Observation of alignment of the ground state of NO<Subscript>2</Subscript> under laser excitation

A Hanle signal is observed in the absorption of a cell filled with nitrogen dioxide NO₂ at room temperature. The excitation was performed by an Ar⁺ laser at a wavelength of 476.4 nm.     

Purcell enhancement of spontaneous emission from quantum cascades inside mirror-grating metal cavities at THz frequencies

Quantum cascade devices processed into double metal cavities with subwavelength thickness and a grating on top are studied at terahertz frequencies. The power extracted from the devices as a function of the device thickness and the grating period is analyzed owing to electrodynamical modeling of dipole emission based on a modal method in multilayer systems. The experimental data thus reveal a strong Purcell enhancement, with Purcell factors up to approximately 50.     

Thermoelectrics from abundant chemical elements: high-performance nanostructured PbSe-PbS

We report promising thermoelectric properties of the rock salt PbSe-PbS system which consists of chemical elements with high natural abundance. Doping with PbCl(2), excess Pb, and Bi gives n-type behavior without significantly perturbing the cation sublattice. Thus, despite the great extent of dissolution of PbS in PbSe, the transport properties in this system, such as carrier mobilities and power factors, are remarkably similar to those of pristine n-type PbSe in fractions as high as 16%. The unexpected finding is the presence of precipitates ~2-5 nm in size, revealed by transmission electron microscopy, that increase in density with increasing PbS concentration, in contrast to previous reports of the occurrence of a complete solid solution in this system. We report a marked impact of the observed nanostructuring on the lattice thermal conductivity, as highlighted by contrasting the experimental values (~1.3 W/mK) to those predicted by Klemens-Drabble theory at room temperature (~1.6 W/mK). Our thermal conductivity results show that, unlike in PbTe, optical phonon excitations in PbSe-PbS systems contribute to heat transport at all temperatures. We show that figures of merit reaching as high as ~1.2-1.3 at 900 K can be obtained, suggesting that large-scale applications with good conversion efficiencies are possible from systems based on abundant, inexpensive chemical elements.     

The ubiquity of generalized cluster categories

Associated with a finite-dimensional algebra of global dimension at most 2, a generalized cluster category was introduced in Amiot (2009) [1]. It was shown to be triangulated, and 2-Calabi–Yau when it is Hom-finite. By definition, the cluster categories of Buan et al. (2006) [4] are a special case. In this paper we show that a large class of 2-Calabi–Yau triangulated categories, including those associated with elements in Coxeter groups from Buan et al. (2009) [7], are triangle equivalent to generalized cluster categories. This was already shown for some special elements in Amiot (2009) [1].     

Dynamical systems with Lipschitz inverse shadowing properties

In this paper, the notion of the Lipschitz inverse shadowing property with respect to two classes of d-methods that generate pseudotrajectories of dynamical systems is introduced. It is shown that if a diffeomorphism of a Euclidean space has the Lipschitz inverse shadowing property on the trajectory of an individual point, then the Mañé analytic strong transversality condition must be satisfied at this point. This result is used in the proof of the main theorem: a diffeomorphism of a smooth closed manifold that has the Lipschitz inverse shadowing property is structurally stable.     

The effect of pressure on halothane binding to hydrated DMPC bilayers

Halothane binding to hydrated dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) bilayer membranes has been examined over a wide range of pressures from 10⁵ to 4?×?10⁸?Pa. We show that the solvation of halothane by the membrane and bulk water are both pressure dependent, with an increased pressure driving halothane into the membrane. Analysis of these results shows that this pressure dependence is not the cause of pressure reversal, the process whereby general anaesthetics lose their efficacy at pressures of about 8?×?10⁶ to about 2.5?×?10⁷?Pa.     

Sensitivity analysis in linear semi-infinite programming: Perturbing cost and right-hand-side coefficients

This paper analyzes the effect on the optimal value of a given linear semi-infinite programming problem of the kind of perturbations which more frequently arise in practical applications: those which affect the objective function and the right-hand-side coefficients of the constraints. In particular, we give formulae which express the exact value of a perturbed problem as a linear function of the perturbation.     

Enriques Surfaces, Analytic Discriminants, and Borcherds's Φ Function

In [Bor 96], Borcherds constructed a non-vanishing weight 4 modular form Φ on the moduli space of marked, polarized Enriques surface of degree 2 by considering the twisted denominator function of the fake monster Lie algebra associated to an automorphism of order 2 of the Leech lattice fixing an 8-dimensional subspace. In [JT 94] and [JT 96], we defined and studied a meromorphic (multi-valued) modular form of weight 2, which we call the K3 analytic discriminant, on the moduli space of marked, polarized, K3 surfaces of degree 2d; in certain cases, including when , where p _k are distinct primes, our meromorphic form is actually a holomorphic form. Our construction involves a determinant of the Laplacian on a polarized K3 surface with respect to the Calabi-Yau metric together with the L ² norm of the image of the period map with respect to a properly scaled holomorphic two form. Since the universal cover of any Enriques surface is a K3 surface, we can restrict the K3 analytic discriminant to the moduli space of degree 2 Enriques surfaces. The main result of this paper is the observation that the square of our degree 2 analytic discriminant, viewed as a function on the moduli space of degree 2 Enriques surfaces, is equal to the Borcherd's Φ function, up to a universal multiplicative constant. This result generalizes known results in the study of generalized Kac-Moody algebras and elliptic curves, and suggests further connections with higher dimensional Calabi-Yau varieties, specifically those which can be realized as complete intersections in some, possibly weighted, projective space. Received: 24 July 1995 / Accepted: 21 March 1997     

Nuclear reactions induced by stopped negative pions in133Cs,93Nb and45Sc

The energy and angular distributions ofp, d, t,³He and⁴He from the three targets Cu, Ag and Au were measured at five different angles for bremsstrahlung with peak energy 500MeV. The measurements were made using a telescope consisting of four surface-barrier detectors. The experimental data are compared with cascade-evaporation calculations. For the⁴He-distributions the calculations were extended to include the contribution from knock-out of surface alphas by the cascade nucleons. The comparison shows that the main contribution comes from evaporation but that there is a direct component of the order of 10%.     

On the covariant structure of the two-point function

The spectral representation of the two-point function for arbitrary fields proposed recently [1] is rigorously proved and analyzed. The problem is treated in momentum space where the covariant structure is simpler because of the spectrum conditions. For finite-component fields the explicit matrix structure is found in coordinate space too and is applied to the definition of time-ordered Green functions for arbitrary spin. The decomposition of the two-point function into kernels of definite spin is carried out in the general case, a necessary and sufficient condition for the growth of the coefficients in this decomposition being given. The positive-definiteness condition (in the case of Hermitian conjugate fields) is fulfilled automatically by the elementary kernels.The formalism of homogeneous distributions in two dimensional complex domain [2] is used throughout the paper.On leave of absence from Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, USSR and from Physical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.