Concept

Entropy (order and disorder)

Related publications (4)

Pressure-freezing of dodecane: exploring the crystal structures, formation kinetics and phase diagrams for colossal barocaloric effects in n-alkanes

Barocaloric (BC) materials provide cheaper and more energy efficient alternatives to traditional refrigerants. Some liquid alkanes were recently shown to exhibit a colossal BC effect, matching the entropy changes in commercial vapour-liquid refrigerants. D ...

Cambridge2023

Predicting polymorphism in molecular crystals using orientational entropy

Pablo Miguel Piaggi, Michele Parrinello

We introduce a computational method to discover polymorphs in molecular crystals at finite temperature. The method is based on reproducing the crystallization process starting from the liquid and letting the system discover the relevant polymorphs. This id ...

2018

The Evolution and Complexity of Urban Street Networks

Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Street networks are one of the very few types of complex networks where the history of the network can be traced over long periods of time. Here we introduce methods for quantifying the geometric characteristics of street networks and analyze the details o ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Quantum distillation: Dynamical generation of low-entropy states of strongly correlated fermions in an optical lattice

Salvatore Manmana

Correlations between particles can lead to subtle and sometimes counterintuitive phenomena. We analyze one such case, occurring during the sudden expansion of fermions in a lattice when the initial state has a strong admixture of double occupancies. We pro ...

2009

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