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There is mounting evidence indicating that relaxation dynamics in liquids approaching their glass transition not only becomes increasingly cooperative (1,2) but the relaxing regions also become more compact in shape(3-7). While the surface…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-21 Divya Ganapathi , Hima K Nagamanasa , A. K. Sood , Rajesh Ganapathy

One-dimensional topological edge modes are usually studied considering the interface between two different semi infinite periodic crystals (PCs) with inverted band structure around the Dirac point. Here we consider the case where the two…

The cosmological fluid equations are used to study the nonlinear mode coupling of density fluctuations. We find that for realistic cosmological spectra there is a significant contribution to the nonlinear evolution on scales of interest to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bhuvnesh Jain , Edmund Bertschinger

We develop a strong-coupling ($t \ll U$) expansion technique for calculating the density profile for bosonic atoms trapped in an optical lattice with an overall harmonic trap at finite temperature and finite on site interaction in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Manjari Gupta , H. R. Krishnamurthy , J. K. Freericks

Using Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the structural characteristics of an interacting hard sphere system with shifted charge to elucidate the effect of the non-centrosymmetric interaction on its phase behavior. Two different phase…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-04-28 Luis E. Sánchez-Díaz , Chwen-Yang Shew , Xin Li , Bin Wu , Gregory S. Smith , Wei-Ren Chen

We review and compare recent work on the properties of fluctuating interfaces between nematic and isotropic liquid-crystalline phases. Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations have been carried out for systems of ellipsoids and hard…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-19 Friederike Schmid , Guido Germano , Stefan Wolfsheimer , Tanja Schilling

Finite-size scaling (FSS) provides a framework for investigating the possible presence of a critical end point (CEP) in the QCD phase diagram using fluctuation observables measured in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A recent analysis…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Roy A. Lacey

We investigate first-order vacuum phase transitions in the presence of a non-minimally coupled scalar field starting with the coupling effect on the initial dynamics of phase transitions by defining an effective potential for the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-06 A. Savaş Arapoğlu , A. Emrah Yükselci

In this paper, we investigate the non-Hermitian skin effect in a semi-infinite Fock-state lattice, where the inherent coupling scales as \sqrt{n}. By analytically solving a non-uniform, non-reciprocal SSH model, we demonstrate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Zhi Jiao Deng , Xing Yao Mi , Ruo Kun Cai , Chun Wang Wu , Ping Xing Chen

The dynamics of glass formation in monatomic and binary liquids are studied numerically using a microscopic field theory for the evolution of the time-averaged atomic number density. A stochastic framework combining phase field crystal free…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Joel Berry , Martin Grant

An effect of the volume change upon proper ferroelastic (martensitic) phase transitions in cubic crystals is considered. Corresponding terms in the Ginzburg-Landau expansion of the Gibbs free energy are analyzed for the first- as well as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 M. A. Fradkin

We study interfaces with periodic boundary conditions in the low temperature phase of the improved Blume-Capel model on the simple cubic lattice. The interface free energy is defined by the difference of the free energy of a system with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-28 Martin Hasenbusch

We study the tilt dependence of the pinning-depinning transition for an interface described by the anisotropic quenched Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in 2+1 dimensions, where the two signs of the nonlinear terms are different from each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. -I. Goh , H. Jeong , B. Kahng , D. Kim

Wettability of a surface depends on both surface chemistry and topography. To move a three-phase contact line, a de-pinning force needs to be applied, which is of practical importance in various applications. However, a unified…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-08 Mahya Meyari , Camelia Dunare , Khellil Sefiane , Simon Titmuss , Job H. J. Thijssen

We investigate the formation of polycrystalline structures in a class of particle systems. The atomistic energy is modeled as a sum of particle energies that favor atoms being locally isometric to a reference lattice. The discrete frame…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Leonard Kreutz , Timo Ziereis

The influence of nonequilibrium bulk conditions on the properties of the interfaces exhibited by a kinetic Ising--like model system with nonequilibrium steady states is studied. The system is maintained out of equilibrium by perturbing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. I. Hurtado , P. L. Garrido , J. Marro

The concept of local symmetry dynamics has recently been used to demonstrate the evolution of discrete symmetries in one-dimensional chains leading to emergent periodicity. Here we go one step further and show that the unboundedness of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Peter Schmelcher

In this paper the development of a physically consistent phase-field theory of solidification shrinkage is presented. The coarse-grained hydrodynamic equations are derived directly from the N-body Hamiltonian equations in the framework of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-28 Gyula I. Toth , Wenyue Ma

We investigate the long-range statistical correlations, whereby discuss the nature of the undermining interacting/ noninteracting domains and associated phase transitions under variations of the quark mass and the mass scale that…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-08-19 Bhupendra Nath Tiwari

In the manufacturing process of high-performance particulate materials, viscous sintering plays a crucial role, particularly in fields such as polymer processing and additive manufacturing. The interactions between microscopic particles,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Xiaoxu Dai , Bo Qian , Arkadz Kirshtein , Qingcheng Yang