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A general phenomenological reaction-diffusion model for flow-induced phase transitions in complex fluids is presented. The model consists of an equation of motion for a nonconserved composition variable, coupled to a Newtonian stress…
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After delineating the physical regimes which vortex lattices encounter in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates as the rotation rate, $\Omega$, increases, we derive the normal modes of the vortex lattice in two dimensions at zero temperature.…
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