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A. Hader A. Memsouk Y. Boughaleb 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2002,28(3):315-319
We have studied the scaling properties of diffusion fronts by numerical calculations based on the mean field approach in the
context of a lattice gas model, performed in a triangular lattice. We find that the height-height correlation function scales
with time t and length l as C(l, t) ≈l
α
f (t/l
α/β) with α = 0.62±0.01 and β = 0.39±0.02. These exponent values are identical to those characterising the roughness of the diffusion
fronts evolving through a square lattice [1,2], thus confirming their universality.
Received 14 November 2001 / Received in final form 20 April 2002 Published online 31 July 2002 相似文献
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We study the director field around a spherical particle immersed in a uniformly aligned nematic liquid crystal and assume
that the molecules prefer a homeotropic orientation at the surface of the particle. Three structures are possible: a dipole,
a Saturn-ring, and a surface-ring configuration, which we investigate by numerically minimizing the Frank free energy supplemented
by a magnetic-field and a surface term. In the dipole configuration, which is the absolutely stable structure for micron-size
particles and sufficiently strong surface anchoring, a twist transition is found and analyzed. We show that a transition from
the dipole to the Saturn ring configuration is induced by either decreasing the particle size or by applying a magnetic field.
The effect of metastability and the occurrence of hysteresis in connection with a magnetic field are discussed. The surface-ring
configuration appears when the surface-anchoring strength W is reduced. It is also favored by a large saddle-splay constant K24. A comparison with recent experiments [#!itapdb:Poulin1997!#,#!itapdb:Poulin1998!#] gives a lower bound for W, i.e., for the interface of water and pentylcyanobiphenyl (5CB) in the presence of the surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate.
Received 2 November 1998 相似文献
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A. Albersdörfer E. Sackmann 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1999,10(4):663-672
In this paper we study the effect of monovalent and divalent ions on the swelling behavior and viscoelastic parameters of ultrathin layers of the natural polyelectrolyte hyaluronic acid
covalently coupled to glass substrates. A colloidal probe technique is applied for this purpose based on latex beads, hovering over the polymer cushion. By analyzing the vertical Brownian motion of these beads with reflection
interference contrast microscopy (RICM) we determined the equilibrium layer thickness (with 3 nm vertical resolution), the
interfacial interaction potential, and the characteristic mesh size limiting the hydrodynamic flow within the polyelectrolyte
film as a function of the ionic strength. The experimental results are interpreted in terms of three different theoretical
models: the polyelectrolyte brush approximation of Pincus [#!ref1!#], a modified polyelectrolyte brush approximation in the
high salt concentration limit of Ross and Pincus [#!ref2!#] and the simple scaling approximation for neutral adsorbed polymers
of de Gennes [#!ref3!#]. Within experimental error all of these different models fit our experimental data and yield comparable
results for the equilibrium layer thickness. Moreover we determine a thickness dependent, effective surface coverage from
both brush models. The hydrodynamic properties of the films are interpreted in terms of the Brinkmann model of elastic porous
media by assuming an effective mesh size, which depends linearly on the Debye screening length. The salt induced condensation
of the polyelectrolyte films can be described microscopically in terms of a progressive contraction of the mesh size with
increasing salt concentration.
Received 10 September 1998 and Received in final form 30 November 1998 相似文献
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D. Görlitz J. Kötzler 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,5(1):37-43
Between 4.2 K and the Curie temperatures of the cubic Heisenberg ferromagnets EuS and EuO, their homogeneous dynamic susceptibilities
have been investigated by means of a broad-band reflectometer operating from 0.1 GHz to 40 GHz. For internal magnetic fields
larger than the anisotropy fields H
A
(
T
) of both materials, their static susceptibilities exhibit a -divergence, which reveals quantitatively the dominance of dipolar-anisotropic spin-wave fluctuations. displays a Lorentzian shape the damping frequency of which obeys scaling in terms of .The scaling function agrees quantitatively with work by Frey and Schwabl [#!FS88!#] for dipolar Heisenberg ferromagnets at
temperatures above Tc. Building upon their approach, the resonance frequency of the Lorentzian can be related to a memory effect in the damping
determined by the large value of the relaxation rate of the longitudinal magnetization fluctuations . For EuS, this relation is substantiated directly by inelastic neutron scattering. All these features reveal the hitherto
uncovered importance of the dipolar anisotropic fluctuations below Tc of ferromagnets.
