To fill holes in photographs of structured, man made environments, we propose a technique which automatically adjusts and clones large image patches that have similar structure. These source patches can come from elsewhere in the same image, or from other images shot from different perspectives. Two significant developments of this work are the ability to automatically detect and adjust source ...

Characterization of transverse coherence is one of the most critical themes for advanced X-ray sources and their applications in many fields of science. However, for hard X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) sources there is very little knowledge available on their transverse coherence characteristics, despite their extreme importance. This is because the unique characteristics of the sources, such...

Photocurrent shot noise represents the fundamental quantum limit for amplitude, phase and timing measurements of optical signals. It is generally assumed that non-classical states of light must be employed to alter the standard, timeinvariant shot noise detection limit. However, in the detection of periodic signals, correlations in the shot noise spectrum can impact the quantum limit of detecti...

We study the gravitational wave emission from the first stars which are assumed to be Very Massive Objects (VMOs). We take into account various feedback (both radiative and stellar) effects regulating the collapse of objects in the early universe and thus derive the VMO initial mass function and formation rate. If the final fate of VMOs is to collapse, leaving very massive black hole remnants, ...

If a pulsar orbits a supermassive black hole, the timing of pulses that pass close to the hole will show a variety of strong field effects. To compute the intensity and timing of pulses that have passed close to a nonrotating black hole we introduce here a simple formalism based on two “universal functions,” one for the bending of photon trajectories and the other for the photon travel time on ...

We analyze the variability in the x-ray lightcurves of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 by linear and nonlinear time series analysis methods. While a linear model describes the overall second order properties of the observed data well, surrogate data analysis reveals a significant deviation from linearity. We discuss the relation between shot noise models usually applied to analyze these dat...

We study charge transport through a topological superconductor with a pair of Majorana end states coupled to leads via quantum dots with resonant levels. The nonlocality of the Majorana bound states opens the possibility of crossed Andreev reflection with nonlocal shot noise due to the injection of an electron into one end of the superconductor followed by the emission of a hole at the other en...

Nonequilibrium situations where selected currents are suppressed of interest in fields like thermoelectrics and spintronics, raising the question how related noises behave. We study such zero-current charge, spin, heat a two-terminal mesoscopic conductor. In presence voltage, temperature biases, nonequilibrium (shot) can be arbitrarily large, even if their average vanish. However, as soon bias ...

The authors report a direct measurement of the optical phonon intersubband hole relaxation time in a SiGe heterostructure and a quantitative determination of hole relaxation under electrically active conditions. The results were obtained by femtosecond resolved pump-pump photocurrent experiments using a free electron laser wavelength 7.9 m . Additionally, the intensity dependence of the nonline...

2014 The photoconductivity of amorphous selenium varies linearly with light intensity. This result cannot be interpreted by the classical mechanism of electron-hole pair generation followed by recombination through gap states. We assume that the incident photons create photoinduced defects whose structure is IVAP-like. The optical or thermal excitation of those defects yields the photoconductiv...