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Recent advances in spin-dependent optical lattices [Meng et al., Nature \textbf{615}, 231 (2023)] have enabled the experimental implementation of two superimposed three-dimensional lattices, presenting new opportunities to investigate…

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We investigate theoretically polygonal quantum rings and focus mostly on the triangular geometry where the corner effects are maximal. Such rings can be seen as short core-shell nanowires, a generation of semiconductor heterostructures with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Anna Sitek , Llorenç Serra , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

We show that oscillations are excited in a complex system under the influence of the external force, if the parameters of the system experience rapid change due to the changes in its internal structure. This excitation is collision-like and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Gedalin

The electromagnetic energy equation is analyzed term by term in a 3D simulation of kinetic reconnection previously reported by \citet{vapirev2013formation}. The evolution presents the usual 2D-like topological structures caused by an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Giovanni Lapenta , Martin Goldman , David Newman , Stefano Markidis , Andrey Divin

Using molecular dynamics simulations we examine the dynamics of a family of model polymers with varying chain length and torsional potential barriers. We focus on features of the dynamics of polymers that are seen experimentally but absent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-11 Daniel Fragiadakis , C. Michael Roland

A narrow elliptic ring containing an electron threaded by a magnetic field B is studied. When the ring is highly flattened, the increase of B would lead to a big energy gap between the ground and excited states, and therefore lead to a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuping Situ , Yanzhang He , Chengguang Bao

We explore the effects of a homogeneous external electric field on the static properties and dynamical behavior of two charged particles confined to a helix. In contrast to the field-free setup which provides a separation of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 J. Plettenberg , J. Stockhofe , A. V. Zampetaki , P. Schmelcher

The short time behavior of a disturbed system is influenced by off-shell motion and best characterized by the reduced density matrix possessing high energetic tails. We present analytically the formation of correlations due to collisions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Klaus Morawetz , Václav Špička , Pavel Lipavský

In biology, there are several processes in which unfolded protein chains are transported along narrow-tube channels. Normally, without such a severe configurational constraint, unfolded polypeptides would not bind to each other. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-19 Gillian M. Fraser , Eugene M. Terentjev

We consider a two-dimensional, tangentially active, semi-flexible, self-avoiding polymer to find a dynamical re-entrant transition between motile open chains and spinning achiral spirals with increasing activity. Utilizing probability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-08 Chitrak Karan , Abhishek Chaudhuri , Debasish Chaudhuri

We study the time evolution of entanglement created by local or extended excitations upon the ground state of a free-fermion chain. A single particle or hole excitation produces a single bit of excess entropy for large times and subsystem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-15 Viktor Eisler

In this work we study the assisted translocation of a polymer across a membrane nanopore, inside which a molecular motor exerts a force fuelled by the hydrolysis of ATP molecules. In our model the motor switches to its active state for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-26 A. Fiasconaro , J. J. Mazo , F. Falo

In this paper, we employ Molecular Dynamics computer simulations to study and compare the statics and dynamics of linear and circular (ring) polymer chains in entangled solutions of different densities. While we confirm that linear chain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-17 Negar Nahali , Angelo Rosa

The dynamics of a polymer ring enclosing a constant {\sl algebraic} area is studied. The constraint of a constant area is found to couple the dynamics of the two Cartesian components of the position vector of the polymer ring through the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Arti Dua , Thomas A. Vilgis

This article is devoted to the study of certain models for phase transitions involving nonlocal energies. A first part is concerned with to the asymptotic analysis of a system of fractional elliptic equations of Allen-Cahn type as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Thomas Gabard , Vincent Millot

Confined granular fluids, placed in a shallow box that is vibrated vertically, can achieve homogeneous stationary states thanks to energy injection mechanisms that take place throughout the system. These states can be stable even at high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Ricardo Brito , Dino Risso , Rodrigo Soto

We perform molecular dynamics simulations on an interacting electron gas confined to a cylindrical surface and subject to a radial magnetic field and the field of the positive background. In order to study the system at lowest energy states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vishal Mehra , Jayme De Luca

Shapes and energies of icosahedral fullerenes are studied on an atomically detailed level. The numerical results based on the effective binary carbon-carbon potential are related to the theory of elasticity of crystalline membranes with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Siber

We study the free energy of the worm-like-chain model, in the constant-extension ensemble, as a function of the stiffness for finite chains of length L. We find that the polymer properties obtained in this ensemble are "qualitatively"…

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