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The energy spectrum of primary cosmic rays with ultra high energies based on the Yakutsk EAS Array data is presented. For the largest events values of S600 and axis coordinates have been obtained using revised lateral distribution function.…

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The variation of energies associated with soft matter interfaces where surface inhomogeneities are present. These energies include the total bending and splay energy, the variable surface tension energy, a coupling energy between the total…

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We introduce new results about the shape derivatives of scalar- and vector-valued functions, extending the results from (Dogan-Nochetto 2012) to more general surface energies. They consider surface energies defined as integrals over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Aníbal Chicco-Ruiz , Pedro Morin , M. Sebastian Pauletti

There is a very natural map from the configuration space of n distinct points in Euclidean 3-space into the flag manifold U(n)/U(1)^n, which is compatible with the action of the symmetric group. The map is well-defined for all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Atiyah , Paul Sutcliffe

We investigate the atomic and electronic structure of a single layer of pentacene on the Au(111) surface using density functional theory. To find the candidate structures we strain match the pentacene crystal geometry with the Au(111)…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-06 Kurt Stokbro , Søren Smidstrup

Binding energy of symmetric nuclear matter can be accessed straightforwardly with the textbook mass-formula and a sample of nuclear masses. We show that, with a minimally modified formula (along the lines of the droplet model), the symmetry…

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We present first experimental data on the high energy behavior of helium atoms quantum reflecting from the nanoscopically disordered surface of a quartz crystal. The use of the light, stable and inert He atom not only opens the unique…

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Calculations of the potential energy surface for tracer Ga and In adatoms above three GaAs (111)A surface reconstructions are presented in order to understand the growth conditions required to form axial heterostructures in GaAs/InGaAs…

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We develop a rigorous framework for modelling the geometry equilibration of crystalline defects. We formulate the equilibration of crystal defects as a variational problems on a discrete energy space and establish qualitatively sharp…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Huajie Chen , Faizan Q. Nazar , Christoph Ortner

We investigate the equilibrium properties of bcc-liquid interfaces modeled with a continuum phase-field crystal (PFC) approach [K. R. Elder and M. Grant, Phys. Rev. E 70, 051605 (2004)]. A multiscale analysis of the PFC model is carried out…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Kuo-An Wu , Alain Karma

A numerical solution of Einstein field equations for a spherical symmetric and stationary system of identical and auto-gravitating particles in phase transition is presented. The fluid possess a perfect fluid energy momentum tensor, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose D. Polanco , Patricio S. Letelier , Maximiliano Ujevic

We have investigated the potential energy surface for neutral and charged alanine and glycine chains consisting of up to 6 amino acids. For these molecules we have calculated potential energy surfaces as a function of the Ramachandran…

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We consider the capillary-gravity water wave equation in two dimensions. We assume that the fluid is inviscid, incompressible, irrotational and the air density is zero. We construct an energy functional and prove a local wellposedness…

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In this paper, we propose a general form of the equation of state (EoS) which is the function of the fractional dark energy density $\Omega_{d}$. At least, five related models, the cosmological constant model, the holographic dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Yi Zhang , Hui Li

An energy for first-order structured deformations in the context of periodic homogenization is obtained. This energy, defined in principle by relaxation of an initial energy of integral type featuring contributions of bulk and interfacial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Micol Amar , José Matias , Marco Morandotti , Elvira Zappale

Here, we propose a comprehensive first-principle atomistic approach to predict the Wulff-Kaischew equilibrium shape of crystals heterogeneously integrated on a dissimilar material. This method uses both reconstructed surface and interface…