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We consider three-dimensional statistical systems at phase coexistence in the half-volume with boundary conditions leading to the presence of an interface. Working slightly below the critical temperature, where universal properties emerge,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-22 Gesualdo Delfino , Marianna Sorba , Alessio Squarcini

The crystal-melt interfaces of a binary hard-sphere fluid mixture in coexistence with a single-component hard-sphere crystal is investigated using molecular-dynamics simulation. In the system under study, the fluid phase consists of a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rachel Sibug-Aga , Brian B. Laird

Conformal field theories can exchange energy through a boundary interface. Imposing conformal boundary conditions for static interfaces implies energy conservation at the interface. Recently, the reflective and transmitive properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-23 Parthajit Biswas , Suchetan Das , Anirban Dinda

One of the hallmarks of topological insulators is the correspondence between the value of its bulk topological invariant and the number of topologically protected edge modes observed in a finite-sized sample. This bulk-boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Ana Silva , Jasper van Wezel

The dynamics of driven interfaces through disordered media is a common framework for a myriad of diverse systems starting from mode-I fracture, vortex lines in superconductors, magnetic domain walls to invading fluid in a porous medium to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-06 Diksha , Gunnemeda Eswar , Soumyajyoti Biswas

We construct an effective field theory for fusion of conformal defects of any codimension in $d\geq 3$ conformal field theories. We fully solve the constraints of Weyl invariance for defects of arbitrary shape on general curved bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-28 Petr Kravchuk , Alex Radcliffe , Ritam Sinha

The phase-field-crystal model is used to access the structure and thermodynamics of interfaces between two coexisting liquid crystalline phases in two spatial dimensions. Depending on the model parameters there is a variety of possible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We construct a Kitaev model, consisting of a Hamiltonian which is the sum of commuting local projectors, for surfaces with boundaries and defects of dimension 0 and 1. More specifically, we show that one can consider cell decompositions of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Vincent Koppen

This paper investigates an elliptic interface problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients on unfitted meshes, employing the CutFEM method. The main contribution is the a posteriori error analysis based on equilibrated fluxes belonging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Daniela Capatina , Aimene Gouasmi

Continuum or hybrid modeling of bilayer membrane morphological dynamics induced by embedded proteins necessitates the identification of protein-membrane interfaces and coupling of deformations of two surfaces. In this article we developed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-29 Y. C. Zhou , David Argudo , Frank Marcoline , Michael Grabe

The best merge problem in industrial data science generates instances where disparate data sources place incompatible relational structures on the same set $V$ of objects. Graph vertex labelling data may include (1) missing or erroneous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-25 R. W. R. Darling , David G. Harris , Dev R. Phulara , John A. Proos

An original boundary integral formulation is proposed for the problem of a semi-infinite crack at the interface between two dissimilar elastic materials in the presence of heat flows and mass diffusion. Symmetric and skew-symmetric weight…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 L. Morini , A. Piccolroaz

Non-trivial braid-group representations appear as non-Abelian quantum statistics of emergent Majorana zero modes in one and two-dimensional topological superconductors. Here, we generate such representations with topologically protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Yafis Barlas , Emil Prodan

The mechanism determining the band alignment of the amorphous/crystalline Si heterostructures is addressed with direct atomistic simulations of the interface performed using a hierarchical combination of various computational schemes…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Maria Peressi , Luciano Colombo , Stefano de Gironcoli

Gapped domain walls, as topological line defects between 2+1D topologically ordered states, are examined. We provide simple criteria to determine the existence of gapped domain walls, which apply to both Abelian and non-Abelian topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-08 Tian Lan , Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen

Motivated by recent observations of phase-segregated binary Bose-Einstein condensates, we propose a method to calculate the excess energy due to the interface tension of a trapped configuration. By this method one should be able to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-20 Bert Van Schaeybroeck

Dirac fermions in $2+1$ dimensions with dynamically generated anticommuting SO(3) antiferromagnetic (AFM) and Z$_2$ Kekul\'e valence-bond solid (KVBS) masses map onto a field theory with a topological $\theta$-term. This term provides a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-13 Toshihiro Sato , Martin Hohenadler , Tarun Grover , John McGreevy , Fakher F. Assaad

Two defect lines separated by a distance delta look from much larger distances like a single defect. In the critical theory, when all scales are large compared to the cutoff scale, this fusion of defect lines is universal. We calculate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Costas Bachas , Ilka Brunner , Daniel Roggenkamp

We design and analyze a hybridized cut finite element method for elliptic interface problems. In this method very general meshes can be coupled over internal unfitted interfaces, through a skeletal variable, using a Nitsche type approach.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

The theory of interface localization in near-critical planar systems at phase coexistence is formulated from first principles. We show that mutual delocalization of two interfaces, amounting to interfacial wetting, occurs when the bulk…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-13 Gesualdo Delfino