A compact antenna for UWB communication systems has been realized by employing a quasi-selfcomplementary structure together with a triangular notch on microstrip feed line in this paper. The optimal design of this type of antenna can offer an ultra wide return loss bandwidth with reasonable radiation properties. It features a quite small physical dimension of 16 mm×25 mm, corresponding to an el...

Coalescence-induced jumping of condensate droplets from a superhydrophobic surface with hierarchical micro/nanoscale roughness is quantitatively characterized. Experimental observations show that the condensate droplet jumping is induced by coalescence of multiple droplets of different sizes, and that the coalesced droplet trajectories typically deviate from the surface normal. A depth-from-def...

Abstract: The world-line formalism is used for the evaluation of the mixed heavy-quark– gluon condensate in two models of QCD – the stochastic vacuum model and the dual superconductor one. Calculations are performed for an arbitrary dimensionality of spacetime d ≥ 2. While in the stochastic vacuum model, the condensate is UV finite up to d = 8, in the dual superconductor model it is UV divergen...

A novel Gysel power divider based on patch type structure is presented in this paper. The proposed power divider possesses broad bandwidth, small physical occupation and arbitrary power division. More than 30% bandwidth enhancement is achieved based on the −15 dB input return loss criteria, while 55% size reduction is realized compared with conventional Gysel power divider. What’s more, flat di...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the conversation between line manager and employee about return to work to inform the development of an online interactive educational programme for line managers to improve the effectiveness of their discussions. DESIGN An inductive qualitative approach, using the principles of action research and motivational interviewing were adopted. The results informed the devel...

We compute derivatives of thermodynamic quantities with respect to μ, at μ = 0 for 2 and 3 flavors of degenerate quark masses. This allows us to estimate the phase transition line in the T, μ plane and quantify the influence of a non vanishing chemical potential on the equation of state by computing lines of constant energy, pressure and density. Moreover we evaluate the order of the QCD phase ...

Considering a moving vortex line in a dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensate within time-dependent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov-Popov theory, we derive a criterion for the quasiparticle excitations to follow the vortex core rigidly. The assumption of adiabaticity, which is crucial for the validity of the stationary self-consistent theories in describing such time-dependent phenomena, is shown to imp...

Making use of results pertaining to Painlevé III type equations, we revisit the celebrated Onsager-Manning-Oosawa condensation phenomenon for charged stiff linear polymers, in the mean-field approximation with salt. We obtain analytically the associated critical line charge density and show that it is severely affected by finite salt effects, whereas previous results focused on the no salt limi...

Using two different methods, we have determined the rescaling of the scalar condensate Z ≡ Z ϕ near the critical line of a 4D Ising model. Our lattice data, in agreement with previous numerical indications, support the behavior Z ϕ ∼ ln(Λ), Λ being the ultraviolet cutoff. This result is predicted in an alternative description of symmetry breaking where there are no upper bounds on the Higgs bos...