Recently, guiding electromagnetic (EM) waves with a mode at subwavelength scale has attracted great attention, in particular, at optical wavelengths. The related phenomenon is that of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) that are bound non-radiative surface waves propagating at metaldielectric interfaces with the fields decaying exponentially away from the interface [1]. Structures supporting such...

A continuous interior penalty hp-finite element method that penalizes the jump of the gradient of the discrete solution across mesh interfaces is introduced. Error estimates are obtained for advection and advection-diffusion equations. The analysis relies on three technical results that are of independent interest: an hp-inverse trace inequality, a local discontinuous to continuous hp-interpola...

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This paper discusses the calculation of bend minimal shapes for non-planar graphs with given topology. Based on the Simple-Kandinsky drawing standard – a simplification of the more complex Kandinsky standard – we show the disadvantage of using standard models for this task: We show that the minimal bend count is suboptimal, when these models are applied to non-planar graphs; it is therefore ben...

Productivity is the property that finite prefixes of an infinite constructor term can be computed using a given term rewrite system. Hitherto, productivity has only been considered for orthogonal systems, where non-determinism is not allowed. This paper presents techniques to also prove productivity of non-orthogonal term rewrite systems. For such systems, it is desired that one does not have t...

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising technique for future mobile communication systems, which can approach multiuser channel capacity by sharing the same time-frequency resources with multiple users. In this article, we provide a unified framework for NOMA and review the principles of various NOMA schemes in different domains with the objective of creating a unified framework. A...

Given a finite set of linearly independent quantum states, an observer who examines a single quantum system may sometimes identify its state with certainty. However, unless these quantum states are orthogonal, there is a finite probability of failure. A complete solution is given to the problem of optimal distinction of three states, having arbitrary prior probabilities and arbitrary detection ...

A continuous interior penalty hp-finite element method that penalizes the jump of the discrete solution across mesh interfaces is introduced. Error estimates are obtained for first-order and advection-dominated transport operators. The analysis relies on three technical results that are of independent interest: an hp-inverse trace inequality, a local discontinuous to continuous hp-interpolation...

Orthogonal matrices over arbitrary elds are de ned together with their non-square analogs, which are termed row-orthogonal matrices. Antiorthogonal and self-orthogonal square matrices are introduced together with their non-square analogs. The relationships of these matrices to such codes as self-dual codes and linear codes with complementary duals are given.