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We provide a short review of the progress made in the past decade with functional QCD in the description of the phase structure of QCD. We summarise the most important technical aspects of the framework, discuss strategies for truncations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Christian S. Fischer , Jan M. Pawlowski

We propose a method to realize the Frenkel-Kontorova model using an array of Rydberg dressed atoms. Our platform can be used to study this model with a range of realistic interatomic potentials. In particular, we concentrate on two types of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-14 Jorge Mellado Muñoz , Rahul Sawant , Anna Maffei , Xi Wang , Giovanni Barontini

We numerically examine a binary system of particles with repulsive interactions, where one species is driven by a rotating drive and the other is subjected either to a constant drive in a fixed direction or to a rotating drive that is out…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

The formation of dynamical patterns is one of the most striking features of nonequilibrium physical systems. Recent work has shown that such patterns arise generically from forces that violate Newton's third law, known as nonreciprocal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 James Mason , Robert L. Jack , Maria Bruna

Atomically thin 2-dimensional heterostructures are a promising, novel class of materials with groundbreaking properties. The possiblity of choosing the many constituent components and their proportions allows optimizing these materials to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Petri Hirvonen , Vili Heinonen , Haikuan Dong , Zheyong Fan , Ken R. Elder , Tapio Ala-Nissila

There is a growing interest, inspired by advances in technology, in the low temperature physics of thin films. These quasi-2D systems show a wide range of ordering effects including formation of striped states, reorientation transitions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Giuliani , Joel L. Lebowitz , Elliott H. Lieb

We study the structure of the phase diagram for systems consisting of 2- and 3- level particles dipolarly interacting with a 1-mode electromagnetic field, inside a cavity, paying particular attention to the case of a finite number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 Eduardo Nahmad-Achar , Sergio Cordero , Octavio Castaños , Ramón López-Peña

The comprehensive computer simulation study of the phase diagram of the repulsive step potential system in three dimensions is represented. We show that the system with a simple purely repulsive isotropic potential demonstrates a number of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. D. Fomin , Daan Frenkel , N. V. Gribova , V. N. Ryzhov , S. M. Stishov

We investigate classes of interacting systems that allow for a mapping to disordered noninteracting systems. As we show, such a mapping is possible for interacting systems with a suppressed density of states at the chemical potential,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Shijun Sun , Sergey Syzranov

We consider two-dimensional systems of point particles located on rectangular lattices and interacting via pairwise potentials. The goal of this paper is to investigate the phase transitions (and their nature) at fixed density for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Laurent Bétermin , Ladislav Šamaj , Igor Travěnec

In this chapter we review recent experimental and theoretical work on various novel superfluid phases in fermion systems, that result from pairing fermions of different species with unequal densities. After briefly reviewing existing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-09 Kun Yang

The collective response of a system is profoundly shaped by the interaction dynamics between its constituent elements. In physics, tailoring these interactions can enable the observation of unusual phenomena that are otherwise inaccessible…

One- to three-dimensional hypercubic lattices half-filled with localized particles interacting via the long-range Coulomb potential are investigated numerically. The temperature dependences of specific heat, mean staggered occupation, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mobius , U. K. Roessler

A microscopic theory is presented for identifying shape-phase structures and transitions in interacting fermion systems. The method provides a microscopic description for collective shape-phases, and reveals detailed dependence of such…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu-xin Liu , Zhan-feng Hou , Yu Zhang , Haiqing Wei

Recently, we proposed a self-propelled particle model with competing alignment interactions: nearby particles tend to align their velocities whereas they anti-align their direction of motion with particles which are further away [R.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-02 Robert Großmann , Pawel Romanczuk , Markus Bär , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

We investigate the behaviour of a system of particles with the different character of interaction. The approach makes it possible to describe systems of interacting particles by statistical methods taking into account a spatial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets , Bohdan Lev

The theory of first order density-driven phase transitions with frustration due to the long range Coulomb (LRC) interaction develop on paper I of this series is applied to the following physical systems: i) the low density electron gas ii)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Lorenzana , C. Castellani , C. Di Castro

We derive Lorentz-invariant four-fermion interactions, including Nambu-Jona-Lasinio type and superconducting type, which are widely studied in high-energy physics, from the honeycomb lattice Hamiltonian with Hubbard interaction. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Qiao Yang , Yu-Biao Wu , Lin Zhuang , Ji-Min Zhao , Wu-Ming Liu

A new variational method for studying the equilibrium states of an interacting particles system has been proposed. The statistical description of the system is realized by means of a density matrix. This method is used for description of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-12-19 Boris Bondarev

A complex system comprises multiple interacting entities whose interdependencies form a unified whole, exhibiting emergent behaviours not present in individual components. Examples include the human brain, living cells, soft matter, Earth's…