Anomalous interactions of spatial gap solitons in optically induced photonic lattices

We demonstrate coherent interactions between spatial gap solitons in optically induced photonic lattices. Because of the "staggered" phase structures, two in-phase (out-of-phase) bright gap solitons can repel (attract) each other at close proximity, in contrast to soliton interaction in homogeneous media. A reversal of energy transfer direction and a transition between attractive and repulsive interaction forces can be obtained solely by changing the initial soliton separation relative to the lattice spacing.     

Modelling the interaction in a benzene dimer

The interaction between aromatic rings is a fundamental problem in material science and biochemistry. These interactions are generally found to stabilise protein molecules and the double helical structure of DNA, and they also play an important role in the recognition processes in biological and non-biological systems. However, the complexity and variety in the structures and components of aromatic compounds are major obstacles to investigating their interactions. In this study, the simplest case of aromatic interactions, which is the interaction between two benzene rings, is modelled using a continuous approximation. Assuming a constant atomic surface density and modelling the structure of a benzene molecule as a combination of two rings, namely an inner carbon ring and an outer hydrogen ring, the van der Waals interaction between any two benzene rings can be obtained as the sum of four interactions. The major result obtained here is an analytical expression for the potential energy which can then be used to predict equilibrium configurations for two interacting benzene molecules. Moreover, we find that at sufficiently large distances between the two benzene molecules, the orientational angle φ at which the interaction energy is a minimum can be approximated by the arctan of the ratio of two separation distances in two mutually perpendicular directions.     

Solitons in a generalized (2+1)-dimensional Ablowitz－Kaup－Newell－Segur system

In the previous Letter (Zheng C L and Zhang J F 2002 Chin. Phys. Lett. 19 1399), a localized excitation of the generalized Ablowitz－Kaup－Newell－Segur (GAKNS) system was obtained via the standard Painlevé truncated expansion and a special variable separation approach. In this work, starting from a new variable separation approach, a more general variable separation excitation of this system is derived. The abundance of the localized coherent soliton excitations like dromions, lumps, rings, peakons and oscillating soliton excitations can be constructed by introducing appropriate lower-dimensional soliton patterns. Meanwhile we discuss two kinds of interactions of solitons. One is the interaction between the travelling peakon type soliton excitations, which is not completely elastic. The other is the interaction between the travelling ring type soliton excitations, which is completely elastic.     

Structures and Interactions of Soliton in (2+1)-Dimensional Generalized Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov Equation

A variable separation approach is used to obtain exact solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional generalized Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov equation. Two of these exact solutions are analyzed to study the interaction between a line soliton and a y-periodic soliton (i.e. the array of the localized structure in the y direction, which propagates in the x direction) and between two dromions. The interactions between a line soliton and a y-periodic soliton are classified into several types according to the phase shifts due to collision. There are two types of singular interactions. One is the resonant interaction that generates one line soliton while the other is the extremely repulsive or long-range interaction where two solitons interchange each other infinitely apart. Some new phenomena of interaction between two dromions are also reported in this paper, and detailed behaviors of interactions are illustrated both analytically and graphically.     

Negative filament tension at high excitability in a model of cardiac tissue

One of the fundamental mechanisms for the onset of turbulence in 3D excitable media is negative filament tension. Thus far, negative tension has always been obtained in media under low excitability. For this reason, its application to normal (nonischemic) cardiac tissue has been questionable, as such cardiac turbulence typically occurs at high excitability. Here, we report expansion of scroll rings (low curvature negative filament tension) in a medium with high excitability by numerical integration of the Luo-Rudy model of cardiac tissue. We discuss the relation between negative tension and the meandering of 2D spiral waves and the possible applications to cardiac modeling.     

