The first experimental evidence of anisotropic electron energization during magnetic reconnection that favors a direction perpendicular to the guide magnetic field in a toroidal, magnetically confined plasma is reported in this Letter. Magnetic reconnection plays an important role in particle heating, energization, and transport in space and laboratory plasmas. In toroidal devices like the Madi...

Different computational scheme for calculating surface integrals in anisotropic Brillouin zones are compared. An example of the transport distribution function (plasma frequency) of the thermoelectric material Bi(2)Te(3) near the band edges is discussed. The layered structure of the material together with the rhombohedral symmetry causes a strong anisotropy of the transport distribution functio...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) are stars ejected completely out of the Milky Way by three-body interactions with the massive black hole in the Galactic center. We describe 643 new spectroscopic observations from our targeted survey for HVSs. We find a significant (3.5σ) excess of B-type stars with large velocities +275 < vrf < 450 km s −1 and distances d > 10 kpc that are most plausibly explained a...

We investigate liquid crystalline phases with nematic order at 3 -filling of the valence Landau level (LL). We generalize Laughlin’s fractional quantum Hall (QH) effect wavefunction at ν = 3 to include anisotropic nodal distribution by modifying the Jastrow factors. Lengthy Monte Carlo simulations are then used to determine with unprecedented accuracy the (anisotropic) pair distribution functio...

Photochemical reactions that deposit insoluble products on catalytic surfaces have been used to probe the anisotropy of the reactivity of SrTiO3 microcrystals. Both reduced and oxidized products are formed preferentially on {100} surfaces. It is proposed that the anisotropic photochemical reactivity can be explained by the electronic band structure. Because direct optical transitions for charge...

Purpose. This study examined the influence of anisotropic material for human sclera. Method. First, the individual geometry of patient-specific sclera was reproduced from a laser scan. Then, high quality finite element modeling of individual sclera was performed using a convenient automatic hexahedral mesh generator based on harmonic field and integrated with anisotropic material assignment fun...

We present a simple and efficient approach to generate a dense set of anisotropic, spatially varying glyphs over a two-dimensional domain. Such glyph samples are useful for many visualization and graphics applications. The glyphs are embedded in a set of non-overlapping ellipses whose size and density match a given anisotropic metric. An additional parameter controls the arrangement of the elli...

Utilizing echoic intension and distribution from different organs and local details of human body, ultrasonic image can catch important medical pathological changes, which unfortunately may be affected by ultrasonic speckle noise. A feature preserving ultrasonic image denoising and edge enhancement scheme is put forth, which includes two terms: anisotropic diffusion and edge enhancement, contro...

Creep response in a rotating disc made of anisotropic Al-SiC(particle) composite having linearly varying thickness has been carried out using anisotropic Hoffman yield criterion in present study. The steady state creep behavior is described by Sherby’s constitutive model. The material parameters characterizing difference in yield stresses have been used from the available experimental results i...

We present a variational formulation for the evolution of surface clusters in R3 by mean curvature flow, surface diffusion and their anisotropic variants. We introduce the triple junction line conditions that are induced by the considered gradient flows, and present weak formulations of these flows. In addition, we consider the case where a subset of the boundaries of these clusters are constra...