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Radiative heat transport mediated by near-field interactions is known to be superdiffusive in dilute, many-body systems. Here we use a generalized Landauer theory of radiative heat transfer in many-body planar systems to demonstrate a nonmonotonic transition from superdiffusive to ballistic transport in dense systems. We show that such a transition is associated to a change of the polarization of dominant modes. Our findings are complemented by a quantitative study of the relaxation dynamics of the system in the different regimes of heat transport. This result could have important consequences on thermal management at nanoscale of many-body systems.

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In this work, we analyse the microstructure and local chemical composition of green-emitting InxGa1-xN/GaN quantum well (QW) heterostructures in correlation with their emission properties. Two samples of high structural quality grown by metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy (MOVPE) with a nominal composition of x = 0.15 and 0.18 indium are discussed. The local indium composition is quantitatively evaluated by comparing scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) images to simulations and the local indium concentration is extracted from intensity measurements. The calculations point out that the measured indium fluctuations may be correlated to the large width and intensity decrease of the PL emission peak.

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The origin of the unique rheological properties of wheat gluten, the water-insoluble protein fraction of wheat grain, is crucial in bread-making processes and questions scientists since the 18th century. Gluten is a mixture of two types of proteins, monomeric gliadins and polymeric glutenins, formed by subunits linked via disulfide bonds. To better understand the respective role of gliadins (Gli) and glutenins (Glu) in the supramolecular structure of gluten and its link to rheology, we have developed a model gluten system using a food-grade solvent, which allows quantitative comparisons with theoretical models for synthetic polymers [1]. Thanks to an experimental protocol based on a liquid-liquid phase separation, we can extract, from industrial gluten, gluten protein fractions with contrasted mass ratios Glu/Gli (from 0.04 to 2). Stable gluten protein suspensions in a water/ethanol mixture solvent over a wide range of concentrations can be produced. Using scattering techniques, we demonstrate that blends of Gli and Glu exhibit features characteristic of branched flexible polymer chains in a good solvent, and form in a dilute regime large Glu-rich protein assemblies [2]. In the semi-dilute regime, we evidence the existence of large zones (of typical size 60 nm) rich in hydrogen bonds [3]. We show that hydrogen bonds are responsible for the spontaneous sample gelation, whose concentration dependence can be quantitatively accounted using percolation theories developed for polymer gels [4]. Overall, our experimental results illustrate the relevance of model gluten gels to unravel the unique and complex behavior of gluten. [1] Banc, Dahesh, Wolf, Morel, Ramos. Journal of Cereal Science 75, 175 (2017). [2] Dahesh, Banc, Duri, Morel, Ramos. J Phys Chem B 118, 11065 (2014). [3] Banc, Charbonneau, Dahesh, Appavou, Fu, Morel, Ramos. Soft Matter 12, 5340 (2016). [4] Dahesh, Banc, Duri, Morel, Ramos. Food Hydrocolloids, 52, 1 (2016).

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We discuss neutral and charged complexes (biexciton and trion) formed by indirect excitons in layered quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. Indirect excitons -- long-lived neutral Coulomb-bound pairs of electrons and holes of different layers -- have been known for semiconductor coupled quantum wells and are recently reported for van der Waals heterostructures such as bilayer graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides. Using the configuration space approach, we derive the analytical expressions for the trion and biexciton binding energies as functions of the interlayer distance. The method captures essential kinematics of complex formation to reveal significant binding energies, up to a few tens of meV for typical interlayer distances ~3-5 A, with the trion binding energy always being greater than that of the biexciton. Our results can contribute to the understanding of more complex many-body phenomena such as exciton Bose-Einstein condensation and Wigner-like electron-hole crystallization in layered semiconductor heterostructures.

Commentaires: 10 pages, 4 figures, 105 references. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1605.02348. Réf Journal: Phys. Rev. B 97, 165419 (2018)