Succinonitrile (N ≡ C-CH2-CH2-C ≡ N), an orientationally disordered molecular plastic crystal at room temperature, exhibits rich phase behavior including a solid-solid phase transition at 238 K. In cooling through this phase transition, the high-temperature rotational disorder of the plastic crystal phase is frozen out, forming a rigid crystal that is both spatially and orientationally ordered....

We show that the nonlinear evolution of the cosmic gravitational clustering is approximately spatial local in the x-k (position-scale) phase space if the initial perturbations are Gaussian. That is, if viewing the mass field with modes in the phase space, the nonlinear evolution will cause strong coupling among modes with different scale k, but at the same spatial area x, while the modes at dif...

We obtain multisoliton solutions of the time-dependent Bogoliubov–de Gennes equations or, equivalently, Gorkov equations that describe the dynamics of a fermionic condensate in the dissipationless regime. There are two kinds of solitons—normal and anomalous. At large times, normal multisolitons asymptote to unstable stationary states of the BCS Hamiltonian with zero order parameter normal state...

A natural way to characterize the cluster structure of a dataset is by finding regions containing a high density of data. This can be done in a nonparametric way with a kernel density estimate, whose modes and hence clusters can be found using mean-shift algorithms. We describe the theory and practice behind clustering based on kernel density estimates and mean-shift algorithms. We discuss the ...

SAMEM (System for Analysis of Molecular Evolution Modes), a web-based pipeline system for inferring modes of molecular evolution in genes and proteins (http://pixie.bionet.nsc.ru/samem/), is presented. Pipeline 1 performs analyses of protein-coding gene evolution; pipeline 2 performs analyses of protein evolution; pipeline 3 prepares datasets of genes and/or proteins, performs their primary ana...

Weak Alfvénic turbulence in a periodic domain is considered as a mixed state of Alfvén waves interacting with the two-dimensional (2D) condensate. Unlike in standard treatments, no spectral continuity between the two is assumed, and, indeed, none is found. If the 2D modes are not directly forced, k(-2) and k(-1) spectra are found for the Alfvén waves and the 2D modes, respectively, with the lat...

We find the high overtones of gravitational and electromagnetic quasi-normal spectrum of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole. The calculations show that the real parts of the electromagnetic modes asymptotically approach zero. The gravitational modes show more peculiar behavior at large n: the real part oscillates as a function of imaginary even for very high overtones and these oscillations...

Pure plasmonic mode and hybrid plasmonic mode have been demonstrated. The cone-metal shelled structure is proposed. The two modes have been examined, pure plasmonic mode and hybrid plasmonic mode. At room temperature, the quality factor of the two modes has been compared and we found that the quality factor of hybrid plasmonic mode is 775 when the side angle of the cone structure ranged (60°-70...

We map the band structure of surface acoustic modes of a periodic array of copper lines embedded in a SiO2 film on a silicon substrate by means of the laser-induced transient grating technique. A detailed map of the lowest sheet of the ω(k) surface and partial maps of two higher-order sheets are obtained. We discuss the topology of the ω(k) surface and explain how it arises from the Rayleigh an...

We study magnon modes in the presence of a vortex in a circular easy–plane ferromagnet. The problem of vortex–magnon scattering is investigated for partial modes with different values of the azimuthal quantum number m over a wide range of wave numbers. The analysis was done by combining analytical and numerical calculations in the continuum limit with numerical diagonalization of adequately lar...