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Anisotropic homogeneous metamaterials that are neither wholly dissipative nor wholly active at a specific frequency are permitted by classical electromagnetic theory. Well-established homogenization formalisms indicate that such a…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-22 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Disordered systems form one of the centrestages of research in many body sciences and lead to a plethora of interesting phenomena and applications. A paradigmatic disordered system consists of an one-dimensional array of quantum spin-1/2…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Utkarsh Mishra , Debraj Rakshit , R. Prabhu , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

We extend the results from the first part of this series of two papers by examining hyperuniformity in heterogeneous media composed of impenetrable anisotropic inclusions. Specifically, we consider maximally random jammed packings of hard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Chase E. Zachary , Yang Jiao , Salvatore Torquato

Atomically thin layered materials are systems with zero limit bulk-to-surface ratio. Their physical properties are determined by two-dimensionality and strongly affected by interfacing with other systems. Therefore, they represent an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-16 Tomas Samuely , Martin Gmitra , Tristan Cren , Mateo Calandra , Peter Samuely

Many materials containing colloids or polymers are polydisperse: They comprise particles with properties (such as particle diameter, charge, or polymer chain length) that depend continuously on one or several parameters. This review…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Sollich

A new type of quasi-two-dimensional complex plasma system was observed which consisted of monodisperse microspheres and their binary agglomerations (dimers). The particles and their dimers levitated in a plasma sheath at slightly different…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Chaudhuri , I. Semenov , V. Nosenko , H. M. Thomas

Crystallization of supersaturated liquids usually starts by heterogeneous nucleation. Mounting evidence shows that even homogeneous nucleation in simple liquids takes place in two steps; first a dense amorphous precursor forms, and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-15 László Gránásy , Frigyes Podmaniczky , Gyula I. Tóth , György Tegze , Tamás Pusztai

Disordered hyperuniform materials are an emerging class of exotic amorphous states of matter that endow them with singular physical properties. Here, we generalize the Fourier-space based numerical construction procedure for designing {\it…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-27 Wenlong Shi , David Keeney , Duyu Chen , Yang Jiao , Salvatore Torquato

Liquid crystal elastomers are special cross-linked polymer materials combining the large elastic deformability of elastomers with the orientational orders of liquid crystals. This model exhibits markedly different phenomena than the liquid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Xiaonan Hao , Jiaxi Huang , Ning Jiang

In this study, we investigate the appeared complexity of two-phase flow (air/water) in a heterogeneous soil where the supposed porous media is non-deformable media which is under the timedependent gas pressure. After obtaining of governing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-09-01 Hamed O. Ghaffari

The 2-body problem on the sphere and hyperbolic space are both real forms of holomorphic Hamiltonian systems defined on the complex sphere. This admits a natural description in terms of biquaternions and allows us to address questions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 Philip Arathoon

In many interesting physical settings, such as the vulcanization of rubber, the introduction of permanent random constraints between the constituents of a homogeneous fluid can cause a phase transition to a random solid state. In this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul M. Goldbart

The capacity to devise order metrics for microstructures of multiphase heterogeneous media is a highly challenging task, given the richness of the possible geometries and topologies of the phases that can arise. This investigation initiates…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-20 Salvatore Torquato , Murray Skolnick , Jaeuk Kim

Hyperuniform particle arrangements are characterized by a local number variance that grows more slowly than the volume of the observation window. We generalize this concept to describe particle systems in which particles carry weights:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-04 Salvatore Torquato , Jaeuk Kim , Michael A. Klatt , Roberto Car , Paul J. Steinhardt

In periodically sheared suspensions there is a dynamical phase transition characterized by a critical strain amplitude $\gamma_c$ between an absorbing state where particle trajectories are reversible and an active state where trajectories…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-07 Sam Wilken , Rodrigo E. Guerra , David J. Pine , Paul M. Chaikin

Dense, disordered packings of particles are useful models of low-temperature amorphous phases of matter, biological systems, granular media, and colloidal systems. The study of dense packings of nonspherical particles enables one to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-09 Charles Emmett Maher , Frank H. Stillinger , Salvatore Torquato

In this paper, we derive multicontinuum poroelasticity models using the multicontinuum homogenization method. Poroelasticity models are widely used in many areas of science and engineering to describe coupled flow and mechanics processes in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Dmitry Ammosov , Mohammed Al-Kobaisi , Yalchin Efendiev

Recent experimental results indicate that phosphorus, a single-component system, can have two liquid phases: a high-density liquid (HDL) and a low-density liquid (LDL) phase. A first-order transition between two liquids of different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Giancarlo Franzese , Gianpietro Malescio , Anna Skibinsky , Sergey V. Buldyrev , H. Eugene Stanley

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have disrupted materials science due to the development of van der Waals technology. It enables the stacking of ultrathin layers of materials characterized by vastly different electronic structures to create…

A universal phase diagram for type-II superconductors with weak point pinning disorder is proposed. In this phase diagram, two thermodynamic phase transitions generically separate a ``Bragg glass'' from the disordered liquid. Translational…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Gautam I. Menon