Aznar Palenzuela, María (Date of defense: 2013-10-31)
The main goal of this thesis is to study the physical mechanisms implicated in the self-assembly and mechanical properties of non-enveloped viral capsids using coarse-grained models. The thesis has been ...
Montero Torralbo, Miquel (Date of defense: 1998-03-27)
This essay is devoted to the search for monochromatic gravitational wave signals in the data of the cryogenic detector "Explorer". With this aim several filtering procedures have been designed and ...
Sesé i Castel, Gemma (Date of defense: 1990-05-25)
L'anàlisi des del punt de vista dinàmic d'un sistema format per un conjunt de partícules que interactuen entre sí pot realitzar-se mitjançant diferents mètodes de simulació (Allen et al., 1987). D'entre ...
Arteaga Barriel, Daniel (Date of defense: 2007-06-28)
The basic aim of the thesis is the study of the propagation of particles and quasiparticles in non-trivial backgrounds from the quantum field theory point of view. By "non-trivial background" we mean ...
Sales Pardo, Marta (Date of defense: 2002-11-22)
Disorder is present in many systems in nature and in many different versions. For instance, the dislocations of a crystal lattice, or the randomness of the interaction between magnetic moments. One of ...
Reguera, D. (David) (Date of defense: 2001-11-23)
Esta tesis está dedicada al estudio de la cinética de la nucleación centrada en sus aspectos mesoscópicos y fuera equilibrio. Hemos desarrollado y presentado un marco teórico, basado en la Termodinámica ...
Huguet Casades, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2011-02-04)
[eng] Molecular biophysics is a scientific discipline that studies biomolecules. This discipline has experienced a revolution thanks to the development of single- molecule techniques. These techniques ...
Haddad, Nidal (Date of defense: 2012-10-27)
However successful classical general relativity is, it faces non-normalizability problems at the quantum mechanical level. Nevertheless, it predicts the existence of black holes, which are thermal objects ...
Colomer de Simón, Pol (Date of defense: 2016-06-09)
The study of a system from a network perspective focuses on the impact that connectivity between the elements has on the function of the system. The observation and measurement of parameters of real-world ...
Boguñá, Marián (Date of defense: 1998-11-30)
Partiendo de una formulación general de los procesos de transporte con dinámicas acopladas, se estudian tres sistemas distintos que presentan esta propiedad: el transporte de luz en medios desordenados, ...