{"title":"The quantum theory of time: a calculus for q-numbers.","authors":"Samuel Kuypers","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2021.0970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0970","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In quantum theory, physical systems are usually assumed to evolve relative to a c-number time. This c-number time is unphysical and has turned out to be unnecessary for explaining dynamics: in the timeless approach to quantum theory developed by Page & Wootters 1983 <i>Phys. Rev. D</i> <b>27</b>, 2885. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.27.2885), subsystems of a stationary universe can instead evolve relative to a 'clock', which is a quantum system with a q-number time observable. Page & Wootters formulated their construction in the Schrödinger picture, which left open the possibility that the c-number time still plays an explanatory role in the Heisenberg picture. I formulate their construction in the Heisenberg picture and demonstrate how to eliminate c-number time from that picture, too. When the Page-Wootters construction is formulated in the Heisenberg picture, the descriptors of physical systems are functions of the clock's q-number time, and derivatives with respect to this q-number time can be defined in terms of the clock's algebra of observables, which results in a calculus for q-numbers.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20210970"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9326976/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40681095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philip A Cotterill, David Nigro, William J Parnell
{"title":"Deeply subwavelength giant monopole elastodynamic metacluster resonators.","authors":"Philip A Cotterill, David Nigro, William J Parnell","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The giant monopole resonance is a well-known phenomenon, employed to tune the dynamic response of composite materials comprising voids in an elastic matrix which has a bulk modulus much greater than its shear modulus, e.g. elastomers. This low frequency resonance (e.g. <math><msub><mi>λ</mi> <mi>p</mi></msub> <mrow><mo>/</mo></mrow> <mi>a</mi> <mo>≈</mo> <mn>100</mn></math> for standard elastomers, where <math><msub><mi>λ</mi> <mi>p</mi></msub> </math> and <math><mi>a</mi></math> are the compressional wavelength and void radius, respectively) has motivated acoustic material design over many decades, exploiting the subwavelength regime. Despite this widespread use, the manner by which the resonance arising from voids in close proximity is affected by their interaction is not understood. Here, we illustrate that for planar elastodynamics (circular cylindrical voids), coupling due to near-field shear significantly modifies the monopole (compressional) resonant response. We show that by modifying the number and configuration of voids in a metacluster, the directionality, scattering amplitude and resonant frequency can be tailored and tuned. Perhaps most notably, metaclusters deliver a lower frequency resonance than a single void. For example, two touching voids deliver a reduction in resonant frequency of almost 16% compared with a single void of the same volume. Combined with other resonators, such metaclusters can be used as meta-atoms in the design of elastic materials with exotic dynamic material properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20220026"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9257599/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40488855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrable nonlinear evolution equations in three spatial dimensions.","authors":"A S Fokas","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2022.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are integrable nonlinear evolution equations in two spatial variables. The solution of the initial value problem of these equations necessitated the introduction of novel mathematical formalisms. Indeed, the classical Riemann-Hilbert problem used for the solution of integrable equations in one spatial variable was replaced by a non-local Riemann-Hilbert problem or, more importantly, by the so-called <math><mi>d</mi></math> -bar formalism. The construction of integrable nonlinear evolution equations in three spatial dimensions has remained the key open problem in the area of integrability. For example, the two versions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation constitute two-dimensional generalizations of the celebrated Korteweg-de Vries equation. Are there three-dimensional generalizations of the KP equations? Here, we present such equations. Furthermore, we introduce a novel non-local <math><mi>d</mi></math> -bar formalism for solving the associated initial value problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20220074"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9326974/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40681094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Submarine channels formation driven by turbidity currents interacting with an erodible bed.","authors":"Rajesh K Mahato, Subhasish Dey, Sk Zeeshan Ali","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2022.0137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0137","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we explore the submarine channel formation driven by the interaction of turbidity currents with an erodible bed. The theoretical analysis considers the three-dimensional continuity and momentum equations of the fluid phase, and the advection-diffusion and Exner equations of the solid phase. The governing equations are linearized by imposing periodic perturbations on the base flow. We study the response of both the base flow (profiles of velocity and suspended sediment concentration) and perturbations (growth rate and perturbation fields) to changes in key parameters related to the flow and sediment transport. The growth rate and the critical wavenumber are examined for a given quintet formed by the gravitational parameter, longitudinal bed slope, sediment concentration at the edge of the driving layer, Rouse number and erosion coefficient. The critical wavenumber reduces with an increase in gravitational parameter, longitudinal bed slope, sediment concentration at the edge of the driving layer and erosion coefficient, while it increases with the Rouse number. For the submarine channel formation, we identify the upper threshold values for the gravitational parameter, longitudinal bed slope, sediment concentration at the edge of the driving layer and erosion coefficient and the lower threshold value for the Rouse number.