912 research outputs found
Scattering of massless scalar field by charged dilatonic black holes
Wave propagations in the presence of black holes is a significant problem
both in theoretical and observational aspects, especially after the discovery
of gravitational wave and confirmation of black holes. We study the scattering
of massless scalar field by a charged dilatonic black hole in frame of full
wave theory. We apply partial wave method to obtain the scattering cross
sections of the scalar field, and investigate how the black hole charge affects
the scalar scattering cross sections. Furthermore, we investigate the Regge
pole approach of the scattering cross section of the dilatonic black hole. We
find that in order to obtain results at the same precision, we need more Regge
poles as the black hole charge increases. We compare the results in the full
wave theory and results in the classical geodesic scattering and the
semi-classical glory approximations, and demonstrate the improvements and power
of our approach.Comment: 14 pages, 22 figures, published versio
Realization of a three-dimensional photonic topological insulator
Confining photons in a finite volume is in high demand in modern photonic
devices. This motivated decades ago the invention of photonic crystals,
featured with a photonic bandgap forbidding light propagation in all
directions. Recently, inspired by the discoveries of topological insulators
(TIs), the confinement of photons with topological protection has been
demonstrated in two-dimensional (2D) photonic structures known as photonic TIs,
with promising applications in topological lasers and robust optical delay
lines. However, a fully three-dimensional (3D) topological photonic bandgap has
never before been achieved. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a 3D photonic
TI with an extremely wide (> 25% bandwidth) 3D topological bandgap. The sample
consists of split-ring resonators (SRRs) with strong magneto-electric coupling
and behaves as a 'weak TI', or a stack of 2D quantum spin Hall insulators.
Using direct field measurements, we map out both the gapped bulk bandstructure
and the Dirac-like dispersion of the photonic surface states, and demonstrate
robust photonic propagation along a non-planar surface. Our work extends the
family of 3D TIs from fermions to bosons and paves the way for applications in
topological photonic cavities, circuits, and lasers in 3D geometries
DAISY filter flow: A generalized discrete approach to dense correspondences
Establishing dense correspondences reliably between a pair of images is an important vision task with many ap-plications. Though significant advance has been made to-wards estimating dense stereo and optical flow fields for two images adjacent in viewpoint or in time, building re-liable dense correspondence fields for two general images still remains largely unsolved. For instance, two given im-ages sharing some content exhibit dramatic photometric and geometric variations, or they depict different 3D scenes of similar scene characteristics. Fundamental challenges to such an image or scene alignment task are often mul-tifold, which render many existing techniques fall short of producing dense correspondences robustly and efficiently. This paper presents a novel approach called DAISY filter flow (DFF) to address this challenging task. Inspired by the recent PatchMatch Filter technique, we leverage and extend a few established methods: 1) DAISY descriptors, 2) filter-based efficient flow inference, and 3) the Patch-Match fast search. Coupling and optimizing these mod-ules seamlessly with image segments as the bridge, the pro-posed DFF approach enables efficiently performing dense descriptor-based correspondence field estimation in a gen-eralized high-dimensional label space, which is augmented by scales and rotations. Experiments on a variety of chal-lenging scenes show that our DFF approach estimates spa-tially coherent yet discontinuity-preserving image align-ment results both robustly and efficiently. 1
Novel black holes in higher derivative gravity
We find a class of novel black holes in higher derivative theory. The novel
black holes follow behavior of~\sch\ ones at large mass limit, while
dramatically differentiate from ~\sch\ ones for little holes because of the
effects which may root in quantum gravity. The temperature of the hole takes
maximum for a specific mass, which is related to the new sale introduced in the
higher derivative theory, and goes to zero at little mass limit. This property
leads to a significant observation that the novel black hole may be a candidate
for dark matters evading constraint from -ray burst.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, comments welcom
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