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Since a rigorous microscopic treatment of a nematic fluid system based on a pairwise interaction potential is immensely complex we had introduced a simple mean field potential which was a modification of the Maier-Saupe potential in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-16 Sabana Shabnam , Sudeshna DasGupta , Nababrata Ghoshal , Ananda DasGupta , Soumen Kumar Roy

Phase transitions generically occur in random matrix models as the parameters in the joint probability distribution of the random variables are varied. They affect all main features of the theory and the interpretation of statistical models…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. Cicuta

We investigate the transport properties of open quantum chaotic systems in the semiclassical limit. We show how the transmission spectrum, the conductance fluctuations, and their correlations are influenced by the underlying chaotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ph. Jacquod , E. V. Sukhorukov

During catastrophic processes of environmental variations of a thermodynamic system, such as rapid temperature decreasing, many novel and complex patterns often form. To understand such phenomena, a general mechanism is proposed based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Zhou Haijun , Ou-Yang Zhong-can

We investigate the superfluid-insulator quantum phase transition of one-dimensional bosons with off-diagonal disorder by means of large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations. For weak disorder, we find the transition to be in the same universality…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-01-03 Fawaz Hrahsheh , Thomas Vojta

Phase transition of the Ising model is investigated on a planar lattice that has a fractal structure. On the lattice, the number of bonds that cross the border of a finite area is doubled when the linear size of the area is extended by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-02 Jozef Genzor , Andrej Gendiar , Tomotoshi Nishino

We demonstrate a novel phase transition from stable to unstable fluid behaviour for fluid-filled cosmological spacetimes undergoing decelerated expansion. This transition occurs when the fluid speed of sound $c_S$ exceeds a critical value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-07 David Fajman , Maciej Maliborski , Maximilian Ofner , Todd Oliynyk , Zoe Wyatt

A superfluid-insulator transition is known to occur in strongly disordered Fermi gases, in both the BCS and BEC regimes; here, we address the properties of this transition across the BEC-BCS crossover. We argue that the critical disorder…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-05 Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Lamellar or smectic phases often have an intricate intralamellar structure that remains scarcely understood from a microscopic viewpoint. In this work, we use molecular dynamics simulations to study the effect of volume exclusion and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-22 Jaydeep Mandal , Henricus H. Wensink , Prabal K. Maiti

We report a molecular dynamics simulation demonstrating that the Smectic B crystalline phase (Cr-B), commonly observed in mesogenic systems of anisotropic molecules, can be formed by a system of identical particles interacting via a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-16 A. Metere , T. Oppelstrup , S. Sarman , A. Laaksonen , M. Dzugutov

We consider the isotropic-to-nematic transition in liquid crystals confined to aerogel hosts, and assume that the aerogel acts as a random field. We generally find that self-averaging is violated. For a bulk transition that is weakly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. M. Fish , R. L. C. Vink

In this paper we consider an approach, which allows researching a processes of order-disorder transition in various systems (with any distribution of the exchange integrals signs) in the frame of Ising model. A new order parameters, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-18 P. D. Andriushchenko , K. V. Nefedev

A stochastic cellular automaton exhibiting parity conserving class transition has been investigated in the presence of quenched spatial disorder by large scale simulations. Numerical evidence has been found that weak disorder causes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Geza Odor , Nora Menyhard

We consider a one-dimensional system of interacting bosons in a random potential. At zero temperature, it can be either in the superfluid or in the insulating phase. We study the transition at weak disorder and moderate interaction. Using a…

The three-dimensional strongly screened vortex-glass model is studied numerically using methods from combinatorial optimization. We focus on the effect of disorder strength on the ground state and found the existence of a disorder-driven…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank O. Pfeiffer , Heiko Rieger

Using numerical simulations of magnetically interacting vortices in disordered layered superconductors we obtain the static vortex phase diagram as a function of magnetic field and temperature. For increasing field or temperature, we find a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 C. J. Olson , C. Reichhardt , R. T. Scalettar , G. T. Zimanyi , N. Gronbech-Jensen

A high-resolution calorimetric study has been carried out on nano-colloidal dispersions of aerosils in the liquid crystal 4-\textit{n}-pentylphenylthiol-4'-\textit{n}-octyloxybenzoate ($\bar{8}$S5) as a function of aerosil concentration and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Roshi , G. S. Iannacchione , P. S. Clegg , R. J. Birgeneau , M. E. Neubert

In our previous study, we demonstrated the existence of an unidentified ferroelectric smectic phase in the low-temperature region of the ferroelectric smectic A phase, where the layer spacing decreases with decreasing temperature. In the…

We investigate nonequilibrium phase transitions in the presence of disorder that locally breaks the symmetry between two equivalent macroscopic states. In low-dimensional equilibrium systems, such "random-field" disorder is known to have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-30 Hatem Barghathi , Thomas Vojta

We study the asymptotic spectral behavior of high-dimensional random Gram matrices with sparsity and a variance profile, motivated by applications in wireless communications. Specifically, we consider the Gram matrices $\mathbf S_n=\mathbf…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Rui Wang , Guangming Pan , Dandan Jiang