[en] The termination of pinned spirals on a defect by means of local stimuli is studied. On a completely unexcitable defect, the elimination process is discussed and its corresponding mechanism is presented. Especially, the mechanism of unpinning spirals on a partially unexcitable defect, which has not been investigated so far, is explored. With fixed pacing frequency ω _L, there exists a maximal radius R _max above which the pinned spiral cannot be removed. It is found that the value of R _max does not increase as ω _L in a dynamical regime, forming a platform in the $R_{\mathit{\text{max}}}\text{-}{\mathrm{\omega <!--\; ??\; -->}}_L$ curves. Based on analyzing the dispersion relation on the spiral tip around the obstacle, the underlying mechanism is clarified. Also, it is found that when multiple spirals are pinned, the value of R _max decreases on a partially unexcitable defect while the change is very slight on a completely unexcitable one. (letter)

[en] We report the plasmon dispersion characteristics of intrinsic and extrinsic armchair graphene nanoribbons of atomic width N = 5 using a p_z-orbital tight binding model with third-nearest-neighbor (3nn) coupling. The hopping parameters are obtained by fitting the 3nn dispersions to those of an extended Hückel theory. The resultant massive Dirac fermion system has a band gap E_g ≈ 64 meV. The extrinsic plasmon dispersion relation is found to asymptotically approach a universal dispersion curve as the chemical potential μ increases, whereas the intrinsic plasmon dispersion relation is found to have both energy and momentum thresholds. We also report an analytical model for the extrinsic plasmon group velocity in the q → 0 limit.

[en] A simplified derivation of the dispersion relations connecting the phase and amplitude of the normal optical reflectivity of a vacuum-matter interface is presented. The non-Kramers-Kronig form of the expression for reflectivity in terms of phase is shown to be a consequence of the fact that amplitudes are determined only up to a multiplicative constant by the phase. The phase, however, is uniquely determined by the amplitude

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[en] This report presents the atmospheric dispersion coefficients used in Tank Farms safety analysis. The basis equations for calculating radiological and toxicological exposures are also included. In this revision, the time averaging for toxicological consequence evaluations is clarified based on a review of DOE complex guidance and a review of tank farm chemicals.

[en] We experimentally study the strongly coupled three-level atom-cavity system at both cavity and coupling frequency detuning cases. Side peak splitting and anti-crossing-like phenomena are observed under different experimental conditions. Intracavity dispersion properties are used to explain qualitatively the complicated cavity resonance structures in the composite system of inhomogeneously broadened three-level atoms inside an optical ring cavity with relatively strong driving intensities.

[en] In this paper, we investigate the localized surface modes in a defective multilayer structure. We show that the defective multilayer structure can support two different kinds of localized modes, depending on the position and the thickness of the defect layer. In one kind, the modes are localized at the interface between the multilayer structure and a homogeneous medium (the so-called surface modes). While, in the other one, the modes are localized at the defect layer (defect-localized modes). We reveal that in the presence of the defect layer, the dispersion curve of the surface modes are pushed to the lower (upper) edge of the photonic band gap when the homogeneous medium is a left-handed (right-handed) material. Therefore, the existence regions of the surface modes are restricted due to the defect layer. Moreover, the effect of defect on the energy flow velocity of the surface modes is discussed.

[en] We investigate the electronic transport in a simple mesoscopic cross structure made of two wires (stubs) grafted at the same point along a quantum waveguide. We show that the structure may exhibit important phenomena such as bound in continuum (BIC) states. These states are transformed into electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) resonance by detuning slightly the lengths of the stubs. The last phenomenon is used to propose and study a mesoscopic demultiplexer device with an input waveguide and two output waveguides. We give closed-form expressions of the geometrical parameters that allow a selective transfer of a given state in the first waveguide without perturbing the second waveguide. The effect of temperature on the transmission resonances is also examined by using Landauer–Büttiker formula. The analytical results of the dispersion relation and transmission and reflection coefficient are obtained using the Green’s function method. (paper)

[en] We study string theory with momentum living on de Sitter space. We argue that consistency of the theory implies that the global momentum can be defined on de Sitter space. Then we perform careful canonical analysis and we we also show that this presumption leads to the string with deformed dispersion relation.

[en] The dispersion relations of the surface polariton in a semi-infinite wire medium with spatial dispersion are analysed. In comparison with the traditional spatial dispersive medium there only exists one branch instead of multibranch for the dispersion curve. The possibility of the experimentally observing the surface polaritons by attenuated total reflection is simulated numerically