We demonstrate that the frequency-selected enhancement of high-order-harmonic generation (HHG) can be achieved by a few-cycle laser pulse interacting with a coherent superposition state, which is prepared by the groun...
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We demonstrate that the frequency-selected enhancement of high-order-harmonic generation (HHG) can be achieved by a few-cycle laser pulse interacting with a coherent superposition state, which is prepared by the ground state and two degenerate Rydberg states. The degenerate states have the same orbital radius and hence have a large overlap in the electronic density distribution. By controlling the relative phase between the two degenerate states, the constructive or destructive interference of them can markedly change the initial density distribution of the Rydberg electron, thereby we can manipulate the characteristics and the conversion efficiency of HHG. Specifically, a significant enhancement in the continuous harmonics near HHG cutoff can be obtained, hence an intense isolated pulse with a duration less than 100 attoseconds is straightforwardly generated. On the other hand, since there exists a specific dependence of the harmonic efficiency on the relative phase of the two degenerate states, one can expect that the relative phase may be probed by examining the corresponding harmonic intensity. In practice, we may apply a weak static electric field in the whole dynamic process to obtain an asymmetry electron density distribution at a large radius; hence similar HHG results can be obtained.
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Ralf BurgschweigerIngo SchäferAdel MohsenRafael PiscoyaMartin OchmannBodo NolteDepartment II
Project Group Computational Acoustics Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin University of Applied Sciences Luxemburger Str. 10 Berlin Berlin 13353 Germany Maritime Technology and Research (WTD71/FWG)
Federal Armed Forces Underwater Acoustics and Marine Geophysics Research Institute Klausdorfer Weg 2-24 Kiel 24148 Germany Engineering
Mathematics & Physics Department Engineering Faculty Cairo University Giza 12613 Egypt Department II
Project Group Computational Acoustics Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin University of Applied Sciences Luxemburger Str. 10 Berlin 13353 Germany
The problem of non-uniqueness (NU) of the solution of exterior acoustic problems when using the boundary element method (BEM) is well known. Methods like the Burton-Miller technique or the CHIEF method are used to sol...
The problem of non-uniqueness (NU) of the solution of exterior acoustic problems when using the boundary element method (BEM) is well known. Methods like the Burton-Miller technique or the CHIEF method are used to solve this challenge at the expense of more complex procedures for handling hypersingular integrals and/or higher computing times due to higher complexity of the algorithm or additional equations. The dual surface method, commonly used for electromagnetic problems, was adapted for acoustic radiation and scattering problems. The basic principles of methods to solve the NU problem are outlined and results for different models and solution procedures are presented, taking into account quality, solution time and the numerical advantages when using iterative solvers.
Agent-based modeling (ABM) constitutes a powerful computational tool for the exploration of phenomena involving emergent dynamic behavior in the social sciences. This paper demonstrates a computer-assisted approach th...
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Agent-based modeling (ABM) constitutes a powerful computational tool for the exploration of phenomena involving emergent dynamic behavior in the social sciences. This paper demonstrates a computer-assisted approach that bridges the significant gap between the single-agent microscopic level and the macroscopic (coarse-grained population) level, where fundamental questions must be rationally answered and policies guiding the emergent dynamics devised. Our approach will be illustrated through an agent-based model of civil violence. This spatiotemporally varying ABM incorporates interactions between a heterogeneous population of citizens [active (insurgent), inactive, or jailed] and a population of police officers. Detailed simulations exhibit an equilibrium punctuated by periods of social upheavals. We show how to effectively reduce the agent-based dynamics to a stochastic model with only two coarse-grained degrees of freedom: the number of jailed citizens and the number of active ones. The coarse-grained model captures the ABM dynamics while drastically reducing the computation time (by a factor of approximately 20).
The subject of this work is the development and implementation of algorithms which accelerate the simulation of early stage tumor growth models. Among the different computational approaches used for the simulation of ...
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The subject of this work is the development and implementation of algorithms which accelerate the simulation of early stage tumor growth models. Among the different computational approaches used for the simulation of tumor progression, discrete stochastic models (e.g., cellular automata) have been widely used to describe processes occurring at the cell and subcell scales (e.g., cell-cell interactions and signaling processes). To describe macroscopic characteristics (e.g., morphology) of growing tumors, large numbers of interacting cells must be simulated. However, the high computational demands of stochastic models make the simulation of large-scale systems impractical. Alternatively, continuum models, which can describe behavior at the tumor scale, often rely on phenomenological assumptions in place of rigorous upscaling of microscopic models. This limits their predictive power. In this work, we circumvent the derivation of closed macroscopic equations for the growing cancer cell populations; instead, we construct, based on the so-called “equation-free” framework, a computational superstructure, which wraps around the individual-based cell-level simulator and accelerates the computations required for the study of the long-time behavior of systems involving many interacting cells. The microscopic model, e.g., a cellular automaton, which simulates the evolution of cancer cell populations, is executed for relatively short time intervals, at the end of which coarse-scale information is obtained. These coarse variables evolve on slower time scales than each individual cell in the population, enabling the application of forward projection schemes, which extrapolate their values at later times. This technique is referred to as coarse projective integration. Increasing the ratio of projection times to microscopic simulator execution times enhances the computational savings. Crucial accuracy issues arising for growing tumors with radial symmetry are addressed by applying th
Maximally random jammed states of hard spheres are prototypical glasses. We study the small wavenumber k behavior of the structure factor S(k) of overcompressed million-sphere packings as a function of density up to t...
