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Turbulence and Heat exchange in the Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow

The atmospheric layer adjacent to the earth's surface is of crucial importance for weather models due to the exchange of energy between the surface and the atmosphere. This exchange is dependent on the various surface properties and influences the state of ...

EPFL2024

Bridging Native and Intrinsic Structures of Microhydrated Biomolecules by Cold Ion Spectroscopy

Andrei Zviagin

Solving native structures of such large molecules, like biomolecules, is often challenging, particularly due to the potentially infinite number of non-covalent interactions with water. In this thesis, we report the use of cold ion gas-phase action spectros ...

EPFL2023

Local excitations in amorphous solids

Wencheng Ji

Amorphous solids are structurally disordered. They are very common and include glasses, colloids, and granular materials, but are far less understood than crystalline solids. Key aspects of these materials are controlled by the presence of excitations in w ...

EPFL2021

Work fluctuations in the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle model

Francesco Cagnetta

We study the large deviations of the power injected by the active force for an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle (AOUP), free or in a confining potential. For the free-particle case, we compute the rate function analytically in d-dimensions from a saddle- ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

On-the-fly ab initio semiclassical evaluation of vibronic spectra at finite temperature

Jiri Vanicek, Tomislav Begusic

To compute and analyze vibrationally resolved electronic spectra at zero temperature, we have recently implemented the on-the-fly ab initio extended thawed Gaussian approximation [A. Patoz et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 2367 (2018)], which accounts for an ...

2020

Bosonic superfluid transport in a quantum point contact

Jean-Philippe Brantut

We present a microscopic theory of heat and particle transport of an interacting, low-temperature Bose- Einstein condensate in a quantum point contact.We show that, in contrast to charged, fermionic superconductors, bosonic systems feature tunneling proces ...

2020

Integration of solar energy with industrial processes

Anna Sophia Wallerand

Solar energy offers a great potential for integration with industrial processes, which conventionally rely on fossil fuels to provide energy. The seasonal, daily, and regional dependence of solar energy alongside the scarcity of space or financial resource ...

EPFL2018

Thermo-mechanical volume change behaviour of Opalinus Clay

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Valentina Favero

The paper examines the thermo-mechanical volume change behaviour of Opalinus Clay in relation to different stress conditions and overconsolidation ratio (OCR) values and evaluates the impact of temperature on some hydro-mechanical properties of this materi ...

Elsevier2016

Thermodynamic properties of average-atom interatomic potentials for alloys

William Curtin, Wolfram Georg Nöhring

The atomistic mechanisms of deformation in multicomponent random alloys are challenging to model because of their extensive structural and compositional disorder. For embedded-atom-method interatomic potentials, a formal averaging procedure can generate an ...

Institute of Physics2016

Thermoelastic properties of alpha-iron from first-principles

Nicola Marzari, Daniele Dragoni

We calculate the thermomechanical properties of alpha-iron, and in particular its isothermal and adiabatic elastic constants, using first-principles total-energy and lattice-dynamics calculations, minimizing the quasiharmonic vibrational free energy under ...

American Physical Society2015

Review of Bi2O3-based glasses for electronics and related applications

Thomas Maeder

The present work critically reviews the scientific and patent literature on low-melting bismuth-based oxide glass frits in materials for electronics, sensors and related applications such as sealing glasses, solar cells, architectural and automotive glass, ...

Maney Publishing2013

Friedel vs. Labusch: the strong/weak pinning transition in solute strengthened metals

William Curtin

Solute strengthening in substitutional alloys can be classified into two categories, strong-pinning (Friedel) and weak-pinning (Labusch), each with its own characteristic scaling with concentration and temperature. The transition between the two strengthen ...

Taylor & Francis2013

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

Performance and Profitability Perspectives of a CO2 based District Energy Network in Geneva’s City Center

Daniel Favrat, Céline Weber, Samuel Henchoz

A new type of district energy network capable of providing simultaneously heating and cooling is being investigated. It is based on the use of CO2 as a heat transfer fluid by taking advantage of the latent heat of vaporization, to store and transfer heat a ...

2012

Transcritical or supercritical CO2 cycles using both low- and high-temperature heat sources

Daniel Favrat

In CO2 cycles with high-temperature heat sources that are used in applications such as nuclear power, concentrated solar power, and combustion, partial condensation transcritical CO2 (T-CO2) cycles or recompression supercritical CO2 (S-CO2) cycles are cons ...

2012

A spinning thermometer to monitor microwave heating and glass transitions in dynamic nuclear polarization

Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Sandrine Gerber, Pascal Miéville, Sami Jannin, Marc Anthony Caporini

As previously demonstrated by Thurber and Tycko, the peak position of Br-79 in potassium bromide (KBr) allows one to determine the temperature of a spinning sample. We propose to adapt the original design by using a compact KBr tablet placed at the bottom ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Condensate-Free Superfluid Induced by the Frustrated Proximity Effect

Frédéric Mila, Nicolas Laflorencie

Since the discovery of superfluidity in He-4 and Landau's phenomenological theory, the relationship between Bose condensation and superfluidity has been intensely debated. He-4 is known by now to be both superfluid and condensed at low temperature, and mor ...

2011

Exact results for thermodynamics of the hydrogen plasma: Low-temperature expansions beyond Saha theory

We study hydrogen in the Saha regime, within the physical picture in terms of a quantum proton-electron plasma. Long ago, Saha showed that, at sufficiently low densities and low temperatures, the system behaves almost as an ideal mixture made with hydrogen ...

2008

Exotic phases of quantum frustrated magnets : magnetization plateaus, nematic order and supersolid phases

Julien Dorier

In this work, we study two examples of frustrated magnetic systems whose degrees of freedom are spins (or pseudo-spins) on two-dimensional lattices. The first part presents the results obtained for the quantum compass model on a square lattice. This model ...

EPFL2008