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Active matter refers to a broad class of non-equilibrium systems where energy is continuously injected at the level of individual ``particles". These systems exhibit emergent collective behaviors that have no direct thermal-equilibrium…

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The concept of local symmetry dynamics has recently been used to demonstrate the evolution of discrete symmetries in one-dimensional chains leading to emergent periodicity. Here we go one step further and show that the unboundedness of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Peter Schmelcher

Topological operations have the merit of achieving certain goals without requiring accurate control over local operational details. To date, topological operations have been used to control geometric phases, and have been proposed as a…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-13 H. Xu , D. Mason , L. Jiang , J. G. E. Harris

Light chemical elements are, for instance, produced through ion collisions taking place in the core of stars, where fusion is particularly important to the synthesis of chemical elements. Meanwhile soliton provides non-interacting…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-06 Yoritaka Iwata

Electron localization property of a random chain changing under the influence of a constant electric field has been studied. We have adopted the multifractal scaling formalism to explore the possible localization behavior in the system. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Parthapratim Biswas , Prabhat K Thakur

In this work, the interplay between non-Hermiticity, quasi-disorder, and repulsive interaction is studied for hard-core bosons confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice, where non-Hermiticity is induced by the non-reciprocal hoppings…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-29 Shujie Cheng , Xixi Feng , Wen Chen , Niaz Ali Khan , Gao Xianlong

The periodic changes in physical and chemical properties of the chemical elements is caused by the periodic change of the ionization energies. The ionization energy of each element is constant and this manifests itself in the periodic…

At electromagnetic interactions of particles there arises defect of masses, i.e. the energy is liberated since the particles of the different charges are attracted. It is shown that this change of the effective mass of a particle in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kh. M. Beshtoev

A new design paradigm of topology has recently emerged to manipulate the flow of phonons. At its heart lies a topological transition to a nontrivial state with exotic properties. This framework has been limited to linear lattice dynamics so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Rajesh Chaunsali , Georgios Theocharis

Topological solitons are knots in continuous physical fields classified by non-zero Hopf index values. Despite arising in theories that span many branches of physics, from elementary particles to condensed matter and cosmology, they remain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-27 P. J. Ackerman , I. I. Smalyukh

At low temperatures, dynamics in amorphous silicon occurs through a sequence of discrete activated events that locally reorganize the topological network. Using the activation-relaxation technique, a data base containing over 8000 such…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Normand Mousseau , G. T. Barkema

Equilibrating gravitation by electric forces, microparticles can be confined in the plasma sheath above suitably biased local electrodes.Their position depends on the detailed structure of the plasma sheath and on the charge that the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-10-15 G. Schubert , R. Basner , H. Kersten , H. Fehske

We formulate an energy-storage concept based on the free energy associated with metastable magnetic configurations. Despite the active, magnetic region of the battery being electrically insulating, it can sustain effective hydrodynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Jiang Xiao

We investigate the formation of polycrystalline structures in a class of particle systems. The atomistic energy is modeled as a sum of particle energies that favor atoms being locally isometric to a reference lattice. The discrete frame…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Leonard Kreutz , Timo Ziereis

Exact calculations of collective excitations and charge/spin (pseudo)gaps in an ensemble of bipartite and nonbipartite clusters yield level crossing degeneracies, spin-charge separation, condensation and recombination of electron charge and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. N. Kocharian , G. W. Fernando , K. Palandage , J. W. Davenport

Disclinations, first observed in mesomorphic phases, are relevant to a number of ill-ordered condensed matter media, with continuous symmetries or frustrated order. They also appear in polycrystals at the edges of grain boundaries. They are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Maurice Kleman , Jacques Friedel

Pinning and depinning of wavefronts are ubiquitous features of spatially discrete systems describing a host of phenomena in physics, biology, etc. A large class of discrete systems is described by overdamped chains of nonlinear oscillators…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Carpio , L. L. Bonilla

We consider a class of nonconvex energy functionals that lies in the framework of the peridynamics model of continuum mechanics. The energy densities are functions of a nonlocal strain that describes deformation based on pairwise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Tadele Mengesha , James M. Scott

Localized modes in one dimensional topological systems, such as Majonara modes in topological superconductors, are promising platforms for robust information processing. In one dimensional topological insulators, mobile topological solitons…

Charge transport in crystalline organic semiconductors is intrinsically limited by the presence of large thermal molecular motions, which are a direct consequence of the weak van der Waals inter-molecular interactions. These lead to an…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-18 S. Fratini , D. Mayou , S. Ciuchi