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Symmetry (geometry)

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Controlling transport dynamics of confined asymmetric fibers

François Gallaire, Mathias Simon Daniel Bechert, Jean Cappello

Transport properties of particles in confining geometries show very specific characteristics as lateral drift, oscillatory movement between lateral walls or the deformation of flexible fibers. These dynamics result from viscous friction with transversal an ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Conceptual design of a rotational mechanical time base with varying inertia

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann

Flexure pivot oscillators have the potential to advantageously replace the traditional balance wheel-spiral spring oscillator used in mechanical watches due to their significantly lower friction. However, they have inherent nonlinear elastic properties tha ...

2019

Non-Abelian band topology in noninteracting metals

Quansheng Wu

Electron energy bands of crystalline solids generically exhibit degeneracies called band-structure nodes. Here, we introduce non-Abelian topological charges that characterize line nodes inside the momentum space of crystalline metals with space-time invers ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2019

Time reversal and symmetries of time correlation functions

Sara Bonella, Alessandro Coretti

The time reversal invariance of classical dynamics is reconsidered in this paper with specific focus on its consequences for time correlation functions and associated properties such as transport coefficients. We show that, under fairly common assumptions ...

2018

Connection between diphoton and triboson channels in new physics searches

Lesya Shchutska, Alexey Boyarsky, Kyrylo Bondarenko

Diphoton channel provides a clean signature in searches for new physics. In this paper, we discuss a connection between the diphoton channel ( γγ ) and triboson channels ( Zγγ , ZZγ , WWγ ) imposed by the SU(2)L×U(1)Y symmetry of the Standard Model (SM) in ...

2018

Second Harmonic Generation Dynamics in Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Olivier Martin, Jérémy Butet, Gabriel David Bernasconi

Due to its symmetry properties, second-harmonic generation in plasmonic nanostructures enables the observation of even-parity modes that couple weakly to the far field. Consequentially, those modes radiate less and thus have a longer lifetime. Using a full ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Aberrations analysis of a Focused Plenoptic Camera

Toralf Scharf, Alessandro Grosso

A Focused Plenoptic Camera in Galilean configuration is studied and its aberrations behavior is interpreted with the Nodal Aberration Theory (NAT). Sequential ray tracing is applied to individual optical channels constituted by the camera objective and ind ...

2018

The effect of “objecthood” in the Ebbinghaus illusion

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Einat Rashal

In the Ebbinghaus illusion, observers overestimate the size of a target when it is surrounded by large flakers and compared with a control target surrounded by small flankers. We examined whether “objecthood” – the degree to which an object is a cohesive e ...

2017

Noether Theorems and Quantum Anomalies

Tudor Ratiu

A quantum anomaly is the breaking of symmetry with respect to some transformations after the quantization of a classical Hamiltonian or Lagrangian system. It is shown that both the Noether theorems (including their infinite-dimensional versions) and the ex ...

Springer Verlag2017

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a quadratically driven nonlinear photonic lattice

Vincenzo Savona

We investigate the occurrence of a phase transition, characterized by the spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry, in a driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard lattice in the presence of two-photon coherent driving. The driving term does not lift the original ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

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