M. Clerc, C. Falcón, C. Fernández-Oto, E. Tirapegui
{"title":"Effective-parametric resonance in a non-oscillating system","authors":"M. Clerc, C. Falcón, C. Fernández-Oto, E. Tirapegui","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/30006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/30006","url":null,"abstract":"We present a mechanism for the generation of oscillations and nonlinear parametric amplification in a non-oscillating system, which we term effective-parametric resonance. Sustained oscillations appear at a controlled amplitude and frequency, related directly to the external forcing parameters. We present an intuitive explanation for this phenomenon, based on an effective equation for a driven oscillation and discuss its relation to other approaches. More precisely, a high-frequency forcing can generate an effective oscillator, which may have a parametric resonance with the applied forcing. We point out the main ingredients for the development of effective-parametric resonance in non-oscillating systems and show its existence in a simple model. Theoretically, we calculate the appearance of this nonlinear oscillation by computing its stability curve, which is confirmed by numerical simulations and experimental studies on a vertically driven pendulum.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129279514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giant enhancement in effective piezoelectric sensitivity by pyroelectric coupling","authors":"R. Lakes","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/47001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/47001","url":null,"abstract":"We report stable two-layer composites that exhibit large enhancement of effective piezoelectric sensitivity to more than 20000 pC/N in the presence of a thermal gradient. They are based on coupled fields in the non-equilibrium presence of energy flux that is modulated by force. Thermal flux is modulated by a granular contact layer so that electric polarization of pyroelectric origin contributes to stress-generated electric polarization. Effective piezoelectric sensitivity is enhanced by at least two orders of magnitude and is higher than that of known commercial and research materials. The result illustrates the potential of relaxing the usual assumption of equilibrium in the presence of a coupled field to attain extremely high effective properties.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131221871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curved trajectories of actin-based motility in two dimensions","authors":"Fu-Lai Wen, K. Leung, Hsuan-Yi Chen","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/38005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/38005","url":null,"abstract":"Recent experiments have reported fascinating geometrical trajectories for actin-based motility of bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and functionalized beads. To understand the physical mechanism for these trajectories, we constructed a phenomenological model to study the motion of an actin-propelled disk in two dimensions. In our model, the force and actin density on the surface of the disk are influenced by the translation and rotation of the disk, which in turn is induced by the asymmetric distributions of those densities. We show that this feedback can destabilize a straight trajectory, leading to circular, S-shape and other geometrical trajectories observed in the experiments through bifurcations in the distributions of the force and actin density. The relation between our model and the models for self-propelled deformable particles is emphasized and discussed.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116515144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qinzhuang Liu, Bing Li, Jianjun Liu, Hong Li, Zhongliang Liu, Kai Dai, Guangping Zhu, Peng Zhang, Feng Chen, J. Dai
{"title":"Structure and band gap tuning of transparent (Ba1−xSrx)SnO3 thin films epitaxially grown on MgO substrates","authors":"Qinzhuang Liu, Bing Li, Jianjun Liu, Hong Li, Zhongliang Liu, Kai Dai, Guangping Zhu, Peng Zhang, Feng Chen, J. Dai","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/47010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/47010","url":null,"abstract":"(Ba1-xSrx)SnO3 (x=0–1) (BSSO) films were epitaxially grown on MgO substrates by pulsed laser deposition. X-ray diffraction, atomic force microcopy, and optical transmittance investigations reveal that the lattice and band structure properties of the BSSO films can be modified significantly by changing the Sr content. With increasing Sr content from 0 to 1 in films, the lattice parameters decrease from 4.123 to 4.037 Å gradually, while the optical band gaps energy increases from 3.50 to 4.27 eV linearly, which was attributed to the octahedral tilting distortion pushing up the minimum of conduction band. This large structure and band gap tuning of BSSO films are promising for desired applications in the thin-film architecture.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122414996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Mahmoudreza Babaei, M. Jalili
{"title":"Immunizing complex networks with limited budget","authors":"Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Mahmoudreza Babaei, M. Jalili","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/38004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/38004","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter we studied the epidemic spreading on scale-free networks assuming a limited budget for immunization. We proposed a general model in which the immunity of an individual against the disease depends on its immunized friends in the network. Furthermore, we considered the possibility that each individual might be eager to pay a price to buy the vaccine and become immune against the disease. Under these assumptions we proposed an algorithm for improving the performance of all previous immunization algorithms. We also introduced a heuristic extension of the algorithm, which works well in scale-free networks.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133492291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Pulci, P. Gori, M. Marsili, V. Garbuio, R. Sole, F. Bechstedt
