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The concept of a hyperuniformity disorder length $h$ was recently introduced for analyzing volume fraction fluctuations for a set of measuring windows. This length permits a direct connection to the nature of disorder in the spatial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-20 D. J. Durian

MXenes are a large family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides that possess excellent electrical conductivity, high volumetric capacitance, great mechanical properties, and hydrophilicity. In this work, we generalize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Yu Liu , Mohan Chen

Artificial quantum systems with synthetic dimensions enable exploring novel quantum phenomena difficult to create in conventional materials. These synthetic degrees of freedom increase the system's dimensionality without altering its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Alexey Gorlach , Andrea Pizzi , Klaus Mølmer , Joseph Avron , Mordechai Segev , Ido Kaminer

In this work we present a study on the characterization of ordered and disordered hyperuniform point distributions on spherical surfaces. In spite of the extensive literature on disordered hyperuniform systems in Euclidean geometries, to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-14 Ariel G. Meyra , Guillermo J. Zarragoicoechea , Alberto. L. Maltz , Enrique Lomba , Salvatore Torquato

The concept of hyperuniformity has been a useful tool in the study of large-scale density fluctuations in systems ranging across the natural and mathematical sciences. One can rank a large class of hyperuniform systems by their ability to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Timothy M. Middlemas , Frank H. Stillinger , Salvatore Torquato

We demonstrate that hyperuniformity, the suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales, emerges generically from the interplay between conservation laws and non-equilibrium driving. The underlying mechanism for this emergence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Raphaël Maire , Ludivine Chaix

Disordered hyperuniform many-particle systems have attracted considerable recent attention. One important class of such systems is the classical ground states of "stealthy potentials." The degree of order of such ground states depends on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-02 G. Zhang , F. H. Stillinger , S. Torquato

Hyperuniformity characterizes a state of matter that is poised at a critical point at which density or volume-fraction fluctuations are anomalously suppressed at infinite wavelengths. Recently, much attention has been given to the link…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Steven Atkinson , Ge Zhang , Adam B. Hopkins , Salvatore Torquato

Normal modes provide a fundamental basis for understanding crucial properties of solids, such as the thermal conductivity, the heat capacity and the sound propagation. While the normal modes are excellently described by plane waves in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-04-04 Peng Tan , Ning Xu , A. B. Schofield , Lei Xu

The supersolid is a long-sought phase in condensed matter physics, characterized by the coexistence of density wave and superfluid orders. This phase is counterintuitive, as different symmetry-breaking orders typically compete with one…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-07 Ying-Ming Xie , Naoto Nagaosa

The concept of hyperuniformity has been introduced by Torquato and Stillinger in 2003 as a notion to detect structural behaviour intermediate between amorphous disorder and crystalline order. The present paper studies a generalisation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Johann S. Brauchart , Peter J. Grabner , Wöden B. Kusner , Jonas Ziefle

Many of the most exciting materials discoveries in fundamental condensed matter physics are made in systems hosting some degree of intrinsic disorder. While disorder has historically been regarded as something to be avoided in materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 A. R. Mazza , J. Yan , S. Middey , J. S. Gardner , A. -H. Chen , M. Brahlek , T. Z. Ward

Disordered systems like liquids, gels, glasses, or granular materials are not only ubiquitous in daily life and in industrial applications but they are also crucial for the mechanical stability of cells or the transport of chemical and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-04-30 Zhen Zhang , Walter Kob

Wave propagation in complex media is a universal problem spanning optics, acoustics, mechanics, and condensed matter physics. While disorder usually causes strong scattering, recent theory predicts that a special class of correlated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 Angélique Campaniello , Rémi Carminati , Marcel Filoche , Emmanuel Fort

Systems undergoing an equilibrium phase transition from a liquid state to an amorphous solid state exhibit certain universal characteristics. Chief among these are the fraction of particles that are randomly localized and the scaling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Weiqun Peng , Horacio E. Castillo , Paul M. Goldbart , Annette Zippelius

In contrast to conventional s-wave superconductivity, unconventional (e.g. p or d-wave) superconductivity is strongly suppressed even by relatively weak disorder. Upon approaching the superconductor-metal transition, the order parameter…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-27 A. Keles , A. V. Andreev , S. A. Kivelson , B. Z. Spivak

The simultaneous interplay of strong electron-electron correlations, topological zero-energy states, and disorder is yet an unexplored territory but of immense interest due to their inevitable presence in many materials. Copper oxide…

New emergent states of matter in quantum systems may be created under non-equilibrium conditions if - through many body interactions - its constituents order on a timescale which is shorter than the time required for the system to reach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-15 Yaroslav Gerasimenko , Igor Vaskivskyi , Jan Ravnik , Jaka Vodeb , Viktor V. Kabanov , Dragan Mihailovic

We argue that several materials of much current interest in condensed matter physics share common phenomenological aspects that only very recent investigations are unveiling. The list includes colossal magnetoresistance manganites, high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Alvarez , E. Dagotto

We have studied both clusters and bulk systems while investigating amorphous states. We have varied the nature of interaction amongst the particles of the system under consideration in order to reveal the possible presence of universality…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-31 Gurpreet Singh Matharoo