Publications related to Equipartition theorem

The effect of pressure-anisotropy-driven kinetic instabilities on magnetic field amplification in galaxy clusters

Context. The intracluster medium (ICM) is the low-density diffuse gas that fills the space between galaxies within galaxy clusters. It is primarily composed of magnetized plasma, which reaches virial temperatures of up to 10(8) K, probably due to mergers o ...

Edp Sciences S A2024

Mean-field transport equations and energy theorem for plasma edge turbulent transport

Reinart Andreas J. Coosemans

This paper establishes a mean-field equation set and an energy theorem to provide a theoretical basis in view of the development of self-consistent, physics-based turbulent transport models for mean-field transport codes. A rigorous averaging procedure ide ...

Cambridge University Press2024

Thermal conductivity of glasses: first-principles theory and applications

Nicola Marzari, Michele Simoncelli

Predicting the thermal conductivity of glasses from first principles has hitherto been a very complex problem. The established Allen-Feldman and Green-Kubo approaches employ approximations with limited validity-the former neglects anharmonicity, the latter ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Symbolic kinetic models in python (SKiMpy): intuitive modeling of large-scale biological kinetic models

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Georgios Fengos, Maria Masid Barcon, Daniel Robert Weilandt, Zhaleh Hosseini, Pierre Guy Rémy Salvy

Motivation: Large-scale kinetic models are an invaluable tool to understand the dynamic and adaptive responses of biological systems. The development and application of these models have been limited by the availability of computational tools to build and ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Low-energy stereodynamics of ion-forming reactions

Junwen Zou

In this thesis, an experimental study of low-temperature stereodynamics in the reactive scattering of Ne(3P2) + X collisions (X = Ar, Kr, Xe, CO and N2) is presented. The steric effect of Ne(3P2) in these reactions is observed experimentally using a contro ...

EPFL2021

Analysis of the inter-species power balance in JET plasmas

Henri Weisen, Mikhail Maslov

Most auxiliary heating methods provide heating to more than one particle species (electrons, ions, impurities) in a fusion plasma. This can lead to substantial temperature differences between species, depending on conditions such as heating power to the di ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Archetypal Soft-Mode-Driven Antipolar Transition in Francisite Cu3Bi(SeO3)(2)O2Cl

Helmuth Berger

Model materials are precious test cases for elementary theories and provide building blocks for the understanding of more complex cases. Here, we describe the lattice dynamics of the structural phase transition in francisite Cu3Bi(SeO3)(2)O2Cl at 115 K and ...

2020

Bedload transport: a walk between randomness and determinism. Part 2. Challenges and prospects

Christophe Ancey

By the late nineteenth century, the scientific study of bedload transport had emerged as an offshoot of hydraulics and geomorphology. Since then, computing bedload transport rates has attracted considerable attention, but whereas other environmental scienc ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2020

Equipartition of Energy Defines the Size-Thickness Relationship in Liquid-Exfoliated Nanosheets

Nicola Marzari, Davide Campi

Liquid phase exfoliation is a commonly used method to produce 2D nanosheets from a range of layered crystals. However, such nanosheets display broad size and thickness distributions and correlations between area and thickness, issues that limit nanosheet a ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Design and optimization of a high-temperature latent heat storage unit

Sophia Haussener, Ehsan Rezaei, Alberto Ortona, Maurizio Barbato

High-temperature latent heat thermal energy storage systems offer compact storage solutions, benefiting from the large latent heat of phase change materials. Common challenges in their design process are the low thermal conductivity of the phase change mat ...

2019

The Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem as a Diagnosis and Cure for Zero-Point Energy Leakage in Quantum Thermal Bath Simulations

Sara Bonella

Quantum thermal bath (QTB) simulations reproduce statistical nuclear quantum effects via a Langevin equation with a colored random force. Although this approach has proven efficient for a variety of chemical and condensed-matter problems, the QTB, as many ...

2019

Bond-selective and surface-site-specific dissociation of methane on platinum

Ana Gutiérrez González

I present a molecular beam study of methane dissociation on differ-ent surface sites of several platinum single crystal surfaces (Pt(111), Pt(211), Pt(210), Pt(110)-(2x1)). The experiments were performed in a molecular beam/surface-science apparatus that c ...

EPFL2019

Anomalous Effects of Velocity Rescaling Algorithms: The Flying Ice Cube Effect Revisited

Berend Smit, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Efrem Daniel Braun

The flying ice cube effect is a molecular dynamics simulation artifact in which the use of velocity rescaling thermostats sometimes causes violation of the equipartition theorem, affecting both structural and dynamic properties. The reason for this artifac ...

2018

Ultra-coherent nano-mechanical resonators for quantum optomechanics at room temperature

Amir Hossein Ghadimi

Mechanical oscillators are among the most important scientific tools in the modern physics. From the pioneering experiments in 18th by founding fathers of modern physics such as Newton, Hooke and Cavendish to the ground braking experiments in the 21th cent ...

EPFL2018

Activated Dissociation of HCl on Au(111)

We report zero-coverage reaction probabilities (S-0) for HCl dissociative adsorption on Au(111) obtained by the seeded molecular beam hot-nozzle method. For measurements at normal incidence with mean translational energies ranging from 0.94 to 2.56 eV (noz ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

A Multilaboratory Comparison of Calibration Accuracy and the Performance of External References in Analytical Ultracentrifugation

Jutta Christine Wandrey, Ahmet Bekdemir, Helmut Coelfen

Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) is a first principles based method to determine absolute sedimentation coefficients and buoyant molar masses of macromolecules and their complexes, reporting on their size and shape in free solution. The purpose of this ...

Public Library of Science2015

Approximate Ergodic Capacity of a Class of Fading Two-User Two-Hop Networks

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Chien-Yi Wang

The fading AWGN two-user two-hop network is considered where the channel coefficients are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) according to a continuous distribution and vary over time. For a broad class of channel distributions, the ergodic su ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Characterization of the quasi-one-dimensional compounds delta-(EDT-TTF-CONMe2)(2)X, X=AsF6 and Br by vibrational spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations

Agnes Antal

We have investigated the infrared spectra of the quarter-filled charge-ordered insulators delta-(EDT-TTF-CONMe2)(2)X (X=AsF6, Br) along all three crystallographic directions in the temperature range from 300 to 10 K. DFT-assisted normal mode analysis of th ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

A single-molecule stretching method for lateral and normal AFM lever calibration

Giovanni Dietler, Andrzej Kulik, Fabrizio Benedetti

A novel method for quantitative lateral force measurement (LFM) calibration has been developed. Using a single-molecule spectroscopy approach it is possible to calibrate the AFM levers for both lateral and normal spring constants with a single image scan. ...

Institute of Physics2013

Sedimentation of macroscopic rigid knots and its relation to gel electrophoretic mobility of DNA knots

Giovanni Dietler, Cédric Weber, Andrzej Stasiak, Mathias Carlen

We address the general question of the extent to which the hydrodynamic behaviour of microscopic freely fluctuating objects can be reproduced by macrosopic rigid objects. In particular, we compare the sedimentation speeds of knotted DNA molecules undergoin ...

Nature Publishing Group2013