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Identifying quantum phase transitions poses a significant challenge in condensed matter physics, as this requires methods that both provide accurate results and scale well with system size. In this work, we demonstrate how relaxation…

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The out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model is studied in presence of an externally imposed magnetic field h. Lynden-Bell's theory of violent relaxation is revisited and shown to adequately capture the system…

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By means of multicanonical computer simulations, we investigate thermodynamic properties of the aggregation of interacting semiflexible polymers. We analyze a mesoscopic bead-stick model, where nonbonded monomers interact via Lennard-Jones…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Christoph Junghans , Michael Bachmann , Wolfhard Janke

Magnetic polymers are examples of composite soft materials in which the competition between the large configurational entropy of the soft substrate (polymer) and the magnetic interaction may give rise to rich equilibrium phase diagrams as…

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The microscopic model of semi-crystalline polymer in high-elastic state is proposed. The model is based on the assumption that, below the melting temperature, the semi-crystalline polymer comprises crystal nuclei connected by stretched…

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Understanding the behavior of interacting fermions is of fundamental interest in many fields ranging from condensed matter to high energy physics. Developing numerically efficient and accurate simulation methods is an indispensable part of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-03 Shainen M. Davidson , Dries Sels , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The conformational states of a semiflexible polymer enclosed in a compact domain of typical size $a$ are studied as stochastic realizations of paths defined by the Frenet equations under the assumption that stochastic "curvature" satisfies…

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We study the statistical mechanics of double-stranded semi-flexible polymers using both analytical techniques and simulation. We find a transition at some finite temperature, from a type of short range order to a fundamentally different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. B. Liverpool , R. Golestanian , K. Kremer

The shape of semiflexible polymer rings is studied over their whole range of flexibility. Investigating the joint distribution of asphericity and nature of asphericity as well as their respective averages we find two distinct shape regimes…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2008-02-07 Karen Alim , Erwin Frey

We show that the Hubbard Hamiltonian with particle-assisted tunneling rates --recently proposed to model a fermionic mixture near a broad Feshbach resonance-- displays a ground state phase diagram with superfluid, insulating, and phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 Alberto Anfossi , Luca Barbiero , Arianna Montorsi

A driven system of three species of particle diffusing on a ring is studied in detail. The dynamics is local and conserves the three densities. A simple argument suggesting that the model should phase separate and break the translational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Evans , Y. Kafri , H. M. Koduvely , D. Mukamel

We study a periodic one-dimensional exclusion process composed of a driven and a diffusive part. In a mesoscopic limit where both dynamics compete we identify bulk-driven phase transitions. We employ mean-field theory complemented by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hauke Hinsch , Erwin Frey

Loops undergoing thermal fluctuations are prevalent in nature. Ring-like or cross-linked polymers, cyclic macromolecules, and protein-mediated DNA loops all belong to this category. Stability of these molecules are generally described in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 James T. Waters , Harold D. Kim

Kinetics of conformational change of a semiflexible polymer under mechanical external field were investigated with Langevin dynamics simulations. It is found that a semiflexible polymer exhibits large hysteresis in mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Natsuhiko Yoshinaga , Kenichi Yoshikawa , Takao Ohta

In this paper we investigate the Hamiltonian dynamics of a lattice gauge model in three spatial dimension. Our model Hamiltonian is defined on the basis of a continuum version of a duality transformation of a three dimensional Ising model.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-21 Giulio Pettini , Matteo Gori , Roberto Franzosi , Cecilia Clementi , Marco Pettini

We introduce an anisotropic mean-field approach for the dynamics of semiflexible polymers under intermediate tension, the force range where a chain is partially extended but not in the asymptotic regime of a nearly straight contour. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-14 Michael Hinczewski , Roland R. Netz

We discuss recent results obtained for the Hamiltonian Mean Field model. The model describes a system of N fully-coupled particles in one dimension and shows a second-order phase transition from a clustered phase to a homogeneous one when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Latora , A. Rapisarda , S. Ruffo

The redistribution of energy levels between energy bands is studied for a family of simple effective Hamiltonians depending on one control parameter and possessing axial symmetry and energy-reflection symmetry. Further study is made on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Guillaume Dhont , Toshihiro Iwai , Boris Zhilinskii

A non-isothermal phase field model that captures both displacive and diffusive phase transformations in a unified framework is presented. The model is developed in a formal thermodynamic setting, which provides guidance on admissible…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-02 Mirko Maraldi , Garth N. Wells , Luisa Molari

In this article, we review the analytical and numerical approaches for computing the phase space structures in two degrees-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems that arise in chemical reactions. In particular, these phase space structures are the…

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