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We provide convincing empirical evidence that long range interactions strongly enhance the rectification effect which takes place in mass graded systems. Even more importantly the rectification does not decrease with the increase of the…
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Within a quasiclassical transport theory for 2D electron system we analyze a recently observed effect of microwave rectification at the boundary between two 2D metals of different carrier densities. Nonlinear response is employed to explain…
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We study experimentally the interaction between two solitary waves that approach one to another in a linear chain of spheres interacting via the Hertz potential. When these counter propagating waves collide, they cross each other and a…
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A branch of uniformly-propagating solitary waves of planar ferromagnets is identified. The energy dispersion and structures of the solitary waves are determined for an isotropic ferromagnet as functions of a conserved momentum. With…
We investigate the dynamical response of a mass defect in a one-dimensional non-loaded horizontal chain of identical spheres which interact via the nonlinear Hertz potential. Our experiments show that the interaction of a solitary wave with…
We perform measurements, numerical simulations, and quantitative comparisons with available theory on solitary wave propagation in a linear chain of beads without static preconstrain. By designing a nonintrusive force sensor to measure the…
The scattering of charged massive scalar waves by Kerr-Newman black holes, with incidence along the equatorial plane, is investigated in this work. The differential scattering cross section is computed using the partial wave method, with…