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A simple formula is obtained for coupling electrons in a complex system to the electromagnetic field. It includes the effect of intra-atomic excitations and nuclear motion, and can be applied in. e.g., first-principles-based simulations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roland E. Allen

Planar electromagnetic actuators based on the principle of linear motors are widely employed for micro and nano positioning applications. These actuators usually employ a planar magnetic platform driven by a co-planar electromagnetic coil.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 K. S. Vikrant , D. Dadkhah , S. O. Reza Moheimani

A current-carrying resonant nanoscale device, simulated by non-adiabatic molecular dynamics, exhibits sharp activation of non-conservative current-induced forces with bias. The result, above the critical bias, is generalized rotational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Daniel Dundas , Brian Cunningham , Claire Buchanan , Asako Terasawa , Anthony T. Paxton , Tchavdar N. Todorov

We use 2D and 3D hybrid (kinetic ions - fluid electrons) simulations to investigate particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification at non-relativistic astrophysical shocks. We show that diffusive shock acceleration operates for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Damiano Caprioli , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We study the gauge invariance of laser-matter interaction. The velocity gauge where the vector potential is expanded to the $n$-th order with respect to the spatial coordinate, and the length gauge where the electric and magnetic fields are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Ryoji Anzaki , Yasushi Shinohara , Takeshi Sato , Kenichi L. Ishikawa

This research paper explores the potential of nonlinear magnetic levitation systems for energy harvesting by developing a modified system that incorporates a more realistic energy harvesting circuit, enabling a better representation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Jinhao Xie , Chengkai Yuan

Non-linear techniques are used to optimize the harvested energy from piezoelectric and electromagnetic generators. This paper introduces an analytical study for the voltage amplification obtained from these techniques. The analytical study…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-11-29 Yasser Ammar , S. Basrour

We present a novel approach to enrich arbitrary rig animations with elastodynamic secondary effects. Unlike previous methods which pit rig displacements and physical forces as adversaries against each other, we advocate that physics should…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Jiayi Eris Zhang , Seungbae Bang , David I. W. Levin , Alec Jacobson

The interaction of a charged particle beam with radio-frequency (RF) systems in most linear or circular accelerators is an non-linear process. The large longitudinal electric fields for acceleration and longitudinal beam manipulations can…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Heiko Damerau

The most important part of a railgun launch package is the armature where the electromagnetic force is generated leading to the acceleration of the launch package. In case of metal armatures, the most commonly used armature types are the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Barbara Wild , Farid Alouahabi , Dejan Simicic , Markus Schneider , Ryan Hoffman

Magnetic reconnection in the relativistic regime has been proposed as an important process for the efficient production of nonthermal particles and high-energy emissions. Using fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations, we investigate how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Omar French , Fan Guo , Qile Zhang , Dmitri Uzdensky

Many problems in modern robotics can be addressed by modeling them as bilevel optimization problems. In this work, we leverage augmented Lagrangian methods and recent advances in automatic differentiation to develop a general-purpose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Benoit Landry , Zachary Manchester , Marco Pavone

We analyze the transport properties of a Luttinger liquid with an imbedded impurity of explicitly time-dependent strength. We employ a radiative boundary condition formalism to describe the coupling to the voltage sources. Assuming the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-09-22 T. L. Schmidt , A. Komnik

This paper introduces a continuous-time constrained nonlinear control scheme which implements a model predictive control strategy as a continuous-time dynamic system. The approach is based on the idea that the solution of the optimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Marco M. Nicotra , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Ilya V. Kolmanovsky

It is widely recognized that the existing parameter estimators and adaptive controllers for robot manipulators are extremely complicated to be of practical use. This is mainly due to the fact that the existing parameterization includes the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-16 Jose Guadalupe Romero , Romeo Ortega , Alexey Bobtsov

We study the dynamical behavior of a single degree of freedom mechanical system with a particle damper. The particle (granular) damping was optimized for the primary system operating condition by using an appropriate gap size for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-19 Martín Sánchez , C. Manuel Carlevaro

We have investigated numerically the coupling between a 10 \si{MeV} electron bunch of high charge (\SI{> 100}{pc}) with a laser generated accelerating plasma wave. Our results show that a high efficiency coupling can be achieved using a…

Particle acceleration at non-relativistic shocks can be very efficient, leading to the appearance of non-linear effects due to the dynamical reaction of the accelerated particles on the shock structure and to the non-linear amplification of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pasquale Blasi , Elena Amato , Damiano Caprioli

Electric field dynamics at a positive ion imbedded in an electron gas is considered using a semiclassical description. The dependence of the field autocorrelation function on charge number is studied for strong ion-electron coupling via MD…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 James Dufty , Ilya Pogorelov , Bernard Talin , Annette Calisti

Over-parameterized deep neural networks have proven to be able to learn an arbitrary dataset with 100$\%$ training accuracy. Because of a risk of overfitting and computational cost issues, we cannot afford to increase the number of network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Bukweon Kim , Sung Min Lee , Jin Keun Seo