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To comprehend the complexities of the ice-water interface, we perform a study that attempts to correlate the altered dynamics of water to its perturbed structure at, and due to, the interface. The deviation from bulk values of structural…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-02 Saumyak Mukherjee , Sayantan Mondal , Biman Bagchi

The presence of clouds between an airshower and a space-based detector can dramatically alter the measured signal characteristics due to absorption and scattering of the photonic signals. Furthermore, knowledge of the cloud cover in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Krizmanic , Pierre Sokolsky , Robert Streitmatter

Understanding the motion of particles on an air-liquid interface can impact a wide range of scientific fields and applications. Diamagnetic particles floating on an air-paramagnetic-liquid interface are previously known to have a repulsive…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Zoran Cenev , Alois Würger , Quan Zhou

In light-pulsed atom interferometry, the phase accumulated by atoms depends on the effective wave vector of the absorbed photons. In this work, we proposed a theory model to analyses the effective wave vector of photons in structured light.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Jun Sun , Yong-Nan Sun

Light crossing dark domain walls that source a top form coupled to gauge Chern--Simons terms mixing visible and dark $U(1)$ gauge fields generically converts into dark photons. The effect is entirely localized on the wall and requires no…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Nemanja Kaloper

Light-atom interaction can be engineered by interfacing atoms with various specially designed media and optical fibers are convenient platforms for realization of compact interfaces. Here, we show that an optical fiber sensor bearing a…

Water droplets are a perspective highly abundant phase-change material to realize tunable optical lenses. We demonstrated for the first time that freezing mesoscale water droplet could be use as tunable optical lens, such that freezing…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-23 Oleg V. Minin , Song Zhou , Igor V. Minin

Droplets at the air-liquid interface of immiscible liquids usually form partially-submerged lens shapes (e.g. water on oil). In addition to this structure, we showed that droplets released from critical heights above the target liquid can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-19 Ehsan Yakhshi-Tafti , Hyoung J. Cho , Ranganathan Kumar

The persistent motility of the individual constituents in microbial suspensions represents a prime example of so-called active matter systems. Cells consume energy, exert forces and move, overall releasing the constraints of equilibrium…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-11-02 Armand Javadi , Jorge Arrieta , Idan Tuval , Marco Polin

Emitted photons stemming from the radiative recombination of electron-hole pairs carry chemical potential in radiative energy converters. This luminescent effect can substantially alter the local net photogeneration in near-field…

Using molecular dynamic simulations we study a system of particles interacting through a continuous core-softened potentials consisting of a hard core, a shoulder at closest distances and an attractive well at further distance. We obtain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-02 Jonathas Nunes da Silva , Evy Salcedo , Alan Barros de Oliveira , Marcia C. Barbosa

The structure of a simple liquid may be characterised in terms of ground state clusters of small numbers of atoms of that same liquid. Here we use this sensitive structural probe to consider the effect of a liquid-vapour interface upon the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-02 Maia Godonoga , Alex Malins , Jens Eggers , C. Patrick Royall

A striking correlation has recently been observed between global cloud cover and the flux of incident cosmic rays. The effect of natural variations in the cosmic ray flux is large, causing estimated changes in the Earth's energy radiation…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jasper Kirkby

The isotope effects in x-ray absorption spectra of liquid water are studied by a many-body approach within electron-hole excitation theory. The molecular structures of both light and heavy water are modeled by path-integral molecular…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-29 Chunyi Zhang , Linfeng Zhang , Jianhang Xu , Fujie Tang , Biswajit Santra , Xifan Wu

At the most fundamental level, the interaction between light and matter is manifested by the emission and absorption of single photons by single quantum emitters. Controlling light--matter interaction is the basis for diverse applications…

We study colloidal particle dynamics of a model glass system using confocal and fluorescence microscopy as the sample evolves from a hard-sphere glass to a liquid with attractive interparticle interactions. The transition from hard-sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrzej Latka , Yilong Han , Ahmed M. Alsayed , Andrew B. Schofield , A. G. Yodh , Piotr Habdas

The coherent oscillations of mobile charge carriers near the surface of good conductors-surface plasmons-are been exploited in many applications in information technologies, clean energy, high-density data storage, photovoltaics, chemistry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Jacob Khurgin , Anton Yu. Bykov , Anatoly V. Zayats

The diffusion of photo-generated holes is studied in a high-mobility mesoscopic GaAs\ channel where electrons exhibit hydrodynamic properties. It is shown that the injection of holes into such an electron system leads to the formation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Yu. A. Pusep , M. D. Teodoro , V. Laurindo , E. R. Cardozo de Oliveira , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

By means of the optical metric, we investigate the propagation of a polarized light in an inhomogeneous medium in this paper. We find that the evolution of photons is affected by the spin-spin interaction of photons, besides the spin-orbit…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Hehe Li , Zhigang Bu , Yuee Luo , Wenbo Chen , Peiyong Ji

We present a self-consistent representation of the atmosphere and implement the interactions of light with the atmosphere using a photon Monte Carlo approach. We compile global climate distributions based on historical data, self-consistent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 J. R. Peterson , G. Sembroski , A. Dutta , C. Remacaldo