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The flux line lattice of superconductors has been investigated when there exists a periodicity in the underlying system, such as can occur in artificially layered structures. For small fields parallel to the layers the flux lines enter the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 A. M. Thompson , M. A. Moore

Practical methods for quantitative analysis of radial and angular coordinates of leafy organs of vascular plants are presented and applied to published phyllotactic patterns of various real systems from young leaves on a shoot tip to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 Takuya Okabe

A time-dependent optical lattice with staggered particle current in the tight-binding regime was considered that can be described by a time-independent effective lattice model with an artificial staggered magnetic field. The low energy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 Lih-King Lim , Andreas Hemmerich , C. Morais Smith

Adiabatic invariants foliate phase space, and impart a macro-scale hierarchy by separating microscopic variables. On a macroscopic leaf, long-scale ordered structures are created while maximizing entropy. A plasma confined in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 Z. Yoshida , S. M. Mahajan

Lattice Wigner crystal states stabilized by long-range Coulomb interactions have recently been realized in two-dimensional moir\'e materials. We employ large-scale unrestricted Hartree-Fock techniques to unveil the magnetic phase diagrams…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-22 Nitin Kaushal , Nicolás Morales-Durán , Allan H. MacDonald , Elbio Dagotto

In a recent Letter [Europhys. Lett. 40, 429 (1997)], Hartmann presented results for the structure of the degenerate ground states of the three-dimensional +/- J spin glass model obtained using a genetic algorithm. In this Comment, I argue…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Sandvik

Magnetic beads attract each other forming chains. We pushed such chains into an inclined Hele-Shaw cell and discovered that they spontaneously form self-similar patterns. Depending on the angle of inclination of the cell, two completely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-21 Danilo S. Borges , Hans J. Herrmann , Humberto A. Carmona , José S. Andrade , Ascânio D. Araújo

We compute the free energy minimizing structures of particle monolayers in the presence of enthalpic barriers of a finite height \b{eta}Vext using classical density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulations. We show that a periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-24 Mark E. Ferraro , Roger T. Bonnecaze , Thomas M. Truskett

In part I: We find a series physical scales such as 1) Planck scale, 2) Minimal approximate grand unification SU(5), 3) the mass scale of the see saw model right handed or Majorana neutrinoes, some invented scale with many scalar bosons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Holger Bech Nielsen

The notion of complex energy landscape underpins the intriguing dynamical behaviors in many complex systems ranging from polymers, to brain activity, to social networks and glass transitions. The spin glass state found in dilute magnetic…

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Formation of spatial patterns of cells is a recurring theme in biology and often depends on regulated cell motility. Motility of M. xanthus depends on two motility machineries: the S-engine and A-engine. Moving M. xanthus cells can organize…

The interplay between spontaneous symmetry breaking in many-body systems, the wavelike nature of quantum particles and lattice effects produces an extraordinary behavior of the chiral current of bosonic particles in the presence of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-20 S. Greschner , M. Piraud , F. Heidrich-Meisner , I. P. McCulloch , U. Schollwöck , T. Vekua

We construct a simple model of a proto-cell that simulates a stochastic dynamics of abstract chemicals on a two-dimensional lattice. We assume that chemicals catalyze their reproduction through interaction with each other, and that between…

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A spin model of LiCu2O2 compound with ground state of ellipsoidal helical structure has been adopted. Taking into account the interchain coupling and exchange anisotropy, we focus on the magnetoelectric properties in a rotating magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Yan Qi , An Du

For more than fifty years, scientists have been gathering evidence of the biological impacts of weak magnetic fields. However, the lack of systematics in experimental studies has hampered research progress on this subject. To systematically…

Magneto-plasticity occurs when a weak magnetic field alters material plasticity and offers a viable solution to enhance ductile-mode cutting of brittle materials. This study demonstrates the susceptibility of non-magnetic single-crystal…

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Proteins in photosynthetic membranes can organize into patterned arrays that span the membrane's lateral size. Attractions between proteins in different layers of a membrane stack can play a key role in this ordering, as was suggested by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-09 Andreana M. Rosnik , Phillip L. Geissler

Let $(W,S)$ be a Coxeter system, let $\varphi$ be a weight function on $S$ and let ${\mathrm{Cact}}\_W$ denote the associated {\it cactus group}. Following an idea of I. Losev, we construct an action of ${\mathrm{Cact}}\_W \times…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Cédric Bonnafé

The interplay between frustration and quantum fluctuation in magnetic systems is known to be the origin of many exotic states in condensed matter physics. In this paper, we consider a frustrated four-leg spin tube under a magnetic field.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-11 X. Plat , Y. Fuji , S. Capponi , P. Pujol

Multiferroic materials exhibit the coexistence of magnetic and electric order. They are at the forefront of modern condensed matter physics due to their potential applications in next-generation technologies such as data storage, sensors,…

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