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Softening Solids: Reality or Misinterpretation?
 
Edge and waveguide THz surface plasmon modes in graphene micro-ribbons
Surface plasmon modes supported by graphene ribbon waveguides are studied and
classified. The properties of both modes with the field concentration within
the ribbon area (waveguiding modes) and on the edges (edge modes) are
discussed. The waveguide and edge modes are shown to be separated from each
other by a gap in wavenumbers. The even-parity hybridized edge mode results to
be the fundamental electromagnetic mode of the ribbon, possessing also the
lowest losses. All the plasmonic modes in the ribbons have an optimum
frequency, at which the absorption losses are minimum, due to competition
between the plasmon confinement and the frequency dependence of absorption in
graphene.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Exotic solutions in string theory
Solutions of classical string theory, correspondent to the world sheets,
mapped in Minkowsky space with a fold, are considered. Typical processes for
them are creation of strings from vacuum, their recombination and annihilation.
These solutions violate positiveness of square of mass and Regge condition. In
quantum string theory these solutions correspond to physical states |DDF>+|sp>
with non-zero spurious component.Comment: accepted in Il Nuovo Cimento A for publication in 199
Complex partial synchronization patterns in networks of delay-coupled neurons
We study the spatio-temporal dynamics of a multiplex network of delay-coupled FitzHugh–Nagumo oscillators with non-local and fractal connectivities. Apart from chimera states, a new regime of coexistence of slow and fast oscillations is found. An analytical explanation for the emergence of such coexisting partial synchronization patterns is given. Furthermore, we propose a control scheme for the number of fast and slow neurons in each layer.DFG, 163436311, SFB 910: Kontrolle selbstorganisierender nichtlinearer Systeme: Theoretische Methoden und Anwendungskonzept
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