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Mean survival times of absorbing triply periodic minimal surfaces

Physical Review E 2009年第1期80卷 011102-011102页

作者： Jana Gevertz S. Torquato Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Department of Chemistry Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton New Jersey 08540 USA

Understanding the transport properties of a porous medium from a knowledge of its microstructure is a problem of great interest in the physical, chemical, and biological sciences. Using a first-passage time method, we compute the mean survival time τ of a Brownian particle among perfectly absorbing traps for a wide class of triply periodic porous media, including minimal surfaces. We find that the porous medium with an interface that is the Schwartz P minimal surface maximizes the mean survival time among this class. This adds to the growing evidence of the multifunctional optimality of this bicontinuous porous medium. We conjecture that the mean survival time (like the fluid permeability) is maximized for triply periodic porous media with a simply connected pore space at porosity ϕ=1/2 by the structure that globally optimizes the specific surface. We also compute pore-size statistics of the model microstructures in order to ascertain the validity of a “universal curve” for the mean survival time for these porous media. This represents the first nontrivial statistical characterization of triply periodic minimal surfaces.

关键词： Porous materials

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Interactions leading to disordered ground states and unusual low-temperature behavior

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Physical Review E 2009年第3期80卷 031105-031105页

作者： Robert D. Batten Frank H. Stillinger Salvatore Torquato Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Department of Chemistry Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Princeton Materials Institute Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA

We have shown that any pair potential function v(r) possessing a Fourier transform V(k) that is positive and has compact support at some finite wave number K yields classical disordered ground states for a broad density range [R. D. Batten, F. H. Stillinger, and S. Torquato, J. Appl. Phys. 104, 033504 (2008)]. By tuning a constraint parameter χ (defined in the text), the ground states can traverse varying degrees of local order from fully disordered to crystalline ground states. Here, we show that in two dimensions, the “k-space overlap potential,” where V(k) is proportional to the intersection area between two disks of diameter K whose centers are separated by k, yields anomalous low-temperature behavior, which we attribute to the topography of the underlying energy landscape. At T=0, for the range of densities considered, we show that there is continuous energy degeneracy among Bravais-lattice configurations. The shear elastic constant of ground-state Bravais-lattice configurations vanishes. In the harmonic regime, a significant fraction of the normal modes for both amorphous and Bravais-lattice ground states have vanishing frequencies, indicating the lack of an internal restoring force. Using molecular-dynamics simulations, we observe negative thermal-expansion behavior at low temperatures, where upon heating at constant pressure, the system goes through a density maximum. For all temperatures, isothermal compression reduces the local structure of the system unlike typical single-component systems.

关键词： Ground state

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Dense packings of polyhedra: Platonic and Archimedean solids

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Physical Review E 2009年第4期80卷 041104-041104页

作者： S. Torquato Y. Jiao Department of Chemistry Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton New Jersey 08540 USA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA

Understanding the nature of dense particle packings is a subject of intense research in the physical, mathematical, and biological sciences. The preponderance of previous work has focused on spherical particles and very little is known about dense polyhedral packings. We formulate the problem of generating dense packings of nonoverlapping, nontiling polyhedra within an adaptive fundamental cell subject to periodic boundary conditions as an optimization problem, which we call the adaptive shrinking cell (ASC) scheme. This optimization problem is solved here (using a variety of multiparticle initial configurations) to find the dense packings of each of the Platonic solids in three-dimensional Euclidean space R3, except for the cube, which is the only Platonic solid that tiles space. We find the densest known packings of tetrahedra, icosahedra, dodecahedra, and octahedra with densities 0.823…, 0.836…, 0.904…, and 0.947…, respectively. It is noteworthy that the densest tetrahedral packing possesses no long-range order. Unlike the densest tetrahedral packing, which must not be a Bravais lattice packing, the densest packings of the other nontiling Platonic solids that we obtain are their previously known optimal (Bravais) lattice packings. We also derive a simple upper bound on the maximal density of packings of congruent nonspherical particles and apply it to Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, superballs, and ellipsoids. Provided that what we term the “asphericity” (ratio of the circumradius to inradius) is sufficiently small, the upper bounds are relatively tight and thus close to the corresponding densities of the optimal lattice packings of the centrally symmetric Platonic and Archimedean solids. Our simulation results, rigorous upper bounds, and other theoretical arguments lead us to the conjecture that the densest packings of Platonic and Archimedean solids with central symmetry are given by their corresponding densest lattice packings. This can be regarded to be

