Plasmonic slot waveguides provide extreme light confinement with the benefits of having naturally present electrodes for switching and high thermal conductivity metal layers to remove excess heat. Past works relied on numerical computation these structures, which is time-consuming lacks physical insight. Here, we an analytical model plasmonic determine modal properties based single-mode matchin...

Two previously independent approaches to investigating intuitive interaction in Australia and Germany are described and compared. Both definitions are based on the literature and so agree very closely, involving the non-conscious use of prior knowledge for intuitive interaction. Models have been devised by both groups: a continuum of intuitive interaction and a continuum of prior knowledge. Alt...

Elastic and proton–dissociative photoproduction of ρ, φ and J/ψ vector mesons (γp → V p, γp→ V N , respectively) have been measured in ep interactions at HERA up to −t = 3 GeV, where t is the four-momentum transfer squared at the photon–vector meson vertex. The analysis is based on a data sample in which photoproduction reactions were tagged by detection of the scattered positron in a special-p...

In a paper of 1929, Banach and Kuratowski proved—assuming the continuum hypothesis—a combinatorial theorem which implies that there is no nonvanishing σ-additive finite measure μ on R which is defined for every set of reals. It will be shown that the combinatorial theorem is equivalent to the existence of a K-Lusin set of size 20 and that the existence of such sets is independent of ZFC + ¬CH.

In this paper, a continuum model is proposed so that a Stone-Wales (SW) defected carbon nanotube (CNT) is replaced by an initial circumferential crack in a continuum cylindrical shell. For this purpose, the critical energy release rate and then the fracture toughness of a defected CNT are calculated using the results of an existing atomistic-based continuum finite element simulation. Finally, t...

The properties of the low-energy dipole response are investigated for the proton-rich doubly magic nucleus 48 Ni, in a comparative study of two microscopic models: fully self-consistent Relativistic Random-Phase Approximation based on the novel density-dependent meson-exchange interactions, and self-consistent Continuum Random-Phase Approximation using Skyrme-type interactions with the continuu...

We report the detection of direct ℓ-type transitions towards the proto-planetary nebula CRL 618 during a study of vibrationally excited carbon chains. ∆J = 0 transitions of HCN in its first excited bending mode v 2 = 1 were detected in absorption against the continuum of the central H ii region making use of the Effelsberg 100 m telescope and the Very Large Array. Additionally, the J = 9 direct...

The properties of the low-energy dipole response are investigated for the proton-rich doubly magic nucleus 48 Ni, in a comparative study of two microscopic models: fully self-consistent Relativistic Random-Phase Approximation(RRPA) based on the novel density-dependent meson-exchange interactions, and Continuum Random-Phase Approximation(CRPA) using Skyrme-type interactions with the continuum pr...

Researchers have debated whether clinical eating disorders are best conceptualized as one extreme along a continuum of degree or as qualitatively different from less severe eating disturbances. Taxometric analysis, a set of procedures that assess the structure of a given disorder by detecting whether a latent taxon exists among its indicators, has just begun to be applied to eating disorder res...