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Charge fluctuations from molecular simulations in the constant-potential ensemble

We revisit the statistical mechanics of charge fluctuations in capacitors. In constant-potential classical molecular simulations, the atomic charges of electrode atoms are treated as additional degrees of freedom which evolve in time so as to satisfy the c ...

2020

Normalized Gaussian path integrals

Giulio Corazza

Path integrals play a crucial role in describing the dynamics of physical systems subject to classical or quantum noise. In fact, when correctly normalized, they express the probability of transition between two states of the system. In this work, we show ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Improving baryon acoustic oscillation measurement with the combination of cosmic voids and galaxies

Cheng Zhao, Andrei Variu

We develop a methodology to optimize the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) from a given galaxy sample. In our previous work, we demonstrated that one can measure BAO from tracers in underdense regions (voids). In this study, we combine the o ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Energy domain versus time domain precursor fluctuations above the Verwey transition in magnetite

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Fabrizio Carbone, Gregory Scott Tucker, Simone Borroni

We study the dynamics and interactions of the critical fluctuations of the Verwey transition in magnetite (Fe3O4) in the pretransition region by means of inelastic neutron scattering experiments on a natural single crystal. We find that a Delta(5) mode int ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Interacting Dirac materials

Gabriel Aeppli

We investigate the extent to which the class of Dirac materials in two-dimensions provides general statements about the behavior of both fermionic and bosonic Dirac quasiparticles in the interacting regime. For both quasiparticle types, we find common feat ...

2020

Thermal origin of quasilocalized excitations in glasses

Matthieu Wyart, Thomas Willem Jan de Geus, Elisabeth Agoritsas, Marko Popovic, Wencheng Ji

Key aspects of glasses are controlled by the presence of excitations in which a group of particles can rearrange. Surprisingly, recent observations indicate that their density is dramatically reduced and their size decreases as the temperature of the super ...

2020

A gyrokinetic model for the plasma periphery of tokamak devices

Paolo Ricci, Paolo De Los Rios, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge, Baptiste Jimmy Frei

A gyrokinetic model is presented that can properly describe large and small amplitude electromagnetic fluctuations occurring on scale lengths ranging from the electron Larmor radius to the equilibrium perpendicular pressure gradient scale length, and the a ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Quantum kinetic energy and isotope fractionation in aqueous ionic solutions

Michele Ceriotti, Lu Wang

At room temperature, the quantum contribution to the kinetic energy of a water molecule exceeds the classical contribution by an order of magnitude. The quantum kinetic energy (QKE) of a water molecule is modulated by its local chemical environment and lea ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Quantum spin-liquid states in an organic magnetic layer and molecular rotor hybrid

László Forró, Bálint Náfrádi, Edoardo Martino, Andrea Pisoni, Péter Szirmai, Konstantins Mantulnikovs

The exotic properties of quantum spin liquids (QSLs) have continually been of interest since Anderson's 1973 ground-breaking idea. Geometrical frustration, quantum fluctuations, and low dimensionality are the most often evoked material's characteristics th ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Thermo-refractive noise in silicon nitride microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Nils Johan Engelsen

Thermodynamic noises limit the frequency stability of resonators. Here, we present the first complete characterization of thermo-refractive noise in Si3N4 microresonators. The measurements are in good agreement with theoretical analysis and FEM simulation ...

IEEE2019

The Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem as a Diagnosis and Cure for Zero-Point Energy Leakage in Quantum Thermal Bath Simulations

Sara Bonella

Quantum thermal bath (QTB) simulations reproduce statistical nuclear quantum effects via a Langevin equation with a colored random force. Although this approach has proven efficient for a variety of chemical and condensed-matter problems, the QTB, as many ...

2019