The generalized dual series solution to the scattering of an E-polarized (E-pol) plane wave from an infinite circular cylinder having ?n infinite axial slot and enclosing an infinite concentric impedance cylinder is presented. This solufion explicitly exhibits the correct edge behavior, and it can handle cylinders that are either electrically small or large without special considerations. The a...

It has been found recently that the multiple reciprocity method (MRM) (Chen and Wong. Engng. Anal. Boundary Elements 1997; 20(1):25–33; Chen. Processings of the Fourth World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Onate E, Idelsohn SR (eds). Argentina, 1998; 106; Chen and Wong. J. Sound Vibration 1998; 217(1): 75–95.) or real-part BEM (Liou, Chen and Chen. J. Chinese Inst. Civil Hydraulics 1999; 1...

We explore experimentally the fundamental projective properties of a quantum measurement and their application in the control of a system’s evolution. We perform quantum non-demolition (QND) photon counting on a microwave field trapped in a very-high-Q superconducting cavity, employing circular Rydberg atoms as non-absorbing probes of light. By repeated measurement of the cavity field we demons...

We report on experimental measurement of air damping effects in high frequency nanomembrane resonators made of atomically thin molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) drumhead structures. Circular MoS2 nanomembranes with thickness of monolayer, few-layer, and multi-layer up to 70 nm ( 100 layers) exhibit intriguing pressure dependence of resonance characteristics. In completely covered drumheads, where the...

The influence of wall elasticity on the response of a Helmholtz resonator is examined by analyzing the canonical case of a thin elastic spherical shell with a circular aperture subject o plane wave excitation. By neglecting the thickness of the wall and representing the elasticity via a "thin shell" theory the problem is reduced to one of solving an integral equation over the aperture for the p...

Quantum logic gates are the key elements in quantum computing. Here we investigate the possibility of achieving a scalable and compact quantum computing based on stationary electron-spin qubits, by using the giant optical circular birefringence induced by quantum-dot spins in double-sided optical microcavities as a result of cavity quantum electrodynamics. We design the compact quantum circuits...

We investigate the possibility of achieving scalable photonic quantum computing by the giant optical circular birefringence induced by a quantum-dot spin in a double-sided optical microcavity as a result of cavity quantum electrodynamics. We construct a deterministic controlled-not gate on two photonic qubits by two single-photon input-output processes and the readout on an electron-medium spin...

We report on a new vector model of an erbium-doped fibre laser mode locked with carbon nanotubes. This model goes beyond the limitations of the previously used models based on either coupled nonlinear Schrödinger or Ginzburg-Landau equations. Unlike the previous models, it accounts for the vector nature of the interaction between an optical field and an erbium-doped active medium, slow relaxati...

Hollow nanostructures are paid increasing attention in many nanotechnology-related communities in view of their numerous applications in chemistry and biotechnology, e.g. as smart nanoreactors or drug-delivery systems. In this paper we consider irreversible, diffusion-influenced reactions occurring within a hollow spherical cavity endowed with a circular hole on its surface. Importantly, our mo...

We observe asymmetric color filtering under unpolarized incidence in a structured metallic (Ag) film, where the center of an optically thick circular Ag disk surrounded by a step gap appears dark when observed from one side, and bright from the other. The latter situation corresponds to abnormally high optical transmission through the optically thick film. We explain this by a three-step proces...