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Using density functional theory, we investigate fluctuations of the ground state energy of spin-polarized, disordered quantum dots in the metallic regime. To compare to experiment, we evaluate the distribution of addition energies and find…

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The specification of a covariance function is of paramount importance when employing Gaussian process models, but the requirement of positive definiteness severely limits those used in practice. Designing flexible stationary covariance…

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An estimate of the effective toughness of heterogeneous materials is proposed based on the Phase Field Fracture model implemented in an FFT homogenization solver. The estimate is based on the simulation of the deformation of representative…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Pedro Aranda , Javier Segurado

We consider the problem of approximating the solution of variational problems subject to the constraint that the admissible functions must be convex. This problem is at the interface between convex analysis, convex optimization, variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Adam M. Oberman

We prove that a pointwise fractional Hardy inequality implies a fractional Hardy inequality, defined via a Gagliardo-type seminorm. The proof consists of two main parts. The first one is to characterize the pointwise fractional Hardy…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Lizaveta Ihnatsyeva , Kaushik Mohanta , Antti V. Vähäkangas

Analysis of non-compact manifolds almost always requires some controlled behavior at infinity. Without such, one neither can show, nor expect, strong properties. On the other hand, such assumptions restrict the possible applications and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

The phenomenon of drag reduction by polymer additives had been studied in simulations on the basis of non-Newtonian fluid mechanical models that take into account the field of polymer extension (conformation tensor) and its interaction with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Benzi , Emily S. C. Ching , Itamar Procaccia

Off-diagonal profiles of local densities (e.g. order parameter or energy density) are calculated at the bulk critical point, by conformal methods, for different types of boundary conditions (free, fixed and mixed). Such profiles, which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Turban , F. Igloi

For random piecewise linear systems T of the interval that are expanding on average we construct explicitly the density functions of absolutely continuous T-invariant measures. In case the random system uses only expanding maps our…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Charlene Kalle , Marta Maggioni

The composite plate problem is an eigenvalue optimization problem related to the fourth order operator $(-\Delta)^2$. In this paper we continue the study started in [10], focusing on symmetry and rigidity issues in the case of the hinged…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Francesca Colasuonno , Eugenio Vecchi

We consider a graphene sheet in the vicinity of a substrate, which contains charged impurities. An analytic expression for the probability distribution function of voltage fluctuations due to the charged impurities is derived. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Victor Galitski , Shaffique Adam , S. Das Sarma

This paper investigates fractional torsional rigidity on compact, connected metric graphs, a novel extension of the classical concept to nonlocal operators. The fractional torsional rigidity is defined as the $L^1$-norm of the fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sedef Özcan

We consider a plate made from an isotropic but brittle elastic material, which is used to span a rigid aperture, across which a small pressure difference is applied. The problem we address is to find the structure which uses the least…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-12-18 R. S. Farr

Fractional occupation numbers can be used in density functional theory to create a symmetric Kohn-Sham potential, resulting in orbitals with degenerate eigenvalues. We develop the corresponding perturbation theory and apply it to a system…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-09 Mark C. Palenik , Brett I. Dunlap

Testing the homogeneity between two samples of functional data is an important task. While this is feasible for intensely measured functional data, we explain why it is challenging for sparsely measured functional data and show what can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-05 Changbo Zhu , Jane-Ling Wang

We develop a new approach to recurrence and the existence of non-constant harmonic functions on infinite weighted graphs. The approach is based on the capacity of subsets of metric boundaries with respect to intrinsic metrics. The main tool…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Daniel Lenz , Simon Puchert , Marcel Schmidt

In this work, we leverage the Hamiltonian kind structure for accurate uncertainty propagation through a nonlinear dynamical system. The developed approach utilizes the fact that the stationary probability density function is purely a…

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A formulation of the density functional theory is constructed on the foundations of entropic inference. The theory is introduced as an application of maximum entropy for inhomogeneous fluids in thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

A semi-relativistic density-functional theory that includes spin-orbit couplings and Zeeman fields on equal footing with the electromagnetic potentials, is an appealing framework to develop a unified first-principles computational approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Pittalis , G. Vignale , F. G. Eich
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