Joint work with I Vitebskiy.Wave propagation in spatially periodic media, such as photonic crystals, can be qualitatively differentfrom any uniform substance. The differences are particularly pronounced when the electromagnetic wavelengthis comparable to the minimal translation of the periodic structure. In such a case, the periodic medium canno...
Creator:
Figotin, Alexander (University of California, Irvine)
Created:
2006-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability is a special feature of the acceleration phase in inertial confinement fusion (ICF). Ablation stabilizes the disturbances with small wavelength, introducing a marginal wavelength. Due to a large temperature ratio, the conduction length-scale varies strongly across the wave, and the attention is limited ...
Creator:
Clavin, Paul (UMR CNRS-Universites d'Aix-Marseille I&II)
Created:
2008-07-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
In this tutorial, we will show how to incorporate nuclear quantum effects into an ab initio molecular dynamics calculation via the Feynman path-integral formulation of quantum statistical mechanics. Important algorithmic advances needed to accelerate the convergence of the calculations will be discussed as well as approximation dynamical path-in...
Creator:
Tuckerman, Mark E. (New York University)
Created:
2008-12-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
