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The convex hull peeling of a point set consists in taking the convex hull, then removing the extreme points and iterating that procedure until no point remains. The boundary of each hull is called a layer. Following on from [15], we study…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Pierre Calka , Gauthier Quilan

We model shell formation of core-shell noble metal nanoparticles. A recently developed kinetic Monte Carlo approach is utilized to reproduce growth morphologies realized in recent experiments on core-shell nanoparticle synthesis, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-11 Vyacheslav Gorshkov , Vasily Kuzmenko , Vladimir Privman

We present a fast Monte-Carlo algorithm for simulating epitaxial surface growth, based on the continuous-time Monte-Carlo algorithm of Bortz, Kalos and Lebowitz. When simulating realistic growth regimes, much computational time is consumed…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. DeVita , L. M. Sander , P. Smereka

We present a model in which pit nucleation in thin films is considered to arise from a near-equilibrium nucleation process. In this model the adatom concentration plays a central role in controlling the morphological development of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Mathieu Bouville , Joanna Mirecki Millunchick , Michael L. Falk

The asymptotic shape of randomly growing radial clusters is studied. We pose the problem in terms of the dynamics of stochastic partial differential equations. We concentrate on the properties of the realizations of the stochastic growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-17 Carlos Escudero

State-of-the-art models for aerosol particle nucleation and growth from a cooling vapor primarily use a nodal method to numerically solve particle growth kinetics. In this method, particles that are smaller than the critical size are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 A. Khrabry , I. D. Kaganovich , S. Raman , E. Turkoz , D. Graves

The multiplex network growth literature has been confined to homogeneous growth hitherto, where the number of links that each new incoming node establishes is the same across layers. This paper focuses on heterogeneous growth. We first…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-23 Babak Fotouhi , Naghmeh Momeni

This paper focuses on the problem of growing multiplex networks. Currently, the results on the joint degree distribution of growing multiplex networks present in the literature pertain to the case of two layers, and are confined to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-16 Babak Fotouhi , Naghmeh Momeni

A progress report on two recent theoretical approaches proposed to understand the physics of irreversible fractal aggregates showing up a structural transition from a rather dense to a more multibranched growth is presented. In the first…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-08-31 E. Canessa

We study a simplified model for pulsed laser deposition [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 87}, 135701 (2001)] by rate equations. We consider a set of equations, where islands are assumed to be point-like, as well as an improved one that takes the size…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-23 A. C. Barato , H. Hinrichsen , D. E. Wolf

We implement machine learning algorithms to nuclear data. These algorithms are purely data driven and generate models that are capable to capture intricate trends. Gradient boosted trees algorithm is employed to generate a trained model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Nishchal R. Dwivedi

We employ a mesoscopic model for studying aggregation processes of protein-like hydrophobic-polar heteropolymers. By means of multicanonical Monte Carlo computer simulations, we find strong indications that peptide aggregation is a phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Christoph Junghans , Michael Bachmann , Wolfhard Janke

In this work, a study of epitaxial growth was carried out by means of wavelets formalism. We showed the existence of a dynamic scaling form in wavelet discriminated linear MBE equation where diffusion and noise are the dominant effects. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Moktadir

In this paper, we study a new model of nonlocal geometric equations which appears in tomographic reconstruction when using the level-set method. We treat two additional difficulties which make the work original. On one hand, the level lines…

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We present a novel Ensemble Monte Carlo Growth method to sample the equilibrium thermodynamic properties of random chains. The method is based on the multicanonical technique of computing the density of states in the energy space. Such a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Graziano Vernizzi , Trung Dac Nguyen , Henri Orland , Monica Olvera de la Cruz

We study the percolation properties of the growing clusters model. In this model, a number of seeds placed on random locations on a lattice are allowed to grow with a constant velocity to form clusters. When two or more clusters eventually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Nikolaos Tsakiris , Michail Maragakis , Kosmas Kosmidis , Panos Argyrakis

The Shell Model Monte Carlo (SMMC) approach has been applied to calculate level densities and partition functions to temperatures up to ~ 1.5 - 2 MeV, with the maximal temperature limited by the size of the configuration space. Here we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Alhassid , G. F. Bertsch , L. Fang

We propose a hierarchy of multi-level kinetic Monte Carlo methods for sampling high-dimensional, stochastic lattice particle dynamics with complex interactions. The method is based on the efficient coupling of different spatial resolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-06 Evangelia Kalligiannaki , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Petr Plechac

The formation and dissolution of a droplet is an important mechanism related to various nucleation phenomena. Here, we address the droplet formation-dissolution transition in a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones gas to demonstrate a consistent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Franz Paul Spitzner , Johannes Zierenberg , Wolfhard Janke

Stochastic features of decay of a metastable phase have been investigated with the help of a new monodisperse approximation. This approximation is more precise than the already used one and namely it allows to give a very simple but rather…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Kurasov