We develop a general multiple scattering expansion (MSE) for computing Casimir forces between magneto-dielectric bodies and Casimir-Polder forces between polarizable particles and magneto-dielectric bodies. The approach is based on fluctuating electric and magnetic surface currents and charges. The surface integral equations for these surface field...
Published in Europhysics Letters
In this article, we report some examples of how high-energy electron irradiation can be used as a tool for shaping material properties turning the generation of point-defects into an advantage beyond the presumed degradation of the properties. Such an approach is radically different from what often occurs when irradiation is used as a test for radi...
In this paper, a low-complexity algorithm that enables to compute the minimum distance as well as its associated number of occurrences for PAC codes is described. The method relies on the computation of the minimum weight properties of polar cosets while taking into consideration the initial precoding. Due to the exponential rise of the number of c...
In light of recent climate and environmental goals, there is an urgent need for the development of efficient mitigation technologies such as carbon capture. While spray-based carbon capture systems can offer high CO2 absorption rates compared to packed columns, their optimisation requires a fine control on spray homogeneity and droplet properties (...
This paper is concerned with the design of efficient and controllable filters for sound synthesis purposes, in the context of the generation of sounds radiated by nonlinear sources. These filters are coupled and generate tonal components in an interdependent way, and are intended to emulate realistic perceptually salient effects in musical instrume...
Impaired wound healing is a significant complication of diabetes. Platelet-derived extracellular vesicles (pEVs), rich in growth factors and cytokines, show promise as a powerful biotherapy to modulate cellular proliferation, angiogenesis, immunomodulation, and inflammation. For practical home-based wound therapy, however, pEVs should be incorporat...
Exoplanet detection by direct imaging is a difficult task: the faint signals from the objects of interest are buried under a spatially structured nuisance component induced by the host star. The exoplanet signals can only be identified when combining several observations with dedicated detection algorithms. In contrast to most of existing methods, ...
We give a short review of old and recent results on scatterers with transmission eigenvalues of infinite multiplicity,including transparent scatterers. Our examples include potentials from the Schwartz class and multipoint potentials of Bethe - Peierls type.This talk is based, in particular, on the works Grinevich, Novikov ( Comm. Math. Phys. 174, ...
It is generally accepted that the liquid-solid boundary has no effects on bulk properties of solids. We show here that this view might be antiquated, at least for hydrophilic surfaces. While the influence of the confinement or of a wall vicinity has been widely studied on liquid properties [1,2], investigations of liquid induced effects on the soli...
Thunderstorm risk assessment is a key point in the framework of the air traffic management and aircraft safety. We consider a relevant list of 10 meteorological parameters characterizing the state of the atmosphere from the standpoint of lightning strike risk. Each parameter makes a binary decision by performing a likelihood test based on its local...
