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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Kenosis and identities: pneumatological pointers

Nigrini, Jacques 11 1900 (has links)
In the thesis a methodology of understanding and explicating Christian faith consistent with the mystery of the simultaneous close connection and radical difference of God, human beings and the physical-organic cosmos environment is been mapped out. The theanthropocosmic principle as an expression of the mystery functions as the heuristic key in opening up the notion of kenosis (and incarnation) of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit within the scope of the enduring interaction of . The Spirit in the kenotic sense of the word connects and differentiates the overall processes of being and becoming, here and there, now and then of the mystery of the `presences' of God, human beings and the natural cosmic world in being there (Dasein), being thus and thus (Sosein) and being dynamically actual (Aktsein). God acts in terms of the Spirit's operational kenotic presence within the margins of the creatureliness of people and the natural cosmic world as the kenotic clothing of God. A dynamic interpretation of the integral and differential character of being and becoming suggests that making sense of the dynamics of the formation of identities and identification is an ever ongoing endeavour. It implies a continuous process of negotiation whilst experiencing various continuums, remaining open-ended in an ever-increasing sense of wonder and mystery of "exitus a Deo-reditus in Deum". / Systematic Theology and theological Ethics / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)
202

Le spectre du sous-laplacien sur les variétés CR strictement pseudoconvexes

Aribi, Amine 29 November 2012 (has links) (PDF)
Le but de cette thèse est d'étudier le spectre du sous-laplacien sur les variétés CR strictement peusdoconvexes. Nous prouvons que le spectre du sous-laplacien $\Delta_b$ est discret sur un domaine borné $\Omega \subset M$ d'une variété CR strictement pseudoconvexe qui satisfait l'inégalité de Poincaré, sous les conditions de Dirichlet au bord. Nous étudions le comportement des valeurs propres du sous-laplacien $\Delta_b$ sur une variété CR strictement pseudoconvexe compacte $M$, en tant que fonctionnelle sur l'espace ${\mathcal P}_+$ de formes de contact positivement orientées sur $M$ en dotant ${\mathcal P}_+$ d'une topologie métrique naturelle. Nous établissons des inégalités pour les valeurs propres de $\Delta_b$ sur des variétés CR strictement pseudoconvexes ( éventuellement à bord non vide). Nos estimations prolongent les résultats obtenus par P-C. Niu \& H. Zhang \cite{NiZh} pour les valeurs propres du sous-laplacien avec conditions de Dirichlet au bord sur un domaine borné du groupe de Heisenberg, et sont dans l'esprit des inégalités de Payne-P\'lya-Weinberger et Yang. Nous obtenons une nouvelle borne inférieure sur la première valeur propre non nulle $\lambda_1 (\theta )$ du sous-laplacien $\Delta_b$ sur une variété CR strictement pseudoconvexe compacte $M$ munie d'une forme de contact $\theta$ dont la connexion de Tanaka-Webster est à courbure de Ricci minorée.
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Kenosis and identities: pneumatological pointers

Nigrini, Jacques 11 1900 (has links)
In the thesis a methodology of understanding and explicating Christian faith consistent with the mystery of the simultaneous close connection and radical difference of God, human beings and the physical-organic cosmos environment is been mapped out. The theanthropocosmic principle as an expression of the mystery functions as the heuristic key in opening up the notion of kenosis (and incarnation) of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit within the scope of the enduring interaction of . The Spirit in the kenotic sense of the word connects and differentiates the overall processes of being and becoming, here and there, now and then of the mystery of the `presences' of God, human beings and the natural cosmic world in being there (Dasein), being thus and thus (Sosein) and being dynamically actual (Aktsein). God acts in terms of the Spirit's operational kenotic presence within the margins of the creatureliness of people and the natural cosmic world as the kenotic clothing of God. A dynamic interpretation of the integral and differential character of being and becoming suggests that making sense of the dynamics of the formation of identities and identification is an ever ongoing endeavour. It implies a continuous process of negotiation whilst experiencing various continuums, remaining open-ended in an ever-increasing sense of wonder and mystery of "exitus a Deo-reditus in Deum". / Systematic Theology and theological Ethics / D. Th. (Systematic Theology)
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On Classical and Quantum Mechanical Energy Spectra of Finite Heisenberg Spin Systems

