Publications related to Thermodynamic beta

Twisting instabilities in elastic ribbons with inhomogeneous pre-stress: A macroscopic analog of thermodynamic phase transition

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Michael Christopher Gomez

We study elastic ribbons subject to large, tensile pre-stress confined to a central region within the cross-section. These ribbons can buckle spontaneously to form helical shapes, featuring regions of alternating chirality (phases) that are separated by so ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Precipitation, Characterization, Kinetic, and Thermodynamic Modelling of Synthetic C-S-H Systems (C-S-H, CASH, CSH+$)

Maya Nicole Harris

This thesis investigates the effects of aluminates, sulfates, and heterogeneous substrates on the nucleation and growth of synthetic calcium-silicate-hydrates (C-S-H) produced by dropwise precipitation. The use of synthetic C-S-H, separate from other cemen ...

EPFL2022

Factors affecting the reactivity of slag at early and late ages

Karen Scrivener, Mohsen Ben Haha, Yosra Briki

This study investigates the difference between the reactivity of slag in NaOH solution (w/s = 100) and in cement paste (w/b = 0.4). The reactivity of slag is much higher in NaOH solution than in cement paste. When the NaOH solution is saturated with portla ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Tuning the Size and Geometry of Heteroleptic Coordination Cages by Varying the Ligand Bent Angle

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Rujin Li

Spherical assemblies of the type [PdnL2n]2n+ can be obtained from PdII salts and curved N-donor ligands, L. It is well established that the bent angle, α, of the ligand is a decisive factor in the self-assembly process, with larger angles leading to comple ...

2021

i-PI 2.0: A universal force engine for advanced molecular simulations

Michele Ceriotti, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, David Mark Wilkins, Bingqing Cheng, Venkat Kapil, Riccardo Petraglia, Gareth Aneurin Tribello, Benjamin Aaron Helfrecht, Mariana Rossi Carvalho, Robert Horst Meissner, Alice Cuzzocrea, Sébastien Pierre Bienvenue, Przemyslaw Juda, Wei Fang

Progress in the atomic-scale modeling of matter over the past decade has been tremendous. This progress has been brought about by improvements in methods for evaluating interatomic forces that work by either solving the electronic structure problem explici ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Thermodynamic properties of the Shastry-Sutherland model throughout the dimer-product phase

Frédéric Mila, Bruce Normand

The thermodynamic properties of the Shastry-Sutherland model have posed one of the longest-lasting conundrums in frustrated quantum magnetism. Over a wide range on both sides of the quantum phase transition (QPT) from the dimer-product state to the plaquet ...

2019

EEG signatures of schizophrenia: visual backward masking and microstates

Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Schizophrenia is a complex and devastating mental disorder that influences how one behaves, feels, and thinks. It affects a little less than 1 % of the world population and it is understood to be partly genetically mediated. Several genetic risk factors of ...

EPFL2019

The morning commute in urban areas with heterogeneous trip lengths

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

This paper investigates the equilibrium properties of the morning commute problem at the network level with heterogeneous trip lengths. Congestion is modeled with a Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram relating the space-mean speed of a network to the vehicular ...

2018

Flat-Histogram Monte Carlo as an Efficient Tool To Evaluate Adsorption Processes Involving Rigid and Deformable Molecules

Berend Smit, Matthew David Witman

Monte Carlo simulations are the foundational technique for predicting thermodynamic properties of open systems where the process of interest involves the exchange of particles. Thus, they have been used extensively to computationally evaluate the adsorptio ...

2018

Unravelling the precipitation pathway of biorelevant minerals: from fundamental studies to biomedical applications

Agnese Carino

The formation pathway of biominerals archetypes, namely calcium carbonate (CaC) and calcium phosphates (CaPs), was investigated using a multidisciplinary approach. The time-resolved analytical data were collected using a controlled-composition method and i ...

EPFL2018

The morning commute in urban areas with heterogeneous trip lengths

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte

This paper investigates the equilibrium properties of the morning commute problem at the network level with heterogeneous trip lengths. Congestion is modeled with a Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram relating the space-mean speed of a network to the vehicular ...

2017

Thermodynamic properties of highly frustrated quantum spin ladders: Influence of many-particle bound states

Frédéric Mila, Bruce Normand

Quantum antiferromagnets have proven to be some of the cleanest realizations available for theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies of quantum fluctuation effects. At finite temperatures, however, the additional effects of thermal fluctuations in t ...

2016

Modular organization of reaching and grasping movements investigated using EEG microstates

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Silvestro Micera, Robert Leeb, Elvira Pirondini, Martina Coscia, Jesús Minguillón Campos

How movements are generated and controlled by the central nervous system (CNS) is still not well understood. In this work, we tested the hypothesis of a modular organization of the brain activity during the execution of voluntary movements. In particular, ...

IEEE2014

Effect Of Distinct Conductive And Thermodynamic Temperatures On The Reflection Of Plane Waves In Micropolar Elastic Half-Space

Kunal Sharma

The present investigation is concerned with wave propagation in micropolar thermoelastic solid half space with distinct conductive and thermodynamic temperatures. Reflection of plane waves incident obliquely at the free surface of micropolar generalized th ...

Univ Politehnica Bucharest, Sci Bull2013

Prospects of warm dense matter research at HiRadMat facility at CERN using 440 MeV SPS proton beam

Juan Blanco Sancho, Rudiger Schmidt

In this paper we present numerical simulations of heating of a solid copper cylinder by the 440 GeV proton beam delivered by the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN. The beam is made of 288 proton bunches while each bunch comprises of 1.15.10(11) so tha ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization by Thermal Mixing Under Partial Saturation

Arnaud Comment, Sami Jannin

We describe a low-temperature thermodynamic model for dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) via continuous-wave partial saturation of electron spin resonance (ESR) lines that are both homogeneously and inhomogeneously broadened. It is a variant of a reasoning ...

Springer Vienna2012

Electron Cyclotron Heating and Suprathermal Electron Dynamics in the TCV Tokamak

Silvano Gnesin

This thesis is concerned with the physics of suprathermal electrons in thermonuclear, magnetically confined plasmas. Under a variety of conditions, in laboratory as well as space plasmas, the electron velocity distribution function is not in thermodynamic ...

EPFL2011

Reversing the shape transition of InAs/GaAs (001) quantum dots by etching-induced lateral In segregation

Klaus Kern, Theresa Lutz, Giovanni Costantini

The shape evolution of epitaxially grown InAs/GaAs(001) quantum dots after the controlled removal of material by an in situ etching gas is investigated by atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy. The presence of {137} facets on the surface of partia ...

2010

Condensation phase diagram of cavity polaritons in GaN-based microcavities: Experiment and theory

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Jacques Levrat, Eric Feltin

The evolution of the polariton condensation threshold (P-thr) under incoherent optical pumping is investigated both theoretically and experimentally over a wide range of temperatures (4-340 K) and exciton-cavity photon detunings (-120-0 meV) in a multiple ...

2010

Direct evaluation of the temperature dependence of the rate constant based on the quantum instanton approximation

Jiri Vanicek, Marcin Rafal Buchowiecki

A general method for the direct evaluation of the temperature dependence of the quantum-mechanical reaction rate constant in many-dimensional systems is described. The method is based on the quantum instanton approximation for the rate constant, thermodyna ...

American Institute of Physics2010