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  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,785 Views
19 Pages

Recent work done on the time reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking superconductors is reviewed in this paper. The special attention is paid to Sr 2 RuO 4 believed to be spin triplet chiral p-wave superconductor which break TRS and is expect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,189 Views
12 Pages

A Novel Breaking Strategy for Reduced Response Time of Electromagnetic Contactor by Reverse Voltage Application

  • Shuhua Fang,
  • Yong Chen,
  • Haimiao Ni,
  • Heyun Lin,
  • Xingang Wang,
  • Binruo Zhu and
  • Yin Zhang

27 February 2019

This paper proposes a novel breaking strategy for dramatically shortening the response time of a single, stable electromagnetic contactor. A reverse voltage was applied across the excitation coil to increase the decay velocity of the magnetic field i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,447 Views
25 Pages

25 January 2025

Many physical and biological phenomena are characterized by time asymmetry, and are referred to as irreversible. Time-reversal symmetry breaking is in fact the hallmark of systems operating away from equilibrium and reflects the power dissipated by d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,825 Views
17 Pages

Assessment of the Feasibility of Applying the Electromagnetic Time Reversal Theory to Locate Defects in Grounding Electrodes

  • Rafael Alipio,
  • Naiara Duarte,
  • Hamidreza Karami,
  • Marcos Rubinstein and
  • Farhad Rachidi

1 July 2023

In recent years, the electromagnetic time reversal (EMTR) theory has been successfully applied for locating various sources of disturbances, such as short-circuit faults, in power systems. In this paper, a theoretical analysis of the feasibility of a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,777 Views
16 Pages

16 April 2016

There are two classes of phononic structures that can support elastic waves with non-conventional topology, namely intrinsic and extrinsic systems. The non-conventional topology of elastic wave results from breaking time reversal symmetry (T-symmetry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,346 Views
9 Pages

1 April 2020

In General Relativity, the gravitational field of a spherically symmetric non-rotating body is described by the Schwarzschild metric. This metric is invariant under time reversal, which implies that the power series expansion of the time dilation con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,463 Views
12 Pages

19 May 2022

The noise that is associated with nonequilibrium processes commonly features more outliers and is therefore often taken to be Lévy noise. For a Langevin particle that is subjected to Lévy noise, the kicksizes are drawn not from a Gaussi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,363 Views
19 Pages

Rectifying Nonreciprocal Perfect Absorber Based on Generalized Effective-Medium Theory for Composite Magnetic Metamaterials

  • Yiyun Chen,
  • Yaping Zhang,
  • Lingzhong Zhao,
  • Guangfeng Wen,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Qingtao Ba,
  • Qilin Luo,
  • Jingjing Yu and
  • Shiyang Liu

27 September 2022

In this work, we demonstrate the implementation of a nonreciprocal perfect absorber (NPA) made of composite magnetic metamaterials (MMs) consisting of an array of dielectric core loaded (DCL) ferrite rods with either hollow or dielectric cores. The N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,829 Views
14 Pages

8 April 2019

It is one of the most important and long-standing issues of physics to derive the irreversibility out of a time-reversal symmetric equation of motion. The present paper considers the breaking of the time-reversal symmetry in open quantum systems and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,378 Views
13 Pages

27 September 2023

In recent years, there has been increasing attention on the development of non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods using guided waves for long-length materials such as thin plates and pipes. The guided waves are capable of long-distance propagation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,095 Views
19 Pages

Trajectory Planning for Mechanical Systems Based on Time-Reversal Symmetry

  • Stepan Ozana,
  • Tomas Docekal,
  • Aleksandra Kawala-Sterniuk,
  • Jakub Mozaryn,
  • Milos Schlegel and
  • Akshaya Raj

8 May 2020

The generation of feasible trajectories poses an eminent task in the field of control design in mechanical systems. The paper demonstrates innovative approach in trajectory planning for mechanical systems via time-reversal symmetry. It also presents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,652 Views
13 Pages

