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We address recent spin transport experiments in ultracold unitary Fermi gases. We provide a theoretical understanding for how the measured temperature dependence of the spin diffusivity at low $T$ can disagree with the expected behavior of…

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We propose a new theoretical approach to analyze the experimental data for thermal conductivity of single-grain $i$-AlPdMn quasicrystals. The interpretation is based on the picture where cluster interfaces are the main source of phonon…

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One-dimensional non-equilibrium models of particles subjected to a coagulation-diffusion process are important in understanding non-equilibrium dynamics, and fluctuation-dissipation relation. We consider in this paper transport properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jean-Yves Fortin

Collisionless self-gravitating systems such as cold dark matter halos are known to harbor universal density profiles despite the intricate non-linear physics of hierarchical structure formation in the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm. The origin of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-01 Uddipan Banik , Amitava Bhattacharjee

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

Icosahedral quasicrystals spontaneously form from the melt in simulations of Al--Cu--Fe alloys. We model the interatomic interactions using oscillating pair potentials tuned to the specific alloy system based on a database of density…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-04 Marek Mihalkovic , Michael Widom

The dynamics of steps on crystal surfaces is considered. In general, the meandering of the steps obeys a subdiffusive behaviour. The characteristic asymptotic time laws depend on the microscopic mechanism for detachment and attachment of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Selke , M. Bisani

Passive scalar mixing (metals, molecules, etc.) in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) is critical for abundance patterns of stars and clusters, galaxy and star formation, and cooling from the circumgalactic medium. However, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Matthew J. Colbrook , Xiangcheng Ma , Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire

Both ``phason'' elastic constants have been measured from Monte Carlo simulations of a random-tiling icosahedral quasicrystal model with a Hamiltonian. The low-temperature limit approximates the ``canonical-cell'' tiling used to describe…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Mihalkovic , C. L. Henley

Phasonic degrees of freedom are unique to quasiperiodic structures, and play a central role in poorly-understood properties of quasicrystals from excitation spectra to wavefunction statistics to electronic transport. However, phasons are…

Quasicrystals are fascinating structures, characterized by strong positional order but lacking the periodicity of a crystal. In colloidal systems, quasicrystals are typically predicted for particles with complex or highly specific…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-28 Etienne Fayen , Marianne Impéror-Clerc , Laura Filion , Giuseppe Foffi , Frank Smallenburg

The shape of experimentally observed R(T) transition of thin superconducting wires is analyzed. Broadening of the transition in quasi-1-dimensional superconducting channels is typically associated with phase slip mechanism provided by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-07 M. Zgirski , K. Yu. Arutyunov

We investigate the self-assembly of two-dimensional dodecagonal quasicrystals driven by cyclic shear, effectively replacing thermal fluctuations with plastic rearrangements. Using particles interacting via a smoothed square-shoulder…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-30 Raphaël Maire , Andrea Plati , Frank Smallenburg , Giuseppe Foffi

Fermionic cold atoms in optical traps provide viable quantum simulators of correlation effects in electronic systems. For dressed Rydberg atoms in two-dimensional traps with out-of-plane dipole moments, a realistic model of the pairwise…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-13 Clio Johnson , Neil D. Drummond , James P. Hague , Calum MacCormick

We introduce a family of two-dimensional lattice models of quasicrystals, using a range of square hard cores together with a soft interaction based on an aperiodic tiling set. Along a low temperature isotherm we find, by Monte Carlo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 David Aristoff , Charles Radin

For the study of crystal formation and dynamics we introduce a simple two-dimensional monatomic model system with a parametrized interaction potential. We find in molecular dynamics simulations that a surprising variety of crystals, a…

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Understanding transport subject to molecular-scale confinement is key to advancing nanofluidics, yet classical hydrodynamic laws often fail at these scales. Here, we study a model system: transport of toluene as a solvent and small…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-12 A. Baer , P. Malgaretti , K. Hoellring , J. Harting , Ana-Suncana Smith

The quasi-coherent effects in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence are analyzed starting from the test particle trajectories. They can acquire coherent aspects when the stochastic potential has slow time variation and the motion is not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Vlad , F. Spineanu

In quasicrystals, special tiling patterns could give rise to unique physical phenomena such as critical states distinct from periodic systems. In this paper, we study how quasi-periodicity in aperiodic systems results in anomalous phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Junmo Jeon , SungBin Lee

We revisit the applications of quasi-linear theory as a paradigmatic model for weak plasma turbulence and the associated bump-on-tail problem. The work, presented here, is built around the idea that large-amplitude or strongly shaped beams…