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Localization of Electromagnetic Fields in Disordered Fano Metamaterials
We present the first study of disorder in planar metamaterials consisting of
strongly interacting metamolecules, where coupled electric dipole and magnetic
dipole modes give rise to a Fano-type resonant response and show that
positional disorder leads to light localization inherently linked to collective
magnetic dipole excitations. We demonstrate that the magnetic excitation
persists in disordered arrays and results in the formation of "magnetic
hot-spots"
Photoproduction Processes in Polarized ep - Collisions at HERA
We study various conceivable photoproduction reactions in a polarized ep
collider mode of HERA with respect to their sensitivity to the proton's
polarized gluon distribution. A special emphasis is put on the `resolved' part
of the cross sections which in principle opens the possibility to determine for
the first time also the completely unknown parton content of longitudinally
polarized photons. In the very promising case of dijet production we also
investigate the impact of parton showering, hadronization and jet finding on
the parton level results.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX, 7 figures, uses epsfig, amssymb, and a41 (included)
styles; Contribution to the proceedings of the 1997 workshop on 'Physics with
Polarized Protons at HERA', Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany, March-September
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Holographic capture of femtosecond pulse propagation
We have implemented a holographic system to study the propagation of femtosecond laser pulses with high temporal (150 fs) and spatial resolutions (4 µm). The phase information in the holograms allows us to reconstruct both positive and negative index changes due to the Kerr nonlinearity (positive) and plasma formation (negative), and to reconstruct three-dimensional structure. Dramatic differences were observed in the interaction of focused femtosecond pulses with air, water, and carbon disulfide. The air becomes ionized in the focal region, while in water long plasma filaments appear before the light reaches a tight focus. In contrast, in carbon disulfide the optical beam breaks up into multiple filaments but no plasma is measured. We explain these different propagation regimes in terms of the different nonlinear material properties
Asteroseismic Stellar Modelling with AIMS
The goal of AIMS (Asteroseismic Inference on a Massive Scale) is to estimate
stellar parameters and credible intervals/error bars in a Bayesian manner from
a set of asteroseismic frequency data and so-called classical constraints. To
achieve reliable parameter estimates and computational efficiency, it searches
through a grid of pre-computed models using an MCMC algorithm -- interpolation
within the grid of models is performed by first tessellating the grid using a
Delaunay triangulation and then doing a linear barycentric interpolation on
matching simplexes. Inputs for the modelling consist of individual frequencies
from peak-bagging, which can be complemented with classical spectroscopic
constraints. AIMS is mostly written in Python with a modular structure to
facilitate contributions from the community. Only a few computationally
intensive parts have been rewritten in Fortran in order to speed up
calculations.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures. Tutorial presented at the IVth Azores
International Advanced School in Space Sciences on "Asteroseismology and
Exoplanets: Listening to the Stars and Searching for New Worlds"
(arXiv:1709.00645), which took place in Horta, Azores Islands, Portugal in
July 201
Analytical solution of two-layer beam taking into account interlayer slip and shear deformation
A mathematical model is proposed and its analytical solution derived for the analysis of the geometrically and materially linear two-layer beams with different material and geometric characteristics of an individual layer. The model takes into account the effect of the transverse shear deformation on displacements in each layer. The analytical study is carried out to evaluate the influence of the transverse shear deformation on the static and kinematic quantities. We study a simply supported two-layer planar beam subjected to the uniformly distributed load. Parametric studies have been performed to investigate the influence of shear by varying material and geometric parameters, such as interlayer slip modulus (K), flexural-to-shear moduli ratios (E/G) and span-to-depth ratios (L/h). The comparison of the results for vertical deflections shows that shear deformations are more important for high slip modulus, for ``short'' beams with small L/h ratios, and beams with high E/G ratios. In these cases, the effect of the shear deformations becomes significant and has to be addressed in design. It also becomes apparent that models, which consider the partial interaction between the layers, should be employed if beams have very flexible connections
Multigrid Monte Carlo with higher cycles in the Sine Gordon model
We study the dynamical critical behavior of multigrid Monte Carlo for the two
dimensional Sine Gordon model on lattices up to 128 x 128. Using piecewise
constant interpolation, we perform a W-cycle (gamma=2). We examine whether one
can reduce critical slowing down caused by decreasing acceptance rates on large
blocks by doing more work on coarser lattices. To this end, we choose a higher
cycle with gamma = 4. The results clearly demonstrate that critical slowing
down is not reduced in either case.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, whole paper including figure contained in ps-file,
DESY 93-00
Transform-limited X-ray pulse generation from a high-brightness self-amplified spontaneous-emission free-electron laser
A method to achieve high-brightness self-amplified spontaneous emission (HB-SASE) in the free-electron laser (FEL) is described. The method uses repeated nonequal electron beam delays to delocalize the collective FEL interaction and break the radiation coherence length dependence on the FEL cooperation length. The method requires no external seeding or photon optics and so is applicable at any wavelength or repetition rate. It is demonstrated, using linear theory and numerical simulations, that the radiation coherence length can be increased by approximately 2 orders of magnitude over SASE with a corresponding increase in spectral brightness. Examples are shown of HB-SASE generating transform-limited FEL pulses in the soft x-ray and near transform-limited pulses in the hard x-ray. Such pulses may greatly benefit existing applications and may also open up new areas of scientific research
Experimental assessment of presumed filtered density function models
Measured filtered density functions (FDFs) as well as assumed beta distribution model of mixture fraction and “subgrid” scale (SGS) scalar variance, used typically in large eddy simulations, were studied by analysing experimental data, obtained from two-dimensional planar, laser induced fluorescence measurements in isothermal swirling turbulent flows at a constant Reynolds number of 29 000 for different swirl numbers (0.3, 0.58, and 1.07)
Structure of the vacuum states in the presence of isovector and isoscalar pairing correlations
The long standing problem of proton-neutron pairing and, in particular, the
limitations imposed on the solutions by the available symmetries, is revisited.
We look for solutions with non-vanishing expectation values of the proton, the
neutron and the isoscalar gaps. For an equal number of protons and neutrons we
find two solutions where the absolute values of proton and neutrons gaps are
equal but have the same or opposite sign. The behavior and structure of these
solutions differ for spin saturated (single l-shell) and spin unsaturared
systems (single j-shell). In the former case the BCS results are checked
against an exact calculation.Comment: 19 pages, 5 postscript figure
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