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Structural and superfluid properties of para-Hydrogen clusters of size up to N=40 molecules, are studied at low temperature (0.5 K < T < 4 K) by Path Integral Monte Carlo simulations. The superfluid fraction displays an interesting,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fabio Mezzacapo , Massimo Boninsegni

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have proven to be valuable in the study of strongly correlated quantum systems, particularly nuclear physics and cold atomic gases. Historically, such ab initio simulations have been used to study properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-26 J. Carlson , Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis

The onset of quartetting, i.e. alpha-particle condensation, in symmetric nuclear matter is studied with the help of an in-medium modified four nucleon equation. It is found that at very low density quartetting wins over pairing, because of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-09-04 Y. Funaki , T. Yamada , H. Horiuchi , G. Röpke , P. Schuck , A. Tohsaki

We study a motion of quantum particles, whose properties depend on one coordinate so that they can move freely in the perpendicular direction. A rotationally-symmetric Hamiltonian is derived and applied to study a general interface formed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Kolesnikov , A. P. Silin

In this work we investigate the transient solidification of a Lennard-Jones liquid using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and continuum heat transfer theory. The simulations are performed in slab-shaped boxes, where a cold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Francesc Font , William Micou , Fernando Bresme

Phase transitions are prevalent throughout physics, spanning thermal phenomena like water boiling to magnetic transitions in solids. They encompass cosmological phase transitions in the early universe and the transition into a quark-gluon…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-03 Farid Madani , Maxime Denis , Pascal Szriftgiser , Jean Claude Garreau , Adam Rançon , Radu Chicireanu

Elastic proton scattering on ${}^{3}{H}$ nucleus is studied inbetween p-% ${}^{3}{H}$ and n-${}^{3}{He}$ thresholds, in the energy region where $\alpha$-particles first excited state is inbeded in the continuum. For this aim…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 Rimantas Lazauskas

We simulate structure in the vicinity of different size nanovoids using a new variant of the Molecular Statics, wherein atomic structure in the vicinity of nanovoids and the parameters that define the displacements of atoms placed in…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-02 A. V. Nazarov , A. P. Melnikov , A. A. Mikheev , I. V. Ershova

We study the kinetics of the first order phase separation transition in boson-fermion cold-atom mixtures. At sufficiently low temperatures such a transition is driven by quantum fluctuations responsible for the formation of critical nuclei…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dmitry Solenov , Dmitry Mozyrsky

Through density functional theory and molecular dynamics calculations, we have analysed various metal polyhydrides to understand whether hydrogen is present in its molecular or atomic form - tetrahydrides of Ba,Sr,Ra, Cs and La;…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-27 Miriam Marqués , Miriam Pena Alvarez , Miguel Martinez-Canales , Graeme J Ackland

Two different ab initio potential energy surfaces are employed to investigate the efficiency of the rotational excitation channels for the polar molecular ion HeH$^+$ interacting with He atoms. We further use them to investigate the quantum…

The properties of hydrogen at high pressure have wide implications in astrophysics and high-pressure physics. Its phase change in the liquid is variously described as a metallization, H2-dissociation, density discontinuity or plasma phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-17 Hua Y. Geng , Q. Wu , Miriam Marqués , Graeme J. Ackland

A microscopic picture of the ``preparation'' of a crystal to the transition to liquid state at the approach to melting temperature is proposed. Basing on simple crystallogeometric considerations and the analysis of the computational results…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson , A. V. Trefilov

We studied the thermal effects on the behavior of incommensurate solid $^4$He at low temperatures using the path integral Monte Carlo method. Below a certain temperature, depending on the density and the structure of the crystal, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-31 Riccardo Rota , Jordi Boronat

Phase transitions which occur at zero temperature when some non-thermal parameter like pressure, chemical composition or magnetic field is changed are called quantum phase transitions. They are caused by quantum fluctuations which are a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Vojta

In the context of quantum fields in time dependent classical backgrounds, we notice that the number of created particles with a given momentum largely deviates about its mean value. Guided with this observation we use a complete orthonormal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-12 Ali Kaya

Extensive Path Integral Monte Carlo simulations of condensed para-Hydrogen in two dimensions at low temperature have been carried out. In the zero temperature limit, the system is a crystal at equilibrium, with a triangular lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Boninsegni

Using the methods of computer modeling this scientific paper studies the special features of diffusion of the particles subjected to the external periodic force in the crystal lattice. The particle motion is described by a Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-04 I. G. Marchenko , I. I. Marchenko

We present a comparative study of the rotational characteristics of various molecule-doped 4He clusters using quantum Monte Carlo techniques. The theoretical conclusions obtained from both zero and finite temperature Monte Carlo studies…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexandra Viel , K. Birgitta Whaley

We measure and theoretically determine the effect of molecular rotational splitting on Zeeman relaxation rates in collisions of cold Triplet-Sigma molecules with helium atoms in a magnetic field. All four stable isotopomers of the imidogen…