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Dude Looks Like a Lady: Gender Deception, Consent and Ethics
Finding the answer to whether consent is present within a sexual encounter has become increasingly difficult for the courts. We argue that this is due to the focus placed on entrenching gender binaries, a conservative sexual ethic and clear offender/victim roles. It should be the case that the court’s task is to find the truth of the encounter in coming to a judgment as to the ethical balance, rather than judging the parties’ conformity to cisnormative and heteronormative roles. This endeavour is obscured by the court’s need to exclude ‘sex talk’, or otherwise testimony as to the messy reality of the encounter, in favour of asserting gender identity and a procreative understanding of sex. We are, therefore, left in the position where the required information necessary for valid consent is obscured by the courts. We draw on an analysis of cases involving issues relating to consent to sex in order to argue for a judicial approach that is informed by a more flexible understanding of sexual autonomy
Electronic Raman Scattering in Twistronic Few-Layer Graphene
We study electronic contribution to the Raman scattering signals of two-,
three- and four-layer graphene with layers at one of the interfaces twisted by
a small angle with respect to each other. We find that the Raman spectra of
these systems feature two peaks produced by van Hove singularities in moir\'{e}
minibands of twistronic graphene, one related to direct hybridization of Dirac
states, and the other resulting from band folding caused by moir\'{e}
superlattice. The positions of both peaks strongly depend on the twist angle,
so that their detection can be used for non-invasive characterization of the
twist, even in hBN-encapsulated structures.Comment: 7 pages (including 4 figures) + 10 pages (3 figures) supplemen
Effective Field Theory for Rydberg Polaritons
We develop an effective field theory (EFT) to describe the few- and many-body
propagation of one dimensional Rydberg polaritons. We show that the photonic
transmission through the Rydberg medium can be found by mapping the propagation
problem to a non-equilibrium quench, where the role of time and space are
reversed. We include effective range corrections in the EFT and show that they
dominate the dynamics near scattering resonances in the presence of deep bound
states. Finally, we show how the long-range nature of the Rydberg-Rydberg
interactions induces strong effective -body interactions between Rydberg
polaritons. These results pave the way towards studying non-perturbative
effects in quantum field theories using Rydberg polaritons.Comment: 5+ pages main text, 3 figures; 5 pages supplemental, 1 figure; v2 -
replaced discussion of N-body bound state preparation with discussion of
effective range corrections and made other minor correction
A random number generator for continuous random variables
A FORTRAN 4 routine is given which may be used to generate random observations of a continuous real valued random variable. Normal distribution of F(x), X, E(akimas), and E(linear) is presented in tabular form
Slip boundary conditions for shear flow of polymer melts past atomically flat surfaces
Molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to investigate the dynamic
behavior of the slip length in thin polymer films confined between atomically
smooth thermal surfaces. For weak wall-fluid interactions, the shear rate
dependence of the slip length acquires a distinct local minimum followed by a
rapid growth at higher shear rates. With increasing fluid density, the position
of the local minimum is shifted to lower shear rates. We found that the ratio
of the shear viscosity to the slip length, which defines the friction
coefficient at the liquid/solid interface, undergoes a transition from a nearly
constant value to the power law decay as a function of the slip velocity. In a
wide range of shear rates and fluid densities, the friction coefficient is
determined by the product of the value of surface induced peak in the structure
factor and the contact density of the first fluid layer near the solid wall.Comment: 27 pages, 11 figure
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