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In this paper we revisit the concept of mobility entropy. Over time, the structure of spatial interactions among urban centres tends to become more complex and evolves from centralised models to more scattered origin and destination…

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Sources of uncertainty are reviewed for calculated atomic and molecular data that are important for plasma modeling: atomic and molecular structure and cross sections for electron-atom, electron-molecule, and heavy particle collisions. We…

Entropy governs molecular self-assembly, phase transitions, and material stability, yet remains challenging to quantify and directly control in molecular systems. Here, we demonstrate that the computable information density (CID), a data…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ashley Z. Guo , Kaelyn Chang , Nicholas J. Corrente

Empirically determined values of the nuclear volume and surface symmetry energy coefficients from nuclear masses are expressed in terms of density distributions of nucleons in heavy nuclei in the local density approximation. This is then…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 B. K. Agrawal , J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , G. Colo , A. Sulaksono

The multifaceted role of the density dependent nuclear symmetry energy in the nuclear astrophysics involving neutron stars is highlighted. Efforts toward a model independent determination of the dense matter equation state through a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-11 M. Prakash Pals

Determining the structure of galaxy clusters is essential for an understanding of large scale structure in the universe, and may hold important clues to the identity and nature of dark matter particles. Moreover, the core dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. Arabadjis , M. W. Bautz , G. Arabadjis

Heavy elements are formed in nucleosynthesis processes. Abundances of these elements can be classified as elemental abundance, isotopic abundance, and abundance of nuclei. In this work we propose to change nucleon identification from the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-02-25 Miklos Kiss

The general idea of information entropy provided by C.E. Shannon "hangs over everything we do" and can be applied to a great variety of problems once the connection between a distribution and the quantities of interest is found. The Shannon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-20 Chun-Wang Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

We consider deep inelastic scattering (DIS) on a nucleus described using a density expansion. In leading order, the scattering is dominated by the incoherent scattering on individual nucleons distributed using the Thomas-Fermi…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 Kiminad A. Mamo , Ismail Zahed

We report on the feasibility of using an isotropic flux of cosmic neutrinos in the energy range of 10 to 10,000 TeV to study the interior geophysical structure of the Earth. The angular distribution of events in a $\sim {\rm km}^3$-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John P. Ralston , Pankaj Jain , George M. Frichter

We systematically investigate the neutron-skin thickness of neutron-rich nuclei within a compressible droplet model, which includes several parameters characterizing the surface tension and the equation of state (EOS) of asymmetric nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 W. Horiuchi , S. Ebata , K. Iida

The effects of the nuclear structure uncertainties on the description of processes induced by coherent scattering of neutrinos on nuclei are investigated. A reference calculation based on a specific nuclear model is defined and the cross…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 G. Co' , M. Anguiano , A. M. Lallena

The advent of radioactive ion beam facilities and new detector technologies have opened up new possibilities to investigate the radioactive decays of highly unstable nuclei, in particular the proton emission, $\alpha$ decay and heavy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-31 Chong Qi

The complex nature of the nuclear forces generates a broad range and diversity of observational phenomena. Heavy nuclei, though orders of magnitude less massive than neutron stars, are governed by the same underlying physics, which is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-09-04 M. Thiel , C. Sfienti , J. Piekarewicz , C. J. Horowitz , M. Vanderhaeghen

Information entropy and Zipf's law in the field of information theory have been used for studying the disassembly of nuclei in the framework of the isospin dependent lattice gas model and molecular dynamical model. We found that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu-Gang Ma

Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering on nuclei is an essential process to constrain the strange quark parton distribution functions in the proton. The critical component on the way to using the neutrino DIS data in a proton PDF analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-18 K. Kovarik

Entropy is the measure of uncertainty in any data and is adopted for maximisation of mutual information in many remote sensing operations. The availability of wide entropy variations motivated us for an investigation over the suitability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-26 S. K. Katiyar , P. V. Arun

The electronic density \rho(r) in atoms, molecules and solids is, in general, a distribution that can be observed experimentally, containing spatial information projected from the total wave function. These density distributions can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 J. P. Restrepo Cuartas

Background: In the mass regions with an abnormal shell structure, the so-called ``island of inversion," the spin-parity of odd-mass nuclei provides quantitative insights into the shell evolution. However, the experimental determination of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-19 R. Barman , W. Horiuchi , M. Kimura , R. Chatterjee

The role of inhomegeneity in determining the properties of correlated electron systems is poorly understood because of the dearth of structural probes of disorder at the nanoscale. Advances in both neutron and x-ray scattering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-19 Raymond Osborn , Damjan Pelc , Matthew Krogstad , Stephan Rosenkranz , Martin Greven