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Brillouin scattering in optical fibres is a fundamental interaction between light and sound with important implications ranging from optical sensors to slow and fast light. In usual optical fibres, light both excites and feels shear and…
The human brain is one of the most complex and intriguing scientific topics. The most established theory on neuronal communication is a pure electrical model based on the propagation of intracell cationic charges along the neurons. Here we…
In this work we study the detection of weak stimuli by spiking neurons in the presence of certain level of noisy background neural activity. Our study has focused in the realistic assumption that the synapses in the network present…
Magnetic properties of the Ni$_{0.5}$Zn$_{0.5}$Fe$_2$O$_4$ (NZF) spinel ferrite ceramics were studied over a broad frequency range (1 MHz - 50 GHz). Between 10 MHz and 2 GHz, strong temperature-dependent resonance-like magnetic permeability…
The transfer of mechanical signals through cells is a complex phenomenon. To uncover a new mechanotransduction pathway, we study the frequency-dependent transport of mechanical stimuli by single microtubules and small networks in a…
The action potential is widely considered a purely electrical phenomenon. However, one also finds mechanical and thermal changes that can be observed experimentally. In particular, nerve membranes become thicker and axons contract. The…
Vibrating wires are common temperature probes in $^3$He experiments. By measuring mechanical resonance of a wire driven by AC current in magnetic field one can directly obtain temperature-dependent viscous damping. This is easy to do in a…
We present a study of the physical properties of the vibrational excitation in $\alpha$--helicoidal macromolecular chains, caused by the interaction with acoustical and optical phonon modes. The influence of the temperature and the basic…
The propagation of a nonlinear stationary thermomagnetic wave in superconducting media is qualitatively analyzed in view of the effect of an external magnetic field. The velocity and the thickness of the wave front are estimated. It is…
Experimental results of studying the effect of a weak magnetic field ($\sim $300 Gs) on the intensity of the terahertz emission ($\lambda \approx $100 $\mu $m) of hot electrons in $n$-Ge (crystallographic orientation $< 1,0,0 >)$ at helium…
Biological cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, but how such a mechanosensing proccess takes place in a nonlinear inhomogeneous fibrous matrix remains unknown. We show that cells in a fibrous matrix induce deformation fields that…
Normal microwave (MW) electromagnetic field detectors convert microwave power into voltages, which results in the loss of the vector characteristics of the microwave field. In this work, we developed a MW magnetic field (h-field) vector…
We report the observation of transient nonlinear optical effects in a macroscopic whispering gallery mode resonator made of rutile TiO$_2$, demonstrating strong optical-microwave transduction under laser irradiation. By comparing the…
Local field potentials (LFPs) are routinely measured experimentally in brain tissue, and exhibit strong low-pass frequency filtering properties, with high frequencies (such as action potentials) being visible only at very short distances…
Spin-wave (SW) spectra have theoretically been studied in a thin film of a ferromagnet (FM) on a substrate from a paramagnet (PM) (an FM above the critical temperature) or from superconductor (SC). A spin wave propagating in the FM induces…
We use micromagnetic simulations to demonstrate neuron functionality of two-dimensional (2D) chiral magnonic resonators. Our design exploits nonlinear resonant scattering of spin waves propagating in a YIG medium from an edge mode of a…
We study propagation of ultrasonic waves through a ferromagnetic medium with special attention to the boundary conditions at the interface with an ultrasonic actuator. In analogy to charge and spin transport in conductors, we formulate the…
We investigate the influence of low-dimensionality and disorder in phonon transport in ultra-narrow armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) simulation techniques. We specifically focus on how…
By using an effective field theory for the electromagnetic interaction of spin waves, we show that, in certain antiferromagnets, the latter induce non-reciprocal effects in the microwave region, which should be observable in the second…