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Maximally random jammed states of hard spheres are prototypical glasses. We study the small wavenumber k behavior of the structure factor S(k) of overcompressed million-sphere packings as a function of density up to the jammed state. We find both a precursor to the glassy jammed state evident long before the jamming density is reached and two associated growing length scales, one extracted from the volume integral of the direct correlation function c(r) and the other from the small-k behavior of the structure factor S(k), that can diverge at the “critical” jammed state. We also define a nonequilibrium index X and use it to demonstrate that the packings studied are intrinsically nonequilibrium in nature well before the critical state is reached. The extension of the results reported in the present work to supercooled atomic-liquid models in which the atoms interact with both repulsive and attractive forces is also discussed.
This paper is concerned with the numerical approximations of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations of elliptic type in ***gence analysis and error estimates are presented for the numerical solutions b...
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This paper is concerned with the numerical approximations of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations of elliptic type in ***gence analysis and error estimates are presented for the numerical solutions based on the spectral *** results demonstrate the good performance of the spectral method.
We investigate the effect of particle polydispersity on the optical extinction spectra of colloidal aggregates of spherical metallic (silver) nanoparticles, taking into account the realistic interparticle gaps caused ...
We investigate the effect of particle polydispersity on the optical extinction spectra of colloidal aggregates of spherical metallic (silver) nanoparticles, taking into account the realistic interparticle gaps caused by layers of stabilizing polymer adsorbed on the metal surface (adlayers). The spectra of computer-generated aggregates are computed using two different methods. The coupled-multipole method is used in the quasistatic approximation and the coupled-dipole method beyond the quasistatics. The latter approach is applicable if the interparticle gaps are sufficiently wide relative to the particle radii. Simulations are performed for two different particle size distribution functions (bimodal and Gaussian), varying the number of particles per aggregate, and different distribution functions of the interparticle gap width. The strong influence of the latter factor on the spectra is demonstrated and investigated in detail.
Sun spots are prominent manifestations of solar magnetoconvection, and imaging their subsurface structure is an outstanding problem of wide physical importance. Travel times of seismic waves that propagate through the...
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Sun spots are prominent manifestations of solar magnetoconvection, and imaging their subsurface structure is an outstanding problem of wide physical importance. Travel times of seismic waves that propagate through these structures are typically used as inputs to inversions. Despite the presence of strongly anisotropic magnetic waveguides, these measurements have always been interpreted in terms of changes to isotropic wave speeds and flow-advection-related Doppler shifts. Here, we employ partial-differential-equation-constrained optimization to determine the appropriate parametrization of the structural properties of the magnetic interior. Seven different wave speeds fully characterize helioseismic wave propagation: the isotropic sound speed, a Doppler-shifting flow-advection velocity, and an anisotropic magnetic velocity. The structure of magnetic media is sensed by magnetoacoustic slow and fast modes and Alfvén waves, each of which propagates at a different wave speed. We show that even in the case of weak magnetic fields, significant errors may be incurred if these anisotropies are not accounted for in inversions. Translation invariance is demonstrably lost. These developments render plausible the accurate seismic imaging of magnetoconvection in the Sun.
We study nonsequential double ionization (NSDI) processes of an atom by applying the frequency-domain theory based on the nonperturbative quantum electrodynamics. We obtain the transition formulas that describe the NS...
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We study nonsequential double ionization (NSDI) processes of an atom by applying the frequency-domain theory based on the nonperturbative quantum electrodynamics. We obtain the transition formulas that describe the NSDI processes caused by the collision ionization (CI) and the collision-excitation ionization (CEI) mechanisms. By analyzing the NSDI results of each above-threshold ionization (ATI) channel, we investigate the contributions to the NSDI from the backward and forward collisions. In particular, for the CI process, the backward collision makes a major contribution to the NSDI probability, whereas for the CEI process, it depends on the characteristics of the laser-atom system: if the energy that the recolliding electron needs to excite a bound electron is much larger than the laser photon energy, such as for the case of helium in this work, the backward collision dominates the contribution; otherwise, the forward collision dominates the contribution. We also discuss the source of interference fringes in the NSDI momentum spectra due to the CI mechanism and find that the fringes can be predicted by using a simple cosine function. This work can be regarded as a development of the frequency-domain theory, which may shed light on the study of multiparticle dynamics in intense laser fields.
Neutron-star and black hole X-ray binaries (XRBs) exhibit radio jets, whose properties depend on the X-ray spectral state and history of the source. There is general agreement about the type of the accretion disk arou...
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Neutron-star and black hole X-ray binaries (XRBs) exhibit radio jets, whose properties depend on the X-ray spectral state and history of the source. There is general agreement about the type of the accretion disk around the compact object in the various spectral states. What is missing is a physical explanation for the appearance, disappearance, and re-appearance of jets. We will demonstrate that by invoking a simple physical mechanism proposed more than ten years ago, the so-called Poynting-Robertson Cosmic Battery (PRCB), we can explain in a natural way the disk–jet connection in XRBs.
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