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Wettability can be tuned by creating multilayer sandwich structures consisting of RC and PLA. This study provides an important insight into the manipulation of the wetting behavior of polymeric ENFs in multilayer structures for applications including chemical protective clothing.The formation of dynamical states for a collection of dust particles in two dimensions is shown using molecular dynamics simulations. The charged dust particles interact with each other with a Yukawa pair potential mimicking the screening due to plasma. An external radial confining force has also been applied to the dust particles to keep them radially confined. When the particle number is low (say, a few), they get arranged on the radial locations corresponding to multiple rings or shells. For specific numbers, such an arrangement of particles is stationary. However, for several cases, the cluster of dust particles relaxes to a state for which the dust particles on rings display intershell rotation. check details For a larger number of dust particles (a few hundred, for instance), an equilibrium state with a coherent rigid body displaying angular oscillation of the entire cluster is observed. A detailed characterization of the formation of these states in terms of particle number, coupling parameter, etc., is provided.In this article, in addition to the characterization of geometrical state spaces for the passive states, an operational approach has been introduced to distinguish them on their charging capabilities of a quantum battery. Unlike the thermal states, the structural instability of passive states assures the existence of a natural number n, for which n+1 copies of the state can charge a quantum battery while n copies cannot. This phenomenon can be presented in an n copy resource-theoretic approach, for which the free states are unable to charge the battery in n copies. Here we have exhibited the single copy scenario explicitly. We also show that general ordering of the passive states on the basis of their charging capabilities is not possible and even the macroscopic entities (viz. energy and entropy) are unable to order them precisely. Interestingly, for some of the passive states, the majorization criterion gives sufficient order to the charging and discharging capabilities. However, the charging capacity for the set of thermal states (for which charging is possible) is directly proportional to their temperature.The thermodynamic definition of entropy can be extended to nonequilibrium systems based on its relation to information. To apply this definition in practice requires access to the physical system's microstates, which may be prohibitively inefficient to sample or difficult to obtain experimentally. It is beneficial, therefore, to relate the entropy to other integrated properties which are accessible out of equilibrium. We focus on the structure factor, which describes the spatial correlations of density fluctuations and can be directly measured by scattering. The information gained by a given structure factor regarding an otherwise unknown system provides an upper bound for the system's entropy. We find that the maximum-entropy model corresponds to an equilibrium system with an effective pair interaction. Approximate closed-form relations for the effective pair potential and the resulting entropy in terms of the structure factor are obtained. As examples, the relations are used to estimate the entropy of an exactly solvable model and two simulated systems out of equilibrium. The focus is on low-dimensional examples, where our method, as well as a recently proposed compression-based one, can be tested against a rigorous direct-sampling technique. The entropy inferred from the structure factor is found to be consistent with the other methods, superior for larger system sizes, and accurate in identifying global transitions. Our approach allows for extensions of the theory to more complex systems and to higher-order correlations.We derive methods for estimating the topology of the stationary probability current j[over ⃗]_s of the two-species Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) without the need to solve the FPE. These methods are chosen such that they become exact in certain limits, such as infinite system size or vanishing coupling between species in the diffusion matrix. The methods make predictions about the fixed points of j[over ⃗]_s and their relation to extrema of the stationary probability distribution and to fixed points of the convective field, which is related to the deterministic drift of the system. Furthermore, they predict the rotation sense of j[over ⃗]_s around extrema of the stationary probability distribution. Even though these methods cannot be proven to be valid away from extrema, the boundary lines between regions with different rotation senses are obtained with surprising accuracy. We illustrate and test these methods, using simple reaction systems with only one coupling term between the two species as well as a few generic reaction networks taken from the literature. We use it also to investigate the shape of nonphysical probability currents occurring in reaction systems with detailed balance due to the approximations involved in deriving the Fokker-Planck equation.Dynamic critical behavior in superfluid systems is considered in the presence of external stirring and advecting processes. The latter are generated by means of the Gaussian random velocity ensemble with white-noise character in time variable and self-similar spatial dependence. The main focus of this work is to analyze an effect of compressible modes on the critical behavior. The model is formulated through stochastic Langevin equations, which are then recast into the Janssen-De Dominicis response formalism. Employing the field-theoretic perturbative renormalization group method we analyze large-scale properties of the model. Explicit calculations are performed to the leading one-loop approximation in the double (ɛ,y) expansion scheme, where ɛ is a deviation from the upper critical dimension d_c=4 and y describes a scaling property of the velocity ensemble. Altogether five distinct universality classes are expected to be macroscopically observable. In contrast to the incompressible case, we find that compressibility leads to an enhancement and stabilization of nontrivial asymptotic regimes.
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