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After a brief introduction to several variational problems in the study of shapes of thin thickness structures, we deal with variational problems on 2-dimensional surface in 3-dimensional Euclidian space by using exterior differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. C. Tu , Z. C. Ou-Yang

Parametric excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can be realized by periodically changing the interaction strength between the atoms. Above some threshold strength, this excitation modulates the condensate density. We show that…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Nadav Katz , Oded Agam

In this paper, we study the dynamics of cylindrical armoured bubbles excited by mechanical vibrations. A step by step transition from cylindrical to spherical shape is reported as the intensity of the vibration is increased, leading to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-20 G Prabhudesai , I Bihi , F Zoueshtiagh , J Jose , M Baudoin

We study the structural and electronic properties of phase III of solid hydrogen using accurate many-electron theories and compare to state-of-the-art experimental findings. The atomic structures of phase III modelled by C2/c-24 crystals…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-24 Ke Liao , Tong Shen , Xin-Zheng Li , Ali Alavi , Andreas Grüneis

A system of two initially homogeneous, physically real fields uniformly attracted to each other is considered as the simplest basis of the self-developing world structure. It is shown that the system is unstable against periodic cycles of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

An accurate experimental and theoretical study has been performed about a phenomenon, not previously reported in the literature, occurring in highly viscous liquids: the formation of a definite pipe structure induced by the passage of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-10 V. Capano , S. Esposito , G. Salesi

The diffraction of fast atoms at crystal surfaces is ideal for a detailed investigation of the surface electronic density. However, instead of sharp diffraction spots, most experiments show elongated streaks characteristic of inelastic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Philippe Roncin , Maxime Debiossac

We develop a new asymptotic model of the dynamic interaction between an elastic structure and a system of gyroscopic spinners that make the overall multi-structure chiral. An important result is the derivation and analysis of effective…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Michael Nieves , Giorgio Carta , Ian Jones , Alexander Movchan , Natasha Movchan

We review recent progress in attaining a quantitative understanding of the scarring phenomenon, the non-random behavior of quantum wavefunctions near unstable periodic orbits of a classically chaotic system. The wavepacket dynamics…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan

Amorphous solids are dynamically inhomogeneous due to in lack of translational symmetry and hence exhibit vibrational properties different from crystalline solids with anomalous low frequency vibrational density of states (VDOS) and related…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-01 Cunyuan Jiang

Electron energy loss spectroscopy is consolidating as a powerful tool to explore electronic (as well as vibrational) excitations of matter, including molecules. Performed in a scanning transmission electron microscope, this technique is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Ciro A. Guido , Enzo Rotunno , Matteo Zanfrognini , Stefano Corni , Vincenzo Grillo

We study the nonlinear wave dynamics of one-dimensional chains of polycatenated rings. These interlocked structures support amplitude-dependent nonlinear wave propagation driven by tensile activation and internal structural flexibility,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Xiaoxiao Xiong , Reo Yanagi , Tingtao Zhou , Chiara Daraio

Until recently, wave-particle duality has been thought of as quantum principle without a counterpart in classical physics. This belief was challenged after (i) finding that average dynamics of a classical particle in strong inhomogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alexander Y. Davydov

Chiral crystals are materials whose lattice structure has a well-defined handedness due to the lack of inversion, mirror, or other roto-inversion symmetries. These crystals represent a broad, important class of quantum materials; their…

In this paper, we characterize quasicrystalline interacting topological phases of matter i.e., phases protected by some quasicrystalline structure. We show that the elasticity theory of quasicrystals, which accounts for both "phonon" and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-20 Dominic V. Else , Sheng-Jie Huang , Abhinav Prem , Andrey Gromov

When flat or on a firm mechanical substrate, the atomic composition and atomistic structure of two-dimensional crystals dictate their chemical, electronic, optical, and mechanical properties. These properties change when the two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 Alejandro A. Pacheco Sanjuan , Mehrshad Mehboudi , Edmund O. Harriss , Humberto Terrones , Salvador Barraza-Lopez

The structural properties of static, jammed packings of monodisperse spheres in the vicinity of the jamming transition are investigated using large-scale computer simulations. At small wavenumber $k$, we argue that the anomalous behavior in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-02 Leonardo E. Silbert , Moises Silbert

We study wave propagation in strongly nonlinear 1D diatomic granular crystals under an impact load. Depending on the mass ratio of the `light' to `heavy' beads, this system exhibits rich wave dynamics from highly localized traveling waves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 E. Kim , R. Chaunsali , H. Xu , J. Jaworski , J. Yang , P. Kevrekidis , A. F. Vakakis

Dynamics of the structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The expression…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

Glasses have a large excess of low-frequency vibrational modes in comparison with crystalline solids. We show that such a feature is a necessary consequence of the geometry generic to weakly connected solids. In particular, we analyze the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthieu Wyart , Sidney R. Nagel , T. A. Witten