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The nuclear mean-field potentials obtained in the Hartree-Fock method with different choices of the in-medium nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction have been used to study the equation of state (EOS) of the neutron star (NS) matter. The EOS of…

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Spin-glass (SG) states of the 3-dimensional Ising Edwards-Anderson model under a static magnetic field $h$ are examined by means of the standard Monte Carlo simulation on the field-shift aging protocol at temperature $T$. For each process…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Hajime Takayama , Koji Hukushima

The phase diagram of the spin-1 Ising model in the presence of a biaxial crystal-field anisotropy is studied within the framework of a variational approach, based on the Bogolyubov inequality for the free energy. We have investigated the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-07 J. Ricardo de Sousa , N. S. Branco

Alternative approach for description of the non-equilibrium phenomena arising in solids at a severe external loading is analyzed. The approach is based on the new form of kinetic equations in terms of the internal and modified free energy.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-27 L. S. Metlov

In this paper, we propose and analyze a first-order and a second-order time-stepping schemes for the anisotropic phase-field dendritic crystal growth model. The proposed schemes are based on an auxiliary variable approach for the Allen-Cahn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Minghui Li , Mejdi Azaiez , Chuanju Xu

Continuum models of plasticity fail to capture the richness of microstructural evolution because the continuum is a homogeneous construction. The present study shows that an alternative way is available at the mesoscale in the form of truly…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-01 Afonso D. M. Barroso , Elijah Borodin , Andrey P. Jivkov

We propose and analyze a unified structure-preserving parametric finite element method (SP-PFEM) for the anisotropic surface diffusion of curves in two dimensions $(d=2)$ and surfaces in three dimensions $(d=3)$ with an arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Weizhu Bao , Yifei Li

A new model for lamellar surfaces formed by anisotropic molecules is proposed. The molecules have internal degrees of freedom, associated with their flexible section of length $N$ at zero temperature. We obtain a 2D non-standard six vertex…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Bassetti , G. Mazzoletti , P. Jona

Large deformations of soft elastic beads spinning at high angular velocity in a denser background fluid are investigated theoretically, numerically, and experimentally using millimeter-size polyacrylamide hydrogel particles introduced in a…

In the framework of density functional theory (DFT) simulations of molecules and materials, anharmonic terms of the potential energy surface are commonly computed numerically, with an associated cost that rapidly increases with the size of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-17 Davide Mitoli , Jefferson Maul , Alessandro Erba

We deal with a long-standing problem about how to design an energy-stable numerical scheme for solving the motion of a closed curve under {\sl anisotropic surface diffusion} with a general anisotropic surface energy $\gamma(\boldsymbol{n})$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Weizhu Bao , Wei Jiang , Yifei Li

We present a new method of constraining the mass and velocity anisotropy profiles of galaxy clusters from kinematic data. The method is based on a model of the phase space density which allows the anisotropy to vary with radius between two…

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When a molecule dissociates, the exact Kohn-Sham (KS) and Pauli potentials may form step structures. Reproducing these steps correctly is central for the description of dissociation and charge-transfer processes in density functional theory…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Jakub Kocák , Eli Kraisler , Axel Schild

We investigate the impact of an anisotropic surface tension on the late-stage dilute phase separation dynamics, revisiting the seminal Lifshitz-Slyozov (LS) theory, which traditionally relies on the assumption of isotropic surface tension.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Arjun R. Anand , Melinda M. Andrews , Benjamin P. Vollmayr-Lee

Physical experiments can characterize the elastic response of granular materials in terms of macroscopic state-variables, namely volume (packing) fraction and stress, while the microstructure is not accessible and thus neglected. Here, by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Nishant Kumar , Stefan Luding , Vanessa Magnanimo

We present a new one-dimensional model for elastic strips based on a nondevelopable ruled surface. An auxiliary field regularizes the Sadowsky narrow-strip model to allow nonzero twist with vanishing curvature. The energy exhibits the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-24 E. Vitral , J. A. Hanna , L. Koens

A continuum density-field formulation with particle-scale resolution is constructed to simultaneously incorporate the orientation dependence of interparticle interactions and the rotational invariance of the system, a fundamental but…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-28 Zi-Le Wang , Zhirong Liu , Zhi-Feng Huang

In this work, we investigate the emergence of compact, anisotropic stellar structures through the gravitational decoupling scheme within the framework of complete geometric deformation. The study introduces a novel synthesis of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Z. Yousaf , Kazuharu Bamba , M. Z. Bhatti , S. Khan

The one-step model of valence-band photoemission and inverse photoemission from single-crystal surfaces is reformulated for generalized (non-local, complex and energy-dependent) potentials. Thereby, it becomes possible to account for…

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