Some unusual properties of layered graphite, including a linear energy dependence of the quasiparticle damping and weak ferromagnetism at low doping, are explained as a result of the proximity of a single graphene sheet to the excitonic insulator phase which can be further stabilized in a doped system of many layers stacked in the staggered ( ABAB...) configuration.

The main linacs of the Next Linear Collider (NLC) will contain several thousand X-band RDDS (Rounded Damped Detuned Structures). The transverse wakefield in the structures is reduced by detuning the modal frequencies such that they destructively interfere and by four damping manifolds per structure which provide weak damping. Errors in the fabrication of the individual cells and in the alignmen...

The effect of spatial and temporal variations in the radiative damping rate on the response to an imposed forcing or diabatic heating is examined in a zonal-mean model of the middle atmosphere. Attention is restricted to the extratropics, where a linear approach is viable. It is found that regions with weak radiative damping rates are more sensitive in terms of temperature to the remote in uen...

Dwarf (or dark) molecular clouds and molecular clumps have a lifetime which is greater than their dynamical time and must therefore be, in an average sense, in mechanical equilibrium. Equilibrium perpendicular to a global magnetic field is by magnetic forces and it is proposed that along the field the gas is supported by an Alfvén wave pressure force. A selfconsistent analytical model, utilisin...

in the present paper the behavior of an elastically mounted cylinder in low and high mass-damping ratio is investigated. for high mass-damping ratio, a classical wake oscillator model is used. at the first, by neglecting all damping and nonlinear terms of this model, the possibility of using a linear model for determination of the lock-in range and the dominant mode is investigated. then, witho...

This paper presents a nonlinear model of a clamped-clamped microbeam actuated by an electrostatic load with stretching and thermoelastic effects. The frequency of free vibration is calculated by discretization based on the Differential Quadrature (DQ) Method. The frequency is a complex value due to the thermoelastic effect that dissipates energy. By separating the real and imaginary parts of fr...

Abstract: We consider the solvability of a hybrid model for the vibration of a vertical slender structure mounted on an elastic seating. The slender structure is modeled as a Rayleigh beam and gravity is taken into account. The seating and foundation block are modeled as rigid bodies connected by elastic springs with damping mechanisms. We show how an existence result for a general linear vibra...