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We have studied the configurations of minimal energy of $N$ charges on a curve on the plane, interacting with a repulsive potential $V_{ij} = 1/r_{ij}^s$, with $s \geq 1$ and $i,j=1,\dots, N$. Among the examples considered are ellipses of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Paolo Amore , Martin Jacobo

Recent progress in the determination of hadronic matrix elements has revealed a tension between the measured value of $\epsilon_K^{\prime}/\epsilon_K$, which quantifies direct $CP$ violation in $K \to \pi\pi$ decays, and the Standard-Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-14 Teppei Kitahara , Ulrich Nierste , Paul Tremper

Fractons and other subdimensional particles are an exotic class of emergent quasi-particle excitations with severely restricted mobility. A wide class of models featuring these quasi-particles have a natural description in the language of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-21 Kevin Slagle , Abhinav Prem , Michael Pretko

We have found that the minimum energy configuration of $N=395$ charges confined in a disk and interacting via the Coulomb potential, reported by Cerkaski et al. in Ref.~\cite{Cerkaski15} is not a global minimum of the total electrostatic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Paolo Amore

The best-understood crystal ordering transition is that of two-dimensional freezing, which proceeds by the rapid eradication of lattice defects as the temperature is lowered below a critical threshold. But crystals that assemble on closed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-22 Rodrigo E. Guerra , Colm P. Kelleher , Andrew D. Hollingsworth , Paul M. Chaikin

The class of traveling wave solutions of the sine-Gordon equation is known to be in 1-1 correspondence with the class of (necessarily singular) pseudospherical surfaces in Euclidean space with screw-motion symmetry: the pseudospherical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

In this manuscript we identify the main differences between the effects of Kramers symmetry on the systems with even and odd number of electrons, the ways how the aforementioned symmetry affects the structure of the Conical Seams (CSs), and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Ruixi Wang , Vladimir Chernyak

The crystal symmetry of a material dictates the type of topological band structures it may host, and therefore symmetry is the guiding principle to find topological materials. Here we introduce an alternative guiding principle, which we…

Anisotropic dipole-dipole interaction often plays a key role in biological, soft, and complex matter. For it to induce non-trivial order in the system, there must be additional repulsive interactions or external potentials involved that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-11 Simon Čopar , Anže Božič

Based on an extended time-space symmetry, a cylindrical model of gravitational geometrical dynamics with two time-like extra-dimensions leads to a microscopic geodesic description of the curved space-time. Due to interaction of a Higgs-like…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Vo Van Thuan

We study the (near or close to) ground state distribution of N softly repelling particles trapped in the interior of a spherical box. The charges mutually interact via an inverse power law potential of the form $1/r^\gamma$. We study three…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-13 A. Mughal

Zinc and cadmium clusters interacting with a Gupta potential have previously been identified as prototypical metallic systems that exhibiting disordered cluster structures. Here, putative global minima of the potential energy have been…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonathan P. K. Doye

Whereas disclination defects are energetically prohibitive in two-dimensional flat crystals, their existence is necessary in crystals with spherical topology, such as viral capsids, colloidosomes or fullerenes. Such a geometrical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-01 Ireth García-Aguilar , Piermarco Fonda , Luca Giomi

Because of the inevitably disordered background, structural defects are not well-defined concepts in amorphous solids. In order to overcome this difficulty, it has been recently proposed that topological defects can be still identified in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Long-Zhou Huang , Yun-Jiang Wang , Matteo Baggioli

Topology and geometry of a sphere create constraints for particles that lie on its surface which they otherwise do not experience in Euclidean space. Notably, the number of particles and the size of the system can be varied separately,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-22 Anze Bozic , Stefano Franzini , Simon Copar

The nucleation of quasicrystals remains a fundamental puzzle, primarily due to the absence of a periodic translational template. Here, we demonstrate that phasons - hidden degrees of freedom unique to quasiperiodic order - drive diverse…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-17 Gang Cui , Lei Zhang , Pingwen Zhang , An-Chang Shi , Kai Jiang

The method of Morse theory is used to analyze the distributions of unit charges interacting through a repulsive force and constrained to move on the surface of a sphere -- the Thomson problem. We find that, due to topological reasons, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Alfredo Iorio , Siddhartha Sen

The Poisson problem consists in finding an immersed surface $\Sigma\subset\mathbb{R}^m$ minimising Germain's elastic energy (known as Willmore energy in geometry) with prescribed boundary, boundary Gauss map and area which constitutes a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Francesca Da Lio , Francesco Palmurella , Tristan Rivière

We first re-prove with a more complete method that the the minimum standard model, with the inclusion of the CKM-matrix, requires the T-odd/P-odd total cross section of two spin-1/2 particles to vanish in all orders\cite{gxu}. Then we study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-17 Guanghua Xu

In Alonso et al., JHEP 12 (2014) 034, the CP-even sector of the effective chiral Lagrangian for a generic composite Higgs model with a symmetric coset has been constructed, up to four momenta. In this paper, the CP-odd couplings are studied…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 I. M. Hierro , L. Merlo , and S. Rigolin