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Our understanding of vibrations in solids currently rests on concepts and techniques designed for crystals and explicitly relying on periodicity, hence inapplicable to amorphous materials. As a consequence, no established framework enables…

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Non-ergodicity impacts statistical inference in a diverse range of disciplines inside and outside of physics. However the concept of ergodicity is used inconsistently, and may refer to several nonequivalent notions. To help address this, we…

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We present an implementation of the analytical string theory recently applied to the description of glasses. These are modeled as continuum media with embedded elastic string heterogeneities, randomly located and randomly oriented, which…

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Amorphous, glass, and glass-ceramic materials practically always include a significant number (more than eight) of crystalline phases, with the contents of the latter ranging from a few wt.% to several hundredths or tenths of wt.%. The…

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Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Etienne Jaupart , Gilles Chabrier

Quasiperiodic moir\'e materials provide a new platform for realizing critical electronic states, yet a direct and experimentally practical method to characterize this criticality has been lacking. We show that a multifractal analysis of the…

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This work addresses a modification of the random geometric graph (RGG) model by considering a set of points uniformly and independently distributed on the surface of a $(d-1)$-sphere with radius $r$ in a $d-$dimensional Euclidean space,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-03 Alfonso Allen-Perkins

Based on a description of an amorphous solid as a collection of coupled nanosize molecular clusters referred as basic blocks, we analyse the statistical properties of its Hamiltonian. The information is then used to derive the ensemble…

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We study thermally activated dynamics using functional renormalization within the field theory of randomly pinned elastic systems, a prototype for glasses. It appears through an essentially non-perturbative boundary layer in the running…

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We extend an efficient homogenization procedure based on a Haydock representation of the microscopic wave operator for the calculation of the macroscopic dielectric response of a periodic composite to the case of an arbitrary number of…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-22 W. Luis Mochán , Guillermo P. Ortiz

This paper primarily establishes an asymptotic variance estimate for smooth linear statistics associated with zero sets of systems of random holomorphic sections in a sequence of positive Hermitian holomorphic line bundles on a compact…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Afrim Bojnik , Ozan Günyüz

We introduce a construction to embed a quasiperiodic lattice of obstacles into a single unit cell of a higher-dimensional space, with periodic boundary conditions. This construction transparently shows the existence of channels in these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-12 Atahualpa S. Kraemer , David P. Sanders

In this paper, we study a macroscopic system of electrically interacting metallic beads organized as a sequence along an annulus. A random mechanical shaking mimics the thermal excitation. We exhibit non Fickian diffusion (Single File…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Christophe Coste , Jean-Baptiste Delfau , Catherine Even , Michel Saint Jean

In this paper, we study stable ergodicity of the action of groups of diffeomorphisms on smooth manifolds. Such actions are known to exist only on one-dimensional manifolds. The aim of this paper is to introduce a geometric method to…

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We introduce a topology ${\cal T}$ on the space $U$ of uniformly discrete subsets of the Euclidean space. Assume that $S$ in $U$ admits a unique autocorrelation measure. The diffraction measure of $S$ is purely atomic if and only if $S$ is…

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The electron density, its gradient, and the Kohn-Sham orbital kinetic energy density are the local ingredients of a meta-generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA). We construct a meta-GGA density functional for the exchange-correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-20 Jianmin Tao , John P. Perdew , Viktor N. Staroverov , Gustavo E. Scuseria

Obtaining general relations between macroscopic properties of random assemblies, such as density, and the microscopic properties of their constituent particles, such as shape, is a foundational challenge in the study of amorphous materials.…

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We introduce and analyse ensembles of 2-regular random graphs with a tuneable distribution of short cycles. The phenomenology of these graphs depends critically on the scaling of the ensembles' control parameters relative to the number of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-14 Fabian Aguirre Lopez , Paolo Barucca , Mathilde Fekom , Anthony CC Coolen

A new statistical ensemble is examined using the example of classical one-component simple fluid. It's logical to call it an open ensemble, because its peculiarity is the inclusion in the consideration some surrounding area. Calculations…

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