Neon nudges clusters toward bulk liquid

Capture of neon atoms by 4He clusters.

40 K Liquid Neon Energy Storage Unit

A thermal Energy Storage Unit (ESU) could be used to attenuate inherent temperature fluctuations of a cold finger, either from a cryocooler working or due to suddenly incoming heat bursts. An ESU directly coupled to the cold source acts as a thermal buffer temporarily increasing its cooling capacity and providing a better thermal stability of the cold finger (“Power Booster mode”). The energy s...

Interatomic Coulombic decay cascades in multiply excited neon clusters

In high-intensity laser light, matter can be ionized by direct multiphoton absorption even at photon energies below the ionization threshold. However on tuning the laser to the lowest resonant transition, the system becomes multiply excited, and more efficient, indirect ionization pathways become operative. These mechanisms are known as interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD), where one of the specie...

Estimation of bulk liquid properties from Monte Carlo simulations of Lennard-Jones clusters.

In a pioneering study, Lee et al. demonstrated how free energies of Lennard-Jones LJ clusters could be determined from Monte Carlo MC simulations. Subsequently, Garcia and Torroja compared the simulation results with both classical nucleation theory and experimental values for argon nucleation. Since then, there have been many such comparisons as well as simulations to determine the properties ...

Habits, nudges, and consent.

In any health care crisis, the first priority is to improve the patient’s condition. But this priority is not absolute as it is normally subject to the patient’s (or someone on her behalf) approval. This can sometimes lead to serious difficulties when the patient on epistemological (the patient may be ignorant or misinformed), political (the patient may have political objections to a particular...