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The study of the properties of glass-forming liquids is difficult for many reasons. Analytic solutions of mean field models are usually available only for systems embedded in a space with an unphysically high number of spatial dimensions;…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-26 Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Giorgio Parisi , Corrado Rainone

Weakly-irreducible not irreducible subalgebras of $\so(1,n+1)$ were classified by L. Berard Bergery and A. Ikemakhen. In the present paper a geometrical proof of this result is given. Transitively acting isometry groups of Lobachevskian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-19 Anton S. Galaev

We develop a general stability analysis for objective structures, which constitute a far reaching generalization of crystal lattice systems. We show that these particle systems, although in general neither periodic nor space filling, allow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Bernd Schmidt , Martin Steinbach

The main objective of quantum simulation is an in-depth understanding of many-body physics. It is important for fundamental issues (quantum phase transitions, transport, . . . ) and for the development of innovative materials. Analytic…

We construct families of ordinary and gap solitons (GSs), including solitary vortices, in the two-dimensional (2D) system based on the nonlinear-Schr\"Aodinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equation with the 2D or quasi-1D (Q1D) periodic linear…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

The band structure of a crystal may have points where two or more bands are degenerate in energy and where the geometry of the Bloch state manifold is singular, with consequences for material and transport properties. Ultracold atoms in…

A convenient framework is developed to generalize Berry's investigation of the adiabatic geometrical phase for a classical relativistic charged scalar field in a curved background spacetime which is minimally coupled to electromagnetism and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Ali Mostafazadeh

We present a systematic method of constructing limit-quasiperiodic structures with non-crystallographic point symmetries. Such structures are different aperiodic ordered structures from quasicrystals, and we call them "superquasicrystals".…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Komajiro Niizeki , Nobuhisa Fujita

We introduce the notion of a "crystallographic sphere packing," defined to be one whose limit set is that of a geometrically finite hyperbolic reflection group in one higher dimension. We exhibit for the first time an infinite family of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Alex Kontorovich , Kei Nakamura

Birman-Lubotzky-McCarthy proved that any abelian subgroup of the mapping class groups for orientable surfaces is finitely generated. We apply Birman-Lubotzky-McCarthy's arguments to the mapping class groups for non-orientable surfaces. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Erika Kuno

We present a Monte Carlo simulation of a polymer nematic for varying volume fractions, concentrating on the structure function of the sample. We achieve nematic ordering with stiff polymers made of spherical monomers that would otherwise…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Randall D. Kamien , Gary S. Grest

We describe all pseudo-Riemannian metrics on closed surfaces whose geodesic flows admit nontrivial integrals quadratic in momenta. As an application, we solve the Beltrami problem on closed surfaces and prove the nonexistence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-25 Vladimir S. Matveev

In this paper, we introduce geometric technique of working with skew-framed manifolds. It allows us to study stable homotopy groups of some Thom spaces by geometric means. We schematically describe how our results (which are also of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-12-05 P. M. Akhmet'ev , O. D. Frolkina

The classification of isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres with four or six different principal curvatures is still not complete. In this paper we develop a structural approach that may be helpful for a classification. Instead of working…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Anna Siffert

Bohmian mechanics offers a deterministic alternative to conventional quantum theory through well-defined particle trajectories. While successful in nonrelativistic contexts, its extension to curved spacetime-and hence quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-13 Mohamed Hatifi

We carry out Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the effect of molecular shape on liquid-crystal order. In our approach, each model mesogen consists of several soft spheres bonded rigidly together. The arrangement of the spheres may be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Xu , R. L. B. Selinger , J. V. Selinger , R. Shashidhar

Polymer-grafted nanoparticles are versatile building blocks that self-assemble into a rich diversity of mesostructures. Coarse-grained molecular simulations have commonly accompanied experiments by resolving structure formation pathways and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-30 Federico Tomazic , Aswathy Muttathukattil , Afshin Nabiyan , Felix Schacher , Michael Engel

A spacelike surface in four-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime through the lightcone has a meaningful lightlike normal vector field $\eta$. Several sufficient assumptions on such a surface with non-degenerate $\eta$-second fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Francisco J. Palomo , Francisco J. Rodriguez , Alfonso Romero

Unlike crystals, glasses age or devitrify over time, reflecting their non-equilibrium nature. This lack of stability is a serious issue in many industrial applications. Here, we show by numerical simulations that the devitrification of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-25 Taiki Yanagishima , John Russo , Roel P A Dullens , Hajime Tanaka

The main objective of this article is to study the viable compact stellar structures in non-Riemannian geometry, i.e., $f(\mathbb{Q},T)$ theory, where $\mathbb{Q}$ defines the non-metricity and $T$ represents trace of the stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-02 M. Zeeshan Gul , M. Sharif , Adeeba Arooj