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We study $D$-dimensional polymerized membranes embedded in $d$ dimensions using a self-consistent screening approximation. It is exact for large $d$ to order $1/d$, for any $d$ to order $\epsilon=4-D$ and for $d=D$. For flat physical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-23 Pierre Le Doussal , Leo Radzihovsky

The breakdown of dynamical scaling for a dilute polymer solution in 2D has been suggested by Shannon and Choy [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 79}, 1455 (1997)]. However, we show here both numerically and analytically that dynamical scaling holds…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Falck , O. Punkkinen , I. Vattulainen , T. Ala-Nissila

We prove an extension theorem for local solutions of the 3d incompressible Euler equations. More precisely, we show that if a smooth vector field satisfies the Euler equations in a spacetime region $\Omega\times(0,T)$, one can choose an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Alberto Enciso , Javier Peñafiel-Tomás , Daniel Peralta-Salas

We prove the fractal crumpled structure of collapsed unknotted polymer ring. In this state the polymer chain forms a system of densely packed folds, mutually separated in all scales. The proof is based on the numerical and analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Nechaev , Oleg Vasilyev

A statistical mechanical description of flexible and semi-flexible polymer chains in a poor solvent is developed in the constant force and constant distance ensembles. We predict the existence of many intermediate states at low temperatures…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay Kumar , Iwan Jensen , Jesper L. Jacobsen , Anthony J. Guttmann

Limited-valency colloidal particles can self-assemble into polymeric structures analogous to molecules. While their structural equilibrium properties have attracted wide attention, insight into their dynamics has proven challenging. Here,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-08 Simon Stuij , Joep Rouwhorst , Hannah Jonas , Nicola Ruffino , Zhe Gong , Stefanno Sacanna , Peter Bolhuis , Peter Schall

We revisit classic balancing problems for linear extensions of a partially ordered set $P$, proving results that go far beyond many of the best earlier results on this topic. For example, with $p(x\prec y)$ the probability that $x$ precedes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Max Aires , Jeff Kahn

We present here computational work on the center-of-mass displacements in thin polymer films of finite width without topological constraints and without momentum conservation obtained using a well-known lattice Monte Carlo algorithm with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 J. P. Wittmer , N. Schulmann , P. Polińska , J. Baschnagel

The aim of this work is understanding the stretching mechanism of stochastic models of turbulence acting on a simple model of dilute polymers. We consider a turbulent model that is white noise in time and activates frequencies in a shell…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Franco Flandoli , Yassine Tahraoui

The size of a zero thickness (no excluded volume) polymer ring is shown to scale with chain length $N$ in the same way as the size of the excluded volume (self-avoiding) linear polymer, as $N^{\nu}$, where $\nu \approx 0.588$. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Yu. Grosberg

The non-stretching approximation of polymer rheology simplifies a constitutive equation but fundamentally changes its behavior in fast flows, and the circumstances under which fast flows emerge cannot always be predicted a-priori. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-25 Vickie Chen , Brandon Wang , Joseph D. Peterson

We show that non-entangled polymers display an elastic-like behaviour at a macroscopic scale (probed at some 0.100 mm thickness) up to at least hundred degrees above the glass transition temperature. This observation, found under…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-12 H Mendil , P Baroni , Laurence Noirez

We consider the problem of constructing $(3,L)$ quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes from complete protographs. A complete protograph is a small bipartite graph with two disjoint vertex sets such that every vertex in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sudarsan V. S. Ranganathan , Dariush Divsalar , Richard D. Wesel

The paper is devoted to a comprehensive study of smoothness of inertial manifolds for abstract semilinear parabolic problems. It is well known that in general we cannot expect more than $C^{1,\varepsilon}$-regularity for such manifolds (for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Anna Kostianko , Sergey Zelik

We prove an expansion for densities in the free CLT and apply this result to an expansion in the entropic free central limit theorem assuming a moment condition of order four for the free summands.

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Gennadii Chistyakov , Friedrich Götze

The spatial string tension, a classic non-perturbative probe for the convergence of the weak-coupling expansion at high temperatures, can be determined in full QCD as well as in a dimensionally reduced effective theory. Comparing both…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Laine , Y. Schroder

The main goal of this paper is to provide an alternative proof of the following theorem of Petty: in the normed space of dimension at least three, every 3-element equilateral set can be extended to a 4-element equilateral set. Our approach…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Tomasz Kobos

We give computational results to study the accuracy of several quasicontinuum methods for two benchmark problems - the stability of a Lomer dislocation pair under shear and the stability of a lattice to plastic slip under tensile loading.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Brian Van Koten , Xingjie Helen Li , Mitchell Luskin , Christoph Ortner

The properties of semiflexible polymers tethered by one end to an impenetrable wall and exposed to oscillatory shear flow are investigated by mesoscale simulations. A polymer, confined in two dimensions, is described by a linear bead-spring…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-14 Antonio Lamura , Roland G. Winkler , Gerhard Gompper

The surface tension, the adsorption, and the depletion thickness of polymers close to a single nonadsorbing colloidal sphere are computed by means of Monte Carlo simulations. We consider polymers under good-solvent conditions and in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-06 Giuseppe D'Adamo , Andrea Pelissetto , Carlo Pierleoni