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20220137"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277707/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40507296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Berta Vilacís, Jorge N Hayek, Ingo L Stotz, Hans-Peter Bunge, Anke M Friedrich, Sara Carena, Stuart Clark
{"title":"Evidence for active upper mantle flow in the Atlantic and Indo-Australian realms since the Upper Jurassic from hiatus maps and spreading rate changes.","authors":"Berta Vilacís, Jorge N Hayek, Ingo L Stotz, Hans-Peter Bunge, Anke M Friedrich, Sara Carena, Stuart Clark","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2021.0764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0764","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Histories of large-scale horizontal and vertical lithosphere motion hold important information on mantle convection. Here, we compare continent-scale hiatus maps as a proxy for mantle flow induced dynamic topography and plate motion variations in the Atlantic and Indo-Australian realms since the Upper Jurassic, finding they frequently correlate, except when plate boundary forces may play a significant role. This correlation agrees with descriptions of asthenosphere flow beneath tectonic plates in terms of Poiseuille/Couette flow, as it explicitly relates plate motion changes, induced by evolving basal shear forces, to non-isostatic vertical motion of the lithosphere. Our analysis reveals a timescale, on the order of a geological series, between the occurrence of continent-scale hiatus and plate motion changes. This is consistent with the presence of a weak upper mantle. It also shows a spatial scale for interregional hiatus, on the order of 2000-3000 km in diameter, which can be linked by fluid dynamic analysis to active upper mantle flow regions. Our results suggest future studies should pursue large-scale horizontal and vertical lithosphere motion in combination, to track the expressions of past mantle flow. Such studies would provide powerful constraints for adjoint-based geodynamic inverse models of past mantle convection.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20210764"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199074/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40401913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rheology of particulate suspensions with non-Newtonian fluids in capillaries.","authors":"Bin Xia, Paul S Krueger","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2021.0615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0615","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Particulate suspensions occur in situations from blood flow to slurries in drilling applications. Existing investigations of these suspensions generally concentrate on the impact of particle volume fraction for suspensions in Newtonian fluids under free-flow conditions. Recently, particulate-polymer composites have been used in additive manufacturing (AM). Here, the polymer becomes a shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluid during extrusion, creating a particulate suspension. Motivated by the challenges in AM of particulate composites, this study investigates the rheology of suspensions of micrometre-sized particles in shear-thinning silicone while extruded through AM-scaled nozzles (millimetre-scale diameters). The suspensions were observed to follow a power-law behaviour and their rheology was investigated through the measured flow consistency ( <math><mi>K</mi></math> ) and behaviour ( <math><mi>n</mi></math> ) indices. The impact of the particle volume fraction ( <math><mi>ϕ</mi></math> ) and the ratio ( <math><mi>ω</mi></math> ) of the capillary inside diameter to the particle diameter on both indices were measured. <math><mi>n</mi></math> was found to be only impacted by the suspension fluid type and <math><mi>ϕ</mi></math> . <math><mi>K</mi></math> was found to be constant at large <math><mi>ω</mi></math> , but decreased and then increased to infinity with <math><mi>ω</mi></math> decreasing. Based on its behaviour, <math><mi>K</mi></math> was categorized into two conditions and analysed separately with semi-empirical models. The impact of particle size distribution was also investigated.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20210615"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199073/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40399704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
George F Price, Igor L Chernyavsky, Oliver E Jensen