Received: 4 March 1998 / Accepted: 12 May 1998 相似文献
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A. Volmer S. Mukherji T. Nattermann 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,5(3):627-645
In anisotropic or layered superconductors thermal fluctuations as well as impurities induce a van der Waals (vdW) attraction
between flux lines, as has recently been shown by Blatter and Geshkenbein in the thermal case [#!BlatterGeshkenbein!#] and
by Mukherji and Nattermann in the disorder dominated case [#!NattermannMukherji!#]. This attraction together with the entropic
or disorder induced repulsion has interesting consequences for the low field phase diagram. We present two derivations of
the vdW attraction, one of which is based on an intuitive picture, the other one following from a systematic expansion of
the free energy of two interacting flux lines. Both the thermal and the disorder dominated case are considered. In the thermal
case in the absence of disorder, we use scaling arguments as well as a functional renormalization of the vortex-vortex interaction
energy to calculate the effective Gibbs free energy on the scale of the mean flux line distance. We discuss the resulting
low field phase diagram and make quantitative predictions for pure BiSCCO (Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8). In the case with impurities, the Gibbs free energy is calculated on the basis of scaling arguments, allowing for a semi-quantitative
discussion of the low-field, low-temperature phase diagram in the presence of impurities.
Received: 9 February 1998 / Accepted: 17 April 1998 相似文献
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J. L. García-Palacios 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1999,11(2):293-308
Given two strings X and Y of N and M characters respectively, the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) Problem asks for the longest sequence of (non-contiguous) matches
between X and Y. Using extensive Monte-Carlo simulations for this problem, we find a finite size scaling law of the form for the average LCS length of two random strings of size N over S letters. We provide precise estimates of for .We consider also a related Bernoulli Matching model where the different entries of an array are occupied with a match independently with probability 1/S. On the basis of a cavity-like analysis we find that the length of a longest sequence of matches in that case behaves as
where r=M/N and . This formula agrees very well with our numerical computations. It provides a very good approximation for the Random String
model, the approximation getting more accurate as S increases. The question of the “universality class” of the LCS problem is also considered. Our results for the Bernoulli
Matching model show very good agreement with the scaling predictions of [#!HwaLassig96_PRL!#] for Needleman-Wunsch sequence
alignment. We find however that the variance of the LCS length has a scaling different from Var in the Random String model, suggesting that long-ranged correlations among the matches are relevant in this model. We finally
study the “ground state” properties of this problem. We find that the number of solutions typically grows exponentially with N. In other words, this system does not satisfy “Nernst's principle”. This is also reflected at the level of the overlap between
two LCSs chosen at random, which is found to be self averaging and to approach a definite value q
S
<1 as .
Received: 23 April 1998 / Revised: 30 July 1998 / Accepted: 14 August 1998 相似文献
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B. O'Shaughnessy D. Vavylonis 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,6(3):363-372
We study the reaction kinetics of end-functionalized polymer chains dispersed in an unreactive polymer melt. Starting from
an infinite hierarchy of coupled equations for many-chain correlation functions, a closed equation is derived for the 2nd
order rate constant k after postulating simple physical bounds. Our results generalize previous 2-chain treatments (valid in dilute reactants limit)
by Doi [#!doi:inter2!#], de Gennes [#!gennes:polreactionsiandii!#], and Friedman and O'Shaughnessy [#!ben:interdil_all_aip!#],
to arbitrary initial reactive group density n0 and local chemical reactivity Q. Simple mean field (MF) kinetics apply at short times, .For high Q, a transition occurs to diffusion-controlled (DC) kinetics with (where xt is rms monomer displacement in time t) leading to a density decay . If n0 exceeds the chain overlap threshold, this behavior is followed by a regime where during which k has the same power law dependence in time, , but possibly different numerical coefficient. For unentangled melts this gives while for entangled cases one or more of the successive regimes ,t
-3/8
and t
-3/4
may be realized depending on the magnitudes of Q and n0. Kinetics at times longer than the longest polymer relaxation time are always MF. If a DC regime has developed before then the long time rate constant is where R is the coil radius. We propose measuring the above kinetics in a model experiment where radical end groups are generated
by photolysis.
