Pore Stabilization in Cohesive Granular SystemsCohesive powders tend to form porous aggregates which can be compacted by applying an external pressure. This process is modelled using the Contact Dynamics method supplemented with a cohesion law…Dirk Kadau, Guido Bartels, Lothar Brendel et al.·Jun 28, 2002SaveLearn
Limitations on Sub-Diffraction Imaging with a Negative Refractive Index SlabRecently it has been proposed that a planar slab of material, for which both the permittivity and permeability have the values of -1, could bring not only the propagating fields associated with a…D. R. Smith, D. Schurig, Marshall Rosenbluth et al.·Jun 28, 2002SaveLearn
Near Field Lenses in Two DimensionsIt has been shown that a slab of materials with refractive index = -1 behaves like a perfect lens focussing all light to an exact electromagnetic copy of an object. The original lens is limited to…J. B. Pendry, S. Anantha Ramakrishna·Jun 28, 2002SaveLearn
Optical gain removes absorption and increases resolution in a near-field lensA recent paper showed how to construct a lens that focuses near field radiation and hence produce resolution unlimited by wavelength. The prescription requires lossless materials with negative…S. Anantha Ramakrishna, J. B. Pendry·Jun 28, 2002SaveLearn
The asymmetric lossy near-perfect lensWe extend the ideas of the recently proposed perfect lens [J.B. Pendry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3966 (2000)] to an alternative structure. We show that a slab of a medium with negative refractive…S. Anantha Ramakrishna, J. B. Pendry, D. Schurig et al.·Jun 28, 2002SaveLearn
Comment on "Wave Refraction in Negative-Index Media: Always Positive and Very Inhomogeneous"In a recent Physical Review Letter [1] Valanju Walser and Valanju (VWV) called into question the basis of work on the so called negative index media (NIM). See for example [2,3]. The key point at…JB Pendry, D. R. Smith·Jun 28, 2002SaveLearn
Comment on "Left-Handed Materials Do Not Make a Perfect Lens"In a recent Physical Review Letter [1] Garcia and Nieto Vesperinas (GNV) dispute the claim of perfect lensing made in [2]. The thrust of the GVN paper is that the solutions proposed in [2] imply…J. B. Pendry·Jun 28, 2002SaveLearn
Creation of solitons and vortices by Bragg reflection of Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical latticeWe study the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice and harmonic trap. The condensates are set in motion by displacing the trap and initially follow simple semiclassical paths,…R. G. Scott, A. M. Martin, T. M. Fromhold et al.·Jun 27, 2002SaveLearn
Bose-Einstein condensates in a one-dimensional double square well: Analytical solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger equation and tunneling splittingsWe present a representative set of analytic stationary state solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a symmetric double square well potential for both attractive and repulsive…K. W. Mahmud, J. N. Kutz, W. P. Reinhardt·Jun 27, 2002SaveLearn
Spin-polarized bipolar transport and its applicationsIn spin-polarized bipolar transport both electrons and holes in doped semiconductors contribute to spin-charge coupling. The current conversion between the minority (as referred to carriers and not…S. Das Sarma, Jaroslav Fabian, Igor Zutic·Jun 27, 2002SaveLearn
Quantum partition noise of photo-created electron-hole pairsWe show experimentally that even when no bias voltage is applied to a quantum conductor, the electronic quantum partition noise can be investigated using GHz radiofrequency irradiation of a…L. -H. Reydellet, P. Roche, D. C. Glattli et al.·Jun 26, 2002SaveLearn
Dilute resonating gases and the third virial coefficientWe study dilute gases with short range interactions and large two-body scattering lengths. At temperatures between the condensation temperature and the scale set by therange of the potential there is…Paulo F. Bedaque, Gautam Rupak·Jun 26, 2002SaveLearn
