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We calculate the elastic properties of Janus transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanotubes using first principles Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). Specifically, we perform electronic structure simulations that exploit the cyclic…
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We present the first calculations of the inelastic part of the dynamical structure factor (DSF) for warm dense matter (WDM) using Time-Dependent Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory (TD-OF-DFT) and Mixed-Stochastic-Deterministic (mixed)…
Stress-based ensembles incorporating temperature-like variables have been proposed as a route to an equation of state for granular materials. To test the efficacy of this approach, we perform experiments on a two-dimensional photoelastic…
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