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Sub-wavelength imaging at optical frequencies using canalization regime
Imaging with sub-wavelength resolution using a lens formed by periodic
metal-dielectric layered structure is demonstrated. The lens operates in
canalization regime as a transmission device and it does not involve negative
refraction and amplification of evanescent modes. The thickness of the lens
have to be an integer number of half-wavelengths and can be made as large as
required for ceratin applications, in contrast to the other sub-wavelength
lenses formed by metallic slabs which have to be much smaller than the
wavelength. Resolution of at 600 nm wavelength is confirmed by
numerical simulation for a 300 nm thick structure formed by a periodic stack of
10 nm layers of glass with and 5 nm layers of metal-dielectric
composite with . Resolution of is predicted for a
structure with same thickness, period and operating frequency, but formed by
7.76 nm layers of silicon with and 7.24 nm layers of silver with
.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PR
About low field memory and negative magnetization in semiconductors and polymers
Ginzburg-Landau bulk magnetization of itinerant electrons can provide a
negative effective field in the Weiss model by coupling to localized magnetic
moments. The coupling enforces remnant magnetization, which can be negative or
positive depending on the sample magnetic history. Stable magnetic
susceptibility of coupled nonequilibrium subsystems with magnetization reversal
is always positive. Gauss-scale fields could be expected for switching between
negative and positive remnant moments in semiconductors with coupling at
ambient temperatures. Negative magnetization in ultra-high conducting polymers
is also discussed within the developed framework.Comment: 8 pages, no figure
Towards the theory of ferrimagnetism
Two-sublattice ferrimagnet, with spin- operators at the
sublattice site and spin- operators at the sublattice
site, is considered. The magnon of the system, the transversal fluctuation
of the total magnetization, is a complicate mixture of the transversal
fluctuations of the sublattice and spins. As a result, the magnons'
fluctuations suppress in a different way the magnetic orders of the and
sublattices and one obtains two phases. At low temperature the
magnetic orders of the and spins contribute to the magnetization of the
system, while at the high temperature , the magnetic order of the
spins with a weaker intra-sublattice exchange is suppressed by magnon
fluctuations, and only the spins with stronger intra-sublattice exchange has
non-zero spontaneous magnetization. The transition is a transition
between two spin-ordered phases in contrast to the transition from spin-ordered
state to disordered state (-transition). There is no additional symmetry
breaking, and the Goldstone boson has a ferromagnetic dispersion in both
phases. A modified spin-wave theory is developed to describe the two phases.
All known Neel's anomalous curves are reproduced, in particular that
with "compensation point". The theoretical curves are compared with
experimental ones for sulpho-spinel and rare earth iron
garnets.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure
Quantum phase transition in the dioptase magnetic lattice
The study of quantum phase transitions, which are zero-temperature phase
transitions between distinct states of matter, is of current interest in
research since it allows for a description of low-temperature properties based
on universal relations. Here we show that the crystal green dioptase
Cu_6Si_6O_18 . 6H_2O, known to the ancient Roman as the gem of Venus, has a
magnetic crystal structure, formed by the Cu(II) ions, which allows for a
quantum phase transition between an antiferromagnetically ordered state and a
quantum spin liquid.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, EPL, in pres
QCD one-loop correction to Higgs boson decay into quarkonium-pair
Rare decays of the Higgs boson into quarkonia-pairs are studied within the
framework of NRQCD approach. The main decay mechanisms and their interference
are studied in detail. One-loop corrections to the widths of these decays are
taken into account for the first time.Comment: Minor changes for the text. Has been accepted by Phys. Rev.
Witten's Vertex Made Simple
The infinite matrices in Witten's vertex are easy to diagonalize. It just
requires some SL(2,R) lore plus a Watson-Sommerfeld transformation. We
calculate the eigenvalues of all Neumann matrices for all scale dimensions s,
both for matter and ghosts, including fractional s which we use to regulate the
difficult s=0 limit. We find that s=1 eigenfunctions just acquire a p term, and
x gets replaced by the midpoint position.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX style, typos correcte
Boundary conditions for interfaces of electromagnetic (photonic) crystals and generalized Ewald-Oseen extinction principle
The problem of plane-wave diffraction on semi-infinite orthorhombic
electromagnetic (photonic) crystals of general kind is considered. Boundary
conditions are obtained in the form of infinite system of equations relating
amplitudes of incident wave, eigenmodes excited in the crystal and scattered
spatial harmonics. Generalized Ewald-Oseen extinction principle is formulated
on the base of deduced boundary conditions. The knowledge of properties of
infinite crystal's eigenmodes provides option to solve the diffraction problem
for the corresponding semi-infinite crystal numerically. In the case when the
crystal is formed by small inclusions which can be treated as point dipolar
scatterers with fixed direction the problem admits complete rigorous analytical
solution. The amplitudes of excited modes and scattered spatial harmonics are
expressed in terms of the wave vectors of the infinite crystal by closed-form
analytical formulae. The result is applied for study of reflection properties
of metamaterial formed by cubic lattice of split-ring resonators.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PR
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