{"title":"Advection-dominated transport past isolated disordered sinks: stepping beyond homogenization.","authors":"George F Price, Igor L Chernyavsky, Oliver E Jensen","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2022.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate the transport of a solute past isolated sinks in a bounded domain when advection is dominant over diffusion, evaluating the effectiveness of homogenization approximations when sinks are distributed uniformly randomly in space. Corrections to such approximations can be non-local, non-smooth and non-Gaussian, depending on the physical parameters (a Péclet number Pe, assumed large, and a Damköhler number Da) and the compactness of the sinks. In one spatial dimension, solute distributions develop a staircase structure for large <math> <mrow><mrow><mi>Pe</mi></mrow> </mrow> </math> , with corrections being better described with credible intervals than with traditional moments. In two and three dimensions, solute distributions are near-singular at each sink (and regularized by sink size), but their moments can be smooth as a result of ensemble averaging over variable sink locations. We approximate corrections to a homogenization approximation using a moment-expansion method, replacing the Green's function by its free-space form, and test predictions against simulation. We show how, in two or three dimensions, the leading-order impact of disorder can be captured in a homogenization approximation for the ensemble mean concentration through a modification to <math> <mrow><mrow><mi>Da</mi></mrow> </mrow> </math> that grows with diminishing sink size.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20220032"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199076/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40401916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The wave function as a true ensemble.","authors":"Jonte R Hance, Sabine Hossenfelder","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2021.0705","DOIUrl":"10.1098/rspa.2021.0705","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In quantum mechanics, the wave function predicts probabilities of possible measurement outcomes, but not which individual outcome is realized in each run of an experiment. This suggests that it describes an ensemble of states with different values of a hidden variable. Here, we analyse this idea with reference to currently known theorems and experiments. We argue that the ψ-ontic/epistemic distinction fails to properly identify ensemble interpretations and propose a more useful definition. We then show that all local ψ-ensemble interpretations which reproduce quantum mechanics violate statistical independence. Theories with this property are commonly referred to as superdeterministic or retrocausal. Finally, we explain how this interpretation helps make sense of some otherwise puzzling phenomena in quantum mechanics, such as the delayed choice experiment, the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb detector and the extended Wigner's friends scenario.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20210705"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9215214/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40401914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unbiased estimation of the Hessian for partially observed diffusions.","authors":"Neil K Chada, Ajay Jasra, Fangyuan Yu","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2021.0710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0710","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we consider the development of unbiased estimators of the Hessian, of the log-likelihood function with respect to parameters, for partially observed diffusion processes. These processes arise in numerous applications, where such diffusions require derivative information, either through the Jacobian or Hessian matrix. As time-discretizations of diffusions induce a bias, we provide an unbiased estimator of the Hessian. This is based on using Girsanov's Theorem and randomization schemes developed through Mcleish (2011 <i>Monte Carlo Methods Appl.</i> <b>17</b>, 301-315 (doi:10.1515/mcma.2011.013)) and Rhee & Glynn (2016 <i>Op. Res.</i> <b>63</b>, 1026-1043). We demonstrate our developed estimator of the Hessian is unbiased, and one of finite variance. We numerically test and verify this by comparing the methodology here to that of a newly proposed particle filtering methodology. We test this on a range of diffusion models, which include different Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and the Fitzhugh-Nagumo model, arising in neuroscience.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20210710"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9215219/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40401918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviewers in 2021.","authors":"Michael Lockwood","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2022.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2022.0109","url":null,"abstract":"The Editors of Proceedings of the Royal Society A would like to thank all reviewers who contributed their time by refereeing manuscripts submitted throughout 2021. From previous feedback, we know that most reviewers value recognition of their efforts by the journal and through services such as Publons, which is integrated with Proceedings A. To provide an opportunity for recognition, we list the names of all reviewers who have opted to be included. This article is made permanent and citable by its digital object identifier (DOI). We encourage you to quote your contribution in your applications for tenure and grants or other forms of research assessment. Where you have provided it, we have included your ORCID so your contribution can be unambiguously assigned to you. On behalf of all the Editors and editorial office, I thank all of our reviewers past, present and future, and we look forward to your continued support of Proceedings of the Royal Society A.","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20220109"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8924952/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40308661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}