field between
a quark and an antiquark as in the Born-Oppenheimer expansion, and use the
shooting method to numerically solve the required Schrdinger
equation for the radial wave functions; from these wave functions we calculate
the mesonic properties. For masses we also check through a Crank Nichelson
discretization. For hybrid charmonium mesons, we consider the exotic quantum
number states with and . We also compare
our results with the experimentally observed masses and theoretically predicted
results of the other models. Our results have implications for scalar form
factors, energy shifts, magnetic polarizabilities, decay constants, decay
widths and differential cross sections of conventional and hybrid mesons.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figures, Erratum is submitted to EPJ
Cherenkov radiation emitted by ultrafast laser pulses and the generation of coherent polaritons
We report on the generation of coherent phonon polaritons in ZnTe, GaP and
LiTaO using ultrafast optical pulses. These polaritons are coupled modes
consisting of mostly far-infrared radiation and a small phonon component, which
are excited through nonlinear optical processes involving the Raman and the
second-order susceptibilities (difference frequency generation). We probe their
associated hybrid vibrational-electric field, in the THz range, by
electro-optic sampling methods. The measured field patterns agree very well
with calculations for the field due to a distribution of dipoles that follows
the shape and moves with the group velocity of the optical pulses. For a
tightly focused pulse, the pattern is identical to that of classical Cherenkov
radiation by a moving dipole. Results for other shapes and, in particular, for
the planar and transient-grating geometries, are accounted for by a convolution
of the Cherenkov field due to a point dipole with the function describing the
slowly-varying intensity of the pulse. Hence, polariton fields resulting from
pulses of arbitrary shape can be described quantitatively in terms of
expressions for the Cherenkov radiation emitted by an extended source. Using
the Cherenkov approach, we recover the phase-matching conditions that lead to
the selection of specific polariton wavevectors in the planar and transient
grating geometry as well as the Cherenkov angle itself. The formalism can be
easily extended to media exhibiting dispersion in the THz range. Calculations
and experimental data for point-like and planar sources reveal significant
differences between the so-called superluminal and subluminal cases where the
group velocity of the optical pulses is, respectively, above and below the
highest phase velocity in the infrared.Comment: 13 pages, 11 figure
Erratum: Evolution of cosmic star formation in the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey
Large scale structure and cosmolog
Euclid preparation: XVII. Cosmic dawn survey: Spitzer space telescope observations of the Euclid deep fields and calibration fields
Galaxie
Euclid preparation. XV. Forecasting cosmological constraints for the Euclid and CMB joint analysis
Galaxie
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