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We discuss emergent gravity in the superplastic crystals. We restrict ourselves by the consideration of the gapped (massive) fermions coupled to gravity. In this approach the stress - energy tensor may be defined in such a way, that being…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-21 M. A. Zubkov

The non-equilibrium transition from a fluid-like state to a disordered solid-like state, known as the jamming transition, occurs in a wide variety of physical systems, such as colloidal suspensions and molecular fluids, when the temperature…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-10 M. Pica Ciamarra , R. Pastore , M. Nicodemi , A. Coniglio

We determine the invariant expression of the force density that the electromagnetic field exerts on dipolar matter and construct the non-symmetric energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field in matter which is consistent with that…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Rodrigo Medina , J. Stephany

Homogenization of the incremental response of grids made up of preloaded elastic rods leads to homogeneous effective continua which may suffer macroscopic instability, occurring at the same time in both the grid and the effective continuum.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 G. Bordiga , D. Bigoni , A. Piccolroaz

A minimal model for studying the mechanical properties of amorphous solids is a disordered network of point masses connected by unbreakable springs. At a critical value of its mean connectivity, such a network becomes fragile: it undergoes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-05 Stephan Ulrich , Nitin Upadhyaya , Bas van Opheusden , Vincenzo Vitelli

Tensor network algorithms provide a suitable route for tackling real-time dependent problems in lattice gauge theories, enabling the investigation of out-of-equilibrium dynamics. We analyze a U(1) lattice gauge theory in (1+1) dimensions in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-07 T. Pichler , M. Dalmonte , E. Rico , P. Zoller , S. Montangero

The evolution of the internal granular structure in shear-arrested and shear-flowing states of granular materials is characterized using fabric tensors as descriptors of the internal contact and force networks. When a dilute system of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Ishan Srivastava , Jeremy B. Lechman , Gary S. Grest , Leonardo E. Silbert

This study presents a Eulerian theory to elucidate the molecular kinematics in polymer networks and their connection to continuum deformation, grounded in fundamental statistical physics and thermodynamics. Three key innovations are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-16 Siyu Wang , Heng Xiao , Lin Zhan

Strain energy density is calculated for a network of flexible chains with weak excluded-volume interactions (whose energy is small compared with thermal energy). Constitutive equations are developed for an incompressible network of chains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Drozdov

Astrophysical current layers, e.g., in pulsar winds, can be electrically charged, while the plasma is charge-symmetric, $e^\pm$. Using PIC simulations, we investigate dynamics and plasmoid formation (tearing instability) in charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-08 Maxim Lyutikov

We consider a static theory of dislocations with moment stress in an anisotropic or isotropic elastoplastical material as a T(3)-gauge theory. We obtain Yang-Mills type field equations which express the force and the moment equilibrium.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 Markus Lazar

Two equal and opposite distributed dead loads are applied orthogonally to the axis of an elastic rod in its rectilinear reference configuration, one at the extrados and the other at the intrados, such that the resultant applied force per…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Davide Bigoni , Diego Misseroni , Andrea Piccolroaz

Periodic field patterns of atoms and their charges/spins/orbits emerge in crystals, forming novel states of matter called emergent crystals (ECs). In recent years, they are observed in diverse systems such as skyrmion crystals in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Yangfan Hu , Xuejin Wan

In this paper, we examine the recently developed skew-symmetric couple stress theory and demonstrate its inner consistency, natural simplicity and fundamental connection to classical mechanics. This hopefully will help the scientific…

General Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Ali R. Hadjesfandiari , Gary F. Dargush

The viscoelastic properties of soft jammed solids, such as foams, emulsions, and soft colloids, have been the subject of experiments, with particular interest in the anomalous viscous loss. However, a microscopic theory to explain these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-13 Hideyuki Mizuno , Atsushi Ikeda

Modeling liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) at the molecular level is crucial for the predictable design of energy-conversion and stimuli-responsive materials. Here, we develop a self-consistent field theory for LCEs which captures the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-05 Luofu Liu , Rui Wang

We investigate the energy-momentum balance in the perforating collision of a point particle with an infinitely thin planar domain wall within the linearized gravity in arbitrary dimensions. Since the metric of the wall increases with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-11 D. V. Gal'tsov , E. Yu. Melkumova , P. A. Spirin

Simulations are used to study the steady shear rheology of dense suspensions of frictional particles exhibiting discontinuous shear thickening and shear jamming, in which finite-range cohesive interactions result in a yield stress. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-13 Abhinendra Singh , Sidhant Pednekar , Jaehun Chun , Morton M. Denn , Jeffrey F. Morris

The discrete modeling of a large class of mechanical structures can be based on a stick-and-spring concept. We here present a stick-and-spring theory with potential application to the statics and the dynamics of such nanostructures as…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-16 Antonino Favata , Andrea Micheletti , Paolo Podio-Guidugli

This paper formally analyses effects of nematic weak elasticity using the five parametric de Gennes (DG) potential. The analysis is trivialized in a specific (local) Cartesian coordinate system whose one axis is directed along the initial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Leonov , V. S. Volkov