Exler, Matthias 16 May 2006 (has links)
Since the synthesis of Mn12, which can be regarded as the birth of the class of magnetic molecules, many different molecules of various sizes and structures have been produced. The magnetic nature of these molecules originates from a number of paramagnetic ions, whose unpaired electrons form collective angular momenta, referred to as spins. The interaction between these spins can often be described in the Heisenberg model. In this work, we use the rotational band model to predict the energy spectrum of the giant Keplerate {Mo72Fe30}. Based on the approximate energy spectrum, we simulate the cross-section for inelastic neutron scattering, and the results are compared to experimental data. The successful application of our approach substantiates the validity of the rotational band model. Furthermore, magnetic molecules can serve as an example for studying general questions of quantum mechanics. Since chemistry now allows the preparation of magnetic molecules with various spin quantum numbers, this class of materials can be utilized for studying the relations between classical and quantum regime. Due to the correspondence principle, a quantum spin system can be described exactly by classical physics for an infinitely large spin quantum number s. However, the question remains for which quantum numbers s a classical calculation yields a reasonable approximation. Our approach in this work is to develop a converging scheme that adds systematic quantum corrections to the classical density of states for Heisenberg spin systems. To this end, we establish a correspondence of the classical density of states and the quantum spectrum by means of spin-coherent states. The algorithm presented here allows the analysis of how the classical limit is approached, which gives general criteria for the similarity of the classical density of states to the quantum spectrum.
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Creating Artificial Quantum Chiral States : Time Evolving Open Spin Chains

Beiersdorf, Emil January 2023 (has links)
The discoveries in applications of chirality in various areas of science seem to never cease to emerge. Chirality, being the property that some objects are geometrically distinguishable from their mirror image, is a tiny difference of vast importance. The fact that multiple biological structures are chiral is what permits life on Earth and its discovery had a severe impact on medical development. When the concept of quantum chirality was introduced, the connection between the chiral symmetry and the quantum states and operators that characterize quantum chirality was not particularly clear. It was shown that closed spin chains of an odd number of spins naturally had chiral states as eigenstates of a Hamiltonian describing Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) interactions, and the symmetry of the system in direct relation to the chiral symmetry of the eigenstates quickly became of interest. The aim of this thesis is therefore to explore how quantum chirality is a chiral symmetry and to develop a scheme to create chiral states from systems that lack the required symmetry. The investigation showed that discretized probability current gives a good explanation to why the chiral states follow a chiral nature, but further examination is required in order to generalize a deeper connection between the probability current and the chiral states of spin chains. The results also indicated that it was possible to force open spin chains into purely chiral states, and into superpositions thereof, by time evolution. The scheme is still in its early stage and physical implementation and applications are yet to be explored. / Upptäckterna av tillämpningar av kiralitet inom ett flertal områden verkar ständigt öka i omfattning. Kiralitet är fenomenet att vissa objekt geometriskt kan särskiljas från sin spegelbild, vilket är en ringa skillnad men med väsentlig innebörd. Det faktum att flertalet biologiska strukturer är kirala är en förutsättning för liv på jorden och upptäckten av detta har haft en omfattande betydelse för medicinsk utveckling. När konceptet kvantkiralitet introducerades, var kopplingen mellan den kirala symmetrin och de kvantmekaniska tillstånden och operatorerna som utgör kvantkiralitet, inte trivial. Tidigare studier har visat att stängda spinnkedjor av ett udda antal spinn naturligt har kirala tillstånd som egentillstånd till en Hamiltonian beskrivande Heisenberg- och Dzyaloshinsky-Moriyainteraktioner. Att systemets symmetri stod i direkt relation till den kirala symmetrin av egentillstånden blev tidigt av intresse att undersöka. Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats är således att utforska en djupare förståelse till hur kvantkiralitet är en kiral symmetri samt utveckla en metod för hur kirala tillstånd kan drivas till att uppstå ur system som saknar den nödvändiga symmetrin. Resultaten visade att den diskretiserade sannolikhetsströmmen ger en god förklaring till varför de kirala tillstånden följer en kiral natur, men vidare efterforskning behövs för att kunna generalisera en djupare koppling mellan sannolikhetsströmmen och de kirala tillstånden hos spinnkedjor. Undersökningen indikerade också att det var möjligt att forcera en öppen spinnkedja till ett kiralt tillstånd, och till superpositioner därav, genom tidsutveckling. Metoden är fortfarande i sin tidiga utveckling och fysisk implementering samt tillämpningar väntar ännu på att upptäckas.
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Contribution à la théorie des ondelettes : application à la turbulence des plasmas de bord de Tokamak et à la mesure dimensionnelle de cibles / Contribution to the wavelet theory : Application to edge plasma turbulence in tokamaks and to dimensional measurement of targets

