Publications related to Metastability

Controlling the crystal structure of succinic acid via microfluidic spray-drying

Many properties of materials, including their dissolution kinetics, hardness, and optical appearance, depend on their structure. Unfortunately, it is often difficult to control the structure of low molecular weight organic compounds that have a high propen ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Metastability of the Potts Ferromagnet on Random Regular Graphs

Jean Bernoulli Ravelomanana

We study the performance of Markov chains for the q-state ferromagnetic Potts model on random regular graphs. While the cases of the grid and the complete graph are by now well-understood, the case of random regular graphs has resisted a detailed analysis ...

SPRINGER2023

Antagonistic interactions among structured domains in the multivalent Bicc1-ANKS3-ANKS6 protein network govern phase transitioning of target mRNAs

Daniel Constam, Benjamin Marcel Daniel Rothé, Simon Fortier, Céline Gagnieux, Céline Emmanuelle Schmuziger

The growing number of diseases linked to aberrant phase transitioning of ribonucleoproteins highlights the need to uncover how the interplay between multivalent protein and RNA interactions is regulated. Cytoplasmic granules of the RNA binding protein Bica ...

CELL PRESS2023

Femtosecond laser-induced modifications and self-organization in complex glass systems

Gözden Torun

Ultrashort laser pulses, i.e., pulses emitted shorter than a picosecond, can tailor material properties by introducing permanent modifications locally in three dimensions. Remarkably, under a certain exposure condition, these modifications are accompanied ...

EPFL2023

Experimental study of stability, quench propagation and detection methods on 15 kA sub-scale HTS fusion conductors in SULTAN

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Nikolay Bykovskiy, Ortensia Dicuonzo

High-temperature superconductors (HTSs) enable exclusive operating conditions for fusion magnets, boosting their performance up to 20 T generated magnetic fields in the temperature range from 4 K to 20 K. One of the main technological issues of HTS conduct ...

2023

Planted XY model: Thermodynamics and inference

Lenka Zdeborová, Guanhao Huang, Siyu Chen, Giovanni Piccioli

In this paper we study a fully connected planted spin glass named the planted XY model. Motivation for studying this system comes both from the spin glass field and the one of statistical inference where it models the angular synchronization problem. We de ...

2022

Development of High-Strength Aluminum Alloys for Additive Manufacturing

Marvin Lennard Schuster

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) offers the possibility to rapidly produce complex geometries that are not achievable with conventional manufacturing methods. The two most common technologies, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) and Direct Metal Deposition (DM ...

EPFL2022

Evidence of a transient phase during the hydrolysis of calcium-deficient hydroxyapatite

Jacques Lemaître

In the present paper, calcium deficient hydroxyapatite (Ca-def OHAP) has been examined in a transmission electron microscope. During the observation, the initial Ca-def OHAP was seen to transform first into a transient intermediate phase, then to a final, ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2022

Giant switchable non thermally-activated conduction in 180 degrees domain walls in tetragonal Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Felix Risch

Conductive domain walls in ferroelectrics offer a promising concept of nanoelectronic circuits with 2D domain-wall channels playing roles of memristors or synoptic interconnections. However, domain wall conduction remains challenging to control and pA-rang ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Partial lifting of degeneracy in the J1-J2-J3 Ising antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice

Frédéric Mila, Jeanne Colbois, Andrew James Smerald

Motivated by dipolar-coupled artificial spin systems, we present a theoretical study of the classical J(1)-J(2)-J(3) Ising antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice. We establish the ground-state phase diagram of this model for J(1) > |J(2) |, |J(3) | based on ...

Amer Physical Soc2022

Molecular dynamics simulations of nucleation and phase transition in halide perovskites

Paramvir Ahlawat

Perovskite solar cells have emerged as the most promising cheaper photovoltaic technology. Besides solar cells, halide perovskites have a wide range of applications due to their remarkable optoelectronic properties. Starting from 3.8% in 2009, solar to the ...

EPFL2022

Helimagnons and Skyrmion Dynamics in Cu2OSeO3 and Fe/Gd Multilayers Explored by Brillouin Light Scattering and X-ray Microscopy

Ping Che

Spin dynamics in skyrmion hosting materials provide novel functionality in magnonics because of the formation of a novel magnon band structure and the nanoscale sizes of magnetic skyrmions. In this thesis, we explore the spin dynamics in the chiral magnet ...

EPFL2021

Studies of cold chemistry in crossed and merged neutral beams

Silvia Tanteri

In this thesis we present the design of two setups to study low-energy collisions between neutral species: an electron velocity map imaging for chemi-ionisation reactions and a merged electrostatic guide for polar molecules scattering. In the past few yea ...

EPFL2021

Ultrafast relaxation of photoexcited superfluid He nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Alberto Hernando de Castro

The relaxation of photoexcited nanosystems is a fundamental process of light–matter interaction. Depending on the couplings of the internal degrees of freedom, relaxation can be ultrafast, converting electronic energy in a few fs, or slow, if the energy is ...

Nature Research2020

Solidification of Metallic Alloys: Does the Structure of the Liquid Matter?

Michel Rappaz, Güven Kurtuldu

In 1952, Frank (Proc R Soc Lond Ser-Math Phys Sci 215:43-46, 1952) already postulated that Icosahedral Short Range Order (ISRO) of atoms in the liquid could possibly explain the large nucleation undercoolings measured in metallic alloys by Turnbull and Fis ...

SPRINGER2020

TiO2- based ceramics, from basic science to applications

Nanomaterials and nanoparticles are nowadays used in a wide range of applications; from sunscreens, paint and food industry to catalytic processes, lighting, TV's and displays, their presence is percolating in our daily life. New applications rise every da ...

EPFL2020

Why choosing the right partner is important: stabilization of ternary Cs(y)GUA(x)FA((1-y-x))PbI(3)perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Marko Mladenovic, Ariadni Boziki

Lead halide perovskites with mixtures of monovalent cations have attracted wide attention due to the possibility of preferentially stabilizing the perovskite phase with respect to photovoltaically less suitable competing phases. Here, we present a theoreti ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Surface-induced reversal of a phase transformation for the synthesis of epsilon-Fe2O3 nanoparticles with high coercivity

A metastable 8-polymorph of iron(III) oxide (epsilon-Fe2O3) is a very attractive material from the technological, engineering, and scientific points of view. In comparison with other iron oxides, it is characterized by unusual magnetic properties and a gia ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Predicting molecular dipole moments by combining atomic partial charges and atomic dipoles

Michele Ceriotti, David Mark Wilkins, Max David Veit, Yang Yang

The molecular dipole moment (mu) is a central quantity in chemistry. It is essential in predicting infrared and sum-frequency generation spectra as well as induction and long-range electrostatic interactions. Furthermore, it can be extracted directly-via t ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Metastable skyrmion lattices governed by magnetic disorder and anisotropy in beta-Mn-type chiral magnets

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Jonathan White

Magnetic skyrmions are vortexlike topological spin textures often observed in structurally chiral magnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Among them, Co-Zn-Mn alloys with a beta-Mn-type chiral structure host skyrmions above room temperature. In thi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020