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Through extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we systematically study the effect of chain stiffness on the packing ability of linear polymers composed of hard spheres in extremely confined monolayers, corresponding effectively to 2D films.…
In center vortex theory, beyond the simplest picture of confinement several conceptual problems arise that are the subject of this paper. Confinement arises through averaging of phase factors which are gauge-group center elements raised to…
The tube model is a central concept in polymer physics, and allows to reduce the complex many-filament problem of an entangled polymer solution to a single filament description. We investigate the probability distribution function of…
We introduce a solvable spin-rotational and time-reversal invariant spin-1 model in two dimensions. Depending on parameters, the ground state is an equal-weight superposition of all valence loops called "resonating valence loop" (RVL) or an…
Polymers exposed to shear flow exhibit a rich tumbling dynamics. While rigid rods rotate on Jeffery orbits, flexible polymers stretch and coil up during tumbling. Theoretical results show that in both of these asymptotic regimes the…
We theoretically consider effectively one-dimensional quantum droplets in a symmetric Bose-Bose mixture confined in a parabolic trap. We systematically investigate ground and excited families of localized trapped modes which bifurcate from…
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The phase-space volume of regions of regular or trapped motion, for bounded or scattering systems with two degrees of freedom respectively, displays universal properties. In particular, drastic reductions in the volume (gaps) are observed…
A fundamental motif in frustrated magnetism is the fully mutually coupled cluster of $N$ spins, with each spin coupled to every other spin. Clusters with $N=2$ and $3$ have been extensively studied as building blocks of square and…
We study the dynamics of a single chain polymer confined to a two dimensional cell. We introduce a kinetically constrained lattice gas model that preserves the connectivity of the chain, and we use this kinetically constrained model to…
Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the translocation of a polymer into a cavity. Modeling the polymer as a hard-sphere chain with a length up to N=601 monomers, we use a multiple-histogram method to measure the variation of the…
We present a comprehensive theory of the dynamics and fluctuations of a two-dimensional suspension of polar active particles in an incompressible fluid confined to a substrate. We show that, depending on the sign of a single parameter, a…
This is the second paper of a series of three investigating, by numerical means, the geometric and mechanical properties of spherical bead packings under isotropic stresses. We study the effects of varying the applied pressure P (from 1 or…
We investigate a reversible polymerization process in which individual polymers aggregate and fragment at a rate proportional to their molecular weight. We find a nonequilibrium phase transition despite the fact that the dynamics are…
The generalized pseudospectral Legendre method is used to carry out accurate calculations of eigenvalues of the spherically confined isotropic harmonic oscillator with impenetrable boundaries. The energy of the confined state is found to be…
We consider a hole-doped semiconductor with a sharp boundary and study the boundary spin accumulation in response to a charge current. First, we solve exactly a single-particle quantum mechanics problem described by the isotropic Luttinger…
We investigate the rotational response of a confined, two-dimensional quantum droplet, which emerges in an attractive binary Bose mixture that is stabilized against collapse by beyond-mean-field effects. We consider both a harmonic and an…