Scipioni, Angel 19 November 2010 (has links)
La nécessaire représentation en échelle du monde nous amène à expliquer pourquoi la théorie des ondelettes en constitue le formalisme le mieux adapté. Ses performances sont comparées à d'autres outils : la méthode des étendues normalisées (R/S) et la méthode par décomposition empirique modale (EMD).La grande diversité des bases analysantes de la théorie des ondelettes nous conduit à proposer une approche à caractère morphologique de l'analyse. L'exposé est organisé en trois parties.Le premier chapitre est dédié aux éléments constitutifs de la théorie des ondelettes. Un lien surprenant est établi entre la notion de récurrence et l'analyse en échelle (polynômes de Daubechies) via le triangle de Pascal. Une expression analytique générale des coefficients des filtres de Daubechies à partir des racines des polynômes est ensuite proposée.Le deuxième chapitre constitue le premier domaine d'application. Il concerne les plasmas de bord des réacteurs de fusion de type tokamak. Nous exposons comment, pour la première fois sur des signaux expérimentaux, le coefficient de Hurst a pu être mesuré à partir d'un estimateur des moindres carrés à ondelettes. Nous détaillons ensuite, à partir de processus de type mouvement brownien fractionnaire (fBm), la manière dont nous avons établi un modèle (de synthèse) original reproduisant parfaitement la statistique mixte fBm et fGn qui caractérise un plasma de bord. Enfin, nous explicitons les raisons nous ayant amené à constater l'absence de lien existant entre des valeurs élevées du coefficient d'Hurst et de supposées longues corrélations.Le troisième chapitre est relatif au second domaine d'application. Il a été l'occasion de mettre en évidence comment le bien-fondé d'une approche morphologique couplée à une analyse en échelle nous ont permis d'extraire l'information relative à la taille, dans un écho rétrodiffusé d'une cible immergée et insonifiée par une onde ultrasonore / The necessary scale-based representation of the world leads us to explain why the wavelet theory is the best suited formalism. Its performances are compared to other tools: R/S analysis and empirical modal decomposition method (EMD). The great diversity of analyzing bases of wavelet theory leads us to propose a morphological approach of the analysis. The study is organized into three parts. The first chapter is dedicated to the constituent elements of wavelet theory. Then we will show the surprising link existing between recurrence concept and scale analysis (Daubechies polynomials) by using Pascal's triangle. A general analytical expression of Daubechies' filter coefficients is then proposed from the polynomial roots. The second chapter is the first application domain. It involves edge plasmas of tokamak fusion reactors. We will describe how, for the first time on experimental signals, the Hurst coefficient has been measured by a wavelet-based estimator. We will detail from fbm-like processes (fractional Brownian motion), how we have established an original model perfectly reproducing fBm and fGn joint statistics that characterizes magnetized plasmas. Finally, we will point out the reasons that show the lack of link between high values of the Hurst coefficient and possible long correlations. The third chapter is dedicated to the second application domain which is relative to the backscattered echo analysis of an immersed target insonified by an ultrasonic plane wave. We will explain how a morphological approach associated to a scale analysis can extract the diameter information
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Objets tressés : une étude unificatrice de structures algébriques et une catégorification des tresses virtuelles

Lebed, Victoria 13 December 2012 (has links) (PDF)
Dans cette thèse on développe une théorie générale des objets tressés et on l'applique à une étude de structures algébriques et topologiques. La partie I contient une théorie homologique des espaces vectoriels tressés et modules tressés, basée sur le coproduit de battage quantique. La construction d'un tressage structurel qui caractérise diverses structures - auto-distributives (AD), associatives, de Leibniz - permet de généraliser et unifier des homologies familières. Les hyper-bords de Loday, ainsi que certaines opérations homologiques, apparaissent naturellement dans cette interprétation. On présente ensuite des concepts de système tressé et module multi-tressé. Appliquée aux bigèbres, bimodules, produits croisés et (bi)modules de Hopf et de Yetter-Drinfel'd, cette théorie donne leurs interprétations tressées, homologies et actions adjointes. La no- tion de produits tensoriels multi-tressés d'algèbres donne un cadre unificateur pour les doubles de Heisenberg et Drinfel'd, ainsi que les algèbres X de Cibils-Rosso et Y et Z de Panaite. La partie III est orientée vers la topologie. On propose une catégorification des groupes de tresses virtuelles en termes d'objets tressés dans une catégorie symétrique (CS). Cette approche de double tressage donne une source de représentations de V Bn et un traitement catégorique des racks virtuels de Manturov et de la représentation de Burau tordue. On définit ensuite des structures AD dans une CS arbitraire et on les munit d'un tressage. Les techniques tressées de la partie I amènent alors à une théorie homologique des structures AD catégoriques. Les algèbres associatives, de Leibniz et de Hopf rentrent dans ce cadre catégorique.
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Theoretical investigation of size effects in multiferroic nanoparticles

Allen, Marc Alexander 05 August 2020 (has links)
Over the last two decades, great progress has been made in the understanding of multiferroic materials, ones where multiple long-range orders simultaneously exist. However, much of the research has focused on bulk systems. If these materials are to be incorporated into devices, they would not be in bulk form, but would be miniaturized, such as in nanoparticle form. Accordingly, a better understanding of multiferroic nanoparticles is necessary. This manuscript examines the multiferroic phase diagram of multiferroic nanoparticles related to system size and surface-induced magnetic anisotropy. There is a particular focus on bismuth ferrite, the room-temperature antiferromagnetic-ferroelectric multiferroic. Theoretical results will be presented which show that at certain sizes, a bistability develops in the cycloidal wavevector. This implies bistability in the ferroelectric and magnetic moments of the nanoparticles. This novel magnetoelectric bistability may be of use in the creation of an electrically-written, magnetically-read memory element. / Graduate

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