Trapping of charged particles by Bessel beamsThere exist two well established methods to trap charged particles: the Penning trap and the Paul trap. The subject of this article is to present a third mechanism for trapping charged particles -…Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Zofia Bialynicki-Birula, Nadbor Drozd·Oct 11, 2011SaveLearn
Electrodynamics with radiation reactionThe self force of electrodynamics is derived from a scalar field. The resulting equation of motion is free of all of the problems that plague the Lorentz Abraham Dirac equation. The age-old problem…Richard T Hammond·Oct 11, 2011SaveLearn
The inverted pendulum, interface phonons and optic Tamm statesThe propagation of waves in periodic media is related to the parametric oscillators. We transpose the possibility that a parametric pendulum oscillates in the vicinity of its unstable equilibrium…Nicolas Combe·Oct 11, 2011SaveLearn
Experimental characterization of a broadband transmission-line cloak in free spaceThe cloaking efficiency of a finite-size cylindrical transmission-line cloak operating in the X-band is verified with bistatic free space measurements. The cloak is designed and optimized with…Pekka Alitalo, Ali E. Culhaoglu, Andrey V. Osipov et al.·Oct 11, 2011SaveLearn
Mechanics of platesThe theory of deformed plates in mechanical equilibrium is formulated and properties of circular plates lifted at the center are discussed.Vladimír Balek·Oct 10, 2011SaveLearn
Radiation damping in pulsed Gaussian beamsWe consider the effects of radiation damping on the electron dynamics in a Gaussian beam model of a laser field. For high intensities, i.e. with dimensionless intensity a0 1, it is found that the…Chris Harvey, Mattias Marklund·Oct 5, 2011SaveLearn
Small oscillations of an electric dipole in the presence of a uniform magnetic fieldIn this letter we study the classical motion of an electric dipole in the presence of a uniform magnetic field in the approximation of small oscillations. The normal modes of oscillations are…Luis Alberto del Pino·Oct 4, 2011SaveLearn
Signatures of Radiation Reaction in Ultra-Intense Laser FieldsWe discuss radiation reaction effects on charges propagating in ultra-intense laser fields. Our analysis is based on an analytic solution of the Landau-Lifshitz equation. We suggest to measure…C. Harvey, T. Heinzl, M. Marklund·Oct 4, 2011SaveLearn
Self-oscillationPhysicists are very familiar with forced and parametric resonance, but usually not with self-oscillation, a property of certain dynamical systems that gives rise to a great variety of vibrations,…Alejandro Jenkins·Sep 29, 2011SaveLearn
Bistatic scattering characterization of a three-dimensional broadband cloaking structureHere we present the results of full experimental characterization of broadband cloaking of a finite-sized metallic cylinder at X-band. The cloaking effect is characterized by measuring the bistatic…Pekka Alitalo, Ali E. Culhaoglu, Andrey V. Osipov et al.·Sep 28, 2011SaveLearn
On the Nonlinear Theory of Viscoelasticity of Differential TypeWe consider nonlinear viscoelastic materials of differential type and for some special models we derive exact solutions of initial boundary value problems. These exact solutions are used to…Edvige Pucci, Giuseppe Saccomandi·Sep 27, 2011SaveLearn
Circularly Polarized Receiving Antenna Incorporating Two Helices to Achieve Low BackscatteringWe propose to use an antenna composed of two orthogonal helices as a low-scattering sensor. The vector effective length is derived for the antenna using the small dipole approximation for the…Antti O. Karilainen, Sergei A. Tretyakov·Sep 22, 2011SaveLearn
A relocalization technique for the multiscale computation of delamination in composite structuresIn this article, we present numerical enhancements of a multiscale domain decomposition strategy based on a LaTIn solver and dedicated to the computation of the debounding in laminates. We show that…Olivier Allix, Pierre Kerfriden, Pierre Gosselet·Sep 22, 2011SaveLearn
Bridging Proper Orthogonal Decomposition methods and augmented Newton-Krylov algorithms: an adaptive model order reduction for highly nonlinear mechanical problemsThis article describes a bridge between POD-based model order reduction techniques and the classical Newton/Krylov solvers. This bridge is used to derive an efficient algorithm to correct,…Pierre Kerfriden, Pierre Gosselet, Sondipon Adhikari et al.·Sep 22, 2011SaveLearn
Analysis of a Three Phase Induction Motor Directly from Maxwell's EquationsThe torque developed in a three phase AC squirrel cage motor is usually expressed in terms of resistances and reactances of the stator, the rotor, and the motor as a whole. We use Maxwell's…Shayak Bhattacharjee·Sep 20, 2011SaveLearn
Possible Experiments to test Einstein's Special Relativity TheoryAll of the experiments supporting Einstein's Special Relativity Theory are also supportive of the Lorentz ether theory, or many other ether theories. However, a growing number of experiments show…Victor Otto de Haan·Sep 13, 2011SaveLearn
On the possibility of a relativistic correction to the E and B fields around a current-carrying wireIt is well known that electric and magnetic fields may change when they are observed from different frames of reference. For example, the motion of a charged probe particle moving parallel to a…Ron Folman·Sep 12, 2011SaveLearn
Meissner effect, diamagnetism, and classical physics - a reviewWe review the literature on what classical physics has to say about the Meissner effect and the London equations. We first discuss the relevance of the Bohr-van Leeuwen theorem for the perfect…Hanno Essen, Miguel C. N. Fiolhais·Sep 9, 2011SaveLearn
Modélisation multidomaine du comportement magnéto-mécanique des aciers dual-phasesThe microstructure and mechanical behavior of dual-phase steels are highly sensitive to the variation of the process (heat treatments). Online control by magnetic method is relevant. A measurement…Frederick Mballa Mballa, Olivier Hubert, Said Lazreg et al.·Sep 9, 2011SaveLearn
Mixture of neutral and dipolar-hard spheres confined in a slit pore: field-induced population inversion and demixingWe study by Monte Carlo simulation a binary mixture of neutral and dipolar hard-spheres with non-additive diameters. With a view to understanding the interplay between population inversion for an…Charles Brunet, Jean Guillaume Malherbe, Said Amokrane·Sep 1, 2011SaveLearn
Optimal working conditions for thermoelectric generators with realistic thermal couplingWe study how maximum output power can be obtained from a thermoelectric generator(TEG) with nonideal heat exchangers. We demonstrate with an analytic approach based on a force-flux formalism that the…Y. Apertet, H. Ouerdane, O. Glavatskaya et al.·Aug 31, 2011SaveLearn
Action-angle coordinates for the pendulum problemThe action-angle coordinates for the planar pendulum problem are expressed in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions and integrals. In particular, we show that the Jacobi zeta function generates the…Alain J. Brizard·Aug 25, 2011SaveLearn
The origin of the Schott term in the electromagnetic self force of a classical point chargeThe Schott term is the third order term in the electromagnetic self force of a charged point particle. The self force may be obtained by integrating the electromagnetic stress-energy-momentum tensor…Michael R. Ferris, Jonathan Gratus·Aug 23, 2011SaveLearn
The Magnetic Force as a Kinematical Consequence of the Thomas PrecessionThe requirements imposed by relativistic covariance on the physical description of two interacting classical charged particles are investigated. Because rotational pseudo-forces cannot be caused by…David C. Lush·Aug 22, 2011SaveLearn
Comment on `Electromagnetic force on a moving dipole'Using the Lagrangian formalism, the electromagnetic force on a moving dipole derived by Kholmetskii, Missevitch and Yarman (2011, Eur. J. Phys. 32, 873) is found to be missing some important terms.V. Hnizdo·Aug 22, 2011SaveLearn