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Resonant relaxation has been discussed as an efficient process that changes the angular momenta of stars orbiting around a central supermassive black hole due to the fluctuating gravitational field of the stellar cluster. Other spherical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 Yohai Meiron , Bence Kocsis

By means of molecular dynamics, we study a model system for colloidal suspensions where the interaction is based on a competition between attraction and repulsion. At low temperatures the relaxation time $\tau$ first increases as a power…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. de Candia , E. Del Gado , A. Fierro , N. Sator , A. Coniglio

The mean transverse kinetic energies of the fragments formed in the interaction of 1 A GeV Au+C have been determined. An energy balance argument indicates the presence of a collective energy which increases in magnitude with increasing…

In spin-glasses (SG), the relaxation time $\tau$ ($= 1/2{\pi}f$) vs. $T_f$ data at the peak position $T_f$ in the temperature variation of the ac magnetic susceptibilities at different frequencies f is often fit to the Vogel-Fulcher Law…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-24 Mouli Roy-Chowdhury , Mohindar S. Seehra , Subhash Thota

The viscous relaxation time of a trapped two-component gas of fermions in its normal phase is calculated as a function of temperature and scattering length, with the collision probability being determined by an energy-dependent s-wave cross…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-05 P. Massignan , G. M. Bruun , H. Smith

What are the mechanisms leading to the shape relaxation of three dimensional crystallites ? Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of fcc clusters show that the usual theories of equilibration, via atomic surface diffusion driven by curvature, are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicolas Combe , Pablo Jensen , Alberto Pimpinelli

A microscopic model is developed considering randomly oriented polar regions stuck to the directions of random fields or stresses. The application of an external field (stress) in this model results in a dielectric and acoustic reply…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Prosandeev

The spin-lattice relaxation rate $T_{1}^{-1}$ and NMR spectra of $^1$H in single crystal molecular magnets of Fe8 have been measured down to 15 mK. The relaxation rate $T_1^{-1}$ shows a strong temperature dependence down to 400 mK. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Miki Ueda , Satoru Maegawa , Susumu Kitagawa

We propose fractional Fokker-Planck equation for the kinetic description of relaxation and superdiffusion processes in constant magnetic and random electric fields. We assume that the random electric field acting on a test charged particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Chechkin , V. Gonchar , M. Szydlowski

We investigate the percolation behavior of Fortuin-Kasteleyn--type clusters in the spin-$1/2$ Baxter--Wu model with three-spin interactions on a triangular lattice. The considered clusters are constructed by randomly freezing one of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Alexandros Vasilopoulos , Michail Akritidis , Nikolaos G. Fytas , Martin Weigel

A novel theoretical expression for the relaxation time of magnetic nanoparticles with dipolar interactions is derived from Kramers' theory, extending the Boltzmann-Gibbs framework to incorporate Tsallis statistics. The model provides a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jean Claudio Cardoso Cerbino , Diego Muraca

We study the fluctuation-electromagnetic interaction and dynamics of a small spinning polarizable particle moving with a relativistic velocity in a vacuum background of arbitrary temperature. Using the standard formalism of the fluctuation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 G. V. Dedkov , A. A. Kyasov

Polar nematic liquid crystals are new classes of condensed-matter states where the inversion symmetry common to the traditional apolar nematics is broken. Establishing theoretical descriptions for the novel phase states is an urgent task.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-01 Yu Zou , Satoshi Aya

We develop a series of approximations to calculate free energy of a polar liquid. We show that long range nature of dipole interactions between the molecules leads to para-electric state instability at low temperatures and to a second-order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-01 P. O. Fedichev , L. I. Menshikov

We study the magnetic relaxation of a system of localized spins interacting through weak dipole interactions, at a temperature large with respect to the ordering temperature but low with respect to the crystal field level splitting. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Cuccoli , A. Fort , A. Rettori , E. Adam , J. Villain

Large low-frequency noise is found in some perovskite relaxor ferreoelectrics when they are polarized, regardless of whether the polarization is accompanied by an applied electric field. The noise appears both in the ferroelectric and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-23 Xinyang Zhang , Thomas J. Kennedy , Eugene V. Colla , M. B. Weissman , D. D. Viehland

We develop a Landau theory for bend flexoelectricity in liquid crystals of bent-core molecules. In the nematic phase of the model, the bend flexoelectric coefficient increases as we reduce the temperature toward the nematic to polar phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-28 Shaikh M. Shamid , Subas Dhakal , Jonathan V. Selinger

The present work emphasizes the relevance of low-field NMR relaxometry to investigate colloid-polymer hydrogels by probing water dynamics across a wide range of formulations between $\rm 10^{\circ}C$ and $\rm 80^{\circ}C$. By examining the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-16 Léo Hervéou , Gauthier Legrand , Thibaut Divoux , Guilhem P. Baeza

A novel lead-free tungsten bronze type ceramic Sr5BiTi3Nb7O30, was prepared by a conventional solid-state reaction route. The room-temperature crystal structure shows an average structure with centro-symmetric space group P4/mbm identified…

We consider an out-of-equilibrium one-dimensional model for two electrical double-layers. With a combination of exact calculations and Brownian Dynamics simulations, we compute the relaxation time ($\tau$) for an electroneutral salt-free…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-11 Lucas Varela , Sergio Andraus , Emmanuel Trizac , Gabriel Téllez