91 research outputs found
Fluctuations of steps on crystal surfaces
Fluctuations of isolated and pairs of ascending steps of monoatomic height
are studied in the framework of SOS models, using mainly Monte Carlo
techniques. Below the roughening transistion of the surface, the profiles of
long steps show the same scaling features for terrace and surface diffusion.
For a pair of short steps, their separation distance is found to grow as
at late stages. Above roughening, simulational data on surface
diffusion agree well with the classical continuum theory of Mullins.Comment: 4 pages, 2 eps figure
Macroscopic Car Condensation in a Parking Garage
An asymmetric exclusion process type process, where cars move forward along a
closed road that starts and terminates at a parking garage, displays dynamic
phase transitions into two types of condensate phases where the garage becomes
macroscopically occupied. The total car density and the exit
probability are the two control parameters. At the transition, the
number of parked cars diverges in both cases, with the length of the road
, as with . Towards the transition, the
number of parked cars vanishes as with ,
or being the
distance from the transition. The transition into the normal phase represents
also the onset of transmission of information through the garage. This gives
rise to unusual parked car autocorrelations and car density profiles near the
garage, which depend strongly on the group velocity of the fluctuations along
the road.Comment: 12 pages including 15 figures; published version in PR
Analytical Approach to the One-Dimensional Disordered Exclusion Process with Open Boundaries and Random Sequential Dynamics
A one dimensional disordered particle hopping rate asymmetric exclusion
process (ASEP) with open boundaries and a random sequential dynamics is studied
analytically. Combining the exact results of the steady states in the pure case
with a perturbative mean field-like approach the broken particle-hole symmetry
is highlighted and the phase diagram is studied in the parameter space
, where and represent respectively the
injection rate and the extraction rate of particles. The model displays, as in
the pure case, high-density, low-density and maximum-current phases. All
critical lines are determined analytically showing that the high-density
low-density first order phase transition occurs at . We show
that the maximum-current phase extends its stability region as the disorder is
increased and the usual -decay of the density profile in this
phase is universal. Assuming that some exact results for the disordered model
on a ring hold for a system with open boundaries, we derive some analytical
results for platoon phase transition within the low-density phase and we give
an analytical expression of its corresponding critical injection rate
. As it was observed numerically, we show that the quenched
disorder induces a cusp in the current-density relation at maximum flow in a
certain region of parameter space and determine the analytical expression of
its slope. The results of numerical simulations we develop agree with the
analytical ones.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures. to appear in J. Stat. Phy
Accurate evaluation of the interstitial KKR-Green function
It is shown that the Brillouin zone integral for the interstitial KKR-Green
function can be evaluated accurately by taking proper care of the free-electron
singularities in the integrand. The proposed method combines two recently
developed methods, a supermatrix method and a subtraction method. This
combination appears to provide a major improvement compared with an earlier
proposal based on the subtraction method only. By this the barrier preventing
the study of important interstitial-like defects, such as an electromigrating
atom halfway along its jump path, can be considered as being razed.Comment: 23 pages, RevTe
Determinants of human adipose tissue gene expression: impact of diet, sex, metabolic status, and cis genetic regulation
Weight control diets favorably affect parameters of the metabolic syndrome and delay the onset of diabetic complications. The adaptations occurring in adipose tissue (AT) are likely to have a profound impact on the whole body response as AT is a key target of dietary intervention. Identification of environmental and individual factors controlling AT adaptation is therefore essential. Here, expression of 271 transcripts, selected for regulation according to obesity and weight changes, was determined in 515 individuals before, after 8-week low-calorie diet-induced weight loss, and after 26-week ad libitum weight maintenance diets. For 175 genes, opposite regulation was observed during calorie restriction and weight maintenance phases, independently of variations in body weight. Metabolism and immunity genes showed inverse profiles. During the dietary intervention, network-based analyses revealed strong interconnection between expression of genes involved in de novo lipogenesis and components of the metabolic syndrome. Sex had a marked influence on AT expression of 88 transcripts, which persisted during the entire dietary intervention and after control for fat mass. In women, the influence of body mass index on expression of a subset of genes persisted during the dietary intervention. Twenty-two genes revealed a metabolic syndrome signature common to men and women. Genetic control of AT gene expression by cis signals was observed for 46 genes. Dietary intervention, sex, and cis genetic variants independently controlled AT gene expression. These analyses help understanding the relative importance of environmental and individual factors that control the expression of human AT genes and therefore may foster strategies aimed at improving AT function in metabolic diseases
A review of Monte Carlo simulations of polymers with PERM
In this review, we describe applications of the pruned-enriched Rosenbluth
method (PERM), a sequential Monte Carlo algorithm with resampling, to various
problems in polymer physics. PERM produces samples according to any given
prescribed weight distribution, by growing configurations step by step with
controlled bias, and correcting "bad" configurations by "population control".
The latter is implemented, in contrast to other population based algorithms
like e.g. genetic algorithms, by depth-first recursion which avoids storing all
members of the population at the same time in computer memory. The problems we
discuss all concern single polymers (with one exception), but under various
conditions: Homopolymers in good solvents and at the point, semi-stiff
polymers, polymers in confining geometries, stretched polymers undergoing a
forced globule-linear transition, star polymers, bottle brushes, lattice
animals as a model for randomly branched polymers, DNA melting, and finally --
as the only system at low temperatures, lattice heteropolymers as simple models
for protein folding. PERM is for some of these problems the method of choice,
but it can also fail. We discuss how to recognize when a result is reliable,
and we discuss also some types of bias that can be crucial in guiding the
growth into the right directions.Comment: 29 pages, 26 figures, to be published in J. Stat. Phys. (2011
The PHE fortuitous dosimetry capability based on optically stimulated luminescence of mobile phones
The Public Health England fortuitous dosimetry capability is reviewed, with particular attention focussed on the derivation of its energy and fading corrections, the Monte Carlo techniques used to generate the calibration factors between phone and body doses, and the procedures set in place to facilitate a reliable and effective service
The PHE fortuitous dosimetry capability based on optically stimulated luminescence of mobile phones
The Public Health England fortuitous dosimetry capability is reviewed, with particular attention focussed on the derivation of its energy and fading corrections, the Monte Carlo techniques used to generate the calibration factors between phone and body doses, and the procedures set in place to facilitate a reliable and effective service
Development of a retrospective/fortuitous accident dosimetry service based on OSL of mobile phones
Work is presented on the development of a retrospective/fortuitous accident dosimetry service using optically stimulated luminescence of resistors found in mobile phones to determine the doses of radiation to members of the public following a radiological accident or terrorist incident. The system is described and discussed in terms of its likely accuracy in a real incident
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