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Case Study: Robin Hood or Criminal? The Case of a Bank Loan Officer
Employees who deviate from established rules at work face suspension or termination from their employment. Yet, knowing these dire consequences employees may still find themselves walking on a different path of business policy. Most employee wrongful conduct is done with the specific intent of benefitting the employee. In some cases, the authorities are brought in to intervene and criminal charges are brought against the employee, as in the case of embezzlement. Some acts are done by employees who do not believe in their company’s rules and are willing to deviate from them, not for their own benefit, but rather for the benefit of others. These employees are simply terminated.
When a loan officer fails to follow established bank-regulations is that an employer/employee discipline matter or a violation of federal law? Most observers would not have a problem criminally punishing a loan officer who personally benefits from such wrongful conduct. Such an act could progress to criminal charges under Section 18 USC Section 1344 punishable by a maximum fine of $1,000,000 and 30 years imprisonment
On the nature of two-photon transitions for a Collection of Molecules in a Fabry-Perot Cavity
We investigate the effect of a cavity on nonlinear two-photon transitions of
a molecular system and how such an effect depends on the cavity quality factor,
the field enhancement and the possibility of dephasing. We find that the
molecular response to strong light fields in a cavity with variable quality
factor can be understood as arising from a balance between (i) the ability of
the cavity to enhance the field of an external probe and promote multiphoton
transitions more easily and (ii) the fact that the strict selection rules on
multiphoton transitions in a cavity support only one resonant frequency within
the excitation range. Although our simulations use a classical-level
description of the radiation field (i.e. we solve Maxwell-Bloch or
Maxwell-Liouville equations within the Ehrenfest approximation for the
field-molecule interaction), based on experience with this level of
approximation in past studies of plasmonic and polaritonic systems, we believe
that our results are valid over a wide range of external probing.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figure
The Interplay Between Disorder and Collective Coherent Response: Superradiance and Spectral Motional Narrowing in the Time Domain
The interplay between static and dynamic disorder and collective optical
response in molecular ensembles is an important characteristic of nanoplasmonic
and nanophotonic molecular systems. Here we investigate the cooperative
superradiant response of a molecular ensemble of quantum emitters under the
influence of environmental disorder, including inhomogeneous broadening (as
induced by static random distribution of the molecular transition frequencies)
and motional narrowing (as induced by stochastic modulation of these excitation
energies). The effect of inhomogeneous broadening is to destroy the coherence
of the collective molecular excitation and suppress superradiant emission.
However, fast stochastic modulation of the molecular excitation energy can
effectively restore the coherence of the quantum emitters and lead to a
recovery of superradiant emission, which is an unexpected manifestation of
motional narrowing. For a light scattering process as induced by an
off-resonant incident pulse, stochastic modulation leads to inelastic
fluorescence emission at the average excitation energy at long times and
suggests that dynamic disorder effects can actually lead to collective
excitation of the molecular ensemble
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