关键词： Optimization

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Method for obtaining upper bounds on photonic band gaps

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Physical Review B 2009年第15期80卷 155126-155126页

作者： Mikael C. Rechtsman Salvatore Torquato Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 251 Mercer Street New York New York 10012 USA Department of Chemistry Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA

We present a method to calculate upper bounds on the photonic band gaps of two-component photonic crystals. The method involves calculating both upper and lower bounds on the frequency bands for a given structure, and then maximizing over all possible two-component structures. We apply this method to a number of examples, including a one-dimensional photonic crystal (or “Bragg grating”) and two-dimensional photonic crystals (in both the TM and TE polarizations) with both four and sixfold rotational symmetries. We compare the bounds to band gaps of numerically optimized structures and find that the bounds are extremely tight. We prove that the bounds are “sharp” in the limit of low dielectric contrast ratio between the two components. This method and the bounds derived here have important implications in the search for optimal photonic band-gap structures.

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Diffusion maps - A probabilistic interpretation for spectral embedding and clustering algorithms

Diffusion maps - A probabilistic interpretation for spectral...

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作者： Nadler, Boaz Lafon, Stephane Coifman, Ronald Kevrekidis, Ioannis G. Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot 76100 Israel Google Inc. United States Department of Mathematics Yale University New Haven CT 06520-8283 United States Department of Chemical Engineering Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 United States

ISBN: (纸本)9783540737490

Spectral embedding and spectral clustering are common methods for non-linear dimensionality reduction and clustering of complex high dimensional datasets. In this paper we provide a diffusion based probabilistic analysis of algorithms that use the normalized graph Laplacian. Given the pairwise adjacency matrix of all points in a dataset, we define a random walk on the graph of points and a diffusion distance between any two points. We show that the diffusion distance is equal to the Euclidean distance in the embedded space with all eigenvectors of the normalized graph Laplacian. This identity shows that characteristic relaxation times and processes of the random walk on the graph are the key concept that governs the properties of these spectral clustering and spectral embedding algorithms. Specifically, for spectral clustering to succeed, a necessary condition is that the mean exit times from each cluster need to be significantly larger than the largest (slowest) of all relaxation times inside all of the individual clusters. For complex, multiscale data, this condition may not hold and multiscale methods need to be developed to handle such situations.

关键词： Relaxation time

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Locality and low-dimensions in the prediction of natural experience from fMRI

Locality and low-dimensions in the prediction of natural exp...

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21st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2007

作者： Meyer, François G. Stephens, Greg J. Center for the Study of Brain Mind and Behavior Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton University United States Center for the Study of Brain Mind and Behavior Department of Physics Princeton University United States

ISBN: (纸本)160560352X

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides dynamical access into the complex functioning of the human brain, detailing the hemodynamic activity of thousands of voxels during hundreds of sequential time points. One approach towards illuminating the connection between fMRI and cognitive function is through decoding;how do the time series of voxel activities combine to provide information about internal and external experience? Here we seek models of fMRI decoding which are balanced between the simplicity of their interpretation and the effectiveness of their prediction. We use signals from a subject immersed in virtual reality to compare global and local methods of prediction applying both linear and nonlinear techniques of dimensionality reduction. We find that the prediction of complex stimuli is remarkably low-dimensional, saturating with less than 100 features. In particular, we build effective models based on the decorrelated components of cognitive activity in the classically-defined Brodmann areas. For some of the stimuli, the top predictive areas were surprisingly transparent, including Wernicke's area for verbal instructions, visual cortex for facial and body features, and visual-temporal regions for velocity. Direct sensory experience resulted in the most robust predictions, with the highest correlation (c ∼ 0:8) between the predicted and experienced time series of verbal instructions. Techniques based on non-linear dimensionality reduction (Laplacian eigenmaps) performed similarly. The interpretability and relative simplicity of our approach provides a conceptual basis upon which to build more sophisticated techniques for fMRI decoding and offers a window into cognitive function during dynamic, natural experience.

