A model of soft frictionless disks in two dimensions at zero temperature is simulated with a shearing dynamics to study various kinds of asymmetries in sheared systems. We examine both single particle properties, the spatial velocity correlation function, and a correlation function designed to separate clockwise and counterclockwise rotational fields from one another. Among the rich and interes...

In this Letter, a collimated light acoustooptic lateral shearing interferometer (AO/LSI) capable of variable shear is described for use with either visual or ac electronic real-time phase measurements. The principle of operation of the AO/LSI is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. An input beam of diameter W is incident at Bragg’s angle upon two acoustooptic modulators (AOM’s) in series. They are shown sch...

The framework of cyclostationary random processes is used to develop classical coherence theory for the measurement of statistically periodic stochastic optical fields, such as those produced by pulsed lasers. Cycloergodicity is invoked to show that precise and accurate inferences of the nonstationary process statistics can be made from a single field realization. In particular, many-pulse obse...