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Two-dimensional systems in which there is a competition between long-range repulsion and short range attraction exhibit a remarkable variety of patterns such as stripes, bubbles, and labyrinths. Such systems include magnetic films, Langmuir…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt , I. Martin , A. R. Bishop

A conformal pinning array can be created by conformally transforming a uniform triangular pinning lattice to produces a new structure in which the six-fold ordering of the original lattice is conserved but where there is a spatial gradient…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-06 C. J. Olson Reichhardt , Y. L. Wang , Z. L. Xiao , W. K. Kwok , D. Ray , C. Reichhardt , B. Janko

We show that driven dislocation assemblies exhibit a set of dynamical phases remarkably similar to those of driven systems with quenched disorder such as vortices in superconductors, magnetic domain walls, and charge density wave materials.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Zhou , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , I. J. Beyerlein

The influence of an ac current of arbitrary amplitude and frequency on the mixed-state dc-voltage-ac-drive ratchet response of a superconducting film with a dc current-tilted uniaxial cosine pinning potential at finite temperature is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-01 Valerij A. Shklovskij , Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy

We examine driven superconducting vortices interacting with quenched disorder where we measure the memory effects under a sequence of drive pulses applied perpendicular to each other. As a function of disorder strength, we find four types…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-22 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Critically analyzing recent STM and transport experiments [Z. Ge, et al, arXiv:2510.12009] on 2D electron systems in the presence of random quenched impurities, we argue that the resulting low-density putative "solid" phase reported…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Aryaman Babbar , Zi-Jian Li , Sankar Das Sarma

The ratchet effect is demonstrated theoretically for the simple model of a vortex in a thin superconducting film interacting with a periodic array of magnetic dipoles placed in the vicinity of the film . The pinning potential for the vortex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Gilson Carneiro

We examine the dynamics and stripe formation in a system with competing short and long range interactions in the presence of both an applied dc drive and quenched disorder. Without disorder, the system forms stripes organized in a labyrinth…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , I. Martin , A. R. Bishop

We examine the statics and dynamics of vortices in the presence of a periodic quasi-one dimensional substrate, focusing on the limit where the vortex lattice constant is smaller than the substrate lattice period. As a function of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-12-06 Q. Le Thien , D. McDermott , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We present a minimal one-dimensional deterministic continuous dynamical system that exhibits chaotic behavior and complex transport properties. Our model is an overdamped rocking ratchet that is periodically kicked with a delta function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-11 Daniel G. Zarlenga , Hilda A. Larrondo , Miguel Arizmendi , Fereydoon Family

The effects of quenched disorder on the overdamped motion of a driven particle on a periodic, asymmetric potential is studied. While for the unperturbed potential the transport is due to a regular drift, the quenched disorder induces a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. N. Popescu , C. M. Arizmendi , A. L. Salas-Brito , F. Family

Ratchet effect in a driven underdamped periodic potential system is studied. The presence of a space dependent and periodic friction coefficient, but with a phase difference with the symmetric periodic potential is shown to generate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Shantu Saikia

A serious obstacle that impedes the application of low and high temperature superconductor (SC) devices is the presence of trapped flux. Flux lines or vortices are induced by fields as small as the Earth's magnetic field. Once present,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Choongseop Lee , Boldizsar Janko , Imre Derenyi , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Nearly a century after Wigner's initial proposal, electron crystals are now a topic of intense experimental and theoretical interest. However, most proposed crystalline phases are commensurate and therefore become insulating in the presence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-02 Junkai Dong , Tomohiro Soejima , Daniel E. Parker , Ashvin Vishwanath

Two-dimensional (2D) materials display nanoscale dynamic ripples that significantly impact their properties. Defects within the crystal lattice are the elementary building blocks to tailor the material's morphology. While some studies have…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-11 Fabian L. Thiemann , Camille Scalliet , Erich A. Müller , Angelos Michaelides

The Wigner crystal of composite fermions is a strongly correlated state of complex emergent particles, and therefore its unambiguous detection would be of significant importance. Recent observation of optical resonances in the vicinity of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-13 Alex Archer , Jainendra K. Jain

We use large scale simulations to study interacting particles in two dimensions in the presence of both an ac drive and quenched disorder. As a function of ac amplitude, there is a crossover from a low drive regime where the colloid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

We examine the collective states of run-and-tumble active matter disks driven over a periodic obstacle array. When the drive is applied along a symmetry direction of the array, we find a clog-free uniform liquid state for low activity,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

We use numerical simulations to examine vortex states and dynamics in periodic funnel geometries where a drive is applied in the easy flow direction. We show that this system exhibits a number of different commensurability effects when the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-10 C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We study the rectified transport of underdamped active noninteracting particles in an asymmetric periodic potential. It is found that the ratchet effect of active noninteracting particles occurs in a single direction (along the easy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-30 Bao-quan Ai , Feng-guo Li