关键词： Forecasting

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Domain Formation in the Plasma Membrane: Roles of Nonequilibrium Lipid Transport and Membrane Proteins

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Physical Review Letters 2008年第17期100卷 178102-178102页

作者： Jun Fan Maria Sammalkorpi Mikko Haataja Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM) and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM) Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA

Compositional lipid domains (“lipid rafts”) in plasma membranes are believed to be important components of many cellular processes. The mechanisms by which cells regulate the sizes and lifetimes of these spatially extended domains are poorly understood at the moment. Here we show that the competition between phase separation in an immiscible lipid system and active cellular lipid transport processes naturally leads to the formation of such domains. Furthermore, we demonstrate that local interactions with immobile membrane proteins can spatially localize the rafts and lead to further clustering.

关键词： Lipids

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Analytic form for a nonlocal kinetic energy functional with a density-dependent kernel for orbital-free density functional theory under periodic and Dirichlet boundary conditions

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Physical Review B 2008年第4期78卷 045105-045105页

作者： Gregory S. Ho Vincent L. Lignères Emily A. Carter Department of Chemistry Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544-5263 USA

We derive an analytic form of the Wang-Govind-Carter (WGC) [Wang et al., Phys. Rev. B 60, 16350 (1999)] kinetic energy density functional (KEDF) with the density-dependent response kernel. A real-space aperiodic implementation of the WGC KEDF is then described and used in linear scaling orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) calculations.

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First-principles characterization of Ni diffusion kinetics in β-NiAl

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Physical Review B 2008年第18期78卷 184105-184105页

作者： Kristen A. Marino Emily A. Carter Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544-5263 USA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544-5263 USA

First-principles density functional theory calculations are performed to examine five postulated diffusion mechanisms for Ni in NiAl: next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) jumps, the triple defect mechanism, and three variants of the six-jump cycle. In contrast to most previous theoretical work, which employed empirical interatomic potentials, we provide a more accurate nonempirical description of the mechanisms. For each pathway, we calculate the activation energy and the pre-exponential factor for the diffusion constant. Although our quantum mechanics calculations are performed at 0 K, we show that it is critical to include the effect of temperature on the pre-exponential factor. We predict that the triple defect mechanism and [110] six-jump cycle both are likely contributors to Ni diffusion in NiAl since their activation energies and pre-exponential factors are in very good agreement with experimental data. Although the activation energy and pre-exponential factor of NNN jumps agree well with experiment, experimental evidence suggests that this is not a dominant contributor to Ni diffusion. Lastly, the activation energies of the [100] bent and straight six-jump cycles are 1 eV higher than the experimental value, allowing us to exclude both [100] cycle mechanisms.

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Quantum simulation of materials at micron scales and beyond

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Physical Review B 2008年第5期78卷 054118-054118页

作者： Qing Peng Xu Zhang Linda Hung Emily A. Carter Gang Lu Department of Physics and Astronomy California State University Northridge Northridge California USA Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton University Princeton New Jersey USA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton University Princeton New Jersey USA

We present a multiscale modeling approach that can simulate multimillion atoms effectively via density-functional theory. The method is based on the framework of the quasicontinuum (QC) approach with orbital-free density-functional theory (OFDFT) as its sole energetics formulation. The local QC part is formulated by the Cauchy-Born hypothesis with OFDFT calculations for strain energy and stress. The nonlocal QC part is treated by an OFDFT-based embedding approach, which couples OFDFT nonlocal atoms to local region atoms. The method—QCDFT—is applied to a nanoindentation study of an Al thin film, and the results are compared to a conventional QC approach. The results suggest that QCDFT represents a new direction for the quantum simulation of materials at length scales that are relevant to experiments.

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