The information content of a crystal structure as conceived by theory has recently proved an intriguing approach to calculate the complexity within consistent concept. Given relatively young nature field, development is still at core ongoing research efforts. This work provides update current theory, enabling analysis structures with partial occupancies frequently found in disordered systems. T...

Dendritic crystal growth in a pure undercooled melt is simulated quantitatively in three dimensions using a phase-field approach. The classic parameter s that characterizes the dynamically selected operating state of the dendrite tip as well as the full nonaxisymmetric tip morphology are determined as a function of anisotropy for a crystal with a cubic symmetry. Results are compared to experime...

As the size of electronic and mzechanical devices are decreased to the micron and nanometre level, it becomes particularly important to predict the thermal transport properties of the components. Using of molecular level theories such predictions are particularly important for modelling nano-electronic devices where scaling laws may change substantially but it is most difficult to accurately me...

We present a numerical method for solving two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal flows subject to a magnetic field. The dynamic equations of nematic liquid crystals are based on the Ericksen-Leslie dynamic theory. This theory accounts for fluid anisotropy and elastic stresses resulting from spatial distortion of the “director”, which is a vector field describing the local average molecular orie...

We argue that the higher space-time derivative terms that occur in closed bosonic string field theory are reminiscent of those found in the Landau theory of liquid-crystal transitions. We examine the lowest level approximation of the closed bosonic string and find evidence for the existence of a new vacuum that spontaneously breaks Lorentz and translation symmetries. This effect can be interpre...