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Radiation-induced magnetoresistance oscillation in a two-dimensional electron gas in Faraday geometry
Microwave-radiation induced giant magnetoresistance oscillations recently
discovered in high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems in a magnetic
field, are analyzed theoretically. Multiphoton-assisted impurity scatterings
are shown to be the primary origin of the oscillation. Based on a model which
considers the interaction of electrons with the electromagnetic fields in
Faraday geometry, we are able not only to reproduce the correct period, phase
and the negative resistivity of the main oscillation, but also to obtain
secondary peaks and additional maxima and minima in the resistivity curve, some
of which were already observed in the experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, revised version to be published in Phys. Rev. Let
Robust Detection of Moving Human Target in Foliage-Penetration Environment Based on Hough Transform
Attention has been focused on the robust moving human target detection in foliage-penetration environment, which presents a formidable task in a radar system because foliage is a rich scattering environment with complex multipath propagation and time-varying clutter. Generally, multiple-bounce returns and clutter are additionally superposed to direct-scatter echoes. They obscure true target echo and lead to poor visual quality time-range image, making target detection particular difficult. Consequently, an innovative approach is proposed to suppress clutter and mitigate multipath effects. In particular, a clutter suppression technique based on range alignment is firstly applied to suppress the time-varying clutter and the instable antenna coupling. Then entropy weighted coherent integration (EWCI) algorithm is adopted to mitigate the multipath effects. In consequence, the proposed method effectively reduces the clutter and ghosting artifacts considerably. Based on the high visual quality image, the target trajectory is detected robustly and the radial velocity is estimated accurately with the Hough transform (HT). Real data used in the experimental results are provided to verify the proposed method
Tectonic interpretation of the connectivity of a multiscale fracture system in limestone
This paper studies the statistics and tectonism of a multiscale natural fracture system in limestone. The fracture network exhibits a self‐similar characteristic with a correlation between its power law length exponent a and fractal dimension D, i.e., a ≈ D + 1. Contradicting the scale‐invariant connectivity of idealized self‐similar systems, the percolation state of trace patterns mapped at different scales and localities of the study area varies significantly, from well to poorly connected. A tectonic interpretation based on a polyphase fracture network evolution history is proposed to explain this discrepancy. We present data to suggest that the driving force for fracture formation may be dissipated at the end of a tectonic event when the system becomes connected. However, the “effective” connectivity can successively be reduced by cementation of early fractures and reestablished by subsequent cracking, rendering a variable “apparent” connectivity that can be significantly above the percolation threshold.ISSN:0094-8276ISSN:1944-800
Disorder effects on the spin-Hall current in a diffusive Rashba two-dimensional heavy-hole system
We investigate the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional heavy-hole system
with Rashba spin-orbit coupling using a nonequilibrium Green's function
approach. Both the short- and long-range disorder scatterings are considered in
the self-consistent Born approximation. We find that, in the case of long-range
collisions, the disorder-mediated process leads to an enhancement of the
spin-Hall current at high heavy-hole density, whereas for short-range
scatterings it gives a vanishing contribution. This result suggests that the
recently observed spin-Hall effect in experiment is a result of the sum of the
intrinsic and disorder-mediated contributions. We have also calculated the
temperature dependence of spin-Hall conductivity, which reveals a decrease with
increasing the temperature.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, Typos in the values of hole density correcte
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