作者:
Adam B. HopkinsFrank H. StillingerSalvatore TorquatoDepartment of Chemistry
Department of Physics Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA
The densest binary sphere packings in the α-x plane of small to large sphere radius ratio α and small sphere relative concentration x have historically been very difficult to determine. Previous research had led to ...
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The densest binary sphere packings in the α-x plane of small to large sphere radius ratio α and small sphere relative concentration x have historically been very difficult to determine. Previous research had led to the prediction that these packings were composed of a few known “alloy” phases including, for example, the AlB2 (hexagonal ω), HgBr2, and AuTe2 structures, and to XYn structures composed of close-packed large spheres with small spheres (in a number ratio of n to 1) in the interstices, e.g., the NaCl packing for n=1. However, utilizing an implementation of the Torquato-Jiao sphere-packing algorithm [Torquato and Jiao, Phys. Rev. E 82, 061302 (2010)], we have discovered that many more structures appear in the densest packings. For example, while all previously known densest structures were composed of spheres in small to large number ratios of one to one, two to one, and very recently three to one, we have identified densest structures with number ratios of seven to three and five to two. In a recent work [Hopkins et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 125501 (2011)], we summarized these findings. In this work, we present the structures of the densest-known packings and provide details about their characteristics. Our findings demonstrate that a broad array of different densest mechanically stable structures consisting of only two types of components can form without any consideration of attractive or anisotropic interactions. In addition, the structures that we have identified may correspond to currently unidentified stable phases of certain binary atomic and molecular systems, particularly at high temperatures and pressures.
作者:
Steven AtkinsonYang JiaoSalvatore TorquatoDepartment of Chemistry
Department of Physics Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 USA
Dense packings of hard particles have important applications in many fields, including condensed matter physics, discrete geometry, and cell biology. In this paper, we employ a stochastic search implementation of the ...
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Dense packings of hard particles have important applications in many fields, including condensed matter physics, discrete geometry, and cell biology. In this paper, we employ a stochastic search implementation of the Torquato-Jiao adaptive-shrinking-cell (ASC) optimization scheme [Nature (London) 460, 876 (2009)] to find maximally dense particle packings in d-dimensional Euclidean space Rd. While the original implementation was designed to study spheres and convex polyhedra in d≥3, our implementation focuses on d=2 and extends the algorithm to include both concave polygons and certain complex convex or concave nonpolygonal particle shapes. We verify the robustness of this packing protocol by successfully reproducing the known putative optimal packings of congruent copies of regular pentagons and octagons, then employ it to suggest dense packing arrangements of congruent copies of certain families of concave crosses, convex and concave curved triangles (incorporating shapes resembling the Mercedes-Benz logo), and “moonlike” shapes. Analytical constructions are determined subsequently to obtain the densest known packings of these particle shapes. For the examples considered, we find that the densest packings of both convex and concave particles with central symmetry are achieved by their corresponding optimal Bravais lattice packings; for particles lacking central symmetry, the densest packings obtained are nonlattice periodic packings, which are consistent with recently-proposed general organizing principles for hard particles. Moreover, we find that the densest known packings of certain curved triangles are periodic with a four-particle basis, and we find that the densest known periodic packings of certain moonlike shapes possess no inherent symmetries. Our work adds to the growing evidence that particle shape can be used as a tuning parameter to achieve a diversity of packing structures.
Multiple myeloma is a hematological malignancy characterized by proliferation of malignant plasma cells and derangement of bone homeostasis. Myeloma bone disease results in significant morbidity as a result of bone pa...
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(纸本)9783950353709
Multiple myeloma is a hematological malignancy characterized by proliferation of malignant plasma cells and derangement of bone homeostasis. Myeloma bone disease results in significant morbidity as a result of bone pain, hypercalcemia, diffuse osteopenia, and pathologic fractures. We present a spatially explicit mathematical model of multiple myeloma and bone remodeling, synthesizing the existing model of local "microenvironment" interactions in Ayati et al. 2010 [1] with a level set approach for representing the sharp interface been bone and marrow introduced in [6]. computational results show the feasibility of using a level set to capture the spatial structure in the context of a geometrically straightforward interface, but one that nonetheless captures the essence of the rich geometries seen in bone marrow biopsy slides. In particular, we are able to model the formation of an osteolytic lesion in the case of multiple myeloma dysregulated bone remodeling, but not, using the same remodeling parameter set, in the case of normal bone remodeling.
A semiclassical quasistatic model is used to investigate the recollision dynamics in circularly polarized laser fields. A velocity window for recollision to occur is found. Only when the return electron’s orbits are ...
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A semiclassical quasistatic model is used to investigate the recollision dynamics in circularly polarized laser fields. A velocity window for recollision to occur is found. Only when the return electron’s orbits are irregular does significant double ionization take place. The model reproduces the experimental results for magnesium and explains the apparently conflicting experimental results in terms of an analytical formula that demarcates the phase diagram for the nonsequential double ionization in circularly polarized laser fields.
In this paper, we construct a generalized Darboux transformation for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The associated N-fold Darboux transformation is given in terms of both a summation formula and determinants...
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In this paper, we construct a generalized Darboux transformation for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The associated N-fold Darboux transformation is given in terms of both a summation formula and determinants. As applications, we obtain compact representations for the Nth-order rogue wave solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation and Hirota equation. In particular, the dynamics of the general third-order rogue wave is discussed and shown to exhibit interesting structures.
We investigate the potential of sparsity constraints in the electrical impedance tomography (EIT) inverse problem of inferring the distributed conductivity based on boundary potential measurements. In sparsity reconst...
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We have investigated the effect of varying the film thickness on the surface orientation texturing in polycrystalline Si films obtained via mixed-phase solidification (MPS) of initially a-Si precursor films on SiO 2. ...
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We theoretically investigated the generation progress of high-order harmonics utilizing Bohmian trajectories, which are calculated from the accurate numerical wave function. It is found that the harmonic emission spec...
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We theoretically investigated the generation progress of high-order harmonics utilizing Bohmian trajectories, which are calculated from the accurate numerical wave function. It is found that the harmonic emission spectrum from atoms in an intense laser field calculated by Bohmian trajectories agrees well with that found by numerically solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. Through the analysis of the dynamic behavior of Bohmian trajectories, we investigated the ionization process, the acceleration of the ionized electron in the laser field, and its recollision with the parent ion in the progress. Furthermore, the individual behavior and the coherent contribution of these trajectories to the harmonic emission are discussed.
Interpolation-based trust-region methods are an important class of algorithms forDerivative-Free Optimizationwhich rely on locally approximating an objective function by quadratic polynomial interpolation models, freq...
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The current and the voltage of an X-pinch were measured. The inductance of the X-pinch was assumed to be a constant and estimated by the calculation of the magnetic field based on the well-known Biot-Savart's Law....
The current and the voltage of an X-pinch were measured. The inductance of the X-pinch was assumed to be a constant and estimated by the calculation of the magnetic field based on the well-known Biot-Savart's Law. The voltage of the inductance was calculated with Ldi/dt and subtracted from the measured voltage of the X-pinch. Then, the resistance of the X-pinch was determined and the following results were obtained. At the start of the current the resistance of the exploding wires is several tens of Ohms, and then it falls down quickly to about 1Ω, which reflects a current transition from the overheated and highly resistive wire core to the highly conductive plasma. The resistance is only a little bit lower than the impedance. It seems that the material and diameter of the wires have no strong influence on the resistance.
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