Four groups of normal rats have been studied to elucidate the effect on the time of birth of four different light regimes applied throughout pregnancy (day 1: beginning of pregnancy). The results showed that the time of parturition (onset of expulsion) depended on the light treatment: the longer the duration of the daily illumination, the longer pregnancy lasted. With a 14 hrs light regime, the...

Pigmented mice differ from frogs in that lighting regime has only a small effect on rod outer segment turnover. During 8 days in constant light or darkness, disc addition measured as total displacement of a radioactive band in rod outer segments of mice which has received injections of tritiated amino acids was never modified by more than 7% compared to cyclic light controls. Disc shedding cont...

We experimentally study the propagation of circularly polarized light in the subdiffusion regime by exploiting enhanced backscattering [(EBS), also known as coherent backscattering] of light under low spatial coherence illumination. We demonstrate for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that a circular polarization memory effect exists in EBS over a large range of scatterers' sizes in...

Inelastic light scattering has been utilized for examining the structure of glass and its relaxation. However, the quasi-elastic-light-scattering (QLS) phenomenon has not been addressed in much detail. In this study, we observed pronounced QLS-intensity variations in two temperature domains-supercooled liquid (SCL) state (α-relaxation regime) and below the glass-transition temperature (β-relaxa...

Reaching the strong coupling regime of light-matter interaction has led to an impressive development in fundamental quantum physics and applications to quantum information processing. Latests advances in different quantum technologies, like superconducting circuits or semiconductor quantum wells, show that the ultrastrong coupling regime (USC) can also be achieved, where novel physical phenomen...

The transition from diffusive transport to localization of waves should occur for any type of classical or quantum wave in any media as long as the wavelength becomes comparable to the transport mean free path l*. The signatures of localization and those of absorption, or bound states, can, however, be similar, such that an unequivocal proof of the existence of wave localization in disordered b...

In this paper we investigate Gaussian queues in the light-traffic and in the heavy-traffic regime. The setting considered is that of a centered Gaussian process X ≡ {X(t) : t ∈ R} with stationary increments and variance function σ X(·), equipped with a deterministic drift c > 0, reflected at 0: Q (c) X (t) = sup −∞<s≤t (X(t)−X(s)− c(t− s)). We study the resulting stationary workload processQ (c...