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Synthèse et caractérisation de systèmes conjugués hybrides thiophène-phénylene pour dispositifs électroniques
Date du colloque : 10/2009</p
On the existence of effective potentials in time-dependent density functional theory
We investigate the existence and properties of effective potentials in
time-dependent density functional theory. We outline conditions for a general
solution of the corresponding Sturm-Liouville boundary value problems. We
define the set of potentials and v-representable densities, give a proof of
existence of the effective potentials under certain restrictions, and show the
set of v-representable densities to be independent of the interaction.Comment: 13 page
SCD Patterns Have Singular Diffraction
Among the many families of nonperiodic tilings known so far, SCD tilings are
still a bit mysterious. Here, we determine the diffraction spectra of point
sets derived from SCD tilings and show that they have no absolutely continuous
part, that they have a uniformly discrete pure point part on the z-axis, and
that they are otherwise supported on a set of concentric cylinder surfaces
around this axis. For SCD tilings with additional properties, more detailed
results are given.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures; Accepted for Journal of Mathematical Physic
Random Walks Along the Streets and Canals in Compact Cities: Spectral analysis, Dynamical Modularity, Information, and Statistical Mechanics
Different models of random walks on the dual graphs of compact urban
structures are considered. Analysis of access times between streets helps to
detect the city modularity. The statistical mechanics approach to the ensembles
of lazy random walkers is developed. The complexity of city modularity can be
measured by an information-like parameter which plays the role of an individual
fingerprint of {\it Genius loci}.
Global structural properties of a city can be characterized by the
thermodynamical parameters calculated in the random walks problem.Comment: 44 pages, 22 figures, 2 table
Mathematics and Morphogenesis of the City: A Geometrical Approach
Cities are living organisms. They are out of equilibrium, open systems that
never stop developing and sometimes die. The local geography can be compared to
a shell constraining its development. In brief, a city's current layout is a
step in a running morphogenesis process. Thus cities display a huge diversity
of shapes and none of traditional models from random graphs, complex networks
theory or stochastic geometry takes into account geometrical, functional and
dynamical aspects of a city in the same framework. We present here a global
mathematical model dedicated to cities that permits describing, manipulating
and explaining cities' overall shape and layout of their street systems. This
street-based framework conciliates the topological and geometrical sides of the
problem. From the static analysis of several French towns (topology of first
and second order, anisotropy, streets scaling) we make the hypothesis that the
development of a city follows a logic of division / extension of space. We
propose a dynamical model that mimics this logic and which from simple general
rules and a few parameters succeeds in generating a large diversity of cities
and in reproducing the general features the static analysis has pointed out.Comment: 13 pages, 13 figure
Lyapunov exponents and transport in the Zhang model of Self-Organized Criticality
We discuss the role played by the Lyapunov exponents in the dynamics of
Zhang's model of Self-Organized Criticality. We show that a large part of the
spectrum (slowest modes) is associated with the energy transpor in the lattice.
In particular, we give bounds on the first negative Lyapunov exponent in terms
of the energy flux dissipated at the boundaries per unit of time. We then
establish an explicit formula for the transport modes that appear as diffusion
modes in a landscape where the metric is given by the density of active sites.
We use a finite size scaling ansatz for the Lyapunov spectrum and relate the
scaling exponent to the scaling of quantities like avalanche size, duration,
density of active sites, etc ...Comment: 33 pages, 6 figures, 1 table (to appear
Numerical analysis of a spontaneous collapse model for a two-level system
We study a spontaneous collapse model for a two-level (spin) system, in which
the Hamiltonian and the stochastic terms do not commute. The numerical solution
of the equations of motions allows to give precise estimates on the regime at
which the collapse of the state vector occurs, the reduction and delocalization
times, and the reduction probabilities; it also allows to quantify the effect
that an Hamiltonian which does not commute with the reducing terms has on the
collapse mechanism. We also give a clear picture of the transition from the
"microscopic" regime (when the noise terms are weak and the Hamiltonian
prevents the state vector to collapse) to the "macroscopic" regime (when the
noise terms are dominant and the collapse becomes effective for very long
times). Finally, we clarify the distinction between decoherence and collapse.Comment: 7 pages, RevTeX. Significative improvements made. To appear on Phys.
Rev.
Non-Markovian dynamics for bipartite systems
We analyze the appearance of non-Markovian effects in the dynamics of a
bipartite system coupled to a reservoir, which can be described within a class
of non-Markovian equations given by a generalized Lindblad structure. A novel
master equation, which we term quantum Bloch-Boltzmann equation, is derived,
describing both motional and internal states of a test particle in a quantum
framework. When due to the preparation of the system or to decoherence effects
one of the two degrees of freedom is amenable to a classical treatment and not
resolved in the final measurement, though relevant for the interaction with the
reservoir, non-Markovian behaviors such as stretched exponential or power law
decay of coherences can be put into evidence.Comment: published version, 15 pages, revtex, no figure
Completeness in Photometric and Spectroscopic Searches for Clusters
We investigate, using simulated galaxy catalogues, the completeness of
searches for massive clusters of galaxies in redshift surveys or imaging
surveys with photometric redshift estimates, i.e. what fraction of clusters
(M>10^14/h Msun) are found in such surveys. We demonstrate that the matched
filter method provides an efficient and reliable means of identifying massive
clusters even when the redshift estimates are crude. In true redshift surveys
the method works extremely well. We demonstrate that it is possible to
construct catalogues with high completeness, low contamination and both varying
little with redshift.Comment: ApJ in press, 15 pages, 10 figure
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