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Inverse design of morphing slender structures with programmable curvature has significant applications in various engineering fields. Most existing studies formulate it as an optimization problem, which requires repeatedly solving the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-28 JiaHao Li , Weicheng Huang , YinBo Zhu , Luxia Yu , Xiaohao Sun , Mingchao Liu , HengAn Wu

Mutually repelling particles form spontaneously ordered clusters when forced into confinement. The clusters may adopt similar spatial arrangements even if the underlying particle interactions are contrastingly different. Here we demonstrate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-13 P. D. S. de Lima , R. De La Cour , K. Gaff , J. M. de Araújo , S. J. Cox , M. S. Ferreira , S. Hutzler

We present a thermodynamic theory of the Kovacs effect based on the idea that the configurational degrees of freedom of a glass-forming material are driven out of equilibrium with the heat bath by irreversible thermal contraction and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-14 Eran Bouchbinder , J. S. Langer

Due to remarkable advances in colloid synthesis techniques, systems of squares and cubes, once an academic abstraction for theorists and simulators, are nowadays an experimental reality. By means of a free minimization of the free-energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Belli , M. Dijkstra , R. van Roij

This thesis focus on the extension of the Parisi full replica symmetry breaking solution to the Ising spin glass on a random regular graph. We propose a new martingale approach, that overcomes the limits of the Parisi-M\'ezard cavity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-05 Francesco Concetti

Dynamics of systems of structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

The structural properties of fluids whose molecules interact via potentials with a hard core plus two piece-wise constant sections of different widths and heights are presented. These follow from the more general development previously…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-27 Andrés Santos , Santos B. Yuste , Mariano López de Haro , Mariana Bárcenas , Pedro Orea

We develop a free energy functional for an inhomogeneous system that contains both symmetry conserved and symmetry broken parts of the direct pair correlation function. These correlation functions are found by solving the Ornstein- Zernike…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Pankaj Mishra , Yashwant Singh

Excess contributions to the free energy due to interfaces occur for many problems encountered in the statistical physics of condensed matter when coexistence between different phases is possible (e.g. wetting phenomena, nucleation, crystal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Kurt Binder , Benjamin Block , Subir K. Das , Peter Virnau , David Winter

We propose a new Monte Carlo algorithm for the free energy calculation based on configuration space sampling. We implement this algorithm for Ising model. Comparison with the exact free energy shows an excellent agreement. We analyse the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 Sheng Bi , Ning-Hua Tong

The determination of the Landau free energy (the grand thermodynamic potential) by a perturbation theory is advanced to arbitrary order for the specific case of non-interacting fermionic systems perturbed by a one-particle potential.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-11 Cezary Sliwa , Tomasz Dietl

We show that the functional appearing in the celebrated Parisi formula for the free energy of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model can be found from the incremental free energy obtained by Cavity Method if one assumes that the state is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-09 Simone Franchini

This work addresses the inverse problem of espresso coffee extraction, in which one aims to reconstruct the brewing conditions that generate a desired chemical profile in the final beverage. Starting from a high-fidelity multiphysics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Antoniorenee Barletta , Salvatore Cuomo , Nadaniela Egidi , Josephin Giacomini , Pierluigi Maponi

We continue our solution of the inverse problem started by the first author in [Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 35, xxxx (2020), in production]. Additional potential functions for exactly solvable problems that correspond to the same energy spectrum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Houcine Aounallah

The perturbation theory with a variational basis is constructed and analyzed.The generalized Gaussian effective potential is introduced and evaluated up to the second order for selfinteracting scalar fields in one and two spatial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Paolo Cea , Luigi Tedesco

In this paper, I investigate more closely the recently proposed Free Energy Monte Carlo algorithm that is devised in particular for calculations where conventional Monte Carlo simulations struggle with ergodicity problems. The simplest…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Thill

On the basis of the density functional theory, we give a clear definition of the free energy landscape. To show the usefulness of the definition, we construct the free energy landscape for rearrangement of atoms in an FCC crystal of hard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takashi Yoshidome , Akira Yoshimori , Takashi Odagaki

The emergence of scanning probe and electron beam imaging techniques have allowed quantitative studies of atomic structure and minute details of electronic and vibrational structure on the level of individual atomic units. These microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-22 Sai Mani Prudhvi Valleti , Lukas Vlcek , Maxim Ziatdinov , Rama K. Vasudevan , Sergei V. Kalinin

The restoration of particle number within Energy Density Functional theory is analyzed. It is shown that the standard method based on configuration mixing leads to a functional of both the projected and non-projected densities. As an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-08-08 Guillaume Hupin , Denis Lacroix , Michael Bender

Self-consistent calculations of the energy-loss spectra of charged particles moving near a plane-bounded free electron gas are reported. Energy-loss probabilities are obtained, within linear-response theory, from the knowledge of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Garcia-Lekue , J. M. Pitarke