飞秒暗孤子间相互作用的数值研究

通过数值模拟对飞秒暗孤子间的相互作用进行了研究，并且同飞秒亮孤子和皮秒暗孤子分别进行了比较，结果表明：同飞秒亮孤子相比，飞秒暗孤子间的相互作用比较小，前者表现为相互吸引、碰撞、合二为一，然后相互排斥，不具有周期性；而后者从一开始就相互排斥，且这种排斥作用较亮孤子来说相当微弱，同样也不具有周期性。此外，数值模拟的结果还表明，飞秒暗孤子间的相互作用同皮秒尺度下暗孤子间的相互作用基本一致，并且通过计算表明，飞秒暗孤子间的相互作用在一定范围内仍可利用皮秒尺度下暗孤子间相互作用的经验公式。但是，数值模拟结果显示，两孤子的初始间距越小，由经验公式计算结果所带来的误差就越大。     

Mass-imbalanced Bose-Einstein condensed mixtures in rotating perturbed trap

We consider the mass-imbalanced sensibility for the emergence of vortex patterns in the Bose-Einstein condensed binary mixture of rubidium-cesium (⁸⁵Rb-¹³³Cs), confined in quasi-two-dimensional harmonic traps, with one species linearly perturbed in one direction. Non-dipolar coupled species are chosen to highlight mass symmetry effects. We first analyze the condensed mixture in the unperturbed non-rotating regime, where radial phase separation is verified in the immiscible regime, which occurs for large ratio between inter- and intra-species repulsive interactions. By going to the linear perturbed regime, the radial phase separation that occurs in the immiscible condition splits up with the two densities having their maxima at distinct positions. In the rotating regime of both unperturbed and perturbed cases, the minimum rotation is determined in terms of the inter-species interaction to observe vortex structures. In the immiscible regime a dramatic spatial interchange between the species is verified by increasing the rotation.     

Geometrical dependence of decoherence by electronic interactions in a GaAs/GaAlAs square network

We investigate weak localization in metallic networks etched in a two-dimensional electron gas between 25 and 750 mK when electron-electron (e-e) interaction is the dominant phase breaking mechanism. We show that, at the highest temperatures, the contributions arising from trajectories that wind around the rings and trajectories that do not are governed by two different length scales. This is achieved by analyzing separately the envelope and the oscillating part of the magnetoconductance. For T > or approximately 0.3 K we find L phi env proportional T(-1/3) for the envelope and L phi osc proportional, T(-1/2) for the oscillations, in agreement with the prediction for a single ring [T. Ludwig and A. D. Mirlin, Phys. Rev. B 69, 193306 (2004); 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.193306C. Texier and G. Montambaux, Phys. Rev. B 72, 115327 (2005); 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.115327C. Texier, Phys. Rev. B76, 153312 (2007)10.1103/PhysRevB.76.153312]. This is the first experimental confirmation of the geometry dependence of decoherence due to e-e interaction.     

Interactions of dark solitons in photovoltaic photorefractive crystals with diffusion nonlinearity

We investigate the interaction of spatial dark optical soliton pair in open-circuit photovoltaic photorefractive crystals by considering the effect of background light and diffusion nonlinearity. We show that the spatial dark solitons repel each other and travel along different trajectories for the coherent interactions that one undergoes reflection and the other one deflects significantly when they are closely overlapped, and the dark solitons attract and deflect simultaneously along a parabolic trajectory for the case of incoherent interactions. The deflection distance depends on the intensities and the initial separation between the dark solitons.     

(1+1)维光折变亮屏蔽孤子相互作用的数值分析

利用束传播法对（1+1）维光折变亮屏蔽孤子间的相互作用进行了详细地数值模拟研究.结果表明：两同相孤子相互吸引,并伴有孤子融合现象,且孤子融合发生时的作用距离随着孤子初始间距的增大而增大;两反相孤子相互排斥,且排斥作用随着孤子初始间距的减小而增强;当两孤子的相位差位于区间（0,π）和（－π,0）中时,其相互作用过程将伴有能量转移,但两区间内能量转移的方向相反,并表现出反转对称性;由于孤子间的距离和相对相位对孤子间的相互作用均有很大的影响,因此多个孤子间的相互作用过程非常复杂,但可以通过分析相邻孤子间的相互作用对其进行定性的预测.     

