The dynamics of the expulsion of the last liquid monolayer of molecules confined between two surfaces (measured recently for the first time) has been analyzed by solving the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation combined with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. Instabilities in the boundary line of the expelled film were observed. We show that the instabilities produce a rough boundary for all le...

The famous Morley theorem says that the adjacent angle trisectors of a triangle form an equilateral triangle. We recall some known proofs and provide several new. In hyperbolic geometry, we compute the side lengths of the associated Morley triangle and show that the limit is the Euclidean (flat) equilateral case. The perspectivity properties hold also in general. We introduce new invariants suc...

We experimentally confirmed that the spin-orbit lengths of noble metals obtained from weak antilocalization measurements are comparable to the spin diffusion lengths determined from lateral spin valve ones. Even for metals with strong spin-orbit interactions such as Pt, we verified that the two methods gave comparable values which were much larger than those obtained from recent spin torque fer...

We recorded the paths of subjects who walked along a memorized hexagonal route without vision, and studied the impact of previous mental simulation of this activity on how well the path could be reproduced from memory. We compared two kinds of mental simulation to actual physical practice, rest, or simple memorization of the path. The results indicated that mental simulation led to better repro...

In reports addressing animal foraging strategies, it has been stated that Lévy-like algorithms represent an optimal search strategy in an unknown environment, because of their super-diffusion properties and power-law-distributed step lengths. Here, starting with a simple random walk algorithm, which offers the agent a randomly determined direction at each time step with a fixed move length, we ...

In the title compound, NCCH(2)C(6)H(4)CH(2)CN, the bond lengths and angles are within normal ranges. The benzene ring makes dihedral angles of 4.94 (8) and 77.04 (8)° with the C-C-C-N mean planes. Weak non-conventional C-H⋯N hydrogen bonds are effective in the stabilization of the crystal structure. The weak C-H⋯N contacts form anti-parallel chains running in the a + c direction, and ring syste...

We develop a method of simultaneous and independent control of different scattering lengths in ultracold atomic gases, such as ;{40}K or a ;{40}K-;{6}Li mixture. Our method can be used to engineer multicomponent quantum phases and Efimov trimer states.

A compact wavefront camera that allows users to quantitatively measure the intensity and wavefront at a remote object plane is reported. The camera is built from a chip-scale wavefront sensor that we previously developed. By measuring the wavefront of the image and calibrating the wavefront relationship between the image and object planes, the wavefront at the object plane can be computed and t...