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    Oscillatory pipe flow of wormlike micellar solutions 

    Casanellas Vilageliu, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)

    Wormlike micelles are viscoelastic fluids that present an intermediate behavior between solids and ordinary liquids since they are elastic at short time scales but flow easily at large time scales. In opposition to Newtonian ...

    Mechano–chemical study of rotatory molecular motors 

    Pérez Carrasco, Rubén (Date of defense: 2013-02-04)

    Cells are the minimum unit of life. They are born, they eat, the may grow, they may move, and, eventually, they die. By contrast, from a physicist point of view, cells are systems out of equilibrium continuously transducing ...

    Turbulent bubble suspensions and crystal growth in microgravity. Drop tower experiments and numerical simulations 

    Bitlloch Puigvert, Pau (Date of defense: 2012-10-11)

    We study the formation and spreading of a turbulent jet of bubbles in microgravity. This has been analyzed from the recordings obtained in previous experimental campaigns of microgravity. Results have been compared with a ...

    Spontaneous generation of geometry and its possible consequences 

    Puigdomènech Bourgon, Daniel (Date of defense: 2012-11-06)

    In this thesis a viable theory of gravity resulting from the spontaneous symmetry breaking of some more fundamental theory is developed. This fundamental theory does not include any notion of a metric or geometry. All the ...

    Flavour Tagging developments within the LHCb experiment 

    Grabalosa Gándara, Marc (Date of defense: 2012-05-15)

    Flavour Tagging at the LHCb experiment is a fundamental tool for the measurement of B oscillations and the study of CP violation. This document explains the development of different tagging techniques and the different ...

    Explicit Bound states and Resonance fields in Effective Field Theories 

    Tarrús Castellà, Jaume (Date of defense: 2012-06-07)

    The first three chapters of this thesis have been devoted to the theoretical background. We presented the novel work of this thesis in chapters 4 and 5. In chapter 4 we have constructed a Chiral effective field theory for ...

    First measurements of radiative B decays in LHCb 

    Puig Navarro, Albert (Date of defense: 2012-03-09)

    Radiative decays of B mesons, a good example of Flavor Changing Neutral Currents, are interesting for the study of physics beyond the Standard Model, as new high-energy phenomena can enter in the loop. The LHCb experiment, ...

    Charmed baryon resonances and mesons in hot and dense matter 

    Jiménez Tejero, Clara Estela (Date of defense: 2012-03-05)

    In this thesis we have studied baryon resonances generated from the dynamical interaction of two hadrons. We are interested on this study as an alternative approach to explain the increasing number of observed charmed ...

    Effects of the dipole-dipole interaction on the physics of ultracold quantum gases 

    Abad García, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-02-16)

    In this thesis we study the effects of the dipole-dipole interaction on the physics of ultracold quantum gases, both bosonic and fermionic, within the theoretical framework provided by the mean-field regime. This kind of ...

    Estudi experimental de la dinàmica d'un front fluid en un medi desordenat 

    Planet Latorre, Ramon (Date of defense: 2009-10-23)

    La imbibició és un procés de transport de fluids immiscibles en un medi desordenat en el qual el fluid que mulla preferentment el medi desplaça el fluid resident. La interfície que separa aquests dos fluids esta sotmesa a ...

    Entanglement in Many Body Quantum Systems 

    Riera Graells, Arnau (Date of defense: 2010-03-18)

    THESIS SUMMARY<br/><br/>TEXT:<br/><br/>This thesis is made of two parts. In the first one, the issue of entanglement in many body systems is addressed. The concept of entanglement and some of the recent progress on the ...

    Contribución al estudio de las aleaciones de Cu-Zn-AI mediante calorimetría y emisión acústica 

    Auguet Sangrá, Carlota E. (Date of defense: 1988-07-07)

    Hay un gran número de aleaciones que experimentan transformaciones martensíticas termoelásticas (Au-Cd, Ti-Ni, Cu- Zn- Al, Cu- Al- Mo) y, en consecuencia, presentan ciertas propiedades termomecánicas que los convierten en ...

    Colisiones de partículas cargadas. Modelos de interacción y algoritmos numéricos 

    Bote Paz, David (Date of defense: 2010-03-25)

    En esta tesis se reformulan de manera detallada la primera aproximación de Born relativista con ondas planas (PWBA), para colisiones inelásticas de electrones, positrones y partículas pesadas con átomos o iones, suponiendo ...

    Estudi de la influència de l'estat d'ordre atòmic en les transicions martensítiques 

    Castan i Vidal, Maria Teresa (Date of defense: 1987-04-09)

    Els sistemes objecte d'estudi en aquest treball són aliatges metàl·lics d'estructura reticular b.c.c. els quals, a baixes temperatures, experimenten una transició de fase estructural de tipus martensític (bàsicament descrita ...

    Nonmesonic weak decay of Hypemuclei, The 

    Parreño Garcia, Assumpta (Date of defense: 1997-05-22)

    In single A hypernuclei, a A hyperon can occupy any orbital in the hypernucleus since it is free from the Pauli exclusion principle due to its additional quantum number strangeness. <br/><br/>Due to the Pauli blocking ...

    Estudio de la dinámica estocástica mediante tiempos de primer paso 

    Ramírez de la Piscina Millán, Laureano (Date of defense: 1990-07-06)

    La caracterización de sistemas por medio de sus tiempos característicos es sujeto de investigación tanto teórica como experimental. Posiblemente el tiempo característico más conocido y más ampliamente utilizado es el Tiempo ...

    Simulació Monte Carlo de sistemes amb acoblament de graus de llibertat 

    Vives i Santa-Eulàlia, Eduard (Date of defense: 1991-01-16)

    Els models microscòpics usuals que es proposen en Mecànica Estadística descriuen, únicament, un tipus de grau de llibertat. Aquests models permeten explicar algunes transicions de fase que es troben en els diagrames de ...

    Semiclassical approach to relativistic nuclear mean field theory 

    Centelles Aixalà, Mario (Date of defense: 1992-07-30)

    The nuclear many-body problem is nowadays being increasingly approached on the basis of a relativistic formalism. Microscopic Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) calculations starting from a realistic nucleon-nucleon ...

    Model d'Ising amb camps aleatoris: propietats i aplicacions 

    Illa i Tortós, Xavier (Date of defense: 2007-01-23)

    S:<br/><br/>L'objectiu principal d'aquesta tesi és aprofundir en l'estudi dels models microscòpics que permeten estudiar la histèresi. Aquest fenomen està present en moltes àrees de la física i ha despertat l'interès de ...

    Topics in quantum Nanostructure Physics: Spin-Orbit effects and Far-Infrared Response 

    Malet Giralt, Francesc (Date of defense: 2008-05-13)

    We have investigated several properties of semiconductor electronic nanostructures. In the first part of the thesis, within the density functional theory we have addressed the ground state and the dipolar response of quantum ...