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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Toai Luong , Tadele Mengesha , Steven M. Wise , Ming Hei Wong

We discuss the local minimality of certain configurations for a nonlocal isoperimetric problem used to model microphase separation in diblock copolymer melts. We show that critical configurations with positive second variation are local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Emilio Acerbi , Nicola Fusco , Massimiliano Morini

We consider fractional quantum Hall states built on Laughlin's original N-body wave-functions, i.e., they are of the form holomorphic times gaussian and vanish when two particles come close, with a given polynomial rate. Such states appear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Nicolas Rougerie , Jakob Yngvason

In this paper, we address the challenge of accurately calculating droplet/bubble properties (e.g., volume, number) in diffuse-interface two-phase flow simulations. Currently, flood-fill algorithms can truncate a significant portion of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Pranav J. Nathan , Suhas S. Jain

We prove that certain nonlocal functionals defined on partitions made of measurable sets Gamma-converge to a local functional modeled on the perimeter in the sense of De Giorgi. Those nonlocal functionals involve generalized surface tension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Thomas Gabard , Vincent Millot

In this work we give a comprehensive derivation of an exact and numerically feasible method to perform ab-initio calculations of quantum particles interacting with a quantized electromagnetic field. We present a hierachy of…

In this letter, we derive the sharp-interface limit of the Cahn-Hilliard-Biot equations using formal matched asymptotic expansions. We find that in each sub-domain, the quasi-static Biot equations are obtained with domain-specific material…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Erlend Storvik , Carina Bringedal

A double hybrid approximation using the Coulomb-attenuating method (CAM-DH) is derived within range-separated density-functional perturbation theory, in the spirit of a recent work by Cornaton {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. A 88, 022516 (2013)].…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-04-21 Yann Cornaton , Emmanuel Fromager

A self consistent field theory for compressible polymer mixtures is developed by introducing elements of classical density functional theory into the framework of the Helfand theory. It is then applied to study free surfaces of binary (A,B)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Schmid

In this work we introduce volume constraint problems involving the nonlocal operator $(-\Delta)_{\delta}^{s}$, closely related to the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{s}$, and depending upon a parameter $\delta>0$ called horizon. We study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-28 José C. Bellido , Alejandro Ortega

We develop a microscopic formalism to study the fractional quantum Hall plateaus at filling factors $\nu $ away from $1/2\beta$ $\beta$ an integer. The theory is in terms of quasiparticles which carry a charge $e^{\ast}$ equal to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Pasquier

This paper addresses the asymptotic development of order 2 by Gamma convergence of the Cahn-Hillard functional with Dirichlet boundary conditions, where the potential has subquadratic growth near the wells.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Francesco Colasanto , Pascal Steinke

We study the asymptotic limit of diffused surface energy in the van der Waals--Cahn--Hillard theory when an advection term is added and the energy is uniformly bounded. We prove that the limit interface is an integral varifold and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Yoshihiro Tonegawa , Yuki Tsukamoto

In this work we first study the quantum diffusion in a volume of a crystalline solid at high interstitial concentrations when the effects of the short-range interactions between the diffusing particles are to be factors. Within the scope of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 G. L. Buchbinder , V. N. Shapov

The dynamics of small-scale structures in free-surface turbulence is crucial to large-scale phenomena in natural and industrial environments. Here we conduct experiments on the quasi-flat free surface of a zero-mean-flow turbulent water…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-14 Yinghe Qi , Yaxing Li , Filippo Coletti

The derivation of density functional energies from the random phase approximation of self-consistent mean field theory is generalized and applied to a binary blend of diblock copolymers and homopolymers. A nonlocal transformation is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-04 Sulin Wang , Yuan Chen , Zengqiang Tan , Keith Promislow

We study the size estimate problem for the two-phase shallow shell equations in this paper. Our aim is to derive bounds on the volume fraction of each phase assuming that the material properties of the two phases are given. The approach in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Hyeonbae Kang , Graeme W. Milton , Jenn-Nan Wang

The steady-state quantum dynamics of three dipole-dipole coupled two-level emitters, fixed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle, and interacting via the environmental thermostat is investigated. We have analytically obtained the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Arthur Rotari , Mihai A. Macovei

In this paper, a semi-discrete spatial finite volume (FV) method is proposed and analyzed for approximating solutions of anomalous subdiffusion equations involving a temporal fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-27 Samir Karaa , Kassem Mustapha , Amiya K. Pani

This paper addresses the asymptotic development of order 2 by the $\Gamma$ -convergence of the Cahn-Hilliard functional with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The Dirichlet data are assumed to be well separated from one of the two wells. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Irene Fonseca , Leonard Kreutz , Giovanni Leoni