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We study the hydrodynamics of spherical spinners suspended in a Newtonian fluid at inertial regime. We observe a spontaneous condensation of the spinners into particle rich regions, at low but finite particle Reynolds numbers and volume…

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We construct a new (cyclic) operad of `mosaics' defined by polygons with marked diagonals. Its underlying (aspherical) spaces are the sets of real points of the moduli space of punctured Riemann spheres, which are naturally tiled by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Satyan L. Devadoss

When phospholipids crystallize within the otherwise fluid membranes of giant unilamellar vesicles, the resulting molecularly-thin "2D" solids exhibit great variety in their morphology evolution. For instance within membranes containing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-06 Hao Wan , Geunwoong Jeon , Gregory M. Grason , Maria M. Santore

We propose a solitonic dynamical system over finite fields that may be regarded as an analogue of the box-ball systems. The one-soliton solutions of the system, which have nested structures similar to fractals, are also proved. The…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2014-08-04 Fumitaka Yura

A superconducting rod with a magnetic moment on top develops vortices obtained here through 3D calculations of the Ginzburg-Landau theory. The inhomogeneity of the applied field brings new properties to the vortex patterns that vary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 Antonio R. de C. Romaguera , Mauro M. Doria , F. M. Peeters

The slinky, released from rest hanging under its own weight, falls in a peculiar manner. The bottom stays at rest until a wave hits it from above. Two cases -- one unphysical one where the slinky is able to pass through itself, and the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 W. G. Unruh

The concept of the cyclic averages are introduced for a regular polygon $P_n$ and a Platonic solid $T_n$. It is shown that cyclic averages of equal powers are the same for various $P_n(T_n)$, but their number is characteristic of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Mamuka Meskhishvili

A new type of magnonic crystals, curvature induced ones, is realized in ferromagnetic nanowires with periodically deformed shape. A magnon band structure of such crystal is fully determined by its curvature: the developed theory is well…

It is well known that periodic potentials can be used to induce freezing and melting in colloids. Here, we transfer this concept to active systems and find the emergence of a so-far unknown active matter phase in between the frozen…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-05 Aritra K. Mukhopadhyay , Peter Schmelcher , Benno Liebchen

We give a notion of a comatrix coring which embodies all former constructions and, what is more interesting, leads to the formulation of a notion of Galois coring and the statement of a Faithfully Flat Descent Theorem that generalize the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Gomez-Torrecillas , J. Vercruysse

A wide range of materials can exist in microscopically disordered solid forms, referred to as amorphous solids or glasses. Such materials -- oxide glasses and metallic glasses, to polymer glasses, and soft solids such as colloidal glasses,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-20 Anshul D. S. Parmar , Srikanth Sastry

In condensed-matter physics, long-range correlations introduce quantum states of matter that challenge intuition. For instance, supersolids combine symmetry-breaking crystalline structure, i.e. density order, and frictionless superfluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-19 C. Morin , C. Lagoin , T. Gupta , N. Reinic , K. Baldwin , L. Pfeiffer , G. Pupillo , F. Dubin

In continuation of our work in [A.P. Gantapara et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 015501 (2013)], we investigate here the thermodynamic phase behavior of a family of truncated hard cubes, for which the shape evolves smoothly from a cube via a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Anjan P. Gantapara , Joost de Graaf , René van Roij , Marjolein Dijkstra

Manipulating the way in which colloidal particles self-organise is a central challenge in the design of functional soft materials. Meeting this challenge requires the use of building blocks that interact with one another in a highly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 Joe G Donaldson , Peter Schall , Laura Rossi

Periodic orbits for the classical $\phi^4$ theory on the one dimensional lattice are systematically constructed by extending the normal modes of the harmonic theory, for periodic, fixed and free boundary conditions. Through the process, we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-23 Kenichiro Aoki

Condensation of objects into stable clusters occurs naturally in equilibrium and driven systems. It is commonly held that potential interactions, depletion forces, or sensing are the only mechanisms which can create long-lived compact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-26 Michelle Driscoll , Blaise Delmotte , Mena Youssef , Stefano Sacanna , Aleksandar Donev , Paul Chaikin

Plastic deformations in crystals often produce textures in the form of randomly oriented patches of the unstressed lattice. We use a novel mesoscopic Landau-type model of crystal plasticity to show that in such textures large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 R. Baggio , O. U. Salman , L. Truskinovsky

Two-dimensional crystals on curved manifolds exhibit nontrivial defect structures. Here, we consider "active crystals" on a sphere, which are composed of self-propelled colloidal particles. Our work is based on a new…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-30 Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt , Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen

We define operations that give the set of all Pythagorean triples a structure of commutative monoid. In particular, we define these operations by using injections between integer triples and $3 \times 3$ matrices. Firstly, we completely…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Marco Abrate , Stefano Barbero , Umberto Cerruti , Nadir Murru

We prove that there exists a gradient expanding Ricci soliton asymptotic to any given cone over the product of a round sphere and a Ricci flat manifold. In particular we obtain asymptotically conical expanding Ricci solitons with positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Jan Nienhaus , Matthias Wink