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Finite-Size Scaling of a First-Order Dynamical Phase Transition: Adaptive Population Dynamics and an Effective Model
We analyze large deviations of the time-averaged activity in the one
dimensional Fredrickson-Andersen model, both numerically and analytically. The
model exhibits a dynamical phase transition, which appears as a singularity in
the large deviation function. We analyze the finite-size scaling of this phase
transition numerically, by generalizing an existing cloning algorithm to
include a multi-canonical feedback control: this significantly improves the
computational efficiency. Motivated by these numerical results, we formulate an
effective theory for the model in the vicinity of the phase transition, which
accounts quantitatively for the observed behavior. We discuss potential
applications of the numerical method and the effective theory in a range of
more general contexts.Comment: 20 pages, 10 figure
Statistics of zero crossings in rough interfaces with fractional elasticity
We study numerically the distribution of zero crossings in one-dimensional elastic interfaces described by an overdamped Langevin dynamics with periodic boundary conditions. We model the elastic forces with a Riesz-Feller fractional Laplacian of order z=1+2ζ, such that the interfaces spontaneously relax, with a dynamical exponent z, to a self-affine geometry with roughness exponent ζ. By continuously increasing from ζ=-1/2 (macroscopically flat interface described by independent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes [Phys. Rev. 36, 823 (1930)PHRVAO0031-899X10.1103/PhysRev.36.823]) to ζ=3/2 (super-rough Mullins-Herring interface), three different regimes are identified: (I) -1/21. The effect on P of short-scale smoothening is also analyzed numerically and analytically. A tight relation between the mean interval, the mean width of the interface, and the density of zeros is also reported. The results drawn from our analysis of rough interfaces subject to particular boundary conditions or constraints, along with discretization effects, are relevant for the practical analysis of zeros in interface imaging experiments or in numerical analysis.Fil: Zamorategui, Arturo L.. Université Pierre et Marie Curie; Francia. Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7; FranciaFil: Lecomte, Vivien. Université Grenoble Alpes; FranciaFil: Kolton, Alejandro Benedykt. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte; Argentina. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia del Área de Energía Nuclear. Instituto Balseiro; Argentina. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Centro Atómico Bariloche; Argentin
Simulation of large deviation functions using population dynamics
In these notes we present a pedagogical account of the population dynamics
methods recently introduced to simulate large deviation functions of dynamical
observables in and out of equilibrium. After a brief introduction on large
deviation functions and their simulations, we review the method of Giardin\`a
\emph{et al.} for discrete time processes and that of Lecomte \emph{et al.} for
the continuous time counterpart. Last we explain how these methods can be
modified to handle static observables and extract information about
intermediate times.Comment: Proceedings of the 10th Granada Seminar on Computational and
Statistical Physic
The maison europeenne des procedes innovants (MEPI),an example of piloting and industrial demonstration facility for the green process engineering
Abstract. Economical, energy savings and environmental challenges require an actual technological breakthrough in process engineering, aiming with productivity, product quality, safety and reliability objectives. This explains the present growth of interest in innovative technologies (intensified devices for reaction, mixing and separation) and methods (multifunctionality, hybrid separation, batch to continuous methodology, new media …), the whole being recognized as Process Intensification. Up to now, a few of innovations has been successfully industrialized, probably due to the lack of experience and retrofitting in front of a breakthrough that always represents a technical and financial risk. There is now clearly a need for industrial demonstrations of successful PI experiments avoiding the questions of confidentiality. Consequently, a piloting and demonstration facility has been created in Toulouse in order to accelerate the implementation of PI technology in industry and the development of the Green Process Engineering. The idea is to build a data bank of success stories. The principle of this industrial technical platform lies on the association of 3 types of partners: university, equipment providers and industrial end-users
A hermeneutic inquiry into user-created personas in different Namibian locales
Persona is a tool broadly used in technology design to support communicational interactions between designers and users. Different Persona types and methods have evolved mostly in the Global North, and been partially deployed in the Global South every so often in its original User-Centred Design methodology. We postulate persona conceptualizations are expected to differ across cultures. We demonstrate this with an exploratory-case study on user-created persona co-designed with four Namibian ethnic groups: ovaHerero, Ovambo, ovaHimba and Khoisan. We follow a hermeneutic inquiry approach to discern cultural nuances from diverse human conducts. Findings reveal diverse self-representations whereby for each ethnic group results emerge in unalike fashions, viewpoints, recounts and storylines. This paper ultimately argues User-Created Persona as a potentially valid approach for pursuing cross-cultural depictions of personas that communicate cultural features and user experiences paramount to designing acceptable and gratifying technologies in dissimilar locales
The conservation of Belgian Marine Natura 2000 sites: the first steps into a brave new world?
Temperature-induced crossovers in the static roughness of a one-dimensional interface
At finite temperature and in presence of disorder, a one-dimensional elastic
interface displays different scaling regimes at small and large lengthscales.
Using a replica approach and a Gaussian Variational Method (GVM), we explore
the consequences of a finite interface width on the small-lengthscale
fluctuations. We compute analytically the static roughness of the
interface as a function of the distance between two points on the
interface. We focus on the case of short-range elasticity and random-bond
disorder. We show that for a finite width two temperature regimes exist.
At low temperature, the expected thermal and random-manifold regimes,
respectively for small and large scales, connect via an intermediate `modified'
Larkin regime, that we determine. This regime ends at a temperature-independent
characteristic `Larkin' length. Above a certain `critical' temperature that we
identify, this intermediate regime disappears. The thermal and random-manifold
regimes connect at a single crossover lengthscale, that we compute. This is
also the expected behavior for zero width. Using a directed polymer
description, we also study via a second GVM procedure and generic scaling
arguments, a modified toy model that provides further insights on this
crossover. We discuss the relevance of the two GVM procedures for the roughness
at large lengthscale in those regimes. In particular we analyze the scaling of
the temperature-dependent prefactor in the roughness B(r)\sim T^{2
\text{\thorn}} r^{2 \zeta} and its corresponding exponent \text{\thorn}. We
briefly discuss the consequences of those results for the quasistatic creep law
of a driven interface, in connection with previous experimental and numerical
studies
Graphitization in chromium cast iron
peer reviewedSome trials with graphite Hi-Cr iron rolls have been done mainly in Japan, for the rolling of stainless steel. This material could lead to good compromise between oxidation, wear and thermal behaviour. By using thermal analysis and resistometry, the conditions for secondary graphite formation have been studied. The amount and volume of free graphite may be strongly increased by a suitable heat treatment, allowing a good thermal conductivity as well as high wear and mechanical properties
Dynamic first-order phase transition in kinetically constrained models of glasses
We show that the dynamics of kinetically constrained models of glass formers
takes place at a first-order coexistence line between active and inactive
dynamical phases. We prove this by computing the large-deviation functions of
suitable space-time observables, such as the number of configuration changes in
a trajectory. We present analytic results for dynamic facilitated models in a
mean-field approximation, and numerical results for the Fredrickson-Andersen
model, the East model, and constrained lattice gases, in various dimensions.
This dynamical first-order transition is generic in kinetically constrained
models, and we expect it to be present in systems with fully jammed states.Comment: 4.1 pages, 3 figure
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