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We study the emergence of quasicrystal configurations produced purely by quantum fluctuations in the ground-state phase diagram of interacting bosonic systems. By using a variational mean-field approach, we determine the relevant features…

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Quasiperiodic systems offer an appealing intermediate between long-range ordered and genuine disordered systems, with unusual critical properties. One-dimensional models that break the so-called self-dual symmetry usually display a mobility…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-26 Hepeng Yao , Alice Khoudli , Léa Bresque , Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

We analyze quasiperiodic partially synchronous states in an ensemble of Stuart-Landau oscillators with global nonlinear coupling. We reveal two types of such dynamics: in the first case the time-averaged frequencies of oscillators and of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-01 Michael Rosenblum , Arkady Pikovsky

Using a strategy that may be applied in theory or in experiments, we identify the regime in which a model binary soft matter mixture forms quasicrystals. The system is described using classical density functional theory combined with…

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Nucleation is considered near the pseudospinodal in a one-dimensional $\phi^4$ model with a non-conserved order parameter and long-range interactions. For a sufficiently large system or a system with slow relaxation to metastable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. O. Schweiger , K. Barros , W. Klein

Classical density-functional theory is employed to study finite-temperature trends in the relative stabilities of one-component quasicrystals interacting via effective metallic pair potentials derived from pseudopotential theory. Comparing…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 A. R. Denton , J. Hafner

The dynamics of quasicrystals is more complicated than the dynamics of periodic solids and difficult to study in experiments. Here, we investigate a decagonal and a dodecagonal quasicrystal using molecular dynamics simulations of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-11 Michael Engel , Masahiro Umezaki , Hans-Rainer Trebin , Takashi Odagaki

The Non-thermal phase transition in high energy collisions is studied in some detail in the framework of random cascade model. The relation between the characteristic parameter $\lambda_q$ of phase transition and the rank $q$ of moment is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wang Qin , Li Zhiming , Liu Lianshou

Electronic states in quasiperiodic crystals generally preclude a Bloch description, rendering them simultaneously fascinating and enigmatic. Owing to their complexity and relative scarcity, quasiperiodic crystals are underexplored relative…

Exotic tiling patterns of quasicrystals have motivated extensive studies of quantum phenomena such as critical states and phasons. Nevertheless, the systematic understanding of the Landau levels of quasicrystals in the presence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Junmo Jeon , Moon Jip Park , SungBin Lee

Non-interacting particles in non-Hermitian quasi crystals display localization-delocalization and spectral phase transitions in complex energy plane, that can be characterized by point-gap topology. Here we investigate the spectral and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Stefano Longhi

Topological insulators and topological superconductors are distinguished by their bulk phase transitions and gapless states at a sharp boundary with the vacuum. Quasicrystals have recently been found to be topologically nontrivial. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Mor Verbin , Oded Zilberberg , Yaacov E. Kraus , Yoav Lahini , Yaron Silberberg

Entanglement of the ground states in $XXZ$ and dimerized Heisenberg spin chains as well as in a two-leg spin ladder is analyzed by using the spin-spin concurrence and the entanglement entropy between a selected sublattice of spins and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yan Chen , Paolo Zanardi , Z. D. Wang , F. C. Zhang

Liquid crystalline phases of matter permeate nature and technology, with examples ranging from cell membranes to liquid-crystal displays. Remarkably, electronic liquid crystal phases can exist in two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) at…

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We use a free-energy minimization approach to describe the secular and dynamical instabilities as well as the bifurcations along equilibrium sequences of rotating, self-gravitating fluid systems. Our approach is fully nonlinear and stems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 D. M. Christodoulou , D. Kazanas , I. Shlosman , J. E. Tohline

Quasicrystals exhibit superconductivity under the unique interplay of long-range order and strong inhomogeneity, distinguishing them from both crystalline and amorphous systems. Understanding how this structural complexity affects…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-25 Junmo Jeon , SungBin Lee

Fidelity approach has been widely used to detect various types of quantum phase transitions, including some that are beyond the Landau symmetry breaking theory, in condensed matter models. However, challenges remain in locating the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-01 Ho-Kin Tang , Mohamad Ali Marashli , Wing Chi Yu

Phase-Field Crystal (PFC) models are able to resolve atomic length scale features of materials during temporal evolution over diffusive time scales. Traditional PFC models contain solid and liquid phases, however many important materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Edwin J. Schwalbach , James A. Warren , Kuo-An Wu , Peter W. Voorhees

Some features of hot and dense gas of quarks which are considered as the quasi-particles of the model Hamiltonian with four-fermion interaction are studied. Being adapted to the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model this approach allows us to…

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