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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Ioannis Koureas , Mohit Pundir , Shai Feldfogel , David S. Kammer

We study the influence of structural obstacles in a disordered environment on the size and shape characteristics of long flexible polymer macromolecules. We use the model of self-avoiding random walks on diluted regular lattices at the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 Viktoria Blavatska , Wolfhard Janke

Complex phenomena incorporating several physical properties are abundant while they are occasionally revealing the variation of power-law behavior depending on the scale. In this present work, the global scaling-behavior of dynamical impact…

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We obtain the double scaling asymptotic behavior of the recurrence coefficients and the partition function at the critical point of the $N\times N$ Hermitian random matrix model with cubic potential. We prove that the recurrence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-19 Pavel M. Bleher , Alfredo Deaño

We consider self-avoiding polymers attached to the tip of an impenetrable probe. The scaling exponents $\gamma_1$ and $\gamma_2$, characterizing the number of configurations for the attachment of the polymer by one end, or at its midpoint,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Slutsky , Roya Zandi , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

We study the viscoelasticity of surface polymer monolayers by measuring the dynamics of thermal concentration fluctuations with surface light scattering. For various systems of proteins and synthetic polymers we find a semi-dilute regime in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Pietro Cicuta , Ian Hopkinson

Obtaining a rigorous and reliable method for linking computer simulations of polymer blends and composites at different length scales of interest is a highly desirable goal in soft matter physics. In this paper a multiscale modeling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 J. McCarty , M. G. Guenza

We prove a Pumping Lemma for the noncooperative abstract Tile Assembly Model, a model central to the theory of algorithmic self-assembly since the beginning of the field. This theory suggests, and our result proves, that small differences…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Pierre-Étienne Meunier , Damien Regnault , Damien Woods

We study a minimal extension of the worm-like chain to describe polypeptides having alpha-helical secondary structure. In this model presence/absence of secondary structure enters as a scalar variable that controls the local chain bending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Buddhapriya Chakrabarti , Alex J. Levine

A statistical mechanical distance constraint model (DCM) is presented that explicitly accounts for network rigidity among constraints present within a system. Constraints are characterized by local microscopic free energy functions.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Donald J. Jacobs , S. Dallakyan , G. G. Wood , A. Heckathorne

Cyclic polymers display unique physical behaviors in comparison to their linear counterparts. Theoretical, computational and experimental studies have revealed that some of their distinctive properties are also observed in charged variants…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-01 Andrzej Grzyb , Khristine Haydukivska , Jarosław S. Kłos , Aykut Erbaş , Jarosław Paturej

Topology provides an essential concept for achieving unchanged (or protected) quantum properties in the presence of perturbations. A challenge facing realistic applications is that the level of protection displayed in real systems is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Anh Ho Hoai , Jian Huang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Conformations of a single-component bottle-brush polymer with a fully flexible backbone under poor solvent conditions are studied by molecular-dynamics simulations, using a coarse-grained bead-spring model with side chains of up to N=40…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-25 Nikolaos G. Fytas , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

For curves of prescribed length embedded into the unit disc in two dimensions, we obtain scaling results for the minimal elastic energy as the length just exceeds $2\pi$ and in the large length limit. In the small excess length case, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Stephan Wojtowytsch

The so-called indentation stiffness tomography technique for detecting the interior mechanical properties of an elastic sample with an inhomogeneity is analyzed in the framework of the asymptotic modeling approach under the assumption of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-22 Ivan Argatov

We discuss the plastic behavior of an amorphous matrix reinforced by hard particles. A mesoscopic depinning-like model accounting for Eshelby elastic interactions is implemented. Only the effect of a plastic disorder is considered.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-17 Botond Tyukodi , Claire A. Lemarchand , Jesper S. Hansen , Damien Vandembroucq

Multidimensional cosmological model with the topology M=RxM_1xM_2x...xM_n where M_i (i=1,... ,n) undergo a chain splitting into arbitrary number of compact spaces is considered. It is shown that equations of motion can be solved exactly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Zhuk

There is often a significant trade-off between formulation strength and size in mixed integer programming (MIP). When modeling convex disjunctive constraints (e.g. unions of convex sets), adding auxiliary continuous variables can sometimes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Juan Pablo Vielma

We derive an asymptotic formula for operator product expansion coefficients of heavy operators in two dimensional conformal field theory. This follows from modular invariance of the genus two partition function, and generalises the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 John Cardy , Alexander Maloney , Henry Maxfield

We study asymptotics of the dimer model on large toric graphs. Let $\mathbb L$ be a weighted $\mathbb{Z}^2$-periodic planar graph, and let $\mathbb{Z}^2 E$ be a large-index sublattice of $\mathbb{Z}^2$. For $\mathbb L$ bipartite we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Richard W. Kenyon , Nike Sun , David B. Wilson