Reconstruction-Induced φ0 Josephson Effect in Quantum Spin Hall Constrictions

  • Lucia Vigliotti,
  • Fabio Cavaliere,
  • Giacomo Passetti,
  • Maura Sassetti and
  • Niccolò Traverso Ziani

27 April 2023

The simultaneous breaking of time-reversal and inversion symmetry, in connection to superconductivity, leads to transport properties with disrupting scientific and technological potential. Indeed, the anomalous Josephson effect and the superconductin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,882 Views
9 Pages

In fully developed turbulence, there is a flux of energy from large to small scales in the inertial range until the dissipation at small scales. It is associated with irreversibility, i.e., a breaking of the time reversal symmetry. Such turbulent flo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,090 Views
23 Pages

Optical nonlinearities can enable unusual light–matter interactions, with functionalities that would be otherwise inaccessible relying only on linear phenomena. Recently, several studies have harnessed the role of optical nonlinearities to implement...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,428 Views
16 Pages

5 November 2024

Quantum information scrambling refers to the spread of the initially stored information over many degrees of freedom of a quantum many-body system. Information scrambling is intimately linked to the thermalization of isolated quantum many-body system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,136 Views
16 Pages

Direct-Current Forced Interruption and Breaking Performance of Spiral-Type Contacts in Aero Applications

  • Wenlei Huo,
  • Jianwen Wu,
  • Bowen Jia,
  • Mingxuan Chen,
  • Suliang Ma and
  • Liying Zhu

26 May 2017

This paper analyses the transient characteristics and breaking performance of direct-current (DC) forced-interruption vacuum interrupters in 270 V power-supply systems. Three stages are identified in forced interruption: the DC-arcing stage, current-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,409 Views
30 Pages

24 November 2024

A stochastic process is at thermodynamic equilibrium if it obeys time-reversal symmetry; forward and reverse time are statistically indistinguishable at a steady state. Nonequilibrium processes break time-reversal symmetry by maintaining circulating...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,724 Views
19 Pages

15 June 2023

We consider several Hamiltonian systems perturbed by external agents that preserve their Hamiltonian structure. We investigate the corrections to the canonical statistics resulting from coupling such systems with possibly large but finite reservoirs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,802 Views
15 Pages

Magnetic toroidal multipoles have recently emerged as key descriptors of unconventional cross-correlation phenomena in antiferromagnetic systems. Among them, the rank-2 magnetic toroidal quadrupole, which is characterized as a time-reversal-odd polar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,912 Views
16 Pages

11 December 2017

We explored the dynamics of two interacting information systems. We show that for the Markovian marginal systems, the driving force for information dynamics is determined by both the information landscape and information flux. While the information l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,327 Views
10 Pages

3 March 2024

We investigate both theoretically and numerically the dynamics of out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) in quantum resonance conditions for a kicked rotor model. We employ various operators to construct OTOCs in order to thoroughly quantify their c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,853 Views
20 Pages

Casimir Effect for Fermion Condensate in Conical Rings

  • Aram Saharian,
  • Tigran Petrosyan and
  • Arshak Hovhannisyan

The fermion condensate (FC) is investigated for a (2+1)-dimensional massive fermionic field confined on a truncated cone with an arbitrary planar angle deficit and threaded by a magnetic flux. Different combinations of the boundary conditions are imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,018 Views
23 Pages

4 July 2025

Longstanding anomalies in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), including the low quadrupole moment and hemispherical power asymmetry, have recently been linked to an underlying parity asymmetry. We show here how this parity asymmetry naturally aris...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,636 Views
9 Pages

Location-Routing Optimization for Pickup Operation in Reverse Logistics Systems

  • Mozhgan Jahanafroozi,
  • Abdessamad Ait El Cadi,
  • Abdelghani Bekrar and
  • Abdelhakim Artiba

