It is well known since a long time that all lossy conductors at finite temperature display an electronic noise, the Johnson-Nyquist noise, arising from the thermal agitation of electric charges inside the conductor. The existence of this noise implies that two nearby discharged conductors at finite temperature should repel each other, as a result of the electrodynamic interaction between the Jo...

We introduce the notion of adaptive trapdoor functions (ATDFs); roughly, ATDFs remain one-way even when the adversary is given access to an inversion oracle. Our main application is the black-box construction of chosenciphertext secure public-key encryption (CCA-secure PKE). Namely, we give a black-box construction of CCA-Secure PKE from ATDFs, as well as a construction of ATDFs from correlatio...

In this paper, we propose a new technique for constructing improved high-rate space-time codes. The proposed code construction is based on a concatenation of an orthogonal spacetime block code and an outer M-TCM encoder. However, unlike the existing STB-MTCM schemes which are rate-lossy, the proposed construction yields higher-rate space-time codes by expanding the cardinality of the orthogonal...

We consider lossy counter machines, i.e. counter machines with counters whose contents can spontaneously decrease at any time. They are not Turing-powerful, since reachability is decidable for them, but they still have interesting undecidable properties: For a lossy counter machine it is undecidable if there exists an initial connguration s.t. there is an innnite run. Lossy counter machines can...

We report a unifying approach to the Goos-Hänchen (GH) shifts on external optical reflection for metals and dielectrics in particular for the case of high losses, that is for a large imaginary part of the dielectric constant. In this regime metals and dielectrics have a similar GH shift which is in contrast to the low-loss regime where the metallic and dielectric forms of the GH shift are very ...

Material properties in radio frequency and microwave regimes are limited due to the lack of molecular resonances at these frequencies. Metamaterials are an attractive means to realize a prescribed permittivity or permeability function, but these are often prohibitively lossy due to the use of inefficient metallic resonators. All-dielectric metamaterials offer excellent potential to overcome the...

A compact cryogenic calibration target is presented that has a peak diffuse reflectance, R ⩽ 0.003, from 800 to 4800 cm(-1) (12 - 2 μm). Upon expanding the spectral range under consideration to 400-10,000 cm(-1) (25 - 1 μm) the observed performance gracefully degrades to R ⩽ 0.02 at the band edges. In the implementation described, a high-thermal-conductivity metallic substrate is textured with ...

Abstract—An efficient numerical solution is presented for computing per-unit-length impedance of metallic rectangular transmission lines backed by semi-infinite lossy substrate. We formulate the problem into the set of integral equations, the kernel of which is analytically expressed in terms of special functions in the quasi-static regime. The method of moments is applied to find the current d...

Abstract Nanometric metallic stripes allow the transmission of optical signals via excitation and propagation surface-localized evanescent electromagnetic waves, with important applications in field nano-photonics. Whereas this kind plasmonic phenomena typically exploits noble metals, like Ag or Au, other materials can exhibit viable light-transport efficiency. In work, we demonstrate transport...