We discuss the interplay between chiral and center sector phase transitions that occur in QCD with an imaginary quark chemical potential $\ensuremath{\mu}=i(2n+1)\ensuremath{\pi}T/3$. Based on a finite size scaling analysis ($2+1$)-flavor using highly improved staggered fermions physical strange mass range of light masses, we show endpoint line first-order Roberge-Weiss (RW) sectors is second o...

We apply the techniques of digital holography to obtain microscopic three-dimensional images of biological cells. The optical system is capable of microscopic holography with diffraction-limited resolution by projecting a magnified image of a microscopic hologram plane onto a CCD plane. Two-wavelength phase-imaging digital holography is applied to produce unwrapped phase images of biological ce...

We introduce a multiple single-unit spike train analysis method to detect the inhibitory synchrony in spike &rings. This paper focuses on inhibitory synchrony among neural &rings, while excitatory synchronized &rings are often considered in recent years. The present analysis provides a phase-plane analysis that is used to determine the inhibitory phase-locking characteristics of spike &rings in...