51 research outputs found
Analysis of Gas-Phase Clusters Made from Laser-Vaporized Icosahedral Al−Pd−Mn
An icosahedral Al−Pd−Mn quasicrystal sample is laser vaporized to form metal clusters by gas aggregation. The clusters are subsequently laser ionized and mass analyzed in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The mass spectra show cluster compositions which are qualitatively similar to that of the sample. This is consistent with a kinetically controlled cluster growth process. Cluster thermodynamic stability is probed by multiphoton ionization/fragmentation, which induces primarily Al and Mn loss. The resulting spectra are composed of a series of Pd-rich Al−Pd clusters. The average cluster composition is 60 (±1)% Pd. This composition is close to a known eutectic in the Al−Pd system. When manganese is seen on these clusters, it is always in units of Mn3. These results are discussed in terms of relative binding strengths in the Al−Pd−Mn alloy system
Computer Simulation of Final-Stage Sintering: II, Influence of Initial Pore Size
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/65612/1/j.1151-2916.1990.tb06687.x.pd
Inference of hidden structures in complex physical systems by multi-scale clustering
We survey the application of a relatively new branch of statistical
physics--"community detection"-- to data mining. In particular, we focus on the
diagnosis of materials and automated image segmentation. Community detection
describes the quest of partitioning a complex system involving many elements
into optimally decoupled subsets or communities of such elements. We review a
multiresolution variant which is used to ascertain structures at different
spatial and temporal scales. Significant patterns are obtained by examining the
correlations between different independent solvers. Similar to other
combinatorial optimization problems in the NP complexity class, community
detection exhibits several phases. Typically, illuminating orders are revealed
by choosing parameters that lead to extremal information theory correlations.Comment: 25 pages, 16 Figures; a review of earlier work
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