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Nuclear magnetic resonance is widely used as a probe of pore geometry and fluid composition in well logging. One of the critical assumptions often made is that the diffusion of fluid molecules is sufficiently fast to warrant the condition…
Relating microstructure to properties, electromagnetic, mechanical, thermal and their couplings has been a major focus of mechanics, physics and materials science. The majority of the literature focuses on deriving homogenized constitutive…
Noise is a detrimental issue for nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, causing line broadening and decreasing the coherence time (T2). Following our previous electric and magnetic field noise work, we investigate noise caused by the…
Surface roughness influences significantly the quality factor of high frequency nanoresonators for large frequency - relaxation times within the non-Newtonian regime, where a purely elastic dynamics develops. It is shown that the influence…
We review the diffuse scattering and the loss coefficient in ultracold neutron reflection from slightly rough surfaces, report a surprising reduction in loss coefficient due to roughness, and discuss the possibility of transition from…
We investigate the effects of roughness and fractality on the normal contact stiffness of rough surfaces. Samples of isotropically roughened aluminium surfaces are considered. The roughness and fractal dimension were altered through…
Rough surface effect on the Meissner diamagnetic current in the normal layer of proximity contact N-S bi-layer is investigated in the clean limit. The diamagnetic current and the screening length are calculated by use of quasi-classical…
We demonstrate an unexpected decay-recovery behaviour in the time-dependent $^{1}\mathrm{H}$ NMR relaxation times of water confined within a hydrating porous material. Our observations are rationalised by considering the combined effects of…
Recent results have shown unprecedented control over separation distances between two metallic elements hundreds of nanometers in size, underlying the effects of free-electron nonlocal response also at mid-infrared wavelengths. Most of…
The augmented space formalism coupled with the recursion method and a tight-binding linear Muffin-tin orbitals basis has been applied to study the effects of roughness on the properties of (001) surfaces of body-centered cubic Fe and…
Polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR) have developed theoretically and experimentally in the past decades. In order to resolve the phase problem in neutron reflectometry, several simulation methods have been proposed such as reference layer…
We use ab-initio electromagnetic simulations to investigate light absorption by rough surfaces in the context of the formation of laser-induced periodic surface structures. Our approach involves modeling a realistic rough surface using a…
Electric field noise is a major source of motional heating in trapped ion quantum computation. While the influence of trap electrode geometries on electric field noise has been studied in patch potential and surface adsorbate models, only…
We investigate the surface roughness influence on the gain from parametric amplification in nanoresonators in presence of thermomechanical and momentum exchange noise. The roughness is characterized by the rms amplitude w, the correlation…
We investigate initially the influence of thermomechanical and momentum exchange noise on the limit to mass sensitivity of nanoresonators with random rough surfaces, which are characterized by the roughness amplitude, the correlation…
We study the equilibrium configuration of a nematic liquid crystal bounded by a rough surface. The wrinkling of the surface induces a partial melting in the degree of orientation. This softened region penetrates the bulk up to a length…
Pressure-imposed rheometry is used to examine the influence of surface roughness on the rheology of immersed and dry frictional spheres in the dense regime. The quasi-static value of the effective friction coefficient is not significantly…
Surface roughness has a huge impact on many important phenomena. The most important property of rough surfaces is the surface roughness power spectrum C(q). We present surface roughness power spectra of many surfaces of practical…
Surface roughness is a key factor when it comes to friction and wear, as well as to other physical properties. These phenomena are controlled by mechanisms acting at small scales, in which the topography of apparently-flat surfaces is…
We conduct a comprehensive set of tests of performance of surface coils used for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study of quasi 2-dimensional samples. We report ${^{115} \rm{In}}$ and ${^{31} \rm{P}}$ NMR measurements on InP,…