Optical control of atomic interactions in quantum gases is a long-sought goal of cold atom research. Previous experiments have been hindered by rapid decay of the quantum gas and parasitic deformation of the trap potential. We develop and implement a generic scheme for optical control of Feshbach resonances which yields long quantum gas lifetimes and a negligible parasitic dipole force. We show...

The high strain rate behavior of two cellular materials was investigated using a quasi-static loading stage and a Kolsky bar apparatus. The yield stress of these core materials under dynamic loading was found higher than in quasi-static loading. However, the plateau stress after yielding is not so sensitive to strain rate. For Aluminum foam materials, the deformation was more localized for quas...

Trapping of interventional devices used to treat in-stent restenosis is rarely reported in the literature. Among those is a trapped rota ablation wire causing longitudinal stent deformation, sometime requiring another stent deployment onto the collapse stent. A Rota ablator getting stuck into the stent is very rare, and a lethal complication. We report a case of 79-year-old gentleman who underw...

The bending of a carbon nanotube is studied by considering the structural evolution of a carbon nanotorus from elastic deformation to the onset of the kinks and eventually to the collapse of the walls of the nanotorus. The changes in the electronic properties due to delocalized deformations are contrasted with those due to localized deformations to bring out the subtle issue underlying the reas...

Non-geometric string backgrounds were proposed to be related to a nonassociative deformation of the space-time geometry. In the flux formulation of double field theory (DFT), the structure of mathematically possible non-associative deformations is analyzed in detail. It is argued that on-shell there should not be any violation of associativity in the effective DFT action. For imposing either th...

Abstract The speed‐up of glaciers following ice shelf collapse can accelerate mass loss dramatically. Investigating the deformation landfast sea enables studying its resistive (buttressing) stresses and mechanisms driving collapse. Here, we apply offset tracking to Sentinel‐1A/B synthetic aperture radar data obtain a 2014–2022 time‐series horizontal velocity strain rate fields filling embayment...

Nano-plasticity of thin single-wall carbon nanotubes under uniaxial compression is investigated through generalized tight-binding molecular dynamics (GTBMD) and ab-initio electronic structure methods. A novel mechanism of nano-plasticity of carbon nanotubes under uniaxial compression is observed in which bonding geometry collapses from a graphitic (sp 2) to a localized diamond like (sp 3) recon...

A complete solution to collapse is given for a three-bar symmetric truss made of an elastic/perfectly-plastic material, using linear statics and kinematics, and the solution is found to be partially nonunique in the range of contained plastic deformation. The introduction of a first-order deviation from symmetry and/or the inclusion of first-order nonlinear terms in the equilibrium equations is...

Modeling seepage problems in rock fractures is an interesting research approach to evaluating slope instability that attracting increasing attention. In the present study, a coupled seepage–deformation model based on numerical manifold method (NMM) proposed, and flow of groundwater fracture network with effects pressure deformation are discussed. A global equilibrium equation system local facto...