The first luminescent cyclometallated platinum(II) complex bearing phosphinine co-ligands is reported. The long-lived luminescence, which it displays at 77 K, is assigned to a phosphinine-localised triplet excited state on the basis of electrochemical data and TD-DFT calculations.

Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy was used to obtain new information about the dynamics of electronic relaxation in gas-phase indole and 5-hydroxyindole following UV excitation with femtosecond laser pulses centred at 249 nm and 273 nm. Our analysis of the data was supported by ab initio calculations at the coupled cluster and complete-active-space self-consistent-field levels. The optic...

Transition to uniform turbulence in cylindrical pipe flow occurs experimentally via the spatial expansion of isolated coherent structures called ‘slugs’, triggered by localised finite-amplitude disturbances. We study this process numerically by examining the preferred route in phase space through which a critical disturbance initiates a ‘slug’. This entails first identifying the relative attrac...

: The differences in energy between electronic bands due to valley splitting are of paramount importance in interpreting transport spectroscopy experiments on state-of-the-art quantum devices defined by scanning tunnelling microscope lithography. Using vasp, we develop a plane-wave density functional theory description of systems which is size limited due to computational tractability. Nonethel...

A model equation derived by B. B. Kadomtsev & V. I. Petviashvili (1970) suggests that the hydrodynamic problem for three-dimensional water waves with strong surface-tension effects admits a fully localised solitary wave which decays to the undisturbed state of the water in every horizontal spatial direction. This prediction is rigorously confirmed for the full water-wave problem in the present ...

Agent-based systems and cellular automata are two closely related model formulations that are heavily used in studying complex systems. They are both formulated as microscopically simple rule-based models that are applied to individual cells or agents in a collection, where the spatially localised neighbourhood of other cells or agents is used as input to update each one. We have experimented w...

Forward-chaining heuristic search is a well-established and popular paradigm for domain-independent planning. Its effectiveness relies on the heuristic information provided by a state evaluator, and the search algorithm used with this in order to solve the problem. This paper presents a new stochastic local-search algorithm for forward-chaining planning. The algorithm is used as the basis of a ...