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Statistics of Chaotic Resonances in an Optical Microcavity
Distributions of eigenmodes are widely concerned in both bounded and open
systems. In the realm of chaos, counting resonances can characterize the
underlying dynamics (regular vs. chaotic), and is often instrumental to
identify classical-to-quantum correspondence. Here, we study, both
theoretically and experimentally, the statistics of chaotic resonances in an
optical microcavity with a mixed phase space of both regular and chaotic
dynamics. Information on the number of chaotic modes is extracted by counting
regular modes, which couple to the former via dynamical tunneling. The
experimental data are in agreement with a known semiclassical prediction for
the dependence of the number of chaotic resonances on the number of open
channels, while they deviate significantly from a purely
random-matrix-theory-based treatment, in general. We ascribe this result to the
ballistic decay of the rays, which occurs within Ehrenfest time, and
importantly, within the timescale of transient chaos. The present approach may
provide a general tool for the statistical analysis of chaotic resonances in
open systems.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, and a supplemental informatio
Tunable Unidirectional Sound Propagation through a Sonic-Crystal-Based Acoustic Diode
Nonreciprocal wave propagation typically requires strong nonlinear materials to break time reversal symmetry. Here, we utilized a
sonic-crystal-based acoustic diode that had broken spatial inversion
symmetry and experimentally realized sound unidirectional transmission
in this acoustic diode. These novel phenomena are attributed to
different mode transitions as well as their associated different energy
conversion efficiencies among different diffraction orders at two sides
of the diode. This nonreciprocal sound transmission could be
systematically controlled by simply mechanically rotating the square
rods of the sonic crystal. Different from nonreciprocity due to the
nonlinear acoustic effect and broken time reversal symmetry, this new
model leads to a one-way effect with higher efficiency, broader
bandwidth, and much less power consumption, showing promising
applications in various sound devices
Mixing among the neutral Higgs bosons and rare B decays in the CP violating MSSM
Considering corrections from two-loop Feynman diagrams which involve gluino
at large , we analyze the effects of possible CP phases on the rare
B decays: and in the CP
violating minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. It is shown
that the results of exact two loop calculations obviously differ from that
including one-loop contributions plus threshold radiative corrections. The
numerical analysis indicates that the possibly large CP phases strongly affect
the theoretical estimation of the branching ratios, and this results coincide
with the conclusion of some other works appearing in recent literature.Comment: revtex, 53 pages, including 19 figure
The neural basis of responsibility attribution in decision-making
Social responsibility links personal behavior with societal expectations and plays a key role in affecting an agent's emotional state following a decision. However, the neural basis of responsibility attribution remains unclear. In two previous event-related brain potential (ERP) studies we found that personal responsibility modulated outcome evaluation in gambling tasks. Here we conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study to identify particular brain regions that mediate responsibility attribution. In a context involving team cooperation, participants completed a task with their teammates and on each trial received feedback about team success and individual success sequentially. We found that brain activity differed between conditions involving team success vs. team failure. Further, different brain regions were associated with reinforcement of behavior by social praise vs. monetary reward. Specifically, right temporoparietal junction (RTPJ) was associated with social pride whereas dorsal striatum and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) were related to reinforcement of behaviors leading to personal gain. The present study provides evidence that the RTPJ is an important region for determining whether self-generated behaviors are deserving of praise in a social context
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