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Quantum fluctuation

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Anharmonic and Quantum Fluctuations in Molecular Crystals: A First-Principles Study of the Stability of Paracetamol

Michele Ceriotti, Mariana Rossi Carvalho, Piero Gasparotto

Molecular crystals often exist in multiple competing polymorphs, showing significantly different physicochemical properties. Computational crystal structure prediction is key to interpret and guide the search for the most stable or useful form, a real chal ...

2016

Phase diagram of diluted Ising ferromagnet LiHoxY1-xF4

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Peter Babkevich, Bastien Dalla Piazza, Julian Piatek, Neda Nikseresht Ghanepour, Conradin Kraemer, Ivan Kovacevic

We present a systematic study of the phase diagram of LiHoxY1-xF4 (0.25

Amer Physical Soc2016

Mobile phone data highlights the role of mass gatherings in the spreading of cholera outbreaks

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Flavio Finger

The spatiotemporal evolution of human mobility and the related fluctuations of population density are known to be key drivers of the dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks. These factors are particularly relevant in the case of mass gatherings, which may ...

Natl Acad Sciences2016

The Higgs boson and cosmology

I will discuss how the Higgs field of the Standard Model may have played an important role in cosmology, leading to the homogeneity, isotropy and flatness of the Universe; producing the quantum fluctuations that seed structure formation; triggering the rad ...

Royal Soc2015

Fractional excitations in the square-lattice quantum antiferromagnet

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Dmitri Ivanov, Bastien Dalla Piazza, Goran Nilsen, Martin Mourigal, Mechthild Enderle

Quantum magnets have occupied the fertile ground between many-body theory and low-temperature experiments on real materials since the early days of quantum mechanics. However, our understanding of even deceptively simple systems of interacting spin-1/2 par ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Multiple polariton modes originating from the coupling of quantum wells in planar microcavity

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Daniel Oberli, Fauzia Jabeen, Claudéric Ouellet-Plamondon, Grégory Chilpéric Sallen

We report on the observation of multiple polariton modes, originating from an electronic coupling between quantum wells inside a planar microcavity. A series of excitonic transitions are measured for a bare quantum well stack and are precisely identified t ...

American Physical Society2015

The Role of Quantum Effects on Structural and Electronic Fluctuations in Neat and Charged Water

Michele Ceriotti, Federico Giberti, Michele Parrinello

In this work, we revisit the role of nuclear quantum effects on the structural and electronic properties of the excess proton in bulk liquid water using advanced molecular dynamics techniques. The hydronium ion is known to be a weak acceptor of a hydrogen ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

A study of the spatio-temporal behaviour of bed load transport rate fluctuations

Joris Heyman

This thesis addresses the problem of a statistical description of the transport of sediment as bed load. It highlights the role of fluctuations arising during the transport process, and their impact on macroscopic averages. The results presented here are b ...

EPFL2014

A microstructural approach to bed load transport: mean behaviour and fluctuations of particle transport rates

Christophe Ancey, Joris Heyman

This paper concerns a model of bed load transport, which describes the advection and dispersion of coarse particles carried by a turbulent water stream. The challenge is to develop a microstructural approach that, on the one hand, yields a parsimonious des ...

Cambridge University Press2014

Bed load fluctuations in a steep channel

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Tamara Ghilardi

Abstract: Bedload transport rate fluctuations have been observed over time in steep rivers and flumes with wide grain size distributions even under constant sediment feeding and water discharge. The observed bedload transport rate pulses are periodic and a ...

American Geophysical Union2014

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