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lunedì 20 novembre 2023
# gst: collective patterns generated by capillary surfers.
giovedì 14 dicembre 2023
# gst: pulsating active matter.
martedì 28 maggio 2019
# gst: to create standing waves induced by mismatches
<< In work recently published (..), the mismatch of electronic momentum across domain walls (i.e., regions with a different orientation of the intrinsic electric dipole) is shown to create standing waves, even though there is no potential buildup across the domain wall. >>
Researchers demonstrate new properties of atomically thin ferroelectrics. University of Arkansas. May 28, 2019
https://m.phys.org/news/2019-05-properties-atomically-thin-ferroelectrics.html
Kai Chang, Brandon J. Miller, et al. Standing Waves Induced by Valley-Mismatched Domains in Ferroelectric SnTe Monolayers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 206402 May 24, 2019.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.206402
mercoledì 5 luglio 2023
# brain: spiral waves at the edge of neural tissue during cognitive processing.
martedì 9 febbraio 2016
# s-brain: hacking inside (slow gamma) rhythms
<< Brain cells share different kinds of information with one another using a variety of different brain waves, analogous to the way radio stations broadcast on different frequencies. >>
<< one of these frequencies allows us to play back memories — or envision future activities — in fast forward. >>
<< fast gamma rhythms encode memories about things that are happening right now; these waves come rapidly one after another as the brain processes high-resolution information in real time. The scientists learned that slow gamma rhythms — used to retrieve memories of the past, as well as imagine and plan for the future — store more information on their longer waves, contributing to the fast-forward effect as the mind processes many data points with each wave. >>
<< The finding has implications for medicine as well as for criminal justice and other areas where memory reliability can be at issue. >>
https://scienmag.com/scientists-discover-how-we-play-memories-in-fast-forward/
Chenguang Zheng, Laura Lee Colgin. Beta and Gamma Rhythms Go with the Flow. Open Archive. Neuron , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , 236 - 237. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2014.12.067
sabato 20 agosto 2022
# art: pictures of the floating world, a guide to making shadow puppets
giovedì 15 febbraio 2024
# gst: droplets scoot like caterpillars.
mercoledì 6 marzo 2019
# gst astro: when a superbubble can generate trains of shock waves
<< Sixty-seven million light-years away, a galaxy is blowing enormous bubbles. We know what they are. Known as nuclear superbubbles, the structures are likely created by the supermassive black hole in the galaxy's centre. Now, thanks to new data, we know something incredible is occurring inside them. >>
<< Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of spiral galaxy NGC 3079 have revealed that the bubbles are actually a huge cosmic particle accelerator, producing energetic high-speed particles around their edges. >>
<< As the bubbles expand into the surrounding gas of the interstellar medium, they generate shock waves, which in turn produce tangled magnetic fields. (..) particles ricochet around these shock magnetic fields; when they pass through the shock front, they get an acceleration boost. >>
Michelle Starr. Astronomers Have Found 'Superbubbles' Producing Shock Waves in Another Galaxy. Mar 4, 2019.
Jiang-Tao Li, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, et al. Detection of non-thermal hard X-ray emission from the "Fermi bubble" in an external galaxy. ApJ in press. arXiv:1901.10536v1 [astro-ph.HE] Jan 31, 2019.
mercoledì 8 maggio 2024
# gst: a case of noise-induced excitation wave (in coupled FH-N eq.)
martedì 26 settembre 2023
# gst: apropos of transitions, three distinct new families of long-wave instabilities and potential new pathways to turbulence.
martedì 10 novembre 2020
# brain: the hypothesis that a brain organoid (a lab-grown brain) can reach consciousness.
giovedì 19 marzo 2020
# gst: global dust storms from waves in thin air.
venerdì 4 agosto 2023
# gst: dynamics and interactions of multiple bright droplets and bubbles, and interactions of kinks with droplets and with antikinks.
mercoledì 7 settembre 2016
# s-gst: surface waves as a Turing machine
<< A droplet bouncing and wandering across a liquid surface can produce waves that store the history of its chaotic motion >>
Philip Ball. Focus: Surface Waves Store Bouncing Droplet’s History. Physics 9, 101. August 26, 2016.
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/101
S. Perrard, E. Fort, Y. Couder. Wave-Based Turing Machine: Time Reversal and Information Erasing. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 094502 – DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.094502 Published 26 August 2016
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.094502
mercoledì 20 settembre 2023
# gst: apropos of collisions of a vortex dipoles, vortex unbinding, vortex pinning to the edge, and emission of rarefaction pulses.
lunedì 28 agosto 2017
# astro: the binary black hole spin distribution, a sort of cosmic estension of Mr. Jelly Roll
<< The direct detection of gravitational waves from merging binary black holes opens up a window into the environments in which binary black holes form. One signature of such environments is the angular distribution of the black hole spins >>
AA << report that, if the magnitudes of the black hole spins are allowed to extend to high values, the effective spins for these systems indicate a 0.015 odds ratio against an aligned angular distribution compared to an isotropic one [isotropic spin orientation: the spins of the black holes are randomly oriented with respect to the orbit of the binary system]. When considering the effect of ten additional detections, this odds ratio decreases to 2.9 × 10−7 against alignment >>
Will M. Farr, Simon Stevenson, et al. Distinguishing spin-aligned and isotropic black hole populations with gravitational waves. Nature 548, 426–429 Aug 24, 2017 doi: 10.1038/nature23453
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7668/full/nature23453.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01385
<< Amico, qualunque cosa suonerai . . . suonerai Jelly Roll >>
Jelly Roll Morton (opp. Mouton, alias di Ferdinand La Menthe, opp. La Mothe, New Orleans, 20 ott ~1885 - Los Angeles, 10 luglio 1941, ~56a). Ref: Alan Lomax. "Mister Jelly Roll". Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York (1950); cit. in: Arrigo Polillo, "JAZZ". Oscar Saggi Mondadori. (1977):315,325.
lunedì 6 maggio 2024
# gst: random walk model for dual cascades in wave turbulence.
martedì 4 febbraio 2020
# gst: tiny deviations (inside a phase transition) to avoid a near-complete annihilation.
venerdì 4 febbraio 2022
# gst: apropos of apparent erratic dynamics, the self-organization of drops bouncing on a vertically-vibrated surface
martedì 13 agosto 2019
# gst: early seismic waves could allow to glimpse the power of the main temblor
AA << explore databases of earthquake source time functions and find that they are composed of distinct peaks that (..) call subevents (..) the main event magnitude can be estimated after observing only the first few subevents. >>
Philippe Danre, Jiuxun Yin, et al. Earthquakes Within Earthquakes: Patterns in Rupture Complexity. Geophysical Research Letters. Volume 46, Issue 13. doi: 10.1029/ 2019GL083093. Jun 25, 2019. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019GL083093
Anna Fiorentino. Early seismic waves hold the clue to the power of the main temblor. Harvard University. Aug 8, 2019. https://m.phys.org/news/2019-08-early-seismic-clue-power-main.html