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We study the entanglement between two coupled detectors, whose internal degrees of freedom are modeled by harmonic oscillators, interacting with a common quantum field, paying special attention to two less studied yet important features:…

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Due to their combination of mechanical stiffness and flexibility, two-dimensional (2D) materials have received significant interest as potential electromechanical materials. Flexoelectricity is an electromechanical coupling between strain…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-23 Brahmanandam Javvaji , Bo He , Xiaoying Zhuang , Harold S Park

The flexoelectric conversion of mechanical to electrical energy in nematic liquid crystals is investigated using continuum theory. Since the electrical energy produced cannot exceed the mechanical energy supplied, and vice-versa, upper…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-04 F. Castles , S. M. Morris , H. J. Coles

We investigate classes of quantum Heisenberg spin systems which have different coupling constants but the same energy spectrum and hence the same thermodynamical properties. To this end we define various types of isospectrality and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heinz-Juergen Schmidt , Marshall Luban

A phenomenological model on the relationship between viscoelasticity and flexoelectricity is proposed to address the electromechanical coupling under rheological processes in viscoelastic materials. Our theoretical studies show that some…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-21 John Y. Fu

Symmetries are a key concept to connect mathematical elegance with physical insight. We consider measurement assemblages in quantum mechanics and show how their symmetry can be described by means of the so-called discrete bundles. It turns…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 H. Chau Nguyen , Sébastien Designolle , Mohamed Barakat , Otfried Gühne

Piezoelectricity usually accompanies with flexoelectricity in polar materials which is the linear response of polarization to a strain gradient. Therefore, it is hard to eliminate piezoelectric effect in determination of pure flexoelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-08 Yingzhuo Lun , Hao Zhou , Di Yao , Xueyun Wang , Jiawang Hong

We use Brownian dynamics simulations and advanced topological profiling methods to characterize the out-of-equilibrium evolution of self-entanglement in linear polymers confined into nano-channels and under periodic compression. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-22 Davide Michieletto , Enzo Orlandini , Matthew S Turner , Cristian Micheletti

Flexoelectricity induced by strain gradient in dielectrics is highly desirable for electromechanical actuating and sensing systems. It is broadly adopted that flexoelectric polarization responds linearly to strain gradient without…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-03 Yingzhuo Lun , Yida Yang , Tingjun Wang , Qi Ren , Sang-Wook Cheong , Xueyun Wang , Jiawang Hong

The coupling between electrons and phonons is at the heart of many fundamental phenomena in physics. In nature, this coupling is generally predetermined for both, molecules and solids. Tremendous advances have been made in controlling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Avishai Benyamini , Assaf Hamo , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Felix von Oppen , Shahal Ilani

String theory predicts that the couplings of Nature descend from dynamical fields. All known string-motivated particle physics models also come with a wide range of possible extra sectors. It is common to posit that such moduli are frozen…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Vijay Balasubramanian , Jonathan J. Heckman , Elliot Lipeles , Andrew P. Turner

The electronic and electrical properties of crystalline organic semiconductors, such as the dispersions of the electronic bands and the dependence of charge-carrier mobility on temperature, are greatly impacted by the nonlocal…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-06 Yuan Li , Yuanping Yi , Veaceslav Coropceanu , Jean-Luc Brédas

Recent discovery of the ferroelectric nematic phase N_F resurrects a question about stability of the uniform N_F state with respect to the formation of either standard for solid ferroelectrics domain structure, or often occurring in liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-27 E. I. Kats

The statistics of gap ratios between consecutive energy levels is a widely used tool, in particular in the context of many-body physics, to distinguish between chaotic and integrable systems, described respectively by Gaussian ensembles of…

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Sensing the internal dynamics of individual nuclear spins or clusters of nuclear spins has recently become possible by observing the coherence decay of a nearby electronic spin: the weak magnetic noise is amplified by a periodic,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 J. E. Lang , Ren-Bao Liu , T. S. Monteiro

Non-conductive materials like rubbers, plastics, ceramics, and even semiconductors have the property of flexoelectricity, which means that they can generate electricity when bent and twisted. However, an irregular shape or a peculiar load…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Mingyuan Zhang , Dongze Yan , Jianxiang Wang , Li-Hua Shao

Colloids dispersed in nematic liquid crystals form topological composites in which colloid-associated defects mediate interactions while adhering to fundamental topological constraints. Better realising the promise of such materials…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-16 Louise C. Head , Yair A. G. Fosado , Davide Marenduzzo , Tyler N. Shendruk

A random matrix model to describe the coupling of m-fold symmetry in constructed. The particular threefold case is used to analyze data on eigenfrequencies of elastomechanical vibration of an anisotropic quartz block. It is suggested that…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-11-18 J. X. Carvalho , M. S. Hussein , M. P. Pato , A. J. Sargeant

The recent experimental discovery of ferroelectric and splay nematic phases has sparked interest in comprehending the crucial molecular features necessary to stabilize these innovative structures. This study advances the ongoing discourse…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-17 Agnieszka Chrzanowska , Lech Longa

For most materials, the symmetry group is known a priori and deduced from the realization process. This allows many simplifications for the measurements of the stiffness tensor. We deal here with the case where the symmetry is a priori…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-30 Marc Louis Maurice François , Giuseppe Geymonat , Yves Berthaud