Received: 2 June 1998 / Revised: 9 July 1998 / Accepted: 10 July 1998 相似文献
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B. Yahiaoui A. Gharbi M. Kléman J. Malthête 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,5(1):99-110
Electron microscopy observations of replicas of freeze-fractured samples of two columnar hexagonal phases of different nature (a lyotropic one, the inverse AOT in water; a thermotropic one, ) yield very different results: most defects at microscopic scales are screw dislocations in the lyotropic phase, longitudinal
edge dislocations in the thermotropic phase. A possible way to interpret these differences is as follows: in the lyotropic
the Lamé coefficients and μ and the bend modulus K3 would not display any anomaly compared to expected values; in the thermotropic the shear modulus μ would be ten times smaller
than the compressibility modulus , while K3 would still be comparable to (but larger than) the bend modulus of a small molecules liquid crystal. We present an elementary
theoretical model of the latter case which could explain the anomalous measurements of K3 and of the longitudinal compressibility (Ref. [#!ref10!#]) without contradicting more recent measurements of (Refs. [#!ref17!#,#!ref22!#]). Essentially, the hexagonal phase would be a phase with defects (longitudinal dislocations) akin to an hexatic phase but with some differences.
Re?u : 26 mai 1997 / Révisé : 20 Janvier 1998 /
Accepté : 27 avril 1998 相似文献
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S.E. Guidoni H.O. Mártin C.M. Aldao 《The European physical journal. E, Soft matter》2002,7(3):291-295
We present a one-dimensional Monte Carlo simulation for the diffusion motion of a chain of N beads. We found that the scaling exponent for the viscosity can be smaller or greater than 3. This anomalous behavior cannot be attributed to the diffusivity scaling or the length fluctuations but is due to the chain dynamics details
during diffusion in which the end beads play the key role. The viscosity exponent 3 and its expected relation with the diffusivity
exponent are recovered in the asymptotic regime (N ↦∞).
Received 24 September 2001 and Received in final form 28 January 2002 相似文献
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Shear break-up of reversible fractal clusters is investigated by ultrasound and multiple light scattering in the low shear
regime. We consider a dense suspension of Rayleigh scatterers (particles or clusters) with acoustic properties close to those
of the surrounding liquid so that the attenuation of the ultrasonic coherent field is weak and multiple scattering is negligible.
The concept of variance in local particle volume fraction is used to derive an original expression of the ultrasound scattering
cross-section per unit volume for Rayleigh fractal clusters. On the basis of a scaling law for the shear break-up of aggregates,
then we derive the shear stress dependence of the ultrasound scattered intensity from a suspension of reversible fractal clusters.
In a second part, we present rheo-acoustical experiments to study the shear break-up of hardened red cell aggregates in plane-plane
flow geometry and we examine both the self consistent field approximation and the scaling laws used in microrheological models.
We further compare the ability of acoustical backscattering and optical reflectometry techniques to estimate the critical
disaggregation shear stress and the particle surface adhesive energy. Finally, the microrheological model from Snabre and
Mills [#!ref5!#] based on a fractal approach is shown to describe the non Newtonian behavior of a dense distribution of hardened
red cell aggregates.
