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Excitation of surface plasmon-polaritons in metal films with double periodic modulation: anomalous optical effects
We perform a thorough theoretical analysis of resonance effects when an
arbitrarily polarized plane monochromatic wave is incident onto a double
periodically modulated metal film sandwiched by two different transparent
media. The proposed theory offers a generalization of the theory that had been
build in our recent papers for the simplest case of one-dimensional structures
to two-dimensional ones. A special emphasis is placed on the films with the
modulation caused by cylindrical inclusions, hence, the results obtained are
applicable to the films used in the experiments. We discuss a spectral
composition of modulated films and highlight the principal role of
``resonance'' and ``coupling'' modulation harmonics. All the originating
multiple resonances are examined in detail. The transformation coefficients
corresponding to different diffraction orders are investigated in the vicinity
of each resonance. We make a comparison between our theory and recent
experiments concerning enhanced light transmittance and show the ways of
increasing the efficiency of these phenomena. In the appendix we demonstrate a
close analogy between ELT effect and peculiarities of a forced motion of two
coupled classical oscillators.Comment: 24 pages, 17 figure
The String Landscape, Black Holes and Gravity as the Weakest Force
We conjecture a general upper bound on the strength of gravity relative to
gauge forces in quantum gravity. This implies, in particular, that in a
four-dimensional theory with gravity and a U(1) gauge field with gauge coupling
g, there is a new ultraviolet scale Lambda=g M_{Pl}, invisible to the
low-energy effective field theorist, which sets a cutoff on the validity of the
effective theory. Moreover, there is some light charged particle with mass
smaller than or equal to Lambda. The bound is motivated by arguments involving
holography and absence of remnants, the (in) stability of black holes as well
as the non-existence of global symmetries in string theory. A sharp form of the
conjecture is that there are always light "elementary" electric and magnetic
objects with a mass/charge ratio smaller than the corresponding ratio for
macroscopic extremal black holes, allowing extremal black holes to decay. This
conjecture is supported by a number of non-trivial examples in string theory.
It implies the necessary presence of new physics beneath the Planck scale, not
far from the GUT scale, and explains why some apparently natural models of
inflation resist an embedding in string theory.Comment: 20 pages, LaTeX, 5 EPS figures; v2: minor correction
Bilayer Membrane in Confined Geometry: Interlayer Slide and Steric Repulsion
We derived free energy functional of a bilayer lipid membrane from the first
principles of elasticity theory. The model explicitly includes
position-dependent mutual slide of monolayers and bending deformation. Our free
energy functional of liquid-crystalline membrane allows for incompressibility
of the membrane and vanishing of the in-plane shear modulus and obeys
reflectional and rotational symmetries of the flat bilayer. Interlayer slide at
the mid-plane of the membrane results in local difference of surface densities
of the monolayers. The slide amplitude directly enters free energy via the
strain tensor. For small bending deformations the ratio between bending modulus
and area compression coefficient, Kb/KA, is proportional to the square of
monolayer thickness, h. Using the functional we performed self-consistent
calculation of steric potential acting on bilayer between parallel confining
walls separated by distance 2d. We found that temperature-dependent curvature
at the minimum of confining potential is enhanced four times for a bilayer with
slide as compared with a unit bilayer. We also calculate viscous modes of
bilayer membrane between confining walls. Pure bending of the membrane is
investigated, which is decoupled from area dilation at small amplitudes. Three
sources of viscous dissipation are considered: water and membrane viscosities
and interlayer drag. Dispersion has two branches. Confinement between the walls
modifies the bending mode with respect to membrane in bulk solution.
Simultaneously, inter-layer slipping mode, damped by viscous drag, remains
unchanged by confinement.Comment: 23 pages,3 figures, pd
Dynamic Fluctuation Phenomena in Double Membrane Films
Dynamics of double membrane films is investigated in the long-wavelength
limit including the overdamped squeezing mode. We demonstrate that thermal
fluctuations essentially modify the character of the mode due to its nonlinear
coupling to the transversal shear hydrodynamic mode. The corresponding Green
function acquires as a function of the frequency a cut along the imaginary
semi-axis. Fluctuations lead to increasing the attenuation of the squeezing
mode it becomes larger than the `bare' value.Comment: 7 pages, Revte
Structure of 311 service requests as a signature of urban location
© 2017 Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. While urban systems demonstrate high spatial heterogeneity, many urban planning, economic and political decisions heavily rely on a deep understanding of local neighborhood contexts. We show that the structure of 311 Service Requests enables one possible way of building a unique signature of the local urban context, thus being able to serve as a low-cost decision support tool for urban stakeholders. Considering examples of New York City, Boston and Chicago, we demonstrate how 311 Service Requests recorded and categorized by type in each neighborhood can be utilized to generate a meaningful classification of locations across the city, based on distinctive socioeconomic profiles. Moreover, the 311-based classification of urban neighborhoods can present sufficient information to model various socioeconomic features. Finally, we show that these characteristics are capable of predicting future trends in comparative local real estate prices. We demonstrate 311 Service Requests data can be used to monitor and predict socioeconomic performance of urban neighborhoods, allowing urban stakeholders to quantify the impacts of their interventions
Large Charge Four-Dimensional Non-Extremal N=2 Black Holes with R^2-Terms
We consider N=2 supergravity in four dimensions with small R^2 curvature
corrections. We construct large charge non-extremal black hole solutions in all
space, with either a supersymmetric or a non-supersymmetric extremal limit, and
analyze their thermodynamic properties. This generalizes some of the extremal
solutions presented in [arXiv:0902.0831]. The indexed entropy of the
non-extremal extension of the supersymmetric black hole, has the form of the
extremal entropy, with the charges replaced by a function of the charges, the
moduli at infinity and the non-extremality parameter. This is the same behavior
as in the case without R^2-terms.Comment: 13 pages. v2: stripped down to letter format, based on the background
given in [arXiv:0902.0831]. v3: up to date with CQG versio
Loschmidt echo and stochastic-like quantum dynamics of nano-particles
We investigate time evolution of prepared vibrational state (system) coupled
to a reservoir with dense spectrum of its vibrational states. We assume that
the reservoir has an equidistant spectrum, and the system - reservoir coupling
matrix elements are independent of the reservoir states. The analytical
solution manifests three regimes of the evolution for the system: (I) weakly
damped oscillations; (II) multicomponent Loschmidt echo in recurrence cycles;
(III) overlapping recurrence cycles. We find the characteristic critical values
of the system - reservoir coupling constant for the transitions between these
regimes. Stochastic dynamics occurs in the regime (III) due to inevoidably in
any real system coarse graining of time or energy measurements, or initial
condition uncertainty. Even though a specific toy model is investigated here,
when properly interpreted it yields quite reasonable description for a variety
of physically relevant phenomena.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Long Wavelength Anomalous Diffusion Mode in the 2D XY Dipole Magnet
In 2D XY ferromagnet the dipole force induces a strong interaction between
spin-waves in the long-wavelength limit. The major effect of this interaction
is the transformation of a propagating spin-wave into a diffusion mode. We
study the anomalous dynamics of such diffusion modes. We find that the
Janssen-De Dominics functional, which governs this dynamics, approaches the
non-Gaussian fixed-point. A spin-wave propagates by an anomalous anisotropic
diffusion with the dispersion relation: and
, where and
. The low-frequency response to the external magnetic field
is found.Comment: 34 pages, RevTeX, 2 .ps figures, the third figure is available upon
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