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Defects are a ubiquitous feature of ordered media. They have certain universal features, independent of the underlying physical system, reflecting their topological origins. While the topological properties of defects are robust, they…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-24 Chiqun Zhang , Amit Acharya , Alan C. Newell , Shankar C. Venkataramani

The systematic change of shell structure in both weakly bound and resonant neutron one-particle levels in nuclei towards the neutron drip line is exhibited, solving the coupled equations derived from the Schr\"{o}dinger equation in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 Ikuko Hamamoto

Shell structures in single-particle energy spectra are investigated against regular tetrahedral type deformation using radial power-law potential model. Employing a natural way of shape parametrization which interpolates sphere and regular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-12 Ken-ichiro Arita , Yasunori Mukumoto

Energy cascades lie at the heart of the dynamics of turbulent flows. In a recent study of turbulence in fluids with odd-viscosity [de Wit \textit{et al.}, Nature \textbf{627}, 515 (2024)], the two-dimensionalization of the flow at small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Dario Vincenzi , Rahul Pandit

We propose a general formalism to characterize orientational frustration of smectic liquid crystals in confinement by interpreting the emerging networks of grain boundaries as objects with a topological charge. In a formal idealization,…

The effect of an axially symmetric hexadecapole term is investigated in a strongly deformed quadrupole potential. While the system is nonintegrable and shows significant chaotic behaviour classically, the quantum mechanical treatment not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Dieter Heiss , Rashid G. Nazmitdinov , Stefanel Radu

We numerically investigate how spatial variations of extensile or contractile active stress affect bulk active nematic systems in two and three dimensions. In the absence of defects, activity gradients drive flows which re-orient the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-15 Liam J Ruske , Julia M Yeomans

The self-gravitating, spherically symmetric thin shells built of orbiting particles are sstudied. Two new features are found. One is the minimal possible value for an angular momentum of particles, above which elleptic orbits become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Victor Berezin , Maxim Okhrimenko

We establish a sum rule that connects fracture functions to nucleon energy-energy correlators~(NEECs) in a one-to-one correspondence. Using this sum rule, we study the energy pattern in the target fragmentation region of deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-14 Kai-Bao Chen , Jian-Ping Ma , Xuan-Bo Tong

The role of three-nucleon forces (3NF) in the description of nuclear structure properties is nowadays a main topic in the field of microscopic many-nucleon calculations. We investigate the relative weight between effective two- and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-02 L. Coraggio , A. Gargano , N. Itaco

We study a discrete version of a biaxial nematic liquid crystal model with external fields via an approach based on the solution of differential identities for the partition function. In the thermodynamic limit, we derive the free energy of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-02-12 Giovanni De Matteis , Francesco Giglio , Antonio Moro

Inhomogeneous charge distributions have important repercussions on electrostatic interactions in systems of charged particles but are often difficult to examine theoretically. We investigate how electrostatic interactions are influenced by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-25 Anze Losdorfer Bozic , Rudolf Podgornik

The alpha cluster states of 16C are investigated by using the antisymmetrized molecular dynamics. It is shown that two different types of alpha cluster states exist: triangular and linear-chain states. The former has an approximate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Baba , Y. Chiba , M. Kimura

Topological defects play a pivotal role in the physics of liquid crystals and represent one of the most prominent and well studied aspects of mesophases. While in two-dimensional nematics, disclinations are traditionally treated as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-28 Arthur J. Vromans , Luca Giomi

We investigate the intermittency of energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence by identifying dissipative structures and measuring their characteristic scales. We find that the probability distribution of energy dissipation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Jean Carlos Perez , Steven M. Tobias

We develop a theory for energy and spatially resolved tunneling spectroscopy of topological quantum spin Hall helical states driven out of equilibrium. When a helical liquid is constrained between two superconducting reservoirs transport at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Stanislav S. Apostolov , Alex Levchenko

Defects arise when nematic liquid crystals are under topological constraints at the boundary. Recently the study of defects has drawn a lot of attention. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between two-dimensional defects and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-16 Yang Qu , Ying Wei , Pingwen Zhang

We use density--functional theory to study the structure of two-dimensional defects inside a circular nematic nanocavity. The density, nematic order parameter, and director fields, as well as the defect core energy and core radius, are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-17 D. de las Heras , L. Mederos , E. Velasco

It is shown that the three-body forces in the $1f_{7/2}$ shell, for which recently evidence was found on the basis of spectroscopic properties of the Ca isotopes and $N=28$ isotones, can be most naturally explained as an effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 P. Van Isacker , I. Talmi

Topological defects play a central role in the formation and organization of various biological systems. Historically, such nonequilibrium defects have been mainly studied in the context of homogeneous active nematics. Phase-separated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-13 Timo Krüger , Ivan Maryshev , Erwin Frey