Received 12 November 1998 and Received in final form 17 May 1999 相似文献
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L. Giuggioli Z. Kalay V. M. Kenkre 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2008,62(3):341-348
We study the transient dynamics of single species reaction diffusion systems whose reaction terms f(u) vary nonlinearly near
u ≈ 0, specifically as f(u) ≈ u2 and f(u) ≈ u3. We consider three cases, calculate
their traveling wave fronts and speeds analytically and solve the equations numerically with different initial conditions to study the approach to the asymptotic front shape
and speed. Observed time evolution is found to be
quite sensitive to initial conditions and to display in some cases nonmonotonic behavior, ascribable to the disparity in time
scales between the evolution of the front interior and the front tail. 相似文献
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P. Nozières F. Pistolesi S. Balibar 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2001,24(3):387-394
We consider the shape of crystals which are soft in the sense that their elastic modulus μ is small compared to their surface
tension γ, more precisely μa < γ where a is the lattice spacing. We show that their surface steps penetrate inside the crystal as edge dislocations. As a consequence,
these steps are broad with a small energy which we calculate. We also calculate the elastic interaction between steps a distance
d apart, which is a 1/d
2 repulsion. We finally calculate the roughening temperatures of successive facets in order to compare with the remarkable
shapes of lyotropic crystals recently observed by Pieranski et al. [#!Pieranski!#,#!EPJ!#]. Good agreement is found.
Received 25 June 2001 相似文献
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T. Charitat B. Fourcade 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,1(3):333-336
An o-ring takes spontaneously the shape of a chair when strong enough torsion is applied in its tangent plane. This state
is metastable, since work has to be done on the o-ring to return to the circular shape. We show that this metastable state
exists in a Hamiltonian where curvature and torsion are coupled via an intrinsic curvature term. If the o-ring is constrained to be planar (2d case), this metastable state displays a kink-anti-kink
pair. This state is metastable if the ratio is less than , where C and A are the torsion and the bending elastic constants [#!landau!#]. In three dimensions, our variational approach shows that
. This model can be generalized to the case where the bend is induced by a concentration field which follows the variations
of the curvature.
Received: 27 August 1997 / Revised: 23 October 1997 / Accepted: 12 November 1997 相似文献
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Flows around small colloidal particles of diameter b, or in thin films, capillaries, etc., cannot always be described in terms of the macroscopic polymer viscosity. We discuss
these features for entangled polymer melts, where two distinct regimes can be found: (a) the thin regime where b is smaller than the coil radius R0, but larger than the diameter of the Edwards tube; (b) the ultrathin regime, where . We consider (i) non adsorbing particles, where slippage may occur between the melt and the solid surface; (ii) “hairy” particles,
which carry some bound polymer chains. We obtain scaling predictions for mobilities of spheres, of needles, and of clusters
of particles. We also discuss translational and rotational diffusion of needles.
Received 19 April 1999 相似文献
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S. Pafka I. Kondor 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2002,27(2):277-280
According to recent findings [#!bouchaud!#,#!stanley!#], empirical covariance matrices deduced from financial return series
contain such a high amount of noise that, apart from a few large eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors, their structure
can essentially be regarded as random. In [#!bouchaud!#], e.g., it is reported that about 94% of the spectrum of these matrices can be fitted by that of a random matrix drawn from an appropriately
chosen ensemble. In view of the fundamental role of covariance matrices in the theory of portfolio optimization as well as
in industry-wide risk management practices, we analyze the possible implications of this effect. Simulation experiments with
matrices having a structure such as described in [#!bouchaud!#,#!stanley!#] lead us to the conclusion that in the context
of the classical portfolio problem (minimizing the portfolio variance under linear constraints) noise has relatively little
effect. To leading order the solutions are determined by the stable, large eigenvalues, and the displacement of the solution
(measured in variance) due to noise is rather small: depending on the size of the portfolio and on the length of the time
series, it is of the order of 5 to 15%. The picture is completely different, however, if we attempt to minimize the variance
under non-linear constraints, like those that arise e.g. in the problem of margin accounts or in international capital adequacy regulation. In these problems the presence of noise
leads to a serious instability and a high degree of degeneracy of the solutions.
