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Vibrational spectroscopy is a key technique to elucidate microscopic structure and dynamics. Without the aid of theoretical approaches, it is however, often difficult to understand such spectra at a microscopic level. Ab initio molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Philipp Schienbein

Electroelastic waves in piezoelectric media are widely used in sensing and filtering applications. Despite extensive research, computing the guided wave dispersion remains challenging. This paper presents semi-analytical approaches based on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Daniel A. Kiefer , Georg Watzl , Katharina Burgholzer , Martin Ryzy , Clemens Grünsteidl

The success of first principles electronic structure calculation for predictive modeling in chemistry, solid state physics, and materials science is constrained by the limitations on simulated length and time scales due to computational…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-19 Albert P. Bartok , James Kermode , Noam Bernstein , Gabor Csanyi

We present a machine learning (ML) method for efficient computation of vibrational thermal expectation values of physical properties from first principles. Our approach is based on the non-perturbative frozen phonon formulation in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-16 Niraj Aryal , Sheng Zhang , Weiguo Yin , Gia-Wei Chern

We present an open-source Python package, SpinWaveToolkit (SWT), for (semi-)analytical modeling of spin-wave dynamics in thin ferromagnetic films and exchange-coupled magnetic bilayers. SWT combines analytical models based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Jan Klíma , Ondřej Wojewoda , Jakub Krčma , Martin Hrtoň , Dominik Pavelka , Jakub Holobrádek , Michal Urbánek

We introduce an optimized physics-informed neural network (PINN) trained to solve the problem of identifying and characterizing a surface breaking crack in a metal plate. PINNs are neural networks that can combine data and physics in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-09 Khemraj Shukla , Patricio Clark Di Leoni , James Blackshire , Daniel Sparkman , George Em Karniadakis

Low-loss electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) has emerged as a technique of choice for exploring the localization of plasmonic phenomena at the nanometer level, necessitating analysis of physical behaviors from 3D spectral data sets.…

We present PyWolf, an open-source software capable of performing numerical simulations of partially coherent light propagation from two-dimensional light sources. PyWolf computes the evolution of a user-defined cross-spectral density…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 Tiago E. C. Magalhães , José M. Rebordão

The detection of vibrational excitations of individual molecules on surfaces by scanning tunneling spectroscopy does not obey strict selection rules but rather propensity rules. The experimental verification of these is challenging because…

Microplastics are increasingly recognized as a global environmental health threat, yet their detection and characterization remain constrained by the cost, form factor, and throughput of existing analytical tools. Portable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Sayedus Salehin , Syed Shaheer Uddin Ahmed , Uzay Tefek , Laura Weirauch , M. Selim Hanay

The main result of this thesis is an efficient protocol to determine the frequencies of a signal $C(t)= \sum_k |a_k|^2 e^{i \omega_k t}$, which is given for a finite time, to a high degree of precision. Specifically, we develop a theorem…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Timothy Stroschein

We couple a laser-based, space-resolved dynamic light scattering apparatus to a universal testing machine for mechanical extensional tests. We perform simultaneous optical and mechanical measurements on polyether ether ketone, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-24 M. -Y. Nagazi , G. Brambilla , G. Meunier , P. Marguerès , J. -N. Périé , L. Cipelletti

In this work, all the independent elastic coefficients, piezoelectric coefficients, and internal frictions of a single alpha-quartz crystal are determined using our recently proposed partial-electrode electromechanical impedance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-02 Mingyu Xie , Wenshuo Bai , Faxin Li

Spectroscopy is a central pillar of materials characterization, providing useful information on properties like structure, composition, or excited state dynamics of a system. However, many spectroscopic techniques present challenges in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-09 Amalya C. Johnson , Chris Fajardo , Leena Sansguiri , Weike Ye , Steven B. Torrisi

3D ultrasound imaging provides more spatial information compared to conventional 2D frames by considering the volumes of data. One of the main bottlenecks of 3D imaging is the long data acquisition time which reduces practicality and can…

The electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials depend sensitively on the underlying atomic arrangement down to the monolayer level. Here we present a novel strategy for the determination of the band gap and complex dielectric…

We present PyAtoms, an interactive open-source software that rapidly simulates atomic-scale scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and other scanning probe microscopy (SPM) images of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, moir\'{e} systems,…

Scanning transmission electron microscopy is a common tool used to study the atomic structure of materials. It is an inherently multimodal tool allowing for the simultaneous acquisition of multiple information channels. Despite its…

The accurate calculation of phonons and vibrational spectra remains a significant challenge, requiring highly precise evaluations of interatomic forces. Traditional methods based on the quantum description of the electronic structure, while…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Bowen Han , Yongqiang Cheng

Machine learning potential-driven molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have significantly enhanced the predictive accuracy of thermal transport properties across diverse materials. However, extracting phonon-mode-resolved insights from these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Ting Liang , Wenwu Jiang , Ke Xu , Hekai Bu , Zheyong Fan , Wengen Ouyang , Jianbin Xu