Citation Vydrov, Oleg A. and Troy Van Voorhis. "Dispersion interactions from a local polarizability model. Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. A local ...

Using asymptotics, we derive explicit, simplified formulas for integrals representing the force dipole interaction energy per unit length between line defects (steps) of the same sign that form perturbations of circles in homoepitaxy. Our starting point is continuum linear elasticity in accordance with the classic model by Marchenko and Parshin (1981 Sov. Phys.—JETP 52 129). In the case with co...

D-branes are by now an integral part of our toolbox towards understanding nature. In this review we will describe recent progress in their use to realize fundamental interactions. The realization of the Standard Model and relevant physics and problems will be detailed. New ideas on realizing 4-dimensional gravity use the brane idea in an important way. Such approaches will be reviewed and compa...

In this paper we present a surface formulation and curved panel integration method for computing the van der Waals interaction energy between a molecular solute and aqueous solvent. This modeling problem arises in computational drug design, where one wishes to understand the energetic tradeoff between a trial drug’s interactions with solvent and its interactions with the target. We use the dive...

The structure of 3:3 and 1:3 electrolyte solutions at various concentrations and several cation/anion size ratios has been analyzed in terms of triplet and pair correlation functions, by means of simulation and a triplet integral equation theory derived from the inhomogeneous Ornstein–Zernike equation. The interaction model consists of a truncated and shifted Coulomb plus the Ramanathan– Friedm...

This paper describes a new interface for mobile music creation, the MobileMuse, that introduces the capability of using physiological indicators of emotion as a new mode of interaction. Combining both kinematic and physiological measurement in a mobile environment creates the possibility of integral music control—the use of both gesture and emotion to control sound creation—where it has never b...

A path integral associated with a dynamical system is an integral of a memoryless function of the system variables which, when integrated along trajectories of the system, depends only on the value of the trajectory and its derivatives at the endpoints of the integration interval. In this paper we study path independence for linear systems and integrals of quadratic diierential forms. These not...

SUMMARY An integral calculation method for the twodimensional turbulent flow over a slotted flap is described. taking into account the interaction of the wake from the main aerofoil with the boundary layer on the flap, and the variation of static pressure normal to the flap surface. The results are compared with experiment, and it is found that the method gives quite good agreement with the mea...

The most often used operator to aggregate criteria in decision making problems is the classical weighted arithmetic mean. In many problems however, the criteria considered interact, and a substitute to the weighted arithmetic mean has to be adopted. We show that, under rather natural conditions, the discrete Choquet integral is an adequate aggregation operator that extends the weighted arithmet...

Various problems involving the interaction of water waves with thin plates are reduced to hypersingular boundary integral equations. Examples include scattering by submerged curved plates and by surface-piercing plates, in two dimensions; trapping of waves by submerged plates; and scattering by submerged flat plates in three dimensions. Each integral equation is solved numerically, using an exp...