Received 31 December 2001 相似文献
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F. Gillet O. Pierre-Louis C. Misbah 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2000,18(3):519-534
Step meandering due to a deterministic morphological instability on vicinal surfaces during growth is studied. We investigate
nonlinear dynamics of a step model with asymmetric step kinetics, terrace and line diffusion, by means of a multiscale analysis.
We give the detailed derivation of the highly nonlinear evolution equation on which a brief account has been given [6]. Decomposing
the model into driving and relaxational contributions, we give a profound explanation to the origin of the unusual divergent
scaling of step meander (where F is the incoming atom flux). A careful numerical analysis indicates that a cellular structure arises where plateaus form,
as opposed to spike-like structures reported erroneously in reference [6]. As a robust feature, the amplitude of these cells
scales as t
1/2, regardless of the strength of the Ehrlich-Schwoebel effect, or the presence of line diffusion. A simple ansatz allows to
describe analytically the asymptotic regime quantitatively. We show also how sub-dominant terms from multiscale analysis account
for the loss of up-down symmetry of the cellular structure.
Received 4 May 2000 and Received in final form 8 September 2000 相似文献
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J.-F. Berret D.C. Roux P. Lindner 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》1998,5(1):67-77
We have investigated the simple shear flow behavior of wormlike micelles using small-angle neutron scattering and mechanical
measurements. Ternary surfactant solutions made of cetylpyridinium chloride, hexanol and brine (0.2 M NaCl) and hereafter
abbreviated as CPCl-Hex were studied in the concentrated regime, . In a preliminary report (Berret et al. [#!ref16!#]), the discontinuity of slope observed in the shear stress versus shear rate curve was interpreted in terms of first-order phase transition between an isotropic state and a shear-induced
nematic state ( transition). At the transition rate, , the solution exhibits a macroscopic phase separation into viscous and fluid layers (inhomogeneous shear flow). Above a second
characteristic shear rate, the flow becomes homogeneous again, the sheared solution being nematic only. The neutron patterns
obtained in the two-state inhomogeneous region have been re-examined. Based on a consistent analysis of both orientational
and translational degrees of freedom related to the wormlike micelles, we emphasize new features for the transition. In the present paper, the shear rate variations of the relative proportions of each phase in the two-state region,
as well as the viscosity ratio between isotropic and nematic phases are derived. We demonstrate in addition that slightly
above the transition rate, the shear induced nematic phase is already strongly oriented, with an order parameter P
2
= 0.65. The orientational state is that of a nematic flow-oriented monodomain. Finally, from the locations of the neutron
scattering maxima for each isotropic and nematic contributions, we evaluate the concentrations for each phase and and derived a dynamical phase diagram of CPCl-Hex, in terms of the stress
versus
and . According to the classification by Schmitt et al. [#!ref22!#], the transition observed in CPCl-Hex micellar solutions could result from a positive flow-concentration coupling, in agreement
with the observed monotonically increasing shear stress in the two-phase region.
Received: 16 February 1998 / Revised: 18 February 1998 /
Accepted: 24 May 1998 相似文献
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Modelling fluctuations of financial time series: from cascade process to stochastic volatility model 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
J.F. Muzy J. Delour E. Bacry 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2000,17(3):537-548
In this paper, we provide a simple, “generic” interpretation of multifractal scaling laws and multiplicative cascade process
paradigms in terms of volatility correlations. We show that in this context 1/f power spectra, as recently observed in reference [23], naturally emerge. We then propose a simple solvable “stochastic volatility”
model for return fluctuations. This model is able to reproduce most of recent empirical findings concerning financial time
series: no correlation between price variations, long-range volatility correlations and multifractal statistics. Moreover,
its extension to a multivariate context, in order to model portfolio behavior, is very natural. Comparisons to real data and
other models proposed elsewhere are provided.
Received 22 May 2000 相似文献
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