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Phonons - quanta of crystal lattice vibrations - reveal themselves in all electrical, thermal and optical phenomena in materials. Nanostructures open exciting opportunities for tuning the phonon energy spectrum and related properties of…

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Sonification is the science of communication of data and events to users through sounds. Auditory icons, earcons, and speech are the common auditory display schemes utilized in sonification, or more specifically in the use of audio to…

Using sonification on scientific data analysis provides additional dimensions to visualization, potentially increasing researchers' analytical capabilities and fostering inclusion and accessibility. This research explores the potential of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Adrián García Riber , Rubén García-Benito , Francisco Serradilla

Training audio-to-image generative models requires an abundance of diverse audio-visual pairs that are semantically aligned. Such data is almost always curated from in-the-wild videos, given the cross-modal semantic correspondence that is…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Darius Petermann , Mahdi M. Kalayeh

Phonon plays essential roles in dynamical behaviors and thermal properties, which are central topics in fundamental issues of materials science. The importance of first principles phonon calculations cannot be overly emphasized. Phonopy is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-30 Atsushi Togo , Isao Tanaka

There has been an ongoing race for the past several years to develop the best universal machinelearning interatomic potential. This progress has led to increasingly accurate models for predictingenergy, forces, and stresses, combining…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-09 Antoine Loew , Dewen Sun , Hai-Chen Wang , Silvana Botti , Miguel A. L. Marques

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline materials consisting of metal centers and organic linkers forming open and porous structures. They have been extensively studied due to various possible applications exploiting their large…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-20 Tomas Kamencek , Natalia Bedoya-Martínez , Egbert Zojer

The sensory perceptions of vision and sound may be considered as complementary doorways towards interpreting and understanding physical phenomena. We provide a few selected samples where scientific data of systems usually not directly…

Popular Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Carsten Henkel

Data sonification-mapping data variables to auditory variables, such as pitch or volume-is used for data accessibility, scientific exploration, and data-driven art (e.g., museum exhibitions) among others. While a substantial amount of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Hyeok Kim , Yea-Seul Kim , Jessica Hullman

The field of sonification, using of non-speech audio for data analysis, is already established in space sciences. Meetings like "The audible Universe" focus on sonification tools applied in astronomy to represent complex data like nebulae…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-05 Johanna Casado , Beatriz García

Over the last ten years there has been a large increase in the number of projects using sound to represent astronomical data and concepts. Motivation for these projects includes the potential to enhance scientific discovery within complex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 A. Zanella , C. M. Harrison , S. Lenzi , J. Cooke , P. Damsma , S. W. Fleming

Conventionally, high-throughput computational materials searches start from an input set of bulk compounds extracted from material databases, and this set is screened for candidate materials for specific applications. In contrast, many…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-11 Rachel Woods-Robinson , Matthew K. Horton , Kristin A. Persson

Simphony is an open-source software package designed for the topological analysis of lattice vibrations based on Wannier tight-binding models. Its primary function is to classify the topology of novel materials by computing bulk and slab…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-25 Francesc Ballester , Ion Errea , Maia G. Vergniory

We present an analysis of the vibrational dynamics of metal vicinal surfaces using the embedded atom method to describe the interaction potential and both a real space Green's function method and a slab method to calculate the phonons. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Abdelkader Kara , Talat S. Rahman

As a fundamental physical quantity of thermal phonons, temporal coherence participates in a broad range of thermal and phononic processes, while a clear methodology for the measurement of phonon coherence is still lacking. In this Lettter,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Zhongwei Zhang , Yangyu Guo , Marc Bescond , Masahiro Nomura , Sebastian Volz , Jie Chen

The visualization of publication and citation data is popular in bibliometrics. Although less common, the representation of empirical data as sound is an alternative form of presentation (in other fields than bibliometrics). In this…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Lutz Bornmann , Rouven Lazlo Haegner

Structuring materials is one mechanism to influence the thermal conductivity and thus thermoelectric efficiency. In order to investigate the scattering of phonons in multilayer structures we developed a beam matching technique, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Debanjan Basu , Peter Blöchl

Annotations are a critical component of visualizations, helping viewers interpret the visual representation and highlighting critical data insights. Despite their significant role, we lack an understanding of how annotations can be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Rhys Sorenson-Graff , S. Sandra Bae , Jordan Wirfs-Brock

Most tools for astrophysical research was centered on visual display. Even after some studies shows that the use of sound could help the data analysis, and on the other hand generate more accessibility. This fact motivates the creation of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Johanna Casado , Wanda Diaz-Merced , Beatriz García

Music information retrieval is currently an active research area that addresses the extraction of musically important information from audio signals, and the applications of such information. The extracted information can be used for search…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Preeti Rao