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This article is concerned with statistics of addition spectra for systems of identical charged particles. A classical model is suggested in order to study fluctuations of Coulomb blockade peak spacings in large two-dimensional semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yshai Avishai , Daniel Berend , Richard Berkovits

The elastic properties of two-component bilayer membranes are studied using a coarse grain model for amphiphilic molecules. The two species of amphiphiles considered here differ only in their length. Molecular Dynamics simulations are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Imparato , Julian C. Shillcock , Reinhard Lipowsky

The free energy of inserting a protein into a membrane is determined by considering the variation in the spectrum of thermal fluctuations in response to the presence of a rigid inclusion. Both numerically and through a simple analytical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian D. Santangelo , Oded Farago

Several analysis methods for nonstationary fluctuations are described and applied to the edge localized mode (ELM) instabilities of limiter H-mode plasmas. The microwave scattering diagnostic observes poloidal $k_{\theta}$ values of 3.3…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Kurt S. Riedel , Alexander Sidorenko , Norton Bretz , David J. Thomson

We consider the topological protection of entanglement and particle fluctuations for a general one-dimensional chiral topological insulator with winding number $\mathcal{I}$. We prove, in particular, that when the periodic system is divided…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-15 K. Monkman , J. Sirker

The local spectral statistics of random matrices forms distinct universality classes, strongly depending on the position in the spectrum. Surprisingly, the spacing between consecutive eigenvalues at the spectral edges has received little…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 G. Akemann , V. Gorski , M. Kieburg

We observe strongly dissimilar scattering from two types of edges in hexagonal quasi-monocrystalline gold flakes with thicknesses around 1 micron. We identify as the origin the interference between a direct, quasi-specular scattering and an…

One of the most widely used methods for determination of the bending elasticity modulus of model lipid membranes is the analysis of the shape fluctuations of nearly spherical lipid vesicles. The theoretical basis of this analysis is given…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-04 Isak Bivas , Nicholay S. Tonchev

Chiral active liquids exhibit unidirectional edge currents when confined to simple geometries, but the origin of this phenomenon has defied explanation. Starting from the microscopic equations of motion of a simple two-dimensional model, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-20 Faisal Alsallom , David T. Limmer

We study the thermodynamic curvature, $R$, around the chiral phase transition at finite temperature and chemical potential, within the quark-meson model augmented with meson fluctuations. We study the effect of the fluctuations, pions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Paolo Castorina , Daniele Lanteri , Marco Ruggieri

Molecular chirality leads to a wonderful variety of equilibrium structures, from the simple cholesteric phase to the twist-grain-boundary phases, and it is responsible for interesting and technologically important materials like…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 T. C. Lubensky , A. B. Harris , Randall D. Kamien , Gu Yan

When a flexible filament is confined to a fluid interface, the balance between capillary attraction, bending resistance, and tension from an external source can lead to a self-buckling instability. We perform an analysis of this instability…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-12 Arthur A. Evans , Saverio E. Spagnolie , Denis Bartolo , Eric Lauga

We report the selective stabilization of chiral rotational direction of bacterial vortices, from turbulent bacterial suspension, in achiral circular microwells sealed by an oil-water interface. This broken-symmetry, originating from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-29 Kazusa Beppu , Ziane Izri , Tasuku Sato , Yoko Yamanishi , Yutaka Sumino , Yusuke T. Maeda

We show that chiral order in two-dimensional nonreciprocal flocking mixtures is generically unstable. Combining large-scale agent-based simulations with a coarse-grained continuum description, we demonstrate that rotating chiral states…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-08 Charlotte Myin , Suropriya Saha , Benoît Mahault

We study, experimentally, the dynamics of a binary mixture of air-fluidized disks. The disks are chiral since they incorporate a set of blades with constant tilt. Both species are identical except for their blades tilt angle, which is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-05 Miguel Ángel López-Castaño , Álvaro Rodríguez-Rivas , Francisco Vega Reyes

Our understanding of both structure and dynamics of adsorbed liquids heavily relies on the capillary wave Hamiltonian, but a thorough test of this model is still lacking. Here we study the capillary wave fluctuations of a liquid film with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-06 Luis G. MacDowell , Jorge Benet , Nebil A. Katcho

In their work [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112 (2015) E5725], Bosse et al. experimentally showed that virus capsid exhibits not only normal diffusion but also anomalous diffusion in nucleus of a living cell. There, it was found that the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Yuichi Itto

Molecular chirality frustrates the two-dimensional assembly of filamentous molecules, a fact that reflects the generic impossibility of imposing a global twisting of layered materials. We explore the consequences of this frustration for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Gregory M. Grason

We study fluctuations of linear statistics in Polyanalytic Ginibre ensembles, a family of point processes describing planar free fermions in a uniform magnetic field at higher Landau levels. Our main result is asymptotic normality of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Antti Haimi , Aron Wennman

Velocity fluctuations of grains flowing down a rough inclined plane are experimentally studied. The grains at the free surface exhibit fluctuating motions, which are correlated over few grains diameters. The characteristic correlation…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Olivier Pouliquen