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  • Cosmological models in energy-momentum-squared gravity 

    Board, CVR; Barrow, John David (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 ...

  • Quantum reality via late-time photodetection 

    Kent, Adrian Patrick (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 ...

  • Vortex-ring-induced stratified mixing: Mixing model 

    Olsthoorn, Jason; Dalziel, Stuart Bruce (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 ...

  • Bundling of elastic filaments induced by hydrodynamic interactions 

    Man, Yi; Page, W; Poole, RJ; Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie (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 ...

  • Evidence for the Poisson/Gaudin--Mehta phase transition for band matrices on global scales 

    Swan, Andrew; Olver, Sheehan
    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 ...

  • Spontaneous oscillations of elastic filaments induced by molecular motors. 

    De Canio, Gabriele; Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie; Goldstein, Raymond Ethan (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 ...

  • The grasshopper problem. 

    Goulko, Olga; Kent, Adrian Patrick (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 ...

  • The emergence of shallow easterly jets within QBO westerlies 

    Hitchcocka, P; Haynes, Peter Howard; Randel, WJ; Birner, T (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 ...

  • Symmetries and geometrical properties of dynamical fluctuations in molecular dynamics 

    Jack, Robert Logan; Kaiser, M; Zimmer, J (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 ...

  • Aerodynamic noise from rigid trailing edges with finite porous extensions 

    Kisil, Anastasia; Ayton, Lorna Jane (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 ...

  • An Iterative Wiener--Hopf method for triangular matrix functions with exponential factors 

    Kisil, Anastasia
    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 ...

  • Does a Growing Static Length Scale Control the Glass Transition? 

    Wyart, Matthieu; Cates, Michael Elmhirst (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 ...

  • Spatiotemporal Self-Organization of Fluctuating Bacterial Colonies. 

    Grafke, Tobias; Cates, Michael Elmhirst; Vanden-Eijnden, Eric (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 ...

  • Stability analysis for n -periodic arrays of fluid systems 

    Schmid, PJ; De Pando, MF; Peake, Nigel (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 ...

  • Irreversible mixing by unstable periodic orbits in buoyancy dominated stratified turbulence 

    Lucas, D; Caulfield, Colm-cille Patrick (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-10-26)
    We consider turbulence driven by a large-scale horizontal shear in Kolmogorov flow (i.e. with sinusoidal body forcing) and a background linear stable strati cation with buoyancy frequency $N^2_B$ imposed in the third, ...

  • The geodesic X-ray transform with a $GL(n,\mathbb{C})$-connection 

    Monard, François; Paternain, Gabriel Pedro
    We derive reconstruction formulas for a family of geodesic ray transforms with connection, defined on simple Riemannian surfaces. Such formulas provide injectivity of such all transforms in a neighbourhood of constant ...

  • Inequalities for the Gaussian measure of convex sets 

    Tehranchi, MR
    This note presents families of inequalities for the Gaussian measure of convex sets which extend the recently proven Gaussian correlation inequality in various directions.

  • Active particles in periodic lattices 

    Chamolly, Alexander; Ishikawa, T; Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie (Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische GesellschaftNew Journal of Physics, 2017-11-01)
    Both natural and artificial small-scale swimmers may often self-propel in environments subject to complex geometrical constraints. While most past theoretical work on low-Reynolds number locomotion addressed idealised ...

  • A Variational Model for Joint Motion Estimation and Image Reconstruction 

    Burger, Martin; Dirks, Hendrik; Schönlieb, Carola-Bibiane (Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsSIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2018-01)
    The aim of this paper is to derive and analyze a variational model for the joint estimation of motion and reconstruction of image sequences, which is based on a time-continuous Eulerian motion model. The model can be set ...

  • Layer formation in horizontally forced stratified turbulence: Connecting exact coherent structures to linear instabilities 

    Lucas, D; Caulfield, Colm-cille Patrick; Kerswell, Richard Rodney (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-12-10)
    © 2017 Cambridge University Press. We consider turbulence in a stratified 'Kolmogorov' flow, driven by horizontal shear in the form of sinusoidal body forcing in the presence of an imposed background linear stable ...