scholarly journals Non-Exponential Relaxation Time Scales in Disordered Systems: An Application to Protein Dynamics

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 491-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Iori ◽  
E Marinari ◽  
G Parisi
Fractals ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
YA. E. RYABOV ◽  
YU. FELDMAN

A memory function equation and scaling relationships were used for the physical interpretation of the Cole-Cole exponent. The correspondence between the relaxation time, the geometrical properties, the self-diffusion coefficient and the Cole-Cole exponent was established. Using this approach the dielectric relaxation spectra of the polymer-water mixtures and the glass transition process in the nylon 6,6 quenched, crystalline and micro-composite samples were analyzed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 1533-1547 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. M. Seviour ◽  
Darryn W. Waugh ◽  
Richard K. Scott

Abstract The Martian polar atmosphere is known to have a persistent local minimum in potential vorticity (PV) near the winter pole, with a region of high PV encircling it. This finding is surprising, since an isolated band of PV is barotropically unstable, a result going back to Rayleigh. Here the stability of a Mars-like annular vortex is investigated using numerical integrations of the rotating shallow-water equations. The mode of instability and its growth rate is shown to depend upon the latitude and width of the annulus. By introducing thermal relaxation toward an annular equilibrium profile with a time scale similar to that of the instability, a persistent annular vortex with similar characteristics as that observed in the Martian atmosphere can be simulated. This time scale, typically 0.5–2 sols, is similar to radiative relaxation time scales for Mars’s polar atmosphere. The persistence of an annular vortex is also shown to be robust to topographic forcing, as long as it is below a certain amplitude. It is therefore proposed that the persistence of this barotropically unstable annular vortex is permitted owing to the combination of short radiative relaxation time scales and relatively weak topographic forcing in the Martian polar atmosphere.


2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Schiulaz ◽  
E. Jonathan Torres-Herrera ◽  
Lea F. Santos

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (07) ◽  
pp. 1357-1369 ◽  
Author(s):  
SITANGSHU BIKAS SANTRA ◽  
WILLIAM A. SEITZ

Diffusion on 2D site percolation clusters at p = 0.7, 0.8, and 0.9 above pc on the square lattice in the presence of two crossed bias fields, a local bias B and a global bias E, has been investigated. The global bias E is applied in a fixed global direction whereas the local bias B imposes a rotational constraint on the motion of the diffusing particle. The rms displacement Rt ~ tk in the presence of both biases is studied. Depending on the strength of E and B, the behavior of the random walker changes from diffusion to drift to no-drift or trapping. There is always diffusion for finite B with no global bias. A crossover from drift to no-drift at a critical global bias Ec is observed in the presence of local bias B for all disordered lattices. At the crossover, value of the rms exponent changes from k = 1 to k < 1, the drift velocity vt changes from constant in time t to decreasing power law nature, and the "relaxation" time τ has a maximum rate of change with respect to the global bias E. The value of critical bias Ec depends on the disorder p as well as on the strength of local bias B. Phase diagrams for diffusion, drift, and no-drift are obtained as a function of bias fields E and B for these systems.


1989 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Komu ◽  
A. Alanen ◽  
H. Määttänen ◽  
M. Kormano

Spin-lattice proton relaxation times (T1) in several biologic and phantom samples have been measured and analysed by using standard inversion recovery (IR) and spin echo (SE) sequences at 0.02 T. The average T1 of the sample was measured with the two-data point method. In the case of bi-exponential relaxation the value of a single T1 is strongly dependent on the T1 and TR selected. With short TI the T1 value obtained by using the two point method is approximately equal to the weighted average of the two relaxation time components (T1s and T1l), while at long inversion times TI the single T1 is more dependent on the long component T1l. The more the true short and long relaxation time components T1s and T1l of the bi-exponential relaxation differ from each other, the greater is the potential error, provided that the weights ws and wl do not differ very much. When two-data point analyzing method is used, the possible multi-exponential behaviour of the relaxation in tissues will be missed. For more reliable T1 values a series of images with as many values of TI as possible should be taken. Knowledge of true multi-exponential relaxation parameters helps in optimizing the sequence parameters and the image contrast between the various tissues.


2004 ◽  
Vol 121 (15) ◽  
pp. 7341-7346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatolii V. Mokshin ◽  
Renat M. Yulmetyev ◽  
Peter Hänggi

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