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Modelling Memory: From Statistical Mechanics to Behavioural Economics and Beyond

Memory plays an important role in many real-life situations; in particular, it is obvious that remembering past experiences affects future choices.

Rosemary Harris Rosemary Harris

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Thermodynamics of a non-commutative fermion gas

F G Scholtz and J Govaerts. 2008. Thermodynamics of a non-commutative fermion gas. Journal of Physics, A 41, 505003

Placeholder image Jan Govaerts

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Director alignment relative to the temperature gradient in nematic liquid crystals studied by molecular dynamics simulation

Sten Sarman and Aatto Laaksonen. 2014. Director alignment relative to the temperature gradient in nematic liquid crystals studied by molecul...

Aatto Laaksonen Aatto Laaksonen

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A Solvent-Mediated Coarse-Grained Model of DNA Derived with the Systematic Newton Inversion Method

Aymeric Naome, Aatto Laaksonen and Daniel P. Vercauteren. 2014. A Solvent-Mediated Coarse-Grained Model of DNA Derived with the Systematic N...

Aatto Laaksonen Aatto Laaksonen

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General Criterion for Harmonicity

Proesmans, Karel, Hans Vandebroek and Christian Van den Broeck. 2017. General Criterion for Harmonicity. Physical Review Letters, 119(14), 1...

Christian Van den Broeck Christian Van den Broeck

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A continuous-time persistent random walk model for flocking

Escaff, Daniel, Raúl Toral, Christian Van den Broeck and Katja Lindenberg. 2018. A continuous-time persistent random walk model for flocking...

Christian Van den Broeck Christian Van den Broeck
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