By the description due to Mukai and Iliev, a smooth prime Fano threefold X of genus 9 is associated to a surface P(V), ruled over a smooth plane quartic Γ. We use Kuznetsov’s integral functor to study rank-2 stable sheaves on X with odd determinant. For each c2 ≥ 7, we prove that a component of their moduli space MX(2, 1, c2) is birational to a Brill-Noether locus of bundles on Γ having enough ...

The in-plane optical phonons around 200 meV in few-layer graphene are investigated utilizing infrared absorption spectroscopy. The phonon spectra exhibit unusual asymmetric features characteristic of Fano resonances, which depend critically on the layer thickness and stacking order of the sample. The phonon intensities in samples with rhombohedral (ABC) stacking are significantly higher than th...

An extended 1-perfect code C folds over its kernel via the Steiner quadruple systems associated with its codewords. The resulting folding, proposed as a graph invariant for C, distinguishes among the 361 nonlinear codes C of kernel dimension κ with 9 ≥ κ ≥ 5 obtained via Solov’eva-Phelps doubling construction. Each of the 361 resulting graphs has most of its nonloop edges expressible in terms o...

In dimension d, Q-factorial Gorenstein toric Fano varieties with Picard number ρX correspond to simplicial reflexive polytopes with ρX+d vertices. Casagrande showed that any d-dimensional simplicial reflexive polytope has at most 3d vertices, if d is even, respectively, 3d − 1, if d is odd. Moreover, for d even there is up to unimodular equivalence only one such polytope with 3d vertices, corre...

Photo-excitation and size-dependent Raman scattering studies on the silicon (Si) nanostructures (NSs) prepared by laser-induced etching are presented here. Asymmetric and red-shifted Raman line-shapes are observed due to photo-excited Fano interaction in the quantum confined nanoparticles. The Fano interaction is observed between photo-excited electronic transitions and discrete phonons in Si N...

The symmetric projective varieties of rank one are all smooth and Fano by a classic result of Akhiezer. We classify the locally factorial (respectively smooth) projective symmetric G-varieties of rank 2 which are Fano. When G is semisimple we classify also the locally factorial (respectively smooth) projective symmetric G-varieties of rank 2 which are only quasi-Fano. Moreover, we classify the ...

Our fundamental result is the construction of new subvarieties in the varieties of power sums for the Scorza quartic of any general pairs of trigonal curves and non-effective theta characteristics. This is a generalization of Mukai’s description of smooth prime Fano threefolds of genus twelve as the varieties of power sums for plane quartics. Among other applications, we give an affirmative ans...

The purpose of this paper is to give basic tools for the classification of nonsingular toric Fano varieties by means of the notions of primitive collections and primitive relations due to Batyrev. By using them we can easily deal with equivariant blow-ups and blow-downs, and get an easy criterion to determine whether a given nonsingular toric variety is a Fano variety or not. As applications of...

High-Q optical Fano resonances realized in a variety of plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials are very much promising for the development of new potent photonic devices, such as optical sensors and switches. One of the key issues in the development is to establish ways to effectively modulate the Fano resonance by external perturbations. Dynamic tuning of the Fano resonance applying the me...

The Fano-Kondo effect in zero-bias conductance is investigated based on a theoretical model for the T-shaped quantum dot. The conductance as a function of the gate voltage is generally characterized by a Fano asymmetric parameter q. With varying temperature the conductance shows a crossover between the high and low temperature regions compared with the Kondo temperature TK: two Fano asymmetric ...