Manera Miret, Marc (Date of defense: 2007-06-27)
In this thesis we push forward techniques to learn about the large scale structure formation of the universe. The approach is from theory, observations and simulations. From theory we study the growth ...
Casanova i Fernàndez, Fèlix (Date of defense: 2004-03-09)
This Ph.D. Thesis has been devoted to the preparation and characterisation of bulk Gd5(SixGe1-x)4 alloys and to the study of the magnetocaloric effect at the first-order magnetostructural transition ...
Pont i Pla, Oriol (Date of defense: 2009-04-24)
Complex systems are abundant in our natural environment. In linear systems, the equations of their dynamics can be very difficult to solve, but if they cannot be described with a single characteristic ...
Perelló, Josep, 1974- (Date of defense: 2001-12-20)
Thesis investigates the dynamics of financial markets. Nowadays, this is one of the emergent fields in physics and requires a multidisciplinary approach. The thesis studies the first work made by the ...
Nofrarias Serra, Miquel (Date of defense: 2007-12-13)
LISA Pathfinder (LPF) is an ESA mission, with NASA contributions, devoted to pave the way to the future spaceborne gravitational wave observatory LISA.<br/>The LISA Technology Package (LTP) experiment ...
Fernández Sabater, Alberto (Date of defense: 2008-11-13)
[spa] El objetivo de la presente tesis es el estudio de las subestructuras que aparecen a un nivel de resolución mesoscópico en las redes complejas. Dichas subestructuras, que en el campo de las redes ...
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 ...
Pérez Canals, Enric (Date of defense: 2007-04-24)
La pregunta que ha inspirado que ha venido a dar en este trabajo ha sido: ¿Qué papel tuvo la hipótesis adiabática de Paul Ehrenfest en el desarrollo de la teoría cuántica? Para ello se ha tratado de ...