Minority Game: a mean-field-like approachWe calculate the standard deviation of (N1-N0), the difference of the number of agents choosing between the two alternatives of the minority game. Our approach is based on two approximations: we use…Ines Caridi, Horacio Ceva·Jun 26, 2002SaveLearn
Confinement of acoustical vibrations in a semiconductor planar phonon cavityExtending the idea of optical microcavities to sound waves, we propose a phonon cavity consisting of two semiconductor superlattices enclosing a spacer with thickness determined by the acoustic…M. Trigo, A. Bruchhausen, A. Fainstein et al.·Jun 25, 2002SaveLearn
Dynamics of optically generated vortices in a one-component ultracold fermionic gasesWe show that the phase imprinting method is capable of generating vortices in a one-component gas of neutral fermionic atoms at zero and finite temperatures. We find qualitative differences in…Tomasz Karpiuk, Miroslaw Brewczyk, Kazimierz Rzazewski·Jun 25, 2002SaveLearn
Remarks on reply to Johansen's commentRemarks on reply (cond-mat/0206368) to Johansen's comment (cond-mat/0205249)Anders Johansen·Jun 25, 2002SaveLearn
Currents in Systems of Mesoscopic Noisy RingsA semi-phenomenological model is proposed to study dynamics and stedy states of magnetic fluxes and currents in mesoscopic rings and cylinders at non-zero temperature. The model is based on a…J. Dajka, J. Luczka, M. Szopa et al.·Jun 25, 2002SaveLearn
Zero Permeability Materials (ZmuM): A way out of the "Left Handed Materials" trapRecently it has been shown that due to losses the claims on observation of negative refraction using metamaterials are questionable. In this paper we discus an interesting case that is based in…N. Garcia, M. Munoz, E. V. Ponizovskaya et al.·Jun 25, 2002SaveLearn
Wedge - Shaped Absorbing Samples Look Left Handed: The Problem of Interpreting Negative Refraction, and its SolutionWe report experiments of light transmissivity at wavelengths: 532 and 400 nm, through an Au film with a wedge shape. Our results mimic the negative refraction reported by others for so-called left…M. Sanz, A. C. Papageorgopoulos, W. F. Egelhoff et al.·Jun 25, 2002SaveLearn
Longitudinal spin decoherence in spin diffusion in semiconductorsWe have set up a set of many-body kinetic Bloch equations with spacial inhomogeneity. We reexamined the widely adopted quasi-independent electron model and showed the inadequacy of this model in…M. Q. Weng, M. W. Wu·Jun 24, 2002SaveLearn
Calculations of the Effective Permitivity of a Periodic Array of Wires and the Left-Handed MaterialsWe present finite-differences time- domain calculations of the effective permitivity of a periodic array of Cu strip wires that are an ingredient needed in metamaterials for obtaining left-handed…N. Garcia, E. V. Ponizovskaya·Jun 24, 2002SaveLearn
Velocity dependent interactions and a new sum rule in bcc HeRecent neutron scattering experiments [PRL, 88,p.195301 (2002)] on solid 4He, discovered a new optic-like mode in the bcc phase. This excitation was predicted by a recently proposed model…Nir Gov·Jun 24, 2002SaveLearn
Losses for microwave transmission in metamaterials for producing left-handed materials: The strip wiresThis paper shows that the effective dielectric permitivity for the metamaterials used so far to obtain left-handed materials, with strip wires 0.003cm thick, is dominated by the imaginary part at…E. V. Ponizovskaya, M. Nieto-Vesperinas, N. Garcia·Jun 24, 2002SaveLearn
The random model for simulation of the growth of small populationsThe probability of the survival of the population of individuals of both sexes of given mature age, procreation rate and structure stability has been searched in the numerical experiment. The…Kazimierz Pater·Jun 23, 2002SaveLearn
Long-range spatial correlations in the exciton energy distribution in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum-wellsVariations in the width of a quantum well (QW) are known to be a source of broadening of the exciton line. Using low temperature near-field optical microscopy, we have exploited the dependence of…Y. Yayon, A. Esser, M. Rappaport et al.·Jun 23, 2002SaveLearn