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In this work, we propose a powerful probe of neutrino effects on the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, i.e., Minkowski functionals (MFs). The morphology of LSS can be fully described by four MFs. This tool, with strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Yu Liu , Yu Yu , Hao-Ran Yu , Pengjie Zhang

Integral geometry uses four geometric invariants -- the Minkowski functionals -- to characterize certain subsets of 3-dimensional space. The question was, how is the fluid flow in a 3-dimensional porous system related to these invariants?…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-10 R. A. I. Haque , A. J. Mitra , T. Dutta

The phase transition of confined fluids in mesoporous materials deviates from that of bulk fluids due to the interactions with the surrounding heterogeneous structure. For example, adsorbed fluids in metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs) have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-06 Gunjan Auti , Soumyadeep Paul , Wei-Lun Hsu , Shohei Chiashi , Shigeo Maruyama , Hirofumi Daiguji

We conduct numerical experiments to investigate the spatial clustering of particles and bubbles in simulations of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence. Varying the Stokes parameter and the densities, striking differences in the clustering…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Enrico Calzavarini , Martin Kerscher , Detlef Lohse , Federico Toschi

We apply Minkowski functionals and various derived measures to decipher the morphological properties of large-scale structure seen in simulations of gravitational evolution. Minkowski functionals of isodensity contours serve as tools to…

Tensor Minkowski Functionals (TMFs) are tensorial generalizations of the usual Minkowski Functionals which are scalar quantities. We introduce them here for use in cosmological analysis, in particular to analyze CMB maps. They encapsulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Vidhya Ganesan , Pravabati Chingangbam

We apply a modified mean-field density functional theory to determine the phase behavior of Stockmayer fluids in slitlike pores formed by two walls with identical substrate potentials. Based on the Carnahan-Starling equation of state, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Szalai , S. Dietrich

Density functional theory (DFT) is shown to provide a novel conceptual and computational framework for entanglement in interacting many-body quantum systems. DFT can, in particular, shed light on the intriguing relationship between quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. -A. Wu , M. S. Sarandy , D. A. Lidar , L. J. Sham

Using the Fundamental-Measure Density Functional Theory, we have studied theoretically the phase behavior of extremely confined mixtures of parallel hard squares in slit geometry. The pore width is chosen such that configurations consisting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-09 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Enrique Velasco

The second-order formula of Minkowski functionals in weakly non-Gaussian fields is compared with the numerical $N$-body simulations. Recently, weakly non-Gaussian formula of Minkowski functionals is extended to include the second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Takahiko Matsubara , Chiaki Hikage , Satoshi Kuriki

We explore the microstructure and phase behavior of confined soft colloids which can actively switch their interactions at a predefined kinetic rate. For this, we employ a reaction-diffusion approach based on a reactive dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-19 Arturo Moncho-Jordá , Joachim Dzubiella

Two-dimensional mixtures of dipolar colloidal particles with different dipole moments exhibit extremely rich self-assembly behaviour and are relevant to a wide range of experimental systems, including charged and super-paramagnetic colloids…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-16 W. R. C. Somerville , J. L. Stokes , A. M. Adawi , T. S. Horozov , A. J. Archer , D. M. A. Buzza

Porous media, while ubiquitous across many engineering disciplines, is inherently difficult to characterize due to their innate stochasticity and heterogeneity. The key for predicting porous material behavior comes down to the structuring…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-26 Winston Lindqwister , Manolis Veveakis , Martin Lesueur

The Minkowski question mark function is a rich object which can be explored from the perspective of dynamical systems, complex dynamics, metric number theory, multifractal analysis, transfer operators, integral transforms, and as a function…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Giedrius Alkauskas

We study the structure and morphological changes of fluids that are in contact with solid composites formed by alternating and microscopically wide stripes of two different materials. One type of the stripes interacts with the fluid via…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-30 Martin Pospíšil , Martin Láska , Alexandr Malijevský

Despite their importance in many biological, ecological and physical processes, microorganismal fluid flows under tight confinement have not been investigated experimentally. Strong screening of Stokelets in this geometry suggests that the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Raphaël Jeanneret , Dmitri O. Pushkin , Marco Polin

A complete family of statistical descriptors for the morphology of large--scale structure based on Minkowski--Functionals is presented. These robust and significant measures can be used to characterize the local and global morphology of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Buchert

Previously, it has been shown that the direct correlation function for a Lennard-Jones fluid could be modeled by a sum of that for hard-spheres, a mean-field tail and a simple linear correction in the core region constructed so as to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-20 James F. Lutsko

Classical density functional theory (DFT) is a statistical mechanical theory for calculating the density profiles of the molecules in a liquid. It is widely used, for example. to calculate the density distribution of the molecules in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-08 Adam P. Hughes , Uwe Thiele , Andrew J. Archer

Using classical density functional theory (DFT) the effect of bringing a liquid crystal (LC) into contact with a porous substrate or matrix is investigated. The DFT used is a combination of the Onsager approximation to evaluate the excess…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 David L. Cheung