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The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) imprinted a characteristic correlation length in the large-scale structure of the universe that can be used as a standard ruler for mapping out the cosmic expansion history. Here, we discuss the…
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The Boson peak (BP), an excess of vibrational density of states, is ubiquitous for amorphous materials and is believed to hold the key to understanding the dynamics of glass and glass transition. Previous studies have established an energy…
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The model of nonlinear interaction of proper waves of photonic crystal with plane acoustic wave was developed. The formulation of the model is reduced to the eigenvalue problem, which can be solved by computer simulations. By means of the…
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When two piezoelectric solids are placed in close proximity, acoustic waves (phonons) can "tunnel" across a vacuum gap transmitting energy between the two solids. Here, we demonstrate analytically that not only is such a phenomenon…
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