Publications on granular matter and slow dynamics PDF Print E-mail

Experimental:

"Brownian motor in a granular medium"
R. Balzan, F. Dalton, V. Loreto, A. Petri and G. Pontuale,
Phys. Rev. E 83, 031310 (2011) PDF file

"Friction memory in the stick-slip of a sheared granular bed"
Fabio Leoni, Andrea Baldassarri, Fergal Dalton, Alberto Petri, Giorgio Pontuale and Stefano Zapperi,
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 357 (2011), 749-753.
"Stochastic dynamics of a sheared granular medium"
Alberto Petri, Andrea Baldassarri, Fergal Dalton, Giorgio Pontuale, Luciano Pietronero and Stefano Zapperi,
Eur. Phys. J. B 64, 531-535 (2008).
"Component Analysis of Granular Friction"
Fergal Dalton, Alberto Petri, Giorgio Pontuale and Luciano Pietronero,
in Procs of Sixth workshop on Traffic and Granular Flow'05, A. Schadschneider, T. Poschel, R. Kuhne, M. Schreckenberg & D.E. Wolf Eds, Springer (2007).

"Granular shearing and Barkhausen noise"
Andrea Baldassarri, Fergal Dalton, Alberto Petri, Luciano Pietronero, Giorgio Pontuale and Stefano Zapperi,
in Procs of Sixth workshop on Traffic and Granular Flow'05, A. Schadschneider, T. Poschel, R. Kuhne, M. Schreckenberg & D.E. Wolf Eds, Springer (2007).

"Brownian forces in shared granular matter"
A. Baldassarri, F. Dalton, A. Petri, S. Zapperi, G.Pontuale and L. Pietronero,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 118002 (2006). PDF file

"Shear Stress Fluctuations in the Liquid-Solid Granular Transition"
F. Dalton, F. Farrelly, A. Petri, L. Pietronero, L. Pitolli and G. Pontuale,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 138001 (2005). PDF file
"Stress fluctuations and the solid/fluid transition in a sheared granular bed"
Dalton, A. Petri and G. Pontuale,
in Procs of Powders \& Grains 2005, R.García-Rojo, H.J. Herrmann and S. McNamara, Eds. A.A.Balkema (Rotterdam, 2005).
"Basin of attraction of a bounded self-organized critical state"
Fergal Dalton and David Corcoran ,
Phys. Rev. E 65, 031310 (2002).

"Self-organized criticality in a sheared granular stick-slip system"
Fergal Dalton and David Corcoran,
Phys. Rev. E 63, 061312 (2001) .

Models:

"Ordering dynamics in the presence of multiple phases"
A. Petri, M. Ibáñez de Berganza, V. Loreto,
Philosophical Magazine 88, 3931 (2008).

"Phase separation of the Potts model in the square lattice"
Miguel Ibáñez de Berganza, Ezequiel E. Ferrero, Sergio A. Cannas, Vittorio Loreto and Alberto Petri,
The European Physical Journal, Special Topics 143 (2007), 273. cond-mat/0610039

"Phase ordering and symmetries of the Potts model"
M. Ibáñez de Berganza, V. Loreto and A. Petri,
B 87 (2007) 779. cond-mat/0606282

"Temperature in out-of-equilibrium lattice gas"
A. Petri and M. J. de Oliveira,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 17, 1703-1715 (2007). (PDF file)

"Crystal vs Glass formation in lattice models with many coexisting states ordered states"
M. J. de Oliveira, A. Petri and T. Tomé,
Physica A 342 (1-2), 97-103 (2004).

"Glassy states in lattice models with many coexisting crystalline phases"
M. J. de Oliveira, A. Petri and T. Tomé,
Europhys. Lett. 65, 20-26 (2004). PDF file

"Lattice Models of Disorder with Order "

Alberto Petri,
Brazilian Journal of Physics 33, 521-525 (2003). PDF file

"Emergence of Glassy States in Lattice Models with no a Priori Disorder"
M. J. de Oliveira, A. Petri and T. Tomé ,
in MODELING OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: Seventh Granada Lectures,
P. L. Garrido and J. Marro Eds., 139- 142 (American Institute of Physics, 2003). PDF file

"A microscopic model for granular compaction with friction"
C. Fusco, A. Fasolino, P. Gallo, A. Petri and M. Rovere,
Phys. Rev. E 66 (3), 31301 (2002). PDF file

"Stretched exponential relaxation in a diffusive model for granular compaction"
C. Fusco, P. Gallo, A. Petri and M. Rovere,
Phys. Rev. E 65 (2), 26127-26130 (2002). PDF file

"Glassy behaviour in short range lattice models without quenched disorder"
Mário J. de Oliveira and Alberto Petri,
Procs. of 8th International Workshop on Disordered Systems, Andalo, Trento, 12-15 March 2001,
Phil. Mag. B 82 (5), 617-623 (2002). (gzippe d PS file)

"Slow dynamics of k-mers on a square lattice"
C. Fusco, P. Gallo, A. Petri and M. Rovere,
Procs. of 8th International Workshop on Disordered Systems, Andalo, Trento, 12-15 March 2001,
Phil. Mag. B 82 (4), 375-381 (2002). (gzipped PS file)

"Granular gases: where standard kinetic theory fails"

A. Puglisi, V. Loreto, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, A. Petri and A. Vulpiani,
in Highlights INFM 1998/1999,
Published by Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (Genova 2001), p.98.

"Janssen's law and stress fluctuations in confined dry granular material"
U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, A. Petri and A. Vulpiani,
Physica A 280, 279-288 (2000). PDF file

"Slow relaxation in a diffusional model for granular compaction"

M.J. de Oliveira and A. Petri, in Compaction of Soils, Granulates and Powders,
Proc. of International Workshop on Compaction of Soils, Granulates and Powders,
Innsbruck (Austria), February 28-29, 2000,
D. Kolymbas and W. Fellin Eds., A.A.Balkema (Rotterdam 2000), p.275-281. (gzipp ed PS file)

"Clustering and non-gaussian behavior in granular matter",
A. Puglisi, V. Loreto, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, A. Petri and A. Vulpiani,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3848-3851 (1998). PDF file

"Granular compaction, random sequential adsorption and diffusional relaxation",
Mário J. de Oliveira and Alberto Petri,
J. Phys. A 31 L425-433 (1998). PDF file