Publications related to Continuum hypothesis

Explainability and Graph Learning From Social Interactions

Ali H. Sayed, Stefan Vlaski, Konstantinos Ntemos, Valentina Shumovskaia

Social learning algorithms provide models for the formation of opinions over social networks resulting from local reasoning and peer-to-peer exchanges. Interactions occur over an underlying graph topology, which describes the flow of information among the ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Motile dislocations knead odd crystals into whorls

Sofia Magkiriadou, Alexis Poncet

The competition between thermal fluctuations and potential forces governs the stability of matter in equilibrium, in particular the proliferation and annihilation of topological defects. However, driving matter out of equilibrium allows for a new class of ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Reduced-order Models for Simulating Coupled Geometric Instabilities in Steel Beam-columns Under Inelastic Cyclic Straining

Alexander Riley Hartloper

Numerical models that can simulate coupled geometric instabilities in steel beam-columns are required for the seismic assessment of certain steel moment-resisting frames. Reliably simulating coupled instabilities requires that the steel material is precise ...

EPFL2021

On the constancy theorem for anisotropic energies through differential inclusions

Riccardo Tione

In this paper we study stationary graphs for functionals of geometric nature defined on currents or varifolds. The point of view we adopt is the one of differential inclusions, introduced in this context in the recent papers (De Lellis et al. in Geometric ...

2021

Microstructural controls of anticrack nucleation in highly porous brittle solids

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Henning Löwe, Jonas Ritter

Porous brittle solids have the ability to collapse and fail even under compressive stresses. In fracture mechanics, this singular behavior, often referred to as anticrack, demands for appropriate continuum models to predict the catastrophic failure. To ide ...

Nature Research2020

Analysis and Remediation of Handwriting difficulties

Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn

Even with correct training, up to 25% of children never master handwriting like their peers. While research shows a correlation between handwriting difficulties and school failure, these difficulties can also impact children in their self esteem and behavi ...

EPFL2020

Solvent-Aware Interfaces in Continuum Solvation

Nicola Marzari, Oliviero Andreussi, Francesco Nattino, Nicolas Georg Hörmann

Continuum models to handle solvent and electrolyte effects in an effective way have a long tradition in quantum-chemistry simulations and are nowadays also being introduced in computational condensed-matter and materials simulations. A key ingredient of co ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Ising Model and Field Theory: Lattice Local Fields and Massive Scaling Limit

Sung Chul Park

This thesis is devoted to the study of the local fields in the Ising model. The scaling limit of the critical Ising model is conjecturally described by Conformal Field Theory. The explicit predictions for the building blocks of the continuum theory (spin a ...

EPFL2019

Observation of an alternative chi(c0)(2P) candidate in e(+)e(-)-> J/psi D(D)over-bar

Olivier Schneider, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Sun Hee Kim, Tara Nanut, Jun Yong Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, Donghyun Kim, Dipanwita Dutta

We perform a full amplitude analysis of the process e(+)e(-)-> J/psi D (D) over bar, where D refers to either D-0 or D+. A new charmoniumlike state X*(3860) that decays to D (D) over bar is observed with a significance of 6.5 sigma. Its mass is (3862(-32)( ...

American Physical Society2017

Strong surface effect on direct bulk flexoelectric response in solids

Alexander Tagantsev

In the framework of a continuum theory, it is shown that the direct bulk flexoelectric response of a finite sample essentially depends on the surface polarization energy, even in the thermodynamic limit where the body size tends to infinity. It is found th ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Strong LP formulations for scheduling splittable jobs on unrelated machines

Ola Nils Anders Svensson

A natural extension of the makespan minimization problem on unrelated machines is to allow jobs to be partially processed by different machines while incurring an arbitrary setup time. In this paper we present increasingly stronger LP-relaxations for this ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

Magnesium interatomic potential for simulating plasticity and fracture phenomena

William Curtin, Michael Frederick Francis

Magnesium has multiple dislocation and twinning systems with starkly different properties, which make its plastic deformation strongly anisotropic and highly complex. Existing empirical interatomic potentials fail to capture the full scope of these propert ...

Institute of Physics2015

A concurrent atomistic and continuum coupling method with applications to thermo-mechanical problems

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Srinivasa Babu Ramisetti

We present a novel method to couple molecular dynamics with finite elements at finite temperatures using spatial filters. The mismatch in the dispersion relations between continuum and atomistic models leads, at finite temperature, to unwanted mesh vibrati ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Relaxation of a steep density gradient in a simple fluid: Comparison between atomistic and continuum modeling

Simone Meloni

We compare dynamical nonequilibrium molecular dynamics and continuum simulations of the dynamics of relaxation of a fluid system characterized by a non-uniform density profile. Results match quite well as long as the lengthscale of density nonuniformities ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Experimental assessment of Owen's second hypothesis on surface shear stress induced by a fluid during sediment saltation

Michael Lehning, Benjamin Andreas Walter

A widely used, yet thus far unproven, fluid dynamical hypothesis originally presented by P. R. Owen 50years ago, states that the surface shear stress induced by a fluid on the ground during equilibrium sediment saltation is constant and independent of the ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Connection-type-specific biases make uniform random network models consistent with cortical recordings

Wulfram Gerstner, Carl Petersen, Michael Avermann, Tim Vogels, Christian Tomm

Uniform random sparse network architectures are ubiquitous in computational neuroscience, but the implicit hypothesis that they are a good representation of real neuronal networks has been met with skepticism. Here we used two experimental data sets, a stu ...

American Physiological Society2014

The intense world theory - a unifying theory of the neurobiology of autism

Henry Markram, Kamila Markram

Autism covers a wide spectrum of disorders for which there are many views, hypotheses and theories. Here we propose a unifying theory of autism, the Intense World Theory. The proposed neuropathology is hyper-functioning of local neural microcircuits, best ...

2010

Perceived speed differences explain apparent compression in slit viewing

Michael Herzog

When a figure moves behind a stationary narrow slit, observers often report seeing the figure as an integrated whole, a phenomenon known as slit viewing or anorthoscopic perception. Interestingly, in slit viewing, the figure is perceived compressed along t ...

Elsevier2008

La ville comme "Stimmungslandschaft" : le sentiment urbain à Buenos Aires aux XIXe et XXe siècles

This thesis analyses the city of Buenos Aires as a lived space in its historical context, based on my childhood memories. It characterizes the specific Stimmung that colours the urban and suburban spaces of Buenos Aires in the XIXth and XXth century. I ach ...

EPFL2007

L'espace contre l'architecture : le cas van Doesburg (analyse des contre-constructions)

Grégory Azar

This research work analyses Theo van Doesburg's Counter-constructions presented in Paris in 1923 at the "L'Effort Moderne" exhibition. These Counter-constructions stand as icons of the Modern Movement due to their role as precursors of a new "boundless" sp ...

EPFL2005