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The magnitude of the relative permittivity of the ferroelectric nematic phase (NF) is under a lively scientific discussion since the phase was recently discovered. Dielectric spectroscopy measurements (DSM) give a huge value of relative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-05 Vojko Matko , Ewa Gorecka , Damian Pociecha , Joanna Matraszek , Nataša Vaupotič

Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 T. Catoe , V. J. Ervin

In analogy to recent results on non-universal roughening in surface growth [Lam and Sander, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 69}, 3338 (1992)], we propose a variant of diffusion-limited aggregation ($DLA$) in which the radii of the particles are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Ossadnik , C. -H. Lam , L. M. Sander

Atomic-scale magnetic field sensors based on nitrogen vacancy (NV) defects in diamonds are an exciting platform for nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The detection of NMR signals from a few zeptoliters to single…

A method is described for calculating the approximate fractal dimension from a set of N values y sampled from a waveform between time zero and t. The waveform was subjected to a double linear transformation that maps it into a unit square.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-30 Carlos Sevcik

Super-diffusion, characterized by a spreading rate $t^{1/\alpha}$ of the probability density function $p(x,t) = t^{-1/\alpha} p \left( t^{-1/\alpha} x , 1 \right)$, where $t$ is time, may be modeled by space-fractional diffusion equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 James F. Kelly , Mark M. Meerschaert

Recently, there has been interest in determining the viscoelastic properties of polymeric liquids and other complex fluids by means of Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS). In this technique, light-scattering spectroscopy is applied to highly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-27 George D. J. Phillies

This paper deals with an estimating of the Fractal Dimension of a hydrometeorology variables like an Air temperature or humidity at a different sites in a landscape (and will be further evaluated from the land use point of view). Three…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-12-04 Jakub Jura , Aleš Antonín Kuběna , Martina Mironovová

Fractals have been at the heart of geophysical and geospatial studies in the recent past. We examine the emergent fractal character of water vapor distributions above the surface of the Earth as a function of both image resolution (number…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-24 Anirudha Menon , Banasri Basu

Fractal dimension (D) is an effective parameter to represent the irregularity and fragmental property of a self-affine surface, which is common in physical vapor deposited thin films. D could be evaluated through the scaling performance of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-30 Feng Feng , Binbin Liu , Xiangsong Zhang , Xiang Qian , Xinghui Li , Timing Qu , Pingfa Feng

If a point particle moves chaotically through a periodic array of scatterers the associated transport coefficients are typically irregular functions under variation of control parameters. For a piecewise linear two-parameter map we analyze…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Klages , T. Klauss

We present a review of the history and the present state of the fractal approach to the large-scale distribution of galaxies. Angular correlation function was used as a general instrument for the structure analysis. It was realized later…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yurij Baryshev , Pekka Teerikorpi

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments are described for two granular-flow systems, the vibrofluidized bed and the gas-fluidized bed. Using pulsed field gradient, magnetic resonance imaging, and hyperpolarized gas NMR, detailed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Candela , C. Huan , K. Facto , R. Wang , R. W. Mair , R. L. Walsworth

The spatial distribution of unvisited/persistent sites in $d=1$ $A+A\to\emptyset$ model is studied numerically. Over length scales smaller than a cut-off $\xi(t)\sim t^{z}$, the set of unvisited sites is found to be a fractal. The fractal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Manoj , P. Ray

We use Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) to perform the first direct space- and time-resolved measurement of the dissipation rate~$\epsilon$ at the boundary of a turbulent flow. We have shown in a previous publication that this technique…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-06 Enzo Francisco , Julien Lambret , Sébastien Aumaître

$^{1}$H spin-lattice nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation experiments have been performed for water dispersions of functionalized silica nanoparticles of diameters of 25 and 45 nm. The experiments have been performed in a broad…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Aleksandra Stankiewicz , Adam Kasparek , Elzbieta Masiewicz , Danuta Kruk

NMR is the technique of election to probe the local properties of materials. Herein we present the results of density functional theory (DFT) \textit{ab initio} calculations of the NMR parameters for fluorapatite (FAp), a calcium…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-07-27 Barbara Pavan , Davide Ceresoli , Mary M. J. Tecklenburg , Marco Fornari

We report on measurements of self-diffusion coefficients in discrete numerical simulations of steady, homogeneous, collisional shearing flows of nearly identical, frictional, inelastic spheres. We focus on a range of relatively high solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-01 Riccardo Artoni , Michele Larcher , James Jenkins , Patrick Richard

Diffusion is a prominent source of noise affecting nuclear magnetic resonance at the nanometer scale (nano-NMR), preventing high resolution studies of unpolarized liquid samples. Actively managing diffusion noise through, for example,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Santiago Oviedo Casado , Daniel Cohen , Javier Cerrillo

We study upper estimates of the martingale dimension $d_m$ of diffusion processes associated with strong local Dirichlet forms. By applying a general strategy to self-similar Dirichlet forms on self-similar fractals, we prove that $d_m=1$…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Masanori Hino