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The statistical mechanics of a ribbon polymer made up of two semiflexible chains is studied using both analytical techniques and simulation. The system is found to have a crossover transition at some finite temperature, from a type of short…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ramin Golestanian , Tanniemola B. Liverpool

We consider the ground-state entanglement in highly connected many-body systems, consisting of harmonic oscillators and spin-1/2 systems. Varying their degree of connectivity, we investigate the interplay between the enhancement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Ferraro , Artur Garcia-Saez , Antonio Acin

The nonuniform superconducting state in a ring in which the order parameter vanishing at one point is studied. This state is characterized by a jump of the phase by $\pi$ at the point where the order parameter becomes zero. In uniform rings…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Y. Vodolazov , B. J. Baelus , F. M. Peeters

We study jamming in model freely rotating polymers as a function of chain length $N$ and bond angle $\theta_0$. The volume fraction at jamming, $\phi_J(\theta_0)$, is minimal for rigid-rod-like chains ($\theta_0 = 0$), and increases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-15 Robert S. Hoy

In this paper, adhesive contact of a rigid cylinder on an elastic power-law graded half-space is studied analytically with the theory of weakly singular integral equation and orthogonal polynomial method. Emphasis is placed on the coupling…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-24 Jin Fan , Xu Guo

Excited states are stationary localized solutions of the Gross--Pitaevskii equation with a harmonic potential and a repulsive nonlinear term that have zeros on a real axis. Existence and asymptotic properties of excited states are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 Dmitry Pelinovsky

We consider spin-polarized electrons in a single Landau level on a cylinder as the circumference of the cylinder goes to infinity. This gives a model of interacting electrons on a circle where the momenta of the particles are restricted and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-21 E. J. Bergholtz , A. Karlhede

The Kuramoto model is a canonical model for understanding phase-locking phenomenon. It is well-understood that, in the usual mean-field scaling, full phase-locking is unlikely and that it is partially phase-locked states that are important…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Bronski , Lan Wang

We use Monte Carlo methods to study spinons in two-dimensional quantum spin systems, characterizing their intrinsic size $\lambda$ and confinement length $\Lambda$. We confirm that spinons are deconfined, $\Lambda \to \infty$ and $\lambda$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-10 Ying Tang , Anders W. Sandvik

Some recent results on the rotational dynamics of polymers are reviewed and extended. We focus here on the relaxation of a polymer, either flexible or semiflexible, initially wrapped around a rigid rod. We also study the steady polymer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jean-Charles Walter , Michiel Laleman , Marco Baiesi , Enrico Carlon

The evolution of $N$ spin-$1/2$ system with all-range Ising-type interaction is considered. For this system we study the entanglement of one spin with the rest spins. It is shown that the entanglement depends on the amount of spins and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 A. R. Kuzmak

We show that the bulk-boundary correspondence for topological insulators can be modified in the presence of non-Hermiticity. We consider a one-dimensional tight-binding model with gain and loss as well as long-range hopping. The system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 Tony E. Lee

The coupled motion is investigated for a mechanical system consisting of water and a body freely floating in it. Water occupies either a half-space or a layer of constant depth into which an infinitely long surface-piercing cylinder is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Nikolay Kuznetsov

We discuss the entropy of a circular polymer under a topological constraint. We call it the {\it topological entropy} of the polymer, in short. A ring polymer does not change its topology (knot type) under any thermal fluctuations. Through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Miyuki K. Shimamura , Tetso Deguchi

We have studied the compact phase conformations of semi-flexible polymer chains confined in two dimensional nonhomogeneous media, modelled by fractals that belong to the family of modified rectangular (MR) lattices. Members of the MR family…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 D Marčetić , S Elezović-Hadžić , N Adžić , I Živić

We observe excited exciton and biexciton states of localised excitons in an anisotropic quantum ring, where large polarisation asymmetry supports the presence of a crescent-like localised structure. We also find that saturation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 H. D. Kim , K. Kyhm , R. A. Taylor , A. Nicolet , M. Potemski , G. Nogues , K. C. Je , E. H. Lee , J. D. Song

We numerically explore the behavior of repelling and aligning self-propelled polar particles (boids) in 2D enclosed by a damped flexible and elastic loop-shaped boundary. We observe disordered, polar ordered (or jammed) and circulating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-24 A. C. Quillen , J. P. Smucker , A. Peshkov

A persistent current qubit has two quantum states with opposite currents flowing in a superconducting loop. Their magnetic field couple to nuclear spins. The qubit state is not only perturbed by the spins but it also gets entangled with the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek Dziarmaga

Evolution of coherent states is considered for a particle confined to a cylinder moving in a harmonic oscillator potential. Because of the discontinuous changes as time goes by of the phase representing the position of a particle on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 K. Kowalski , J. Rembieliński

Semiconductor nanowires with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling are currently on the spotlight of several research fields such as spintronics, topological materials and quantum computation. While most theoretical models assume an infinitely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Lorenzo Rossi , Fabrizio Dolcini , Fausto Rossi