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Ion transport in extremely narrow nanochannels has gained increasing interest in recent years due to its unique physical properties, and the technological advances that allow us to study them. It is tempting to approach this regime with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-11 Amir Levy , J. Pedro de Souza , Martin Z Bazant

This paper aims to present an elaborate view on the motivation and realization of the idea to extend Maxwell's electrodynamics to Extended Electrodynamics in a reasonable and appropriate way in order to make it possible to describe…

patt-sol · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Donev , M. Tashkova

Preparing and observing quantum states of nanoscale particles is a challenging task with great relevance for quantum technologies and tests of fundamental physics. In contrast to atomic systems with discrete transitions, nanoparticles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 Lukas Martinetz , Klaus Hornberger , James Millen , M. S. Kim , Benjamin A. Stickler

Nonlinear nanophotonics is a rapidly developing field with many useful applications for a design of nonlinear nanoantennas, light sources, nanolasers, sensors, and ultrafast miniature metadevices. A tight confinement of the local…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-25 Daria Smirnova , Yuri S. Kivshar

Plasmon is a collective excitation in metals formed through the Coulomb interaction between individual excitations of electron-hole pairs. In many previous studies on the plasmonic response, the role of the longitudinal field has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Masayuki Iio , Tomohiro Yokoyama , Takeshi Inaoka , Hajime Ishihara

We show that the use of the electromagnetic inverse source framework offers great flexibility in the design of metasurfaces. In particular, this approach is advantageous for antenna design applications where the goal is often to satisfy a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Trevor Brown , Chaitanya Narendra , Yousef Vahabzadeh , Christophe Caloz , Puyan Mojabi

We study nonlinear effects in two-dimensional photonic metasurfaces supporting topologically-protected helical edge states at the nanoscale. We observe strong third-harmonic generation mediated by optical nonlinearities boosted by…

The increasing utilization of charged particle beams for therapeutic purposes requires designing novel detector systems which shall be capable of assessing radiation quality for a diversity of ion species. It is shown that the pattern of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-30 M. Hajek

The problems considered refer to the material equations of electric- and magnetoelectric induction. Some contradictions found in fundamental studies on classical electrodynamics have been explained. The notion magnetoelectric induction has…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. F. Mende

Reduced dimensionality leads to emergent phenomena in quantum materials and there is a need for accelerated materials discovery of nanoscale quantum materials in reduced dimensions. Thermomechanical nanomolding is a rapid synthesis method…

The so-called negative electron compressibility refers to the lowering of the chemical potential of a metallic system when the carrier density increases. This effect has often been invoked in the past to explain the enhancement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Javier Junquera , Pablo García-Fernández , Massimiliano Stengel

A version of the magnetoimpurity theory of the colossal magnetoresistance materials suitable for the double exchange ferromagnetic nondegenerate semiconductors is presented. It provides an explanation of the nonmonotonic temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 E. L. Nagaev , A. I. Podel'shchikov , V. E. Zil'bervarg

We respond to a Comment on our paper [Physical Review A 80, 023823 (2009)], which appears to have stemmed from a misunderstanding of the various energy-momentum tensors of classical electrodynamics. It is shown that each stress tensor, when…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-26 Masud Mansuripur , Armis R. Zakharian

We investigate enhanced harmonic generation processes in gain-assisted, near-zero permittivity metamaterials composed of spherical plasmonic nanoshells. We report the presence of narrow-band features in transmission, reflection and…

Supercapacitors are electric devices able to deliver a large power, enabling their use e.g. for the recovery of breaking energy in cars. This is achieved by using two carbon electrodes and an electrolyte solution or a pure ionic liquid…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Céline Merlet , Clarisse Péan , Mathieu Salanne , Benjamin Rotenberg

A general effective field theory formalism is presented which describes the low-energy dynamics of a 3-brane universe. In this scenario an arbitrary four-dimensional particle theory, such as the Standard Model, is constrained to live on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 Raman Sundrum

We initiate the development of a theory of the elasticity of nanoscale objects based upon new physical concepts which remain properly defined on the nanoscale. This theory provides a powerful way of understanding nanoscale elasticity in…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 D. E. Segall , Sohrab Ismail-Beigi , T. A. Arias

With the increasing demand for low-power electronics, nanomagnetic devices have emerged as strong potential candidates to complement present day transistor technology. A variety of novel switching effects such as spin torque and giant spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Yunkun Xie , Jianhua Ma , Samiran Ganguly , Avik W Ghosh

The status of the theoretical research on the compressional modes of finite nuclei and the incompressibility $K_\infty$ of nuclear matter, is reviewed. It is argued that the recent experimental data on the Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Colo` , N. Van Giai

We derive the electromagnetic medium equivalent to a cluster of all-dielectric nanoparticles (i.e. enjoying high refractive indices), distributed periodically in a smooth domain $\Omega$, while excited at nearly resonating dielectric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Xinlin Cao , Ahcene Ghandriche , Mourad Sini