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Dynamical Phyllotaxis, Artificial Spin Ice, and Graphenic Bicontinuum: A journey through leaves and stems, rotons and solitons, magnets and arrays, one ground state lost, many found and two fields - Couverture souple

Nisoli, Cristiano

 
9783639197488: Dynamical Phyllotaxis, Artificial Spin Ice, and Graphenic Bicontinuum: A journey through leaves and stems, rotons and solitons, magnets and arrays, one ground state lost, many found and two fields
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ISBN 10 : 3639197488 ISBN 13 : 9783639197488
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Reflecting the somehow eclectic nature of the author's interests, this book explores three - if not more - separated topics, at the forefront of their fields. After demonstrating in an experimental ?magnetic cactus? the same phyllotactic patterns that occur in leaves on a stem, spines on a cactus, or scales on a pine cone, Chapter I shows that the dynamics of phyllotaxis generates new physics beyond botany: rotons and a large family of dynamically stable novel topological solitons. This "dynamical phyllotaxis" is likely to be relevant e.g. for conduction in Wigner crystals in cylindrical geometries, energy localization in protein alpha helices, or solitons in DNA. Chapter II reports on the first artificial realization at the nanoscale of spin ice, discusses its relationship with well known vertex models and shows how this athermal system can be described by an effective thermodynamics. Chapter III focuses our attention to carbon nanostructures and introduces a two-field formalism that can fully describe their electromechanical properties at small deformations, and therefore explains and extends a previously disparate accumulation of analytical and computational results.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Reflecting the somehow eclectic nature of the author's interests, this book explores three - if not more - separated topics, at the forefront of their fields. After demonstrating in an experimental ?magnetic cactus? the same phyllotactic patterns that occur in leaves on a stem, spines on a cactus, or scales on a pine cone, Chapter I shows that the dynamics of phyllotaxis generates new physics beyond botany: rotons and a large family of dynamically stable novel topological solitons. This "dynamical phyllotaxis" is likely to be relevant e.g. for conduction in Wigner crystals in cylindrical geometries, energy localization in protein alpha helices, or solitons in DNA. Chapter II reports on the first artificial realization at the nanoscale of spin ice, discusses its relationship with well known vertex models and shows how this athermal system can be described by an effective thermodynamics. Chapter III focuses our attention to carbon nanostructures and introduces a two-field formalism that can fully describe their electromechanical properties at small deformations, and therefore explains and extends a previously disparate accumulation of analytical and computational results.

Biographie de l'auteur

Cristiano Nisoli obtained a Laurea in Physics from Università degli Studi di Milano with a thesis on Quantum Gravity, and a Ph.D. from Penn State University. He is currently Director Funded Fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of Los Alamos National Laboratory and has worked on Gravity, Condensed Matter, Complex Systems and Nonlinear Physics.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639197488
ISBN 13 
9783639197488
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
92
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