{"title":"Strong excitons in novel two-dimensional crystals: Silicane and germanane","authors":"O. Pulci, P. Gori, M. Marsili, V. Garbuio, R. Sole, F. Bechstedt","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/37004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/37004","url":null,"abstract":"We show by first-principles calculations that, due to depressed screening and enhanced two-dimensional confinement, excitonic resonances with giant oscillator strength appear in hydrogenated Si and Ge layers, which qualitatively and quantitatively differ from those of graphane. Their large exciton binding energies and oscillator strengths make them promising for observation of novel physical effects and application in optoelectronic devices on the nanoscale.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126029805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Katayama, K. Matsubayashi, Y. Nomura, S. Ji, J. Leão, M. Green, T. Sato, Y. Uwatoko, M. Fujita, K. Yamada, R. Arita, S. Lee
{"title":"Conductivity and incommensurate antiferromagnetism of Fe1.02Se0.10Te0.90 under pressure","authors":"N. Katayama, K. Matsubayashi, Y. Nomura, S. Ji, J. Leão, M. Green, T. Sato, Y. Uwatoko, M. Fujita, K. Yamada, R. Arita, S. Lee","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/37002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/37002","url":null,"abstract":"By performing resistivity, bulk susceptibility and neutron diffraction on single crystals of Fe1.02Se0.10Te0.90 under pressure, we show that an external pressure can enhance both conductivity and magnetism simultaneously. Surprisingly, the pressure-induced magnetic order is nearly three-dimensional, and incommensurate along both the c-axis and the a-axis, which is accompanied by a structural phase separation. Our powder neutron diffraction data show that the Fe(Se, Te)4 tetrahedron becomes more regular under pressure, which is consistent with the enhancement of the metallicity but is counterintuitive to the three-dimensional magnetic order.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116482256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fundamental Lagrangian approach to transformation acoustics and spherical spacetime cloaking","authors":"M. M. Tung","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/34002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/34002","url":null,"abstract":"Transformation acoustics centers on the construction of advanced acoustic devices by combining mathematical transformation techniques with the engineering of acoustic metamaterials. We show how differential-geometric methods together with a variational principle form the basis of a powerful framework to control acoustic waves as desired. This formalism is required to leave the acoustic wave equation invariant under coordinate transformations and is shown to consist of a proposed acoustic Lagrangian function on a smooth spacetime manifold. As an immediate consequence, we can derive the general constitutive relations between the acoustic parameters (bulk modulus and mass-density tensor) of the physical and virtual spaces under consideration. We conclude with a practical application of this theory by presenting acoustic spherical cloaking with time dilation.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133086475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photon bunching in chaotic fields with uni-dimensional probability density","authors":"V. Degiorgio","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/44007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/44007","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent experiment the intensity correlation function of twin beams generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion was found to present a ratio B between the zero-delay value and the infinite-delay value equal to 3, at variance with the bunching ratio B=2 of standard chaotic fields characterized by a two-dimensional Gaussian probability density. In this letter it is pointed out that, for the class of chaotic fields characterized by a fixed phase and a zero-average fluctuating amplitude with a uni-dimensional Gaussian probability density, B is equal to 3, and it is argued that the spontaneous parametric down-conversion field belongs to this latter class, thus giving a simple quantitative explanation to the reported experimental results.","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115807116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on “Quantum effects in spontaneous emission by a relativistic, undulating electron beam” by Robb G. R. M. and Bonifacio R.","authors":"G. Geloni, V. Kocharyan, E. Saldin","doi":"10.1209/0295-5075/98/44001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/44001","url":null,"abstract":"In a recent letter, Robb and Bonifacio [1] claimed that a previously neglected quantum effect results in noticeable changes in the evolution of the energy distribution associated with spontaneous emission in long undulators. They revisited theoretical models used to describe the emission of radiation by relativistic electrons as a continuous diffusive process, and claimed that a drift-diffusion approach can only be used when the parameter =Nw ω/(γmc ) is much smaller than unity, whereNw is the number of undulator periods, is the reduced Planck constant, ω is the photon frequency, γ the relativistic Lorentz factor, m the electron rest mass and c the speed of light. In that work it is argued that when 1, a drift-diffusion equation is no more sufficient to describe the evolution of the distribution of electron momenta, which “occurs as discrete momentum groups according to a Poisson distribution”. However, these results are based on a one-dimensional model of the spontaneous radiation emission. Such model does not account for the angular distribution of the radiation, but only for the emission on axis, which is characterized by an overall relative bandwidth ∼ 1/Nw. In contrast to this, the electron recoil related with the quantized nature of photons depends on the entire angular","PeriodicalId":171520,"journal":{"name":"EPL (Europhysics Letters)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124984746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}