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In this paper, we have studied the one-dimensional commensurate quantum Frenkel-Kontorova model by a density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) algorithm. The focus has been on its properties of the entanglement, the coordinate…

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The effects of the $\alpha$ particles in nuclear matter at low densities are investigated within three different parametrizations of relativistic models at finite temperature. Both homogeneous and inhomogeneous matter (pasta phase) are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 S. S. Avancini , C. C. Barros , D. P. Menezes , C. Providência

The superfluid to Mott insulator transition in cavity polariton arrays is analyzed using the variational cluster approach, taking into account quantum fluctuations exactly on finite length scales. Phase diagrams in one and two dimensions…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-17 Markus Aichhorn , Martin Hohenadler , Charles Tahan , Peter B. Littlewood

We have made a variational analysis on an evolution of superconductivity from weak to strong coupling regime. In contrast to a crossover without thermodynamic anomaly found in a dilute system, we show the existence of a quantum phase…

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Phase transitions inside the pores of an aerogel are investigated by modelizing the aerogel structure by diffusion-limited cluster-cluster aggregation on a cubic lattice in a finite box and considering $q$-states Potts variables on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Katarina Uzelac , Anwar Hasmy , Rémi Jullien

Specialized Monte Carlo simulation techniques and moment free energy method calculations, capable of treating fractionation exactly, are deployed to study the crystalline phase behaviour of an assembly of spherical particles described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-25 Peter Sollich , Nigel B. Wilding

There has been a recent flurry of interest in the possibility of condensates of $\alpha$-particles in nuclei. In this letter we discuss occurrence conditions for such states. Using the quantality condition of Mottelson we show that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. T. Zinner , A. S. Jensen

We systematically explore and show the existence of finite-temperature continuous quantum phase transition (CTQPT) at a critical point, namely, during solidification or melting such that the first-order thermal phase transition is a special…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-20 Andrew Das Arulsamy

We develop a model in the framework of nuclear fragmentation at thermodynamic equilibrium which can be mapped onto an Ising model with constant magnetization. We work out the thermodynamic properties of the model as well as the properties…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Carmona , J. Richert , A. Tarancon

The ground state and spectral properties of Bose gases in double-well potentials are studied in two different scenarios: i) an interacting atomic Bose gas, and ii) a mixture of an atomic gas interacting with diatomic molecules. A ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Armando Relaño , Jorge Dukelsky , Pedro Perez-Fernandez , Jose M. Arias

We investigate rotating effect on deconfinement phase transition in an Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton(EMD) model in bottom-up holographic QCD approach. By constructing a rotating black hole, which is supposed to be dual to rotating strongly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Xun Chen , Lin Zhang , Danning Li , Defu Hou , Mei Huang

Quantum molecular dynamics is applied to study the ground state properties of nuclear matter at subsaturation densities. Clustering effects are observed as to soften the equation of state at these densities. The structure of nuclear matter…

In this conference proceeding, I discuss in detail the deconfinement to quark matter that takes place at large densities and/or temperatures. The first-order phase transition that is assumed to appear beyond a critical point gives rise to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-26 Veronica Dexheimer

The catastrophe theory is applied to a nuclear cluster model and an effective model for QCD at low energy. The study of quantum phase transitions in the cluster model was considered in an earlier publication, but restricted to spherical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 David S. Lohr-Robles , Enrique Lopez-Moreno , Peter O. Hess

A round up of the present status of the conjecture that n alpha nuclei form an alpha-particle condensate in excited states close to the n alpha threshold is given. Experiments which could demonstrate the condensate character are proposed.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Schuck , H. Horiuchi , G. Röpke , A. Tohsaki

The general formalism of homogeneous nucleation theory is applied to study the hadronization pattern of the ultra-relativistic quark-gluon plasma (QGP) undergoing a first order phase transition. A coalescence model is proposed to describe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Zabrodin , L. Bravina , H. Stoecker , W. Greiner

We study the phenomenon of controllable localization-delocalization transition in a quantum many-body system composed of nitrogen-vacancy centers coupled to photonic crystal cavities, through tuning the different detunings and the relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jia-Bin You , W. L. Yang , G. Chen , Z. Y. Xu , Lin Wu , Ching Eng Png , M. Feng

Bose Einstein condensates of spin-1 atoms are known to exist in two different phases, both having spontaneously broken spin-rotation symmetry, a ferromagnetic and a polar condensate. Here we show that in two spatial dimensions it is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-04 A. L. Chudnovskiy , V. Cheianov

We study numerically the low temperature behavior of a one-dimensional Bose gas trapped in an optical lattice. For a sufficient number of particles and weak repulsive interactions, we find a clear regime of temperatures where density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Gils , L. Pollet , A. Vernier , F. Hebert , G. G. Batrouni , M. Troyer

By path integral Monte Carlo simulations we study the phase diagram of two - dimensional mesoscopic clusters formed by electrons in a semiconductor quantum dot or by indirect magnetoexcitons in double quantum dots. At zero (or sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. I. Belousov , Yu. E. Lozovik