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The coagulation enhancement factor due to electrostatic (Coulomb and polarization-induced) interaction between silicon nanoparticles was numerically computed for different nanoparticle sizes and charges in typical low-emperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Benjamin Santos , Laura Cacot , Claude Boucher , François Vidal

Attractive dipole interactions can be induced between equally charged soft nanoparticles under the influence of AC electric fields. The combination of charge repulsion and dipole attraction, along with different screening responses from an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-16 Carlos Eduardo Estanislau , Thiago Colla , Christos N. Likos

When fluids of anisotropic molecules are placed in temperature gradients, the molecules may align themselves along the gradient: this is called thermo-orientation. We discuss the theory of this effect in a fluid of particles that interact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-02 Robert L. Jack , Peter Wirnsberger , Aleks Reinhardt

Local-spin-density functional calculations may be affected by severe errors when applied to the study of magnetic and strongly-correlated materials. Some of these faults can be traced back to the presence of the spurious self-interaction in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Alessio Filippetti , Nicola Spaldin

We present a novel approach to electron-lattice interaction beyond the linear-coupling regime. Based on the solution of a Holstein-Peierls-type model, we derive explicit analytical expressions for the eigenvalue spectrum of the Hamiltonian,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-13 Pablo García Risueño , Dmitrii Nabok , Qiang Fu , Claudia Draxl

We show that models of new particle physics containing massless pseudoscalar fields super-weakly coupled to photons can be very efficiently probed with CMB polarization anisotropies. The stochastic pseudoscalar fluctuations generated during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz , Constantinos Skordis

Photonic devices exhibiting all-optically reconfigurable polarization dependence with a large dynamic range would be highly attractive for active polarization control. Here, we report that strongly polarization-selective nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-20 Dae Seok Han , Il-Min Lee , Kyung Hyun Park , Myeong Soo Kang

The polarization transfer coefficients of a relativistic magnetized plasma are derived. These results apply to any momentum distribution function of the particles, isotropic or anisotropic. Particles interact with the radiation either in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jean Heyvaerts , Christophe Pichon , Simon Prunet , Jerome Thiebaut

Analytic and approximate solutions for the energy eigenvalues generated by a confined softcore Coulomb potentials of the form a/(r+\beta) in d>1 dimensions are constructed. The confinement is effected by linear and harmonic-oscillator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Richard L Hall , Nasser Saad

Based on the extended optical model approach in which the polarization potential is decomposed into direct reaction (DR) and fusion parts, simultaneous $\chi^{2}$ analyses are performed for elastic scattering and fusion cross section data…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Y. So , T. Udagawa , K. S. Kim , S. W. Hong , B. T. Kim

We derive a pseudopotential in two dimensions (2D) with the presence of a 2D Rashba spin-orbit-coupling (SOC), following the same spirit of frame transformation in {[}Phys. Rev. A 95, 020702(R) (2017){]}. The frame transformation correctly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-14 Christiaan R. Hougaard , Brendan C. Mulkerin , Xia-Ji Liu , Hui Hu , Jia Wang

When the sizes of photonic nanoparticles are much smaller than the excitation wavelength, their optical response can be efficiently described with a series of polarizability tensors. Here, we propose a universal method to extract the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Adelin Patoux , Clément Majorel , Peter R. Wiecha , Aurélien Cuche , Otto L. Muskens , Christian Girard , Arnaud Arbouet

We theoretically investigate plasmon polaritons in cubic lattices of spherical metallic nanoparticles. The nanoparticles, each supporting triply-degenerate localized surface plasmons, couple through the Coulomb dipole-dipole interaction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-12 Simon Lamowski , Charlie-Ray Mann , Felicitas Hellbach , Eros Mariani , Guillaume Weick , Fabian Pauly

In this paper we propose a framework allowing to compute the effective interactions between two anisotropic macromolecules, thereby generalizing the DLVO theory to non spherical finite size colloids. We show in particular that the effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 David Chapot , Lyderic Bocquet , Emmanuel Trizac

We propose a framework for calculating scattering and bound state properties in anisotropic two-dimensional potentials. Using our method, we derive systematic approximations of partial wave phase shifts and binding energies. Moreover, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-31 Matthias Rosenkranz , Weizhu Bao

We study ballistic transport through semiconductor quantum point contact systems under different confinement geometries and applied fields. In particular, we investigate how the {\em lateral} spin-orbit coupling, introduced by asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anh T. Ngo , P. Debray , Sergio Ulloa

By adjusting the tunnelling couplings over longer than nearest neighbor distances it is possible in discrete lattice models to reproduce the properties of the lowest energy band of a real, continuous periodic potential. We propose to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-08-20 Rune Piil , Klaus Molmer

We investigate the combined influence of a magnetic field and a harmonic interparticle interaction on the thermodynamic properties of a finite number of spin polarized fermions in a confiment potential. This study is an extension using our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Foulon , F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese , L. F. Lemmens

A soft ellipsoid contact potential model for a pair of biaxial ellipsoidal molecules is proposed which considers the configuration dependent energy anisotropy explicitly along with their geometrical aspects. We performed Molecular Dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Jayashree Saha

Active-particle suspensions exhibit distinct polarization-density patterns in activity landscapes, even without anisotropic particle interactions. Such polarization without alignment forces is at work in motility-induced phase separation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Nicola Andreas Söker , Sven Auschra , Viktor Holubec , Klaus Kroy , Frank Cichos