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The critical behaviour of thin films containing quenched random impurities and inhomogeneities is investigated by the renormalization-group method. The finite-size crossover in impure films has been considered on the basis of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 L. Craco , L. De Cesare , I. Rabuffo , I. P. Takov , D. I. Uzunov

We present several asymptotic results concerning the non-local Massari Problem for sets with prescribed mean curvature. In particular, we show that the fractional Massari functional $\Gamma$-converges to the classical one, and this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Riccardo Villa

In this paper a we derive by means of $\Gamma$-convergence a macroscopic strain-gradient plasticity from a semi-discrete model for dislocations in an infinite cylindrical crystal. In contrast to existing work, we consider an energy with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Janusz Ginster

This note summarizes recent results in which modern techniques of the calculus of variations are used to obtain qualitative features of film-substrate interfaces for a broad class of interfacial energies. In particular, we show that the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Cermelli , Morton E. Gurtin , Giovanni Leoni

We study the critical behavior of magnetic thin films as a function of the film thickness. We use the ferromagnetic Ising model with the high-resolution multiple histogram Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. We show that though the 2D behavior…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-21 X. T. Pham Phu , V. Thanh Ngo , H. T. Diep

With generative models becoming increasingly sophisticated and diverse, detecting AI-generated images has become increasingly challenging. While existing AI-genereted Image detectors achieve promising performance on in-distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Haozhen Yan , Yan Hong , Suning Lang , Jiahui Zhan , Yikun Ji , Yujie Gao , Huijia Zhu , Jun Lan , Jianfu Zhang

Image segmentation is an important task in the domain of computer vision and medical imaging. In natural and medical images, intensity inhomogeneity, i.e. the varying image intensity, occurs often and it poses considerable challenges for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-04 Raymond Chan , Hongfei Yang , Tieyong Zeng

We study a Phase-Field-Crystal model described by a free energy functional involving second order derivatives of the order parameter in a periodic setting and under a fixed mass constraint. We prove a $\Gamma$-convergence result in an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Radu Ignat , Hamdi Zorgati

This work revolves around the rigorous asymptotic analysis of models in nonlocal hyperelasticity. The corresponding variational problems involve integral functionals depending on nonlocal gradients with a finite interaction range $\delta$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Javier Cueto , Carolin Kreisbeck , Hidde Schönberger

We present here a summary of some recent techniques used for atomistic studies of thin film growth and morphological evolution. Specific attention is given to a new kinetic Monte Carlo technique in which the usage of unique labeling schemes…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Talat S. Rahman , Chandana Ghosh , Oleg Trushin , Abdelkader Kara , Altaf Karim

We provide a rigorous justification of the classical linearization approach in plasticity. By taking the small-deformations limit, we prove via \Gamma-convergence for rate-independent processes that energetic solutions of the quasi-static…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Alexander Mielke , Ulisse Stefanelli

The retraction of thin films, as described by the Taylor-Culick (TC) theory, is subject to widespread debate, particularly for films at the nanoscale. We use non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations to explore the validity of the…

The dynamics and stability of thin liquid films have fascinated scientists over many decades. Thin film flows are central to numerous areas of engineering, geophysics, and biophysics and occur over a wide range of length, velocity, and…

This paper introduces the $(\alpha, \Gamma)$-descent, an iterative algorithm which operates on measures and performs $\alpha$-divergence minimisation in a Bayesian framework. This gradient-based procedure extends the commonly-used…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Kamélia Daudel , Randal Douc , François Portier

Kinetically constrained models (KCM) are systems with trivial thermodynamics but often complex dynamical behavior due to constraints on the accessible paths followed by the system. Exploring these properties, the Kob-Andersen (KA) model was…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-12 Jeferson J. Arenzon

Reproducing the key features of fracture behavior under multiaxial stress states is essential for accurate modeling. Experimental evidence indicates that three intrinsic material properties govern fracture nucleation in elastic materials:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Eleonora Maggiorelli , Matteo Negri , Francesco Vicentini , Laura De Lorenzis

The minimization of a nonconvex composite function can model a variety of imaging tasks. A popular class of algorithms for solving such problems are majorization-minimization techniques which iteratively approximate the composite nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Jonas Geiping , Michael Moeller

We summarized the room-temperature optical properties for infrared-transparent materials, defining transparency windows for two different applications: thin-film coatings (absorption coefficient $\alpha < 10 cm^{-1}$) and windows ($\alpha <…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jin-Woo Cho , Tanuj Kumar , Hongyan Mei , Mikhail A. Kats

To design semiconductor-based optical devices, the optical properties of the used semiconductor materials must be precisely measured over a large band. Transmission spectroscopy stands out as an inexpensive and widely available method for…

For the first time it is shown that for thin metallic films thickness of which does not exceed thickness of skin - layer, the problem of description of surface plasma oscillations allows analytical solution under arbitrary ratio of length…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov
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