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Various light-matter interactions lead to diverse phase diagram structures in superradiant phase transition (SPT) studies. Such systems consist of multiqubit and multimode with anisotropic couplings, one- and two-photon interactions, Stark…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Wen Zhao , Junlong Tian , Jie Peng

A new formulation of the Phase Field Crystal model is presented that is consistent with the necessary microscopic independence between the phase field, reflecting the broken symmetry of the phase, and both mass density and elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Amit Acharya , Jorge Viñals

This study addresses ductile fracture of single grains in metals by modeling of the formation and propagation of transgranular cracks. A proposed model integrates gradient extended hardening, phase-field modeling for fracture, and crystal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Kim Louisa Auth , Jim Brouzoulis , Magnus Ekh

A new phase field crystal (PFC) type theory is presented, which accounts for the full spectrum of solid-liquid-vapor phase transitions within the framework of a single density order parameter. Its equilibrium properties show the most…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Gabriel Kocher , Nikolas Provatas

The Rayleigh--Taylor instability of two immiscible fluids in the limit of small Atwood numbers is studied by means of a phase-field description. In this method the sharp fluid interface is replaced by a thin, yet finite, transition layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antonio Celani , Andrea Mazzino , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Lara Vozella

We extend the statistical field-theoretical framework of rough surface contact mechanics to characterize the interfacial gap between an elastic half-space and a randomly rough surface incorporating exponential repulsion. Building upon a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-10 Yunong Zhou , Hengxu Song , Zhichao Zhang , Yang Xu

We study topological field theory describing gapped phases of gauge theories where the gauge symmetry is partially Higgsed and partially confined. The TQFT can be formulated both in the continuum and on the lattice and generalizes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-13 Anton Kapustin , Ryan Thorngren

A model of multicellular systems with several types of cells is developed from the phase field model. The model is presented as a set of partial differential equations of the field variables, each of which expresses the shape of one cell.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Makiko Nonomura

We compare time-dependent solutions of different phase-field models for dendritic solidification in two dimensions, including a thermodynamically consistent model and several ad hoc models. The results are identical when the phase-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Yung-Tae Kim , Nikolas Provatas , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jonathan Dantzig

We study a system with competing short- and global-range interactions in the framework of the Bose-Hubbard model. Using a mean-field approximation we obtain the phase diagram of the system and observe four different phases: a superfluid, a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-04 N. Dogra , F. Brennecke , S. D. Huber , T. Donner

While crack nucleation and propagation in the brittle or quasi-brittle regime can be predicted via variational or material-force-based phase field fracture models, these models often assume that the underlying elastic response of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Hyoung Suk Suh , WaiChing Sun , Devin O'Connor

A rich variety of amorphous solids are found in nature and technology, including ones formed via the vulcanization of long, flexible molecules. A special class -- those featuring a wide gap between the long timescales over which constraints…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-22 Paul M. Goldbart

We study properties of two-leg Heisenberg spin ladders in a mean-field approximation using a variety of angular-momentum coupled bases. The mean-field theory proposed by Gopalan, Rice, and Sigrist, which uses a rung basis, assumes that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-02-05 J. Piekarewicz , J. R. Shepard

This paper presents a conserving gapless mean-field theory for weakly interacting Bose gases. We first construct a mean-field Luttinger-Ward thermodynamic functional in terms of the condensate wave function $\Psi$ and the Nambu Green's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takafumi Kita

Ferrofluids are a class of materials that exhibit both fluid and magnetic properties. We consider a two-phase diffuse interface model for the dynamics of ferrofluids on a bounded domain. One phase is assumed to be magnetic, the other phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Samuel Lanthaler , Franziska Weber

The dynamics of phase field crystal (PFC) modeling is derived from dynamical density functional theory (DDFT), for both single-component and binary systems. The derivation is based on a truncation up to the three-point direct correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhi-Feng Huang , K. R. Elder , Nikolas Provatas

We derive the multi-field, micropolar-type continuum theory for the two-dimensional model of crystal having finite-size particles. Continuum theories are usually valid for waves with wavelength much larger than the size of primitive cell of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-08 A. A. Vasiliev , S. V. Dmitriev , A. E. Miroshnichenko

This work models brittle fracture using a linearized surface-substrate theory in which the crack faces possess surface stresses derived from a surface strain-gradient elastic energy. The model incorporates surface stretching, curvature, and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 C. Rodriguez , A. Zemlyanova

Advanced phase-field techniques have been applied to address various aspects of polycrystalline solidification including different modes of crystal nucleation. The height of the nucleation barrier has been determined by solving the…

In this work, a generalized force-field methodology for the relaxation of large moir\'e heterostructures is proposed. The force-field parameters are optimized to accurately reproduce the structural degrees of freedom of some computationally…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-19 Carl Emil Mørch Nielsen , Miguel da Cruz , Abderrazak Torche , Gabriel Bester