Recent studies have established certain specific results concerning the optical reciprocity of source and observer in the presence of dielectric medium with nonlocal response (i.e. spatial dispersion). These include the case of a linear dielectric response with dependence on the electric field gradient; as well as the case of a general anisotropic nonlocal medium in the long wavelength quasista...

This Letter presents the first observation on the interplay between nonlocal transport and neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs) during transient nonlocal heat transport events in the HL-2A tokamak. The nonlocality is triggered by edge cooling and large-scale, inward propagating avalanches. These lead to a locally enhanced pressure gradient at the q = 3/2 (or 2/1) rational surface and hence the ons...

The adsorption of dichlorobenzene on flat (111) and stepped (332) Au and Pt surfaces was studied using density functional theory with both a conventional generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and a fully nonlocal van der Waals density functional (vdWDF). The equilibrium geometries and adsorption energies were computed for several different adsorption configurations. The two functionals yield...

The combined effect of mean flow and rotation on hexagonal patterns is investigated using Ginzburg-Landau equations that include nonlinear gradient terms as well as the nonlocal coupling provided by the mean flow. Long-wave and short-wave side-band instabilities are determined. Due to the nonlinear gradient terms and enhanced by the mean flow, the penta-hepta defects can become unstable to the ...

Using differential quadrature method (DQM), this study investigated pull-in instability of beam-type nano-switches under the effects of small-scale and intermolecular forces including the van der Waals (vdW) and the Casimir forces. In these nano-switches, electrostatic forces served as the driving force, and von-Karman type nonlinear strain was used to examine nonlinear geometric effects. To de...