The nonexistence of a certain Steiner system S(3, 12, 112)

Although the automorphism group of a projective plane of order 10, if one exists, must be very small, such a plane could be the derived design of a Steiner system S(3, 12, 112) with a larger group. There are several reasons why the Frobenius group of order 56 is a promising candidate for the latter group. However, in this paper it is shown that there is no S(3, 12, 112) which is fixed by this Frobenius group.     

The evaluation of total absorption cross-section for photons in high density electron gas

Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter - The total absorption cross-section for a photon by an electron gas is calculated in the high density limit. The calculation uses the Green’s...     

Modified optical bistability in two-photon absorption

The effect of level degeneracy of the absorbing atoms on the transmission characteristic of a ring cavity is examined within the mean field approximation. Using a single-mode input field, the possibility of realising a form of tristable behaviour is discussed.     

The infrared spectrum of HC13F3

The infrared spectrum of HC¹³F₃ is reported for the first time. Fundamental frequency shifts due to carbon-13 substitution have been measured and rotational analyses of several of the fundamental and combination bands are given. Coriolis x-y and Fermi perturbations are evident in several of the bands. Table VI summarizes the data obtained in this study.     

Superconductivity in layer compounds intercalated with paramagnetic molecules

A new class of superconducting molecular intercalation complexes has been discovered in which paramagnetic molecules reside between metallic dichalcogenide layers six Angstroms thick. Interlayer coupling of the order parameter by Josephson tunneling appears unlikely.     

Light-induced charge separation in anatase TiO2 particles

Ultraviolet light-induced electron-hole pair excitations in anatase TiO(2) powders were studied by a combination of electron paramagnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy measurements. During continuous UV irradiation in the mW.cm(-2) range, photogenerated electrons are either trapped at localized sites, giving paramagnetic Ti(3+) centers, or remain in the conduction band as EPR silent species which may be observed by their IR absorption. Using low temperatures (90 K) to reduce the rate of the electron-hole recombination processes, trapped electrons and conduction band electrons exhibit lifetimes of hours. The EPR-detected holes produced by photoexcitation are O(-) species, produced from lattice O(2-) ions. It is found that under high vacuum conditions, the major fraction of photoexcited electrons remains in the conduction band. At 298 K, all stable hole and electron states are lost from TiO(2). Defect sites produced by oxygen removal during annealing of anatase TiO(2) are found to produce a Ti(3+) EPR spectrum identical to that of trapped electrons, which originate from photoexcitation of oxidized TiO(2). Efficient electron scavenging by adsorbed O(2) at 140 K is found to produce two long-lived O(2)(-) surface species associated with different cation surface sites. Reduced TiO(2), produced by annealing in vacuum, has been shown to be less efficient in hole trapping than oxidized TiO(2).     

Relative contributions of spectral and temporal cues for phoneme recognition

Cochlear implants provide users with limited spectral and temporal information. In this study, the amount of spectral and temporal information was systematically varied through simulations of cochlear implant processors using a noise-excited vocoder. Spectral information was controlled by varying the number of channels between 1 and 16, and temporal information was controlled by varying the lowpass cutoff frequencies of the envelope extractors from 1 to 512 Hz. Consonants and vowels processed using those conditions were presented to seven normal-hearing native-English-speaking listeners for identification. The results demonstrated that both spectral and temporal cues were important for consonant and vowel recognition with the spectral cues having a greater effect than the temporal cues for the ranges of numbers of channels and lowpass cutoff frequencies tested. The lowpass cutoff for asymptotic performance in consonant and vowel recognition was 16 and 4 Hz, respectively. The number of channels at which performance plateaued for consonants and vowels was 8 and 12, respectively. Within the above-mentioned ranges of lowpass cutoff frequency and number of channels, the temporal and spectral cues showed a tradeoff for phoneme recognition. Information transfer analyses showed different relative contributions of spectral and temporal cues in the perception of various phonetic/acoustic features.     

Novel coexistence of superconductivity with two distinct magnetic orders

The heavy fermion system exhibits properties that range from an incommensurate antiferromagnet for small to an exotic superconductor on the Ir-rich end of the phase diagram. At intermediate where antiferromagnetism coexists with superconductivity, two types of magnetic order are observed: the incommensurate one of and a new, commensurate antiferromagnetism that orders separately. The coexistence of -electron superconductivity with two distinct -electron magnetic orders is unique among unconventional superconductors, adding a new variety to the usual coexistence found in magnetic superconductors.     

Anion adsorption induced reversal of coherency strain

Experimental results are presented for stress evolution, in vacuum and electrolyte, for the first monolayer of Cu on Au(111). In electrolyte the monolayer is pseudomorphic and the stress-thickness change is -0.60 N/m, while conventional epitaxy theory predicts a value of +7.76 N/m. In vacuum, the monolayer is incoherent with the underlying gold. Using a combination of first-principles based calculations and molecular dynamic simulations we analyzed these results and demonstrate that in electrolyte, overlayer coherency is maintained owing to anion adsorption.     

Effects of ion motion in intense beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators

Recent proposals for using plasma wakefield accelerators (PWFA) as a component of a linear collider have included intense electron beams with densities many times in excess of the plasma density. The beam's electric fields expel the plasma electrons from the beam path to many beam radii in this regime. We analyze here the motion of plasma ions under the beam fields, and find for a proposed PWFA collider scenario that the ions completely collapse inside of the beam. Simulations of ion collapse are presented. Implications of ion motion on the feasibility of the PWFA-based colliders are discussed.