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Programmable folding of elastic sheets typically relies on predefined flexible creases or active materials-enabled hinges, which lack intrinsic bistability and limit reprogrammability within a single structure. Here, we present a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-05 Qun Zhang , Weicheng Huang , Amir Hajiyavand , Hyunyoung Kim , Claire Dancer , Karl Dearn , Mingchao Liu

We develop a theoretical framework for rigid origami, and show how this framework can be used to connect rigid origami and results from cognate areas, such as the rigidity theory, graph theory, linkage folding and computer science. First,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Zeyuan He , Simon D. Guest

Following on Part I of this work series on local kirigami mechanics, we present a study of a discretely creased mechanism as a model to investigate the mechanics of the basic geometric building block of kirigami--the e-cone. We consider an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-14 Souhayl Sadik , Martin G. Walker , Marcelo A. Dias

We consider an atom (represented by a two-level system) moving in front of a dielectric plate, and study how traces of dissipation and decoherence (both effects induced by vacuum field fluctuations) can be found in the corrections to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

The symmetry properties of the resistance of mesoscopic samples in the quantum Hall regime are investigated. In addition to the reciprocity relation, our samples obey new symmetries, that relate resistances measured with different contact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Peled , Y. Chen , E. Diez , D. C. Tsui , D. Shahar , D. L. Sivco , A. Y. Cho

We will introduce two notions of compatibility bettwen pseudo-Riemannian metric and Poisson structure using the notion of contravariant connection introduced by Fernandes R. L., we will study some proprities of manifold endowed with such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohamed Boucetta

Given a flat-foldable origami crease pattern $G=(V,E)$ (a straight-line drawing of a planar graph on a region of the plane) with a mountain-valley (MV) assignment $\mu:E\to\{-1,1\}$ indicating which creases in $E$ bend convexly (mountain)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Hugo A. Akitaya , Vida Dujmovi , David Eppstein , Thomas C. Hull , Kshitij Jain , Anna Lubiw

Lattices and their underlying symmetries play a central role in determining the physical properties and applications of many natural and engineered materials. By bridging the lattice geometry and rigid-folding kinematics, this study…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Hongbin Fang , Suyi Li , Manoj Thota , Kon-Well Wang

The conformal bootstrap is applied to percolation and dilute self-avoiding polymers, two theories with Virasoro central charge $c=0$ in two dimensions. In both cases we propose a spectrum of operators motivated by Virasoro symmetry which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-03 Andre LeClair , Joshua Squires

The standard goal for an effective algebraic multigrid (AMG) algorithm is to develop relaxation and coarse-grid correction schemes that attenuate complementary error modes. In the nonsymmetric setting, coarse-grid correction $\Pi$ will…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Ben S. Southworth , Thomas A. Manteuffel

Origami as a deployable structure offers the unique advantage of achieving compact stowage via flat-folding while forming a well-defined surface composed of rigid panels upon deployment. However, since origami consists of flat facets, it is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-27 Byoung-Gyu Kim , Geon Hee Cho , Hak-Tae Lee , Jinkyu Yang

Understanding chemical compound space (CCS), a set of molecules and materials, is crucial for the rational discovery of molecules and materials. Concepts of symmetry have recently been introduced into CCS to account for near degeneracies…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-14 Takafumi Shiraogawa , Simon León Krug , Masahiro Ehara , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Given an origami crease pattern $C=(V,E)$, a straight-line planar graph embedded in a region of $\mathbb{R}^2$, we assign each crease to be either a mountain crease (which bends convexly) or a valley crease (which bends concavely), creating…

Robots exhibit a rich variety of symmetries arising from their mechanical structure and the properties of their tasks. Although many robotics problems exhibit several symmetries simultaneously, existing approaches typically treat them in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Loizos Hadjiloizou , Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari , Noémie Jaquier

We develop the theory of antisymmetric Raman response, defined as the difference between the Raman signals of two scattering geometries related by an exchange of mutually perpendicular incoming and the outgoing photon polarizations. Such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-04 Mattia Udina , Indranil Paul

A class of non-Hermitian quadratic su(2) Hamiltonians having an anti-linear symmetry is constructed. This is achieved by analysing the possible symmetries of such systems in terms of automorphisms of the algebra. In fact, different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-15 Paulo E. G. Assis

We introduce a rigorous approach to the study of the symmetry breaking and pattern formation phenomenon for isotropic functionals with local/nonlocal interactions in competition. We consider a general class of nonlocal variational problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Sara Daneri , Eris Runa

In this paper, we study how to fold a specified origami crease pattern in order to minimize the impact of paper thickness. Specifically, origami designs are often expressed by a mountain-valley pattern (plane graph of creases with relative…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Erik D. Demaine , David Eppstein , Adam Hesterberg , Hiro Ito , Anna Lubiw , Ryuhei Uehara , Yushi Uno

Geometrical cross sections of dust aggregates determine their coupling with disk gas, which governs their motions in protoplanetary disks. Collisional outcomes also depend on geometrical cross sections of initial aggregates. In the previous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Toru Suyama , Koji Wada , Hidekazu Tanaka , Satoshi Okuzumi

An efficient way to introduce elastic energy that can bias an origami structure toward desired shapes is to allow curved tiles between the creases. The bending of the tiles supplies the energy and the tiles themselves may have additional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-04 Huan Liu , Richard D. James