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Duarte Correa, María Jazmín (Date of defense: 2013-05-31)
Metallic glasses are often referred as glassy or amorphous alloys. They lack long-range order and microstructural defects that are characteristics in crystals, such as grain and phase boundaries and dislocations. These new ...
Osychenko, Oleg N. (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)
The Thesis is devoted to simulations of quantum phase transitions by means of Quantum Monte Carlo techniques. Quantum phase transition is a transition between phases at zero or low enough temperature, where quantum effects ...
Brualla Barberà, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2002-07-11)
Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) is a method suitable for quantum liquid simulations at finite temperature. We present in this thesis a study of PIMC dealing with the theory and algorithms related to it, and then two ...
Romanini, Michela (Date of defense: 2015-07-22)
The nature of the glass transition and of the glassy state is a fundamental and still unsolved problem of condensed matter physics. Many liquids can be supercooled below their melting point without crystallizing, that is, ...