Linkage - International - Grant ID: LX0989627

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LX0989627

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

New frontiers in statistical mechanics. The chiral Potts model has been introduced in 1981 as a model for commensurate-incommensurate phase transitions in a layer of atoms or molecules adsorbed to a solid surface. If the adsorbed atoms all fit to holes between the surface atoms, the added layer is frozen, commensurate with the surface. If the added atoms are unable to fit holes, the added layer is no longer commensurate with the surface and could be in a floating state. A deeper understanding of this and similar phenomena in layered systems has nanotechnological implications. This may affect the design of new small electronic devices or could apply to small biological systems and the development of new medicines. The project will surely lead to new applicable mathematics.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-07-2009

Funding Scheme: Linkage - International

Funding Amount: $82,090.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Mathematical Logic, Set Theory, Lattices And Combinatorics | Theoretical Physics | Pure Mathematics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Physical sciences | Mathematical sciences

Other Keywords

Mathematical Logic, Set Theory, Lattices And Combinatorics | Mathematical sciences | Physical sciences | Pure Mathematics | Theoretical Physics

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