I am testing Quantum ESPRESSO with different values for Npool and bands in order to calculate run time. pools: each image can be subpartitioned into "pools", each taking care of a group of k-points. bands: each pool is subpartitioned into "band groups", each taking care of a group of Kohn-Sham or...

When I go to talks, I hear the statement "coarse-graining is required to access spatio-temporal scales to observe important dynamical behavior for stimuli-responsive systems" before they go on about coarse-graining methods and so on. My question is, what are these stimuli-responsive systems? I ha...