Macía Rey, Adrián (Date of defense: 2015-02-13)
A microscopic description of the many-body properties of anisotropic homogeneous gases of bosonic dipoles in two dimensions is presented and discussed. By changing the polarization angle with respect ...
Orrit Prat, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-03-07)
D’ençà que el polietilè reticulat (XLPE) es va començar a utilitzar com aïllament elèctric per cables de subministrament elèctric, s’han destinat molts esforços a l’estudi de les propietats dielèctriques ...
Starnini, Michele (Date of defense: 2014-10-24)
The data revolution experienced by social science has revealed complex patterns of interactions in human dynamics, such as the heterogeneity and burstiness of social contacts. The recently uncovered ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tirabassi, Giulio (Date of defense: 2015-06-05)
En una situación de grandes cambios climáticos, el conocimiento de el sistema Tierra ha devenido, en los últimos años, una de las tareas mas importantes para la comunidad científica. En los últimos diez ...
Deza, Juan Ignacio (Date of defense: 2015-02-26)
This Thesis is devoted to the construction of global climate networks (CNs) built from time series -surface air temperature anomalies (SAT)- using nonlinear analysis. Several information theory measures ...
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, ...
Rojas-Cervellera, Víctor (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Thiolate monolayer-protected gold clusters (AuMPCs) are being used in various biological and biomedical applications due to their unique physical and chemical properties. The fact that gold-sulphur bonds ...
Andujar Moreno, Rabindranath (Date of defense: 2015-02-03)
This thesis explores a very well understood area of physics: computational structural dynamics. The aim is to stretch its boundaries by merging it with another very well established discipline such as ...