We analyze the dispersive properties of inhomogeneous nanostructures (INSs) composed of alternating layers of different materials. Analysis of the interaction between the propagating pulse and the INS provides modified dispersion characteristics. An approximate theoretical model predicting the dispersion properties of the INS is developed and compared with more accurate numeric computation resu...

In unreplicated 2kp designs, the assumption of constant variance is commonly made. When the variance of the response differs between the two levels of a column in the effect matrix, that column produces a dispersion effect. In this article we show that two active dispersion effects may create a spurious dispersion effect in their interaction column. Most existing methods for dispersion-effect t...

In this paper we adopt molecular dynamics simulations to study the amphiphilic AB block copolymer (BCP) mediated nanoparticle (NP) dispersion in polymer nanocomposites (PNCs), with the A-block being compatible with the NPs and the B-block being miscible with the polymer matrix. The effects of the number and components of BCP, as well as the interaction strength between A-block and NPs on the sp...

High level ab initio calculations have been carried out to assess the pairwise additivity of potentials in the attractive or well regions of the potential surfaces of clusters of helium atoms. A large basis set was employed and calculations were done at the Brueckner orbital coupled cluster level. Differences between calculated potentials for several interacting atoms and the corresponding summ...

In this work, ab initio parametrization of water force field is used to get insights into the functional form of empirical potentials to properly model the physics underlying dispersion interactions. We exploited the force matching algorithm to fit the interaction forces obtained with dispersion corrected density functional theory based molecular dynamics simulations. We found that the standard...

Temporal optical solitons have been the subject of intense research due to their intriguing physics and applications in ultrafast optics and supercontinuum generation. Conventional bright optical solitons result from the interaction of anomalous group-velocity dispersion and self-phase modulation. Here we experimentally demonstrate a class of bright soliton arising purely from the interaction o...

Agrin induces, whereas acetylcholine (ACh) disperses, ACh receptor (AChR) clusters during neuromuscular synaptogenesis. Such counteractive interaction leads to eventual dispersal of nonsynaptic AChR-rich sites and formation of receptor clusters at the postjunctional membrane. However, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Here we show that calpain, a calcium-dependent protease, is ...

A simple equivalent circuit model for the analysis of dispersion and interaction impedance characteristics of serpentine folded-waveguide slow-wave structure was developed by considering the straight and curved portions of structure supporting the dominant TE10-mode of the rectangular waveguide. Expressions for the lumped capacitance and inductance per period of the slow-wave structure were der...

The Cn parameters are the dispersion coefficients while R is the distance between the two nuclei. The procedures for determining the dispersion coefficients for identical atoms in two spherically symmetric states are known and there has been a lot of activity in calculating the van der Waals coefficients for such atoms 3–9 . When one of the atoms is in a state with nonzero angular momentum the ...

We study the effect of third-order dispersion on the interaction between two solitons from different frequency channels in an optical fiber. The interaction may be viewed as an inelastic collision in which energy is lost to continuous radiation owing to nonzero third-order dispersion. We develop a perturbation theory with two small parameters: the third-order dispersion coefficient d3 and the r...