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The present study applies the power spectral analysis technique to understand the diffusional anomaly in liquid silica, modeled using the BKS potential. Molecular dynamics simulations have been carried out to show that power spectrum of…

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We analyze the spread of a localized peak of energy into vacuum for nonlinear diffusive processes. In contrast with standard diffusion, the nonlinearity results in a compact wave with a sharp front separating the perturbed region from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-20 P. I. Hurtado , P. L. Krapivsky

The conductance fluctuations of a metallic wire which is interrupted by a small tunnel junction has been explored experimentally. In this system, the bias voltage V, which drops almost completely inside the tunnel barrier, is used to probe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alexander van Oudenaarden , M. H. Devoret , E. H. Visscher , Yu. V. Nazarov , J. E. Mooij

Direct time-resolved spectral fitting has been performed on continuous RXTE monitoring of seven Seyfert 1 galaxies in order to study their broadband spectral variability and Fe K alpha variability characteristics on time scales of days to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Markowitz , R. Edelson , S. Vaughan

We investigate the magnetotransport properties of a thin graphite wire resting on a silicon oxide substrate. The electric field effect is demonstrated with back and side gate electrodes. We study the conductance fluctuations as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Graf , F. Molitor , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

The effect of platinum (Pt) bottom electrode texture on the tetragonality, dielectric, ferroelectric, and polarization switching response of pulsed laser deposited Ba0.8Sr0.2TiO3 (BST) thin films has been studied. The x-ray diffraction and…

Metal atomic chains have been reported to change their electronic or magnetic properties by slight mechanical stimulus. However, the mechanical response has been veiled because of lack of information on the bond nature. Here, we clarify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-13 Jiaqi Zhang , Keisuke Ishizuka , Masahiko Tomitori , Toyoko Arai , Kenta Hongo , Ryo Maezono , Erio Tosatti , Yoshifumi Oshima

We study the effect of fluctuations on the {\bf ac} conductivity of a layered superconductor both for $c$-axis and $ab$-plane electromagnetic wave polarizations. The fluctuation contributions of different physical nature and signs…

supr-con · Physics 2009-10-30 Francesca Federici , Andrei A. Varlamov

Modeling of the phosphorus radiation-enhanced diffusion in the course of implantation of high-energy protons into an elevated-temperature silicon substrate and during its treatment in a hydrogen-containing plasma with addition of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-24 O. I. Velichko

The effect of a random phase diffuser on fluctuations of laser light (scintillations) is studied. Not only spatial but also temporal phase variations introduced by the phase diffuser are analyzed. The explicit dependence of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. P. Berman , A. A. Chumak

The decoherence of trapped-ion quantum gates due to heating of their motional modes is a fundamental science and engineering problem. This heating is attributed to electric-field noise arising from the trap-electrode surfaces. In this work,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 E. Kim , A. Safavi-Naini , D. A. Hite , K. S. McKay , D. P. Pappas , P. F. Weck , H. R. Sadeghpour

The dynamics of thermal and non-thermal lattice deformation of nanometer thick polycrystalline aluminum film has been studied by means of femtosecond (fs) time-resolved electron diffraction. We utilized two different pump wavelengths: 800…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Runze Li , Pengfei Zhu , Jie Chen , Jianming Cao , Peter M. Rentzepis , Jie Zhang

Interference of electronic waves undergoing Andreev reflection in diffusive conductors determines the energy profile of the conductance on the scale of the Thouless energy. A similar dependence exists in the current noise, but its behavior…

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We demonstrate a nonradiative flat band for spoof surface plasmon polaritons bounded on a structured surface with Lieb lattice symmetry in the terahertz regime. First, we theoretically derive the dispersion relation of spoof plasmons in a…

We propose electrically tunable hybrid metamaterial consisting of special wire grid immersed into nematic liquid crystal. The plasma-like permittivity of the structure can be substantially varied due to switching of the liquid crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Gorkunov , M. A. Osipov

We study the propagation of radio waves through a medium possessing density fluctuations that are elongated along the ambient magnetic field and described by an anisotropic Goldreich-Sridhar power spectrum. We derive general formulas for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. D. G. Chandran , D. C. Backer

We report on conductance fluctuation in quasi-one-dimensional wires made of epitaxial Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ thin film. We found that this type of fluctuation decreases as the wire length becomes longer and that the amplitude of the fluctuation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Sadashige Matsuo , Kensaku Chida , Daichi Chiba , Teruo Ono , Keith Slevin , Kensuke Kobayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki , Cui-Zu Chang , Ke He , Xu-Cun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue

We show that harmonic vibrations in amorphous silicon can be decomposed to transverse and longitudinal components in all frequency range even in the absence of the well defined wave vector ${\bf q}$. For this purpose we define the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-01-20 Y. M. Beltukov , C. Fusco , A. Tanguy , D. A. Parshin

Based on detailed 2D radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) simulations, we have investigated the effects of photospheric temperature inhomogeneities induced by convection on spectroscopic determinations of the lithium abundance. Computations have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Cayrel , M. Steffen

While the diffusion of hydrogen on silicon surfaces has been relatively well characterised both experimentally and theoretically, the diffusion around corners between surfaces, as will be found on nanowires and nanostructures, has not been…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-19 Richard Smith , Veronika Brazdova , David R. Bowler