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Amorphous dielectric materials have been known to host two-level systems (TLSs) for more than four decades. Recent developments on superconducting resonators and qubits enable detailed studies on the physics of TLSs. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 J. H. Béjanin , C. T. Earnest , A. S. Sharafeldin , M. Mariantoni

Coarsening systems under uniform shear display a long time regime characterized by the presence of highly stretched and thin domains. The question then arises whether thermal fluctuations may actually destroy this layered structure. To…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alan J. Bray , Andrea Cavagna , Rui D. M. Travasso

Turbulence is a widely observed state of fluid flows, characterized by complex, nonlinear interactions between motions across a broad spectrum of length and time scales. While turbulence is ubiquitous, from teacups to planetary atmospheres,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-28 Adrian van Kan

Wavy pattern of ice with a specific wavelength occurs during ice growth from a thin layer of undercooled water flowing down the surface of icicles or inclined plane. In the preceding paper [K. Ueno, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 68}, 021603 (2003)], we…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ueno

We study an instability of thin liquid-vapor layers bounded by rigid parallel walls from both below and above. In this system, the interfacial instability is induced by lateral vapor pressure fluctuation, which is in turn attributed to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-30 Kentaro Kanatani

Analytical and numerical modelling of the nonlinear interaction of shear wave with a frictional interface is presented. The system studied is composed of two homogeneous and isotropic elastic solids, brought into frictional contact by…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-26 A. Meziane , A. N. Norris , A. L. Shuvalov

Most of the turbulent flows appearing in nature (e.g. geophysical and astrophysical flows) are subjected to strong rotation and stratification. These effects break the symmetries of classical, homogenous isotropic turbulence. In doing so,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-11 Corentin Herbert , Annick Pouquet , Raffaele Marino

Interscale energy transfers at the vicinity of the turbulent/non-turbulent interface are from small to large scales in directions close to the interface's tangent plane where motions are predominantly stretching, but from large to small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Y. Zhou , J. C. Vassilicos

The propagation and roughening of a liquid-gas interface moving through a disordered medium under the influence of capillary forces is considered. The system is described by a phase-field model with conserved dynamics and spatial disorder…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Dube , M. Rost , K. Elder , M. Alava , S. Majaniemi , T. Ala-Nissila

We discuss the fluctuation properties of equilibrium chaotic systems with constraints such as iso-kinetic and Nos\'e-Hoover thermostats. Although the dynamics of these systems does not typically preserve phase-space volumes, the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-29 T. Gilbert , J. R. Dorfman

To comprehend the complexities of the ice-water interface, we perform a study that attempts to correlate the altered dynamics of water to its perturbed structure at, and due to, the interface. The deviation from bulk values of structural…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-02 Saumyak Mukherjee , Sayantan Mondal , Biman Bagchi

Turbulent flows in a thin layer can develop an inverse energy cascade leading to spectral condensation of energy when the layer height is smaller than a certain threshold. These spectral condensates take the form of large-scale vortices in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-11 Adrian van Kan , Takahiro Nemoto , Alexandros Alexakis

We consider the scaling limit of a generic ferromagnetic system with a continuous phase transition, on the half plane with boundary conditions leading to the equilibrium of two different phases below criticality. We use general properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-09 Gesualdo Delfino , Alessio Squarcini

Superconducting qubits are an attractive platform for quantum computing since they have demonstrated high-fidelity quantum gates and extensibility to modest system sizes. Nonetheless, an outstanding challenge is stabilizing their…

We discuss the transient and steady state fluctuation relation for a mechanical system in contact with two deterministic thermostats at different temperatures. The system is a modified Lorentz gas in which the fixed scatterers exchange…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-08 Carlos Mejia-Monasterio , Lamberto Rondoni

The boundary conditions at the deformable interface between two contacting fluids are derived for the general case of the large-amplitude perturbations. The interface is modeled as perturbed free boundary that evolves in time, and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-13 Ivan V. Kazachkov

Energy dynamics calculations in a 3D fluid simulation of drift wave turbulence in the linear Large Plasma Device (LAPD) [W. Gekelman et al., Rev. Sci. Inst. 62, 2875 (1991)] illuminate processes that drive and dissipate the turbulence.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 B. Friedman , T. A. Carter , M. V. Umansky , D. Schaffner , B. Dudson

Fluctuations of energy and heat are investigated during the relaxation following the instantaneous temperature quench of an extended system. Results are obtained analytically for the Gaussian model and for the large $N$ model quenched below…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Zannetti , F. Corberi , G. Gonnella , A. Piscitelli

We study the self-organization of turbulence in a geophysically motivated two-dimensional fluid with local interactions. Using simulations and theory, we show that the out-of-equilibrium flux to small scales imposes a constraint on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-22 Anton Svirsky , Anna Frishman

The hydrodynamic stability behaviour of a two-layer falling film is explored with a floating flexible plate on the top surface. The stress balance at the surface is modeled using a modified membrane equation. There is an insoluble…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-18 Md. Mouzakkir Hossain , Sukhendu Ghosh , Harekrushna Behera