Self-transformation of a powerful femtosecond laser pulse into a white-light laser pulse in bulk optical media (or supercontinuum generation)

We present experimental and theoretical results on white-light generation in the filamentation of a high-power femtosecond laser pulse in water and atmospheric air. We have shown that the high spatio-temporal localization of the light field in the filament, which enables the supercontinuum generation, is sustained due to the dynamic transformation of the light field on the whole transverse scale of the beam, including its edges. We found that the sources of the supercontinuum blue wing are in the rings, surrounding the filament, as well as at the back of the pulse, where shock-wave formation enhanced by self-steepening takes place. We report on the first observation and demonstration of the interference of the supercontinuum spectral components arising in the course of multiple filamentation in a terawatt laser pulse. We demonstrate that the conversion efficiency of an initially narrow laser pulse spectrum into the supercontinuum depends on the length of the filament with high intensity gradients and can be increased by introducing an initial chirp. PACS 42.65.Jx; 42.65.Re; 42.25.Bs; 42.50.Hz     

Demagnetization factors for cylindrical shells and related shapes

Magnetostatic self and interaction energies can be computed via demagnetization factors whenever the magnetic state is close to a uniform state, e.g. in the presence of a strong applied field, or when the dimensions involved are within the single-domain limit. We derive analytical expressions for the demagnetization factors of cylindrical shells and rings with rectangular and square cross-sections. The factors are given either as a combination of elliptic integrals or as a series expansion in powers of the dimensionless ratio between inner and outer radii. Limiting cases are analysed for particular ranges of the shape parameters. We also investigate the ring with a square cross-section, and the elliptic ring, where analytical expressions are provided only for small eccentricity. Finally, we introduce the dipolar coupling integral encoding magnetostatic interactions between a magnetized cylinder and a thin coating on its lateral surface.     

Investigation of the π–π stacking interactions without direct electrostatic effects of substituents: the aromatic∥aromatic and aromatic∥anti-aromatic complexes

Stability of the π–π stacking interactions in the ben∥substituted-ben and ben∥substituted-COT complexes was studied using the computational quantum chemistry methods (where ben and COT are benzene and cyclooctatetraene, ∥ denotes π–π stacking interaction, substituted-ben and substituted-COT are benzene and cyclooctatetraene which substituted with four ethynyl-X groups, respectively, and X = OH, CH₃, H, F, CF₃, CN and NO₂). In these complexes electron-withdrawing substituents lead to larger binding energies and electron-donating ones lead to weaker interactions compared to X = H. There are meaningful correlations between the Hammett constants and binding energies. The atoms in molecules (AIM) analysis shows that formation of these complexes is accompanied by increase in the electron charge densities at the ring critical points of the substituted-ben and substituted-COT rings which leads to increase/decrease of the π–π stacking interactions in the ben∥substituted-ben/ben∥substituted-COT complexes. The charge transfer occurs from benzene to substituted-ben in the ben∥substituted-ben complexes and from substituted-COT to benzene (with the exception of X = CN) in the ben∥substituted-COT ones. Nuclear magnetic resonance calculations demonstrate that interactions of the more aromatic substituted-ben/less anti-aromatic substituted-COT rings with benzene in the ben∥substituted-ben/ben∥substituted-COT complexes can be helpful to enhance strength of the π–π stacking interactions. Thus, regardless of ring size, the π–π stacking interaction is an aromatic–aromatic interaction and π electron cloud properties of interacting rings affect on the strength of this interaction.     

Interference of transverse rings in multifilamentation of powerful femtosecond laser pulses in air

We observe multiple filaments and interference of their ring structures in the propagation of 14 mJ, 45 fs infrared laser pulse in air. We suggest a simple physical model describing the formation and the interference of rings as the result of superposition of the background field of the whole beam and the fields that diverge from the filaments due to the defocusing in the laser-produced plasma. The size and the number of maxima in the interference pattern depend on the position of the filament formation along the direction of propagation. The simulated picture of the ring structure interference is in qualitative agreement with the one obtained from the experiment.     