This paper presents a Location-Routing Problem (LRP) model for optimizing pickup operations in reverse logistics while incorporating drivers’ well-being constraints. The LRP is formulated as a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model, inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,039 Views
10 Pages

19 March 2015

We show theoretically that photonic crystals consisting of colloidal spheres exhibit unidirectional wave propagation and one-way frequency band gaps without breaking time-reversal symmetry via, e.g., the application of an external magnetic field or t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,219 Views
14 Pages

19 December 2018

We apply the stochastic thermodynamics formalism to describe the dynamics of systems of complex Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations. We provide in particular a simple and general recipe to calculate thermodynamical currents, dissipated and propagati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,167 Views
15 Pages

Design of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Copolymer Fiber with Two-Way Shape Memory Effect

  • Xiaoming Qi,
  • Wentong Yang,
  • Laiming Yu,
  • Wenjun Wang,
  • Haohao Lu,
  • Yanglong Wu,
  • Shanwen Zhu,
  • Yaofeng Zhu,
  • Xiangdong Liu and
  • Yubing Dong
  • + 1 author

30 September 2019

One-dimensional shape memory polymer fibers (SMPFs) have obvious advantages in mechanical properties, dispersion properties, and weavability. In this work, a method for fabricating semi-crystallization ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) fiber wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,690 Views
13 Pages

Observation of Dirac Charge-Density Waves in Bi2Te2Se

  • Adrian Ruckhofer,
  • Giorgio Benedek,
  • Martin Bremholm,
  • Wolfgang E. Ernst and
  • Anton Tamtögl

24 January 2023

While parallel segments in the Fermi level contours, often found at the surfaces of topological insulators (TIs), would imply “strong” nesting conditions, the existence of charge-density waves (CDWs)—periodic modulations of the elec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
6,225 Views
12 Pages

The Reality of Casimir Friction

  • Kimball A. Milton,
  • Johan S. Høye and
  • Iver Brevik

28 April 2016

For more than 35 years theorists have studied quantum or Casimir friction, which occurs when two smooth bodies move transversely to each other, experiencing a frictional dissipative force due to quantum electromagnetic fluctuations, which break time-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,544 Views
12 Pages

We have studied the superexchange interaction Jij in doped 2D cuprates. The AFM interaction strongly depends on the state of the lattice of a CuO2 layer surrounded by two LaO rock salt layers. In a static U and D stripe nanostructure, the homogeneous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,417 Views
14 Pages

20 November 2024

The use of vacuum-hybrid DC circuit breaking methods allows the short-circuit current to be switched off in a shorter time, resulting in a reduction in the arc burning time. This requires the use of a drive, such as the Thomson Coil Actuator TCA, cap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,411 Views
14 Pages

High-Voltage FDS of Thermally Aged XLPE Cable and Its Correlation with Physicochemical Properties

  • Haoyue Wang,
  • Maolun Sun,
  • Kaijie Zhao,
  • Xiaowei Wang,
  • Qilong Xu,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Chengrong Li

27 August 2022

This paper aims to investigate the influence of thermal aging on a crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) cable, and the relationships between the macroscopical high-voltage dielectric and the microscopical physicochemical properties are also elucidated. To...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,218 Views
18 Pages

25 September 2020

In this review, we consider the time reversal T and particle-antiparticle C symmetries that, being most fundamental, can be violated at microscopic level by a weak interaction. The notable example here is from condensed matter, where strongly correla...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,957 Views
13 Pages

Uniaxial strain in the (100) direction has the effect of increasing the superconducting Tc in Sr2RuO4 from 1.5 K to over 3 K. The enhanced Tc corresponds to a Lifshitz transition in the Fermi surface topology of this unconventional superconductor. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,792 Views
15 Pages

3 September 2020

The application of the CPT (charge-conjugation, parity, and time reversal) theorem to an apple falling on Earth leads to the description of an anti-apple falling on anti–Earth (not on Earth). On the microscopic level, the Dirac equation in curv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,768 Views
10 Pages

