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We suggest an iterative quantum protocol, allowing to solve optimization problems with a glassy energy landscape. It is based on a periodic cycling around the tricritical point of the many-body localization transition. This ensures that…
We numerically investigate the matrix model of two-color one-flavor adjoint QCD (matrix-QCD$_{2,1}^{\text{adj}}$) in the weak coupling regime (small $g$) and in the chiral limit. The Yang-Mills potential has two distinct gauge invariant…
The phase behavior of a large but finite Ising ferromagnet in the presence of competing surface magnetic fields +/- H_s is studied by Monte Carlo simulations and by phenomenological theory. Specifically, the geometry of a double pyramid of…
We study the constrained minimum energy problem with an external field relative to the $\alpha$-Riesz kernel $|x-y|^{\alpha-n}$ of order $\alpha\in(0,n)$ for a generalized condenser $\mathbf A=(A_i)_{i\in I}$ in $\mathbb R^n$, $n\geqslant…
We consider the two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a white noise potential, described by the Anderson hamiltonian. After define the corresponding energy space via the paracontrolled distribution framework from singular…
In this paper, we consider the one-dimensional interaction energy $\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}}(W*\rho)(x)d\rho(x) + \int_{\mathbb{R}}U(x)d\rho(x)$ where the interaction potential $W(x)= -\frac{|x|^b}{b},\,1\le b \le 2$ and the external…
We study on which compact Sasakian 3-manifolds the Reeb field, which is a Beltrami field with eigenvalue 2, is an energy minimizer in its adjoint orbit under the action of volume preserving diffeomorphisms. This minimization property for…
We describe several randomized collections of $3\times 3$ rotation matrices and analyze their associated logarithmic energy. The best one (i.e. the one attaining the lowest expected logarithmic energy) is constructed by choosing $r$…
We consider sets in $\mathbb R^N$ which minimise, for fixed volume, the sum of the perimeter and a non-local term given by the double integral of a kernel $g:\mathbb R^N\setminus\{0\}\to \mathbb R^+$. We establish some general existence and…
The $q$-th moment ($q>0$) of electrostatic equilibrium measure is shown to be minimal for a centered ball among $3$-dimensional sets of given capacity, while among $2$-dimensional sets a centered disk is the minimizer for $0<q \leq 2$.…
We study existence and convergence properties of least-energy symmetric solutions (l.e.s.s.) to the pure critical problem \begin{equation*} (-\Delta)^su_s=|u_s|^{2^\star_s-2}u_s, \quad u_s\in D^s_0(\Omega),\quad 2^\star_s:=\frac{2N}{N-2s},…
It has recently been shown that spherically symmetric potentials of finite range are uniquely determined by the part of their phase shifts at a fixed energy level $k^2>0$. However, numerical experiments show that two quite different…
We study the optimal placement of $k$ ordered points on the unit interval for the bounded pair potential \[ K_q(d)=e^{-d^q}, \qquad q>0. \] The family interpolates between strongly cusp-like kernels for $0<q<1$, the threshold kernel…
We consider the Schroedinger equation with a subcritical focusing power nonlinearity on a noncompact metric graph, and prove that for every finite edge there exists a threshold value of the mass, beyond which there exists a positive bound…
In this article, the weak-strong uniqueness principle is proved for an Euler-Poisson system in the whole space, with initial data so that the strong solution exists. Some results on Riesz potentials are used to justify the considered weak…
We proceed further with the study of minimum weak Riesz energy problems for condensers with touching plates, initiated jointly with Bent Fuglede (Potential Anal. 51 (2019), 197--217). Having now added to the analysis constraint and external…
We consider the ADE-series of (2, 0) supersymmetric quantum theories on T^5 \times R, where the first factor is a flat spatial five-torus, and the second factor denotes time. The quantum states of such a theory \Phi are characterized by a…
It is well known that the Casimir energy of bulk fields induces a non-trivial potential for the compactification radius of higher-dimensional field theories. On dimensional grounds, the 1-loop potential is ~ 1/R^4. Since the 5d gauge…
Detecting a scalar singlet interacting through the Higgs portal demands a pivot from conventional particle detection strategies to a comprehensive examination of the effective potential's landscape. The presence, intensity, and first-order…
Statistical equilibration of energies in a slow-fast system is a fundamental open problem in physics. In a recent paper, it was shown that the equilibration rate in a springy billiard can remain strictly positive in the limit of vanishing…