With the rapid developments of the all-solid-state deep-ultraviolet (deep-UV) lasers, the good nonlinear optical (NLO) crystal applied in this spectral region is currently lacking. Here, we design two novel NLO carbonates KBeCO3F and RbAlCO3F2 from the first-principles theory implemented in the molecular engineering expert system especially for NLO crystals. Both structurally stable crystals po...

In this paper, we present the results of our first-principles quantum mechanical studies of the electronic structure, geometry, and linear and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of tetrahedral GamNm (m=1, 4, 7, 17) atomic clusters. Our calculated results suggest that the linear and NLO properties both exhibit a strong dependence upon cluster size and shape (geometry). However, the sizeand the g...

Recently, a measurement of the vector-boson scattering process with same-sign W bosons has been reported by the CMS collaboration. Hence it is of prime importance to have precise predictions with next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy. In these proceedings, we report on a recent NLO electroweak computation to the full process pp→ μνμ eνejj. As realistic experimental event selections are applied t...

Recent measurements for F2(x, Q ) have been analyzed in terms of the ‘dynamical’ and ‘standard’ parton model approach at NLO and NNLO of perturbative QCD. Having fixed the relevant NLO and NNLO parton distributions, the implications and predictions for the longitudinal structure function FL(x,Q ) are presented. It is shown that the previously noted extreme perturbative NNLO/NLO instability of F...

We present results for the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation of single-top t-channel production in the 4-flavour scheme, interfaced to Parton Shower (PS) Monte Carlo programs according to the POWHEG and MC@NLO methods. Comparisons between the two methods, as well as with the corresponding process in the 5-flavour scheme are presented. For the first time results for typical kinematic d...

Urea-based molecular constructs are shown for the first time to be nonlinear optically (NLO) active in solution. We demonstrate self-assembly triggered large amplification and specific anion recognition driven attenuation of the NLO activity. This orthogonal modulation along with an excellent nonlinearity-transparency trade-off makes them attractive NLO probes for studies related to weak self-a...

We apply the MC@NLO approach to the process of heavy flavour hadroproduction. MC@NLO is a method for matching next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD calculations and parton shower Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, with the following features: fully exclusive events are generated, with hadronisation according to the MC model; total rates are accurate to NLO; NLO results for distributions are recovered upon...

Two experimental techniques have been developed for creating photonic structures in nonlinear optical (NLO) polymers with precisions down to nanoscale. The ®rst technique uses nanoimprinting technology to directly pattern the guest±host NLO polymers. It can be applied to the fabrication of photonic bandgap structures in NLO materials, as well as many other photonic structures in both linear and...

Integrated all-optical switches [I] can be of great importance for optical transparent telecommunication network All-optical switching is based on the phase change of the light due to the intensity in nonlinear optical (NLO) materials The materials investigated up to now exhibit NLO coefficients which are still too low for realistic high speed devices performance at low optical power A possible...