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The trapezoidal rule, which is a special case of the Newmark family of algorithms, is one of the most widely used methods for transient hyperbolic problems. In this work, we show that this rule conserves linear and angular momenta and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 Arup Kumar Nandy , C. S. Jog

Elongated particles in dense systems often exhibit alignment due to volume exclusion interactions, leading to packing configurations. Traditional models of collective dynamics typically impose this alignment phenomenologically, neglecting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Sara Merino-Aceituno , Steffen Plunder , Claudia Wytrzens , Havva Yoldaş

We consider spinorial fields in polar form to deduce their respective tensorial connection in various physical situations: we show that in some cases the tensorial connection is a useful tool, instead in other cases it arises as a necessary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Luca Fabbri

We establish local-in-time existence and uniqueness results for nonlocal conservation laws with a nonlinear mobility, in several space dimensions, under weak assumptions on the kernel, which is assumed to be bounded and of finite total…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Antonin Chodron de Courcel

Given observations of a physical system, identifying the underlying non-linear governing equation is a fundamental task, necessary both for gaining understanding and generating deterministic future predictions. Of most practical relevance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-02 A. Goeßmann , M. Götte , I. Roth , R. Sweke , G. Kutyniok , J. Eisert

The tensor network representation of many-body quantum states, given by local tensors, provides a promising numerical tool for the study of strongly correlated topological phases in two dimension. However, tensor network representations may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Sujeet K. Shukla , M. Burak Şahinoğlu , Frank Pollmann , Xie Chen

The perturbative variational formulation of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations is presented up to third order in the perturbation analysis. From the second and third-order Lagrangian densities, respectively, the first-order and second-order…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Alain J. Brizard

Motivated by many applications (geophysical flows, general relativity), we attempt to set the foundations for a study of entropy solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws posed on a (Riemannian or Lorentzian) manifold. The flux of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Matania Ben-Artzi , Philippe G. LeFloch

The scaling laws for the magnetic compression of a toroidally rotating field reversed configuration (FRC) have been investigated in this work. The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of the magnetic compression on rotating FRCs employing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Yiming Ma , Ping Zhu , Bo Rao , Haolong Li

Arguments are presented to the effect that embedding semi-flexible (wormlike) ideal polymers into a fluctuating, flexible surface leads to an effective attractive orientational interaction between polymer segments that precipitates an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Podgornik

We indicate the fundamental rationale underlying the control of temperature and the manipulation of thermal flux, with reference to a multilayered composite material. We show that when the orientation of the layers in the composite is…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-29 Krishna. P. Vemuri , P. R. Bandaru

A Lagrangian formulation with nonlocality is investigated in this paper. The nonlocality of the Lagrangian is introduced by a new nonlocal argument that is defined as a nonlocal residual satisfying the zero mean condition. The nonlocal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 Zaixing Huang

The quantization scheme by noncommutative geometry developed in string theory is applied to establish the conservation law of twisted spin and spin current densities in the spin-orbit coupled systems. Starting from the pedagogical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-31 Naoyuki Sugimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

Mixing colloid shapes with distinctly different anisotropy generates composite nematics in which the order of the individual components can be fundamentally different. In colloidal rod-disk mixtures or hybrid nematics composed of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-20 H. H. Wensink

Motivated by the structure of networks of cross-linked cytoskeletal biopolymers, we study the orientationally ordered phases in two-dimensional networks of randomly cross-linked semiflexible polymers. We consider permanent cross-links which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-08 Martin Kiemes , Panayotis Benetatos , Annette Zippelius

Polar polymer activity is a fundamental mechanism behind a large number of cellular dynamical processes. The number and location of the active sites on the polymer backbone play a central role in their dynamics and conformational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-25 Surabhi Jaiswal , Prithwiraj Maity , Snigdha Thakur , Marisol Ripoll

The conservation law for the orbital plus spin angular momentum of a free Dirac particle in curved spacetime requires that the affine connection has the antisymmetric part: the torsion tensor, which extends general relativity to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Nikodem Popławski

The tensor polarization of particles and nuclei is constant in a coordinate system rotating with the same angular velocity as the spin. In the laboratory frame, it rotates with this angular velocity. The general equation defining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Alexander J. Silenko

Using the complete group classification of semilinear differential equations on the three-dimensional Heisenberg group carried out in a preceding work, we establish the conservation laws for the critical Kohn-Laplace equations via the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Yuri Bozhkov , Igor Leite Freire

If a semiflexible polymer confined to a narrow channel bends around by 180 degrees, the polymer is said to exhibit a hairpin. The equilibrium extension statistics of the confined polymer are well understood when hairpins are vanishingly…