Basic microscopic plasma physics from N-body mechanics

coprocessors with a basic N-body simulation

Intel R © Xeon Phi TM coprocessors are capable of delivering more performance and better energy efficiency than Intel R © Xeon R © processors for certain parallel applications. In this paper, we investigate the porting and optimization of a test problem for the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. The test problem is a basic N-body simulation, which is the foundation of a number of applications in compu...

Microscopic simulations in physics

An intelligent being who, at a given moment, knows all the forces that cause nature to move and the positions of the objects that it is made from, if also it is powerful enough to analyze this data, would have described in the same formula the movements of the largest bodies of the universe and those of the lightest atoms. Although scientific research steadily approaches the abilities of this i...

The Statistical Mechanics of Microscopic Long-Range Bulk-Boundary Dependence in Black-Hole Physics and Holography

We argue in the following that the entropy-area law of black-hole physics and the various holographic bounds are the consequences of the microscopic dynamics of elementary degrees of freedom living on or near the Planck scale. We locate them both in the interior and on the boundary of, for example, the black hole with the strange area-behavior of various quantities being the result of a long-ra...

The upgraded Large Plasma Device, a machine for studying frontier basic plasma physics.

In 1991 a manuscript describing an instrument for studying magnetized plasmas was published in this journal. The Large Plasma Device (LAPD) was upgraded in 2001 and has become a national user facility for the study of basic plasma physics. The upgrade as well as diagnostics introduced since then has significantly changed the capabilities of the device. All references to the machine still quote ...

Star formation : basic physics