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A solid - amorphous or crystalline - is defined by a finite shear modulus while a fluid lacks such. We thus experimentally investigate the elastic properties of a colloidal glass former near the glass transition: spectroscopy of vibrational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-02 Christian L. Klix , Georg Maret , Peter Keim

We use the quantum kinetic theory to calculate the steady state and the fluctuations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature. The system is divided in a condensate and a non-condensate part. A quantum mechanical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Jaksch , C. W. Gardiner , K. M. Gheri , P. Zoller

Noise and errors are unavoidable in any realistic quantum process, including processes designed to reduce noise and errors in the first place. In particular, quantum thermodynamical protocols for cooling can be significantly affected,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Jian Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Marcus Huber , Nicolai Friis , Pharnam Bakhshinezhad

We describe a novel coarse-grained simulation method for modelling the dynamics of globular macromolecules, such as proteins. The macromolecule is treated as a continuum that is subject to thermal fluctuations. The model includes a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Robin Oliver , Daniel J. Read , Oliver G. Harlen , Sarah A. Harris

Atomistic simulations provide insights into structure-property relations on an atomic size and length scale, that are complementary to the macroscopic observables that can be obtained from experiments. Quantitative predictions, however, are…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-14 Nataliya Lopanitsyna , Chiheb Ben Mahmoud , Michele Ceriotti

It is known by now that amorphous solids at zero temperature do not possess a nonlinear elasticity theory: besides the shear modulus which exists, all the higher order coefficients do not exist in the thermodynamic limit. Here we show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-15 Itamar Procaccia , Corrado Rainone , Carmel Shor , Murari Singh

We consider two high-frequency thermal processes in uniformly heated harmonic crystals relaxing towards equilibrium: (i) equilibration of kinetic and potential energies and (ii) redistribution of energy among spatial directions. Equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-01 Vitaly A. Kuzkin , Anton M. Krivtsov

We present a mechanism to explicitly couple the finite-difference discretizations of 2D acoustic and isotropic elastic wave systems that are separated by straight interfaces. Such coupled simulations allow the application of the elastic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Longfei Gao , David Keyes

We analyse a numerical scheme for a system arising from a novel description of the standard elastic--perfectly plastic response. The elastic--perfectly plastic response is described via rate-type equations that do not make use of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Pablo Alexei Gazca-Orozco , Vít Průša , Karel Tůma

Achieving strongly symmetric stress approximations for linear elasticity problems in high-contrast media poses a significant computational challenge. Conventional methods often struggle with prohibitively high computational costs due to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Eric T. Chung , Changqing Ye , Xiang Zhong

Simple application of the Einstein model combined with the elastic description of solid state is developed. The frequency of quantum oscillators has been assumed as volume dependent and, furthermore, elastic energy terms of static character…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-09 Tadeusz Balcerzak , Karol Szałowski , Michal Jaščur

Contactless, laser-based resonant ultrasound spectroscopy was utilized to monitor changes in elastic properties in single-crystalline NiTi shape memory alloy. It was observed that the elastic behavior of the temperature-induced B19$^\prime$…

Lattice Boltzmann simulations have been very successful in simulating liquid-gas and other multi-phase fluid systems. However, the underlying second order analysis of the equation of motion has long been known to be insufficient to…

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The structural relaxation of amorphous materials is described as arising from the superposition of elementary processes with varying activation energies. We show that it is possible to obtain the kinetic parameters of these processes from…

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We demonstrate an efficient and accurate, general-purpose first-principles blueprint for calculating anharmonic vibrational free energy and predicting structural phase transition temperatures of solids. Thermodynamic integration is…

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Combustion instabilities are particularly problematic for rocket thrust chambers because of their high energy release rates and their operation close to the structural limits. In the last decades, progress has been made in predicting high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Günther Waxenegger-Wilfing , Ushnish Sengupta , Jan Martin , Wolfgang Armbruster , Justin Hardi , Matthew Juniper , Michael Oschwald

The equilibration of sinusoidally modulated distribution of the kinetic temperature is analyzed in the $\beta$-Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain with different degrees of nonlinearity and for different wavelengths of temperature modulation.…

We propose an analysis for the stabilized finite element methods proposed in, E. Burman, Stabilized finite element methods for nonsymmetric, noncoercive, and ill-posed problems. Part I: Elliptic equations. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 35(6) 2013,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Erik Burman

The low temperature properties of glass are distinct from those of crystals due to the presence of poorly understood low-energy excitations. The tunneling model proposes that these are atoms tunneling between nearby equilibria, forming…

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