27 September 2022

Robust edge states of periodic crystals with Dirac points fixed at the corners or centers of the Brillouin zones have drawn extensive attention. Recently, researchers have observed a special edge state associated with Dirac cones degenerated at the h...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,465 Views
9 Pages

2 September 2022

Living foodborne pathogens pose a serious threat to public and population health. To ensure food safety, it is necessary to complete the detection of viable bacteria in a short time (several hours to 1 day). However, the traditional methods by bacter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,944 Views
16 Pages

Structural, Thermal and Mechanical Assessment of Green Compounds with Natural Rubber

  • Xavier Colom,
  • Jordi Sans,
  • Frederic de Bruijn,
  • Fernando Carrillo and
  • Javier Cañavate

7 August 2024

The inadequate disposal of tires poses a significant threat to human health and requires effective recycling solutions. The crosslinked structure of rubber, formed through sulfur bridges during vulcanization, presents a major challenge for recycling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
729 Views
12 Pages

Flux-Dependent Superconducting Diode Effect in an Aharonov–Bohm Interferometer

  • Yu-Mei Gao,
  • Hao-Yuan Yang,
  • Feng Chi,
  • Zi-Chuan Yi and
  • Li-Ming Liu

11 October 2025

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent and superconducting diode effect (SDE) in an Aharonov–Bohm (AB) interferometer sandwiched between two aluminium-based superconducting leads. The interferometer features a quantum dot (QD), which is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,651 Views
25 Pages

Age-Related Increases in PDE11A4 Protein Expression Trigger Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation (LLPS) of the Enzyme That Can Be Reversed by PDE11A4 Small Molecule Inhibitors

  • Elvis Amurrio,
  • Janvi H. Patel,
  • Marie Danaher,
  • Madison Goodwin,
  • Porschderek Kargbo,
  • Eliska Klimentova,
  • Sonia Lin and
  • Michy P. Kelly

13 June 2025

PDE11A is a little-studied phosphodiesterase sub-family that breaks down cAMP/cGMP, with the PDE11A4 isoform enriched in the memory-related hippocampal formation. Age-related increases in PDE11A expression occur in human and rodent hippocampus and ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,964 Views
20 Pages

Federated learning (FL) can break the problem of data silos and allow multiple data owners to collaboratively train shared machine learning models without disclosing local data in mobile edge computing. However, how to incentivize these clients to ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,108 Views
26 Pages

Lipid Coating Modulates Effects of Nanoceria on Oxidative Metabolism in Human Embryonic Lung Fibroblasts: A Case of Cardiolipin

  • Elena V. Proskurnina,
  • Madina M. Sozarukova,
  • Elizaveta S. Ershova,
  • Ekaterina A. Savinova,
  • Larisa V. Kameneva,
  • Natalia N. Veiko,
  • Maria A. Teplonogova,
  • Vladimir P. Saprykin,
  • Vladimir K. Ivanov and
  • Svetlana V. Kostyuk

2 January 2025

The unique redox properties of nanoscale cerium dioxide determine its diverse application in biology and medicine as a regulator of oxidative metabolism. Lipid modifiers of the nanoparticle surface change their biochemical properties and bioavailabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,948 Views
8 Pages

The Impact of Levator Muscle Advancement With and Without Upper Blepharoplasty on Dry-Eye Symptoms in Unilateral Ptosis: A Comparative Study

  • Dolika D. Vasović,
  • Miodrag Lj. Karamarković,
  • Milan Stojičić,
  • Nikola Musić,
  • Milan Colić,
  • Tanja Kalezić,
  • Jelena Vasilijević,
  • Igor Kovačević,
  • Ivan Marjanović and
  • Miroslav Jeremić
  • + 2 authors

21 February 2025

This study investigates the effects of levator advancement, with and without upper blepharoplasty, on dry-eye symptoms in patients with unilateral ptosis. A total of 92 patients were included, divided into three groups based on surgical intervention:...

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