Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy: Recent submissions
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Arctic Sea Ice Loss in Different Regions Leads to Contrasting Northern Hemisphere Impacts
(Wiley-BlackwellGeophysical Research Letters, 2018-01-28)To explore the mechanisms linking Arctic sea-ice loss to changes in mid-latitude surface temperatures, we conduct idealized modeling experiments using an intermediate general circulation model and with sea-ice loss confined ...
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A gluing operator for the ambitwistor string
We present a new operator in the ambitwistor string which glues together correlators with fewer points or of lower genus. It underpins the recursive construction of tree-level CHY scattering amplitudes by Dolan & Goddard, ...
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Evolution of cyclic mixmaster universes with noncomoving radiation
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2017-12-15)We study a model of a cyclic, spatially homogeneous, anisotropic mixmaster universe of Bianchi type IX 'mixmaster' universe, containing the a radiation field with non-comoving ('tilted' with respect to the tetrad frame of ...
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Evolution of cyclic mixmaster universes with noncomoving radiation
We study a model of a cyclic, spatially homogeneous, anisotropic mixmaster universe of Bianchi type IX 'mixmaster' universe, containing the a radiation field with non-comoving ('tilted' with respect to the tetrad frame of ...
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Is there a breakdown of effective field theory at the horizon of an extremal black hole?
© 2017, The Author(s). Linear perturbations of extremal black holes exhibit the Aretakis instability, in which higher derivatives of a scalar field grow polynomially with time along the event horizon. This suggests that ...
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On the hyperbolicity of the most general Horndeski theory
(American Physical SocietyPHYSICAL REVIEW D, 2017-12-27)In this paper we study the hyperbolicity of the equations of motion for the most general Horndeski theory of gravity in a generic "weak field" background. We first show that a special case of this theory, namely Einstein ...
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Cosmological models in energy-momentum-squared gravity
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2017-12-15)We study the cosmological effects of adding terms of higher-order in the usual energy-momentum tensor to the matter lagrangian of general relativity. This is in contrast to most studies of higher-order gravity which focus ...
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Quantum reality via late-time photodetection
(APSPhysical Review A, 2017-12-18)We further investigate postulates for realist versions of r elativistic quantum theory and quantum field theory in Minkowski space and other background space-t imes. According to these postulates, quantum theory is ...
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Vortex-ring-induced stratified mixing: Mixing model
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018-02-25)The study of vortex-ring-induced mixing has been significant for understanding stratified turbulent mixing in the absence of a mean flow. Renewed interest in this topic has prompted the development of a one-dimensional ...
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Bundling of elastic filaments induced by hydrodynamic interactions
(Physical Review Fluids, 2017-12-01)Peritrichous bacteria swim in viscous fluids by rotating multiple helical flagellar filaments. As the bacterium swims forward, all its flagella rotate in synchrony behind the cell in a tight helical bundle. When the bacterium ...
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Evidence for the Poisson/Gaudin--Mehta phase transition for band matrices on global scales
We prove that the Poisson/Gaudin--Mehta phase transition conjectured to occur when the bandwidth of an N ⨯ N symmetric band matrix grows like b = √N is naturally observable in the rate of convergence of the level density ...
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Spontaneous oscillations of elastic filaments induced by molecular motors.
(The Royal SocietyJournal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2017-11)It is known from the wave-like motion of microtubules in motility assays that the piconewton forces that motors produce can be sufficient to bend the filaments. In cellular phenomena such as cytosplasmic streaming, molecular ...
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The grasshopper problem.
(Royal Society of LondonProceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2017-11-22)We introduce and physically motivate the following problem in geometric combinatorics, originally inspired by analysing Bell inequalities. A grasshopper lands at a random point on a planar lawn of area 1. It then jumps ...
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The emergence of shallow easterly jets within QBO westerlies
(Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2018-01-01)© 2018 American Meteorological Society. A configuration of an idealized general circulation model has been obtained in which a deep, stratospheric, equatorial, westerly jet is established that is spontaneously and ...
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Symmetries and geometrical properties of dynamical fluctuations in molecular dynamics
(Entropy, 2017-10-01)We describe some general results that constrain the dynamical fluctuations that can occur in non-equilibrium steady states, with a focus on molecular dynamics. That is, we consider Hamiltonian systems, coupled to external ...
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Aerodynamic noise from rigid trailing edges with finite porous extensions
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018-02-10)This paper investigates the effects of finite flat porous extensions to semi-infinite impermeable flat plates in an attempt to control trailing-edge noise through bio-inspired adaptations. Specifically the problem of sound ...
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An Iterative Wiener--Hopf method for triangular matrix functions with exponential factors
This paper introduces a new method for constructing approximate solutions to a class of Wiener{Hopf equations. This is particularly useful since exact solutions of this class of Wiener{Hopf equations, at the moment, cannot ...
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Does a Growing Static Length Scale Control the Glass Transition?
(Physical review letters, 2017-11-09)Several theories of the glass transition propose that the structural relaxation time is controlled by a growing static length scale that is determined by the free energy landscape but not by the local dynamical rules ...
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Spatiotemporal Self-Organization of Fluctuating Bacterial Colonies.
(APSPhysical review letters, 2017-11-03)We model an enclosed system of bacteria, whose motility-induced phase separation is coupled to slow population dynamics. Without noise, the system shows both static phase separation and a limit cycle, in which a rising ...
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Stability analysis for n -periodic arrays of fluid systems
(Physical Review Fluids, 2017-11-01)© 2017 American Physical Society. A computational framework is proposed for the linear modal and nonmodal analysis of fluid systems consisting of a periodic array of n identical units. A formulation in either time or ...