Interactions between vortex and magnetic rings at high kinetic and magnetic Reynolds numbers

Interactions between magnetic and vortex rings are studied over a wide interval of interaction parameter values ranging from negligible magnetic effects on vorticity structure, to very strong effects. The employed interaction parameter measures the strength of the Lorentz force in units of the inertial force. At small interaction parameters, the vortex ring shapes part of the magnetic ring into a dissipative, curved, magnetic sheet structure. At high interaction parameters, the Lorentz force acts as an agent of proliferation of vortex rings, since it generates two vortex rings adjacent to the original magnetic structure, one of which is pulled (together with the advected magnetic field) into the wake of the original vortex ring, while the other escapes, ready to interact with another magnetic ring. Once within the initial vortex ring wake, both magnetic and vorticity structures are stretched into spirals, whilst the Lorentz force continuously generates new, intense vorticity at high magnetic field sites.     

Importance of the heavier singlet neutrinos in leptogenesis

We argue that fast interactions of the lightest singlet neutrino N1 would project part of a preexisting lepton asymmetry L{p} onto a direction that is protected from N1 washout effects, thus preventing it from being erased. In particular, we consider an asymmetry generated in N2 decays, assuming that N1 interactions are fast enough to bring N1 into full thermal equilibrium. If N1 decays occur at T > or = 10{9} GeV, that is, before the muon Yukawa interactions enter into thermal equilibrium, then generically part of L{p} survives. In this case some of the constraints implied by the standard N1 leptogenesis scenario hold only if L{p} approximately 0. For T < or = 10{9} GeV, L{p} is generally erased, unless special alignment or orthogonality conditions in flavor space are realized.     

A Classification of Long-Range Interactions between Two Stacks of p & p~′ -Branes

We generalize the computations of the long-range interactions between two parallel stacks of branes to various cases when two stacks of branes are not placed parallel to each other. We classify the nature of interaction(repulsive or attractive) for each special case and this classification can be used to justify the nature of long-range interaction between two complicated brane systems such as brane bound states. We will provide explicit examples in this paper to demonstrate this.     

Vortex dynamics in three-dimensional continuous myocardium with fiber rotation: Filament instability and fibrillation

Wave propagation in ventricular muscle is rendered highly anisotropic by the intramural rotation of the fiber. This rotational anisotropy is especially important because it can produce a twist of electrical vortices, which measures the rate of rotation (in degree/mm) of activation wavefronts in successive planes perpendicular to a line of phase singularity, or filament. This twist can then significantly alter the dynamics of the filament. This paper explores this dynamics via numerical simulation. After a review of the literature, we present modeling tools that include: (i) a simplified ionic model with three membrane currents that approximates well the restitution properties and spiral wave behavior of more complex ionic models of cardiac action potential (Beeler-Reuter and others), and (ii) a semi-implicit algorithm for the fast solution of monodomain cable equations with rotational anisotropy. We then discuss selected results of a simulation study of vortex dynamics in a parallelepipedal slab of ventricular muscle of varying wall thickness (S) and fiber rotation rate (theta(z)). The main finding is that rotational anisotropy generates a sufficiently large twist to destabilize a single transmural filament and cause a transition to a wave turbulent state characterized by a high density of chaotically moving filaments. This instability is manifested by the propagation of localized disturbances along the filament and has no previously known analog in isotropic excitable media. These disturbances correspond to highly twisted and distorted regions of filament, or "twistons," that create vortex rings when colliding with the natural boundaries of the ventricle. Moreover, when sufficiently twisted, these rings expand and create additional filaments by further colliding with boundaries. This instability mechanism is distinct from the commonly invoked patchy failure or wave breakup that is not observed here during the initial instability. For modified Beeler-Reuter-like kinetics with stable reentry in two dimensions, decay into turbulence occurs in the left ventricle in about one second above a critical wall thickness in the range of 4-6 mm that matches experiment. However this decay is suppressed by uniformly decreasing excitability. Specific experiments to test these results, and a method to characterize the filament density during fibrillation are discussed. Results are contrasted with other mechanisms of fibrillation and future prospects are summarized. (c)1998 American Institute of Physics.