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The existence and the regularity results obtained in [37] for the variational model introduced in [36] to study the optimal shape of crystalline materials in the setting of stress-driven rearrangement instabilities (SDRI) are extended from…
Motivated by the novel electronic behaviors seen in transition metal oxides, we look for physical insight into disordered, strongly-correlated systems by exploring the atomic limit. In recent work, the atomic limit has provided a useful…
The energy method can be used to identify well-posed initial boundary value problems for quasi-linear, symmetric hyperbolic partial differential equations with maximally dissipative boundary conditions. A similar analysis of the discrete…
We determine the lowest bound-state pole of the density-density correlator in the scalar Wick-Cutkosky model where two equal-mass constituents interact via the exchange of mesons. This is done by employing the worldline representation of…
A discrete model describing defects in crystal lattices and having the standard linear anisotropic elasticity as its continuum limit is proposed. The main ingredients entering the model are the elastic stiffness constants of the material…
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