Maxwell Garnett effective medium theory is used to study the influence of silver nanoparticle induced field enhancement on the nonlinear response of a Kerr-type nonlinear host. We show that the composite nonlinear absorption coefficient, beta(c), can be enhanced relative to the host nonlinear absorption coefficient near the surface plasmon resonance of silver nanoparticles. This enhancement is ...

We study theoretically the nonlinear response properties of glass formers. We establish several general results, which together with the assumption of time-temperature superposition, lead to a relation between the nonlinear response and the derivative of the linear response with respect to temperature. Using results from mode-coupling theory and scaling arguments valid close to the glass transi...

This work presents an extension of the linear response TDDFT/EFP method to the nonlinear-response regime together with the implementation of nonlinear-response TDDFT/EFP in the quantum-chemistry computer package GAMESS. Included in the new method is the ability to calculate the two-photon absorption cross section and to incorporate solvent effects via the EFP method. The nonlinear-response TDDF...

Nonlinear projections of the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) onto North American winter (November–March) surface air temperature (SAT) and precipitation anomalies have been performed using neural networks. During El Niño, the linear SAT response has positive anomalies centered over Alaska and western Canada opposing weaker negative anomalies centered over southeastern ...

Assembling nonlinear dynamic models of structures is the goal of numerous research and development organizations. Such a predictive capability is required in the development of advanced, high-performance aircraft structures. Specifically, the ability to predict the response of complex structures to aero-acoustic loading has long been a United States Air Force goal. Sonic fatigue has plagued the...

A retinal ganglion cell commonly expresses two spatially overlapping receptive field mechanisms. One is the familiar "center/surround," which sums excitation and inhibition across a region somewhat broader than the ganglion cell's dendritic field. This mechanism responds to a drifting grating by modulating firing at the drift frequency (linear response). Less familiar is the "nonlinear" mechani...

This paper presents a fixed-end two-mass system (TMS) with end constraints that permits uncoupled solutions for different masses. The coupled nonlinear models for the present fixed-end TMS were solved using the continuous piecewise linearization method (CPLM) and detailed investigation on the effect of mass-ratio on the TMS response was conducted. The investigations showed that increased mass-r...