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Weak violation of universality for Polyelectrolyte Chains: Variational Theory and Simulations
A variational approach is considered to calculate the free energy and the
conformational properties of a polyelectrolyte chain in dimensions. We
consider in detail the case of pure Coulombic interactions between the
monomers, when screening is not present, in order to compute the end-to-end
distance and the asymptotic properties of the chain as a function of the
polymer chain length . We find where
and is the exponent which characterize
the long-range interaction . The exponent is
shown to be non-universal, depending on the strength of the Coulomb
interaction. We check our findings, by a direct numerical minimization of the
variational energy for chains of increasing size . The
electrostatic blob picture, expected for small enough values of the interaction
strength, is quantitatively described by the variational approach. We perform a
Monte Carlo simulation for chains of length . The non universal
behavior of the exponent previously derived within the variational
method, is also confirmed by the simulation results. Non-universal behavior is
found for a polyelectrolyte chain in dimension. Particular attention is
devoted to the homopolymer chain problem, when short range contact interactions
are present.Comment: to appear in European Phys. Journal E (soft matter
Polymer chain in a quenched random medium: slow dynamics and ergodicity breaking
The Langevin dynamics of a self - interacting chain embedded in a quenched
random medium is investigated by making use of the generating functional method
and one - loop (Hartree) approximation. We have shown how this intrinsic
disorder causes different dynamical regimes. Namely, within the Rouse
characteristic time interval the anomalous diffusion shows up. The
corresponding subdiffusional dynamical exponents have been explicitly
calculated and thoroughly discussed. For the larger time interval the disorder
drives the center of mass of the chain to a trap or frozen state provided that
the Harris parameter, , where is a
disorder strength, is a Kuhnian segment length, is a chain length and
is the Flory exponent. We have derived the general equation for the non -
ergodicity function which characterizes the amplitude of frozen Rouse
modes with an index . The numerical solution of this equation has
been implemented and shown that the different Rouse modes freeze up at the same
critical disorder strength where the exponent
and does not depend from the solvent quality.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, submitted to EPJB (condensed matter
The Fully Frustrated Hypercubic Model is Glassy and Aging at Large
We discuss the behavior of the fully frustrated hypercubic cell in the
infinite dimensional mean-field limit. In the Ising case the system undergoes a
glass transition, well described by the random orthogonal model. Under the
glass temperature aging effects show clearly. In the case there is no sign
of a phase transition, and the system is always a paramagnet.Comment: Figures added in uufiles format, and epsf include
Replica Field Theory for Deterministic Models (II): A Non-Random Spin Glass with Glassy Behavior
We introduce and study a model which admits a complex landscape without
containing quenched disorder. Continuing our previous investigation we
introduce a disordered model which allows us to reconstruct all the main
features of the original phase diagram, including a low spin glass phase
and a complex dynamical behavior.Comment: 35 pages with uu figures, Roma 102
Myocarditis Mimicking an Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Case Related to Salmonella enteritis
Infective myocarditis is most commonly due to a viral infection; occasionally it has been related to bacteria. Gastrointestinal infections associated with myocarditis have only rarely been described in young people, and the pathogenesis is unclear. We report a case of myocarditis mimicking an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in a patient hospitalized for fever and diarrhoea. Salmonella enteritidis was isolated from stool, and no other pathogens were found. The coronary angiography was normal, and there were not other coronary artery risk factors, other than hypertension. The patient was treated with ciprofloxacin, acetylsalicylate acid, and ramipril with rapid clinical improvement and normalization of cardiac abnormalities. Final diagnosis of Salmonella enteritis and related myocarditis was made based on clinical, laboratory, ECG and echocardiographical findings
Throughput-optimal Resource Allocation in LTE-Advanced with Distributed Antennas
Distributed antennas are envisaged for LTE-Advanced deployments in order to improve the coverage and increase the cell throughput. The latter in turn depends on how resources are allocated to the User Equipments (UEs) at the MAC layer. In this paper we discuss how to allocate resources to UEs so as to maximize the cell throughput, given that UEs may re-ceive from several antennas simultaneously. We first show that the problem is both NP-hard and APX-hard, i.e. no polynomial-time algorithm exists that approximates the opti-mum within a constant factor. Hence, we pro-pose and evaluate two polynomial-time heuristics whose complexity is feasible for practical purposes. Our simulative analysis shows that, in practical scenarios, the two heuristics are highly accurate
What makes spatial data big? A discussion on how to partition spatial data
The amount of available spatial data has significantly increased in the last years so that traditional analysis tools have become inappropriate to effectively manage them. Therefore, many attempts have been made in order to define extensions of existing MapReduce tools, such as Hadoop or Spark, with spatial capabilities in terms of data types and algorithms. Such extensions are mainly based on the partitioning techniques implemented for textual data where the dimension is given in terms of the number of occupied bytes. However, spatial data are characterized by other features which describe their dimension, such as the number of vertices or the MBR size of geometries, which greatly affect the performance of operations, like the spatial join, during data analysis. The result is that the use of traditional partitioning techniques prevents to completely exploit the benefit of the parallel execution provided by a MapReduce environment. This paper extensively analyses the problem considering the spatial join operation as use case, performing both a theoretical and an experimental analysis for it. Moreover, it provides a solution based on a different partitioning technique, which splits complex or extensive geometries. Finally, we validate the proposed solution by means of some experiments on synthetic and real datasets
Dynamical Behaviour of Low Autocorrelation Models
We have investigated the nature of the dynamical behaviour in low
autocorrelation binary sequences. These models do have a glass transition
of a purely dynamical nature. Above the glass transition the dynamics is not
fully ergodic and relaxation times diverge like a power law with close to . Approaching the glass transition
the relaxation slows down in agreement with the first order nature of the
dynamical transition. Below the glass transition the system exhibits aging
phenomena like in disordered spin glasses. We propose the aging phenomena as a
precise method to determine the glass transition and its first order nature.Comment: 19 pages + 14 figures, LateX, figures uuencoded at the end of the
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