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We analyze the possibility to measure small thermal effects in the Casimir force between metal test bodies in configurations of a sphere above a plate and two parallel plates. For sphere-plate geometry used in many experiments we…
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The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is an approved multi-institutional experiment of India. It will use maximum 30,000 Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) of size 2x2m as an active detector in which each will be sandwiched between two iron…
The PAMELA apparatus has been assembled and it is ready to be launched in a satellite mission to study mainly the antiparticle component of cosmic rays. In this paper the performances obtained for the silicon microstrip detectors used in…
The Small-Correlated-Against-Large Estimator (SCALE) for small-scale lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provides a novel method for measuring the amplitude of CMB lensing power without the need for reconstruction of the…
Closed-form, analytical approximations for electrostatic properties of molecules are of unique value, as these can provide computational speed, versatility, and physical insight. Here, we derive a simple, closed-form formula for the…
We study the problem of compression for the purpose of similarity identification, where similarity is measured by the mean square Euclidean distance between vectors. While the asymptotical fundamental limits of the problem - the minimal…
Increasing the density of superconducting circuits requires compact components, however, superconductor-based capacitors typically perform worse as dimensions are reduced due to loss at surfaces and interfaces. Here, parallel plate…
The pseudospectral method is a powerful tool for finding highly precise solutions of Schr\"{o}dinger's equation for few-electron problems. We extend the method's scope to wave functions with non-zero angular momentum and test it on several…
Non-equilibrium electrochemistry raises new challenges for atomistic simulation: we need to perform molecular dynamics for the nuclear degrees of freedom with an explicit description of the electrons, which in turn must be free to enter and…
A capacitance standard based on the definition of capacitance C = Ne/U is realized when a capacitor is charged with a known number N of electrons (e is the elementary charge) and the voltage U across the capacitor is measured. If U is…
Constant potential methods (CPM) enable computationally efficient simulations of the solid-liquid interface at conducting electrodes in molecular dynamics (MD). They have been successfully used, for example, to realistically model the…
This paper presents the design, simulation, and analytical modeling of the single proposed axis MEMSbased capacitive accelerometer. Analytical modeling has been done for frequency and displacement sensitivity. The performance of the…
A new type of effective atomic pseudopotential for passivation of semiconductor surfaces is presented. It is shown that the spherical approximation used in the effective and empirical pseudopotential methods is not suitable for describing…
Current progress in programmable electrostatic phase plates raises questions about their usefulness for specific applications. Here, we explore different designs for such phase plates with the specific goal of correcting spherical…
The impact of imperfections, which are always present on surfaces of lenses with centimeter-size curvature radii, on the Casimir force in the lens-plate geometry is investigated. It is shown that the commonly used formulation of the…
We use fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations with unprecedentedly large transverse box sizes to study particle acceleration in weakly-magnetized mildly relativistic shocks traveling at a velocity $\approx 0.75c$ and a Mach number of…
This paper presents experimental results that allow for the performance evaluation of a straight-line reference alignment system based on pseudo-nondiffracting Layer beams. Sensors, developed specifically for this system, feature four…
A very simple system like a parallel-plate capacitor reveals striking features when we examine the peculiar phenomena appearing when it is moving at low speed in different directions. Both hidden momentum and hidden energy appear and their…