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Diffusion coefficients of alloying elements in Mg are critical for the development of new Mg alloys for lightweight applications. Here we present the data set of the temperature-dependent dilute tracer diffusion coefficients for 47 substitutional alloying elements in hexagonal closed packed (hcp) Mg calculated from first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) by combin...

Using an analogy between the conductivity tensor of electronic systems and the spin stiffness tensor of spin systems, we introduce the concept of the Thouless number g0 and the dimensionless frequency dependent conductance g(ω) for quantum spin models. It is shown that spin diffusion implies the vanishing of the Drude peak of g(ω), and that the spin diffusion coefficient Ds is proportional to g...

We report chain self-diffusion and viscosity data for sodium polystyrene sulfonate (NaPSS) in semidilute salt-free aqueous solutions measured by pulsed-field gradient NMR rotational rheometry, respectively. The molecular weight of NaPSS is characterized using five techniques. Relationships between Mw the intrinsic diffusion coefficient excess salt are established. These helpful accurate determi...

A scalar, elliptic boundary-value problem in divergence form with stochastic diffusion coefficient a(x, ω) in a bounded domain D ⊂ Rd is reformulated as a deterministic, infinite-dimensional, parametric problem by separation of deterministic (x ∈ D) and stochastic (ω ∈ Ω) variables in a(x, ω) via Karhúnen–Loève or Legendre expansions of the diffusion coefficient. Deterministic, approximate solv...

The effect of hydrodynamic interactions on the spreading of clusters of colloid particles in a quasi-one-dimensional channel is analyzed both experimentally and theoretically. An n-particle cluster spreading diffusion coefficient is defined, in terms of the displacement Deltax(t) in time t, by D(n)[triple bond]<[Sigma(i=1)(n)Deltax(i)(t)](2)>/2nt, where the average is taken over all groups of n...

From extensive numerical simulations, we find that periodic polygonal billiard channels with angles which are irrational multiples of pi generically exhibit normal diffusion (linear growth of the mean squared displacement) when they have a finite horizon, i.e., when no particle can travel arbitrarily far without colliding. For the infinite horizon case we present numerical tests showing that th...

Submitted for the MAR10 Meeting of The American Physical Society Hydrodynamic Interaction of Colloid Suspension in Ribbon Channels1 BINHUA LIN, SERGEY NOVIKOV, STUART A. RICE, University of Chicago — We report the results of an experimental study of hydrodynamic interaction in colloid suspensions that are intermediate between quasi-one-dimensional (q1D) and quasi-two-dimensional (q2D) systems. ...

Using the emulsion method, we measured the homogeneous nucleation temperature depression, DeltaT(f,hom), and equilibrium melting points depression, DeltaT(m), of various aqueous solutions and then calculated lambda for each solute using the linear relationship DeltaT(f,hom) = lambdaDeltaT(m). We defined lambda as the solute-specific supercooling capacity and examined its correlation with some k...