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Bistability of a compliant cavity induced by acoustic radiation pressure
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We report on the first observation of multiple-order bistability due to acoustic radiation pressure in a compliant acoustic cavity formed between a spherical ultrasonic transducer immersed in water and the free liquid surface located at its focus. The hysteretic behavior of the cavity length, observ...
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The thermal denaturation of DNA studied with neutron scattering
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Wildes, Andrew
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Theodorakopoulos, Nikos
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Valle Orero, Jessica
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Cuesta-Lopez, Santiago
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Garden, Jean-Luc
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Peyrard, Michel
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The melting transition of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), whereby the strands of the double helix structure completely separate at a certain temperature, has been characterized using neutron scattering. A Bragg peak from B-form fibre DNA has been measured as a function of temperature, and its widths an...
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Stress-Driven Phase Transformation and the Roughening of Solid-Solid Interfaces
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The application of stress to multiphase solid-liquid systems often results in morphological instabilities. Here we propose a solid-solid phase transformation model for roughening instability in the interface between two porous materials with different porosities under normal compression stresses. Th...
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Terahertz Radiation Source in Air Based on Bifilamentation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses
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A new terahertz (THz) source in air based on the bifilamentation of femtosecond laser pulses is reported. This THz radiation is 1 order of magnitude more intense than the transition-Cherenkov THz emission from femtosecond laser filaments reported recently and shows different angular and polarization...
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Strong Enhancement of Terahertz Radiation from Laser Filaments in Air by a Static Electric Field
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We observe a 3 order of magnitude enhancement of the terahertz energy radiated by a femtosecond pulse undergoing filamentation in air in the presence of a static electric field. Measurements of terahertz pulse duration, spectrum, polarization, and radiation pattern elucidate the physical processes r...
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Anomalous Angular Dependence of the Dynamic Structure Factor near Bragg Reflections: Graphite
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Hambach, R.
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Giorgetti, C.
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Hiraoka, N.
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Cai, Y.Q.
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Sottile, F.
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Marinopoulos, A.G.
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Bechstedt, F.
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Reining, Lucia
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The electron energy-loss function of graphite is studied for momentum transfers q beyond the first Brillouin zone. We find that near Bragg reflections the spectra can change drastically for very small variations in q. The effect is investigated by means of first principle calculations in the random ...
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Energy Exchange between Femtosecond Laser Filaments in Air
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Liu, Yi
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Durand, Magali
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Chen, Shihua
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Houard, Aurélien
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Prade, Bernard
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Forestier, Benjamin
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Mysyrowicz, André
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We report on the energy exchange between femtosecond laser filaments in air. A traveling plasma grating formed at the intersection of the filaments is proposed to explain the energy transfer. In this moving plasma grating mediated mechanism the laser energy transfers from the lower frequency pulse t...
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Rayleigh Scattering and Atomic Dynamics in Dissipative Optical Lattices
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Carminati, François-Régis
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Sanchez-Palencia, Laurent
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Schiavoni, Michele
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Renzoni, Ferruccio
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Grynberg, Gilbert
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We investigate Rayleigh scattering in dissipative optical lattices. In particular, following recent proposals (S.~Guibal {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 78}, 4709 (1997); C.~Jurczak {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77}, 1727 (1996)), we study whether the Rayleigh resonance originates from the d...
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Critical Casimir effect and wetting by helium mixtures
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Balibar, Sebastien
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Ueno, Tomohiro
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Mizusaki, Takao
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Caupin, Frederic
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Rolley, Etienne
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We have measured the contact angle of the interface of phase-separated$^{3}$He-$^{4}$He mixtures against a sapphire window. We have foundthat this angle is finite and does not tend to zero when thetemperature approaches $T_t$, the temperature of the tri-criticalpoint. On the contrary, it increases w...
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Fracture of a viscous liquid
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When a viscous liquid hits a pool of liquid of same nature, the impact region is hollowed by the shock. Its bottom becomes extremely sharp if increasing the impact velocity, and we report that the curvature at that place increases exponentially with the flow velocity, in agreement with a theory by J...
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