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Through extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we systematically study the effect of chain stiffness on the packing ability of linear polymers composed of hard spheres in extremely confined monolayers, corresponding effectively to 2D films.…

The injection of a long flexible rod into a two-dimensional domain yields a complex pattern commonly studied through elasticity theory, packing analysis, and fractal geometries. "Loop" is a one-vertex entity that is naturally formed in this…

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The entanglement dynamics of two independent qubits each embedded in a structured environment under conditions of inhibition of spontaneous emission is analyzed, showing entanglement trapping. We demonstrate that entanglement trapping can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-30 Bruno Bellomo , Rosario Lo Franco , Sabrina Maniscalco , Giuseppe Compagno

We investigate by exact optimization the geometrical properties of three-dimensional elastic line systems with point disorder and hard-core repulsion. The line 'forests' become entangled due to increasing line wandering as the system height…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Viljo Petaja , Mikko Alava , Heiko Rieger

Entangled networks are ubiquitous in tissues, polymers, and fabrics. However, their mechanics remain insufficiently understood due to the complexity of the topological constraints at the network level. Here, we develop a mathematical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-23 Juntao Huang , Jiabin Liu , Shaoting Lin

The quasistatic behavior of a simple 2D model of a cohesive powder under isotropic loads is investigated by Discrete Element simulations. The loose packing states, as studied in a previous paper, undergo important structural changes under…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-27 Francisco Gilabert , Jean-Noël Roux , Antonio Castellanos

Existence of Anderson localization is considered a manifestation of coherence of classical and quantum waves in disordered systems. Signatures of localization have been observed in condensed matter and cold atomic systems where the coupling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-22 Alejandro Cros Carrillo de Albornoz , Dominic C. Rose , Arijeet Pal

Planning accurate manipulation for deformable objects requires prediction of their state. The prediction is often complicated by a loss of stability that may result in collapse of the deformable object. In this work, stability of a fabric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Vladimír Petrík , Vladimír Smutný , Ville Kyrki

Static packings of perfectly rigid particles are investigated theoretically and numerically. The problem of finding the contact forces in such packings is formulated mathematically. Letting the values of the contact forces define a vector…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Sean McNamara , Hans Herrmann

The continuous packing of a flexible rod in two-dimensional cavities yields a countable set of interacting domains that resembles non-equilibrium cellular systems and belongs to a new class of light-weight material. However, the link…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-13 T A Sobral , M A F Gomes

The mystery behind the bird nest's construction is not well understood. Our study focuses on the stability of a self-supporting nest-like structure. Firstly, we derived a stable/unstable phase boundary for the structure at the fixed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-12 Yuming Chen , Yifang Xu , Yiran Yao , Sihui Wang

High-dimensional entangled states offer higher information capacity and stronger resilience to noise compared with two-dimensional systems. However, the large number of modes and sensitivity to random rotations complicate experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Ohad Lib , Shuheng Liu , Ronen Shekel , Qiongyi He , Marcus Huber , Yaron Bromberg , Giuseppe Vitagliano

The ordering of rod-like particles in soft, deformable containers emerges from the interplay of anisotropic interactions, geometric confinement, and boundary compliance. This competition couples internal particle organization to container…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 Stijn van der Ham , André F. V. Matias , Marjolein Dijkstra , Hanumantha Rao Vutukuri

Rigid particles pack into structures, such as sand dunes on the beach, whose overall stability is determined by the average number of contacts between particles. However, when packing spatially extended objects with flexible shapes,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Ling-Nan Zou , Xiang Cheng , Mark L. Rivers , Heinrich M. Jaeger , Sidney R. Nagel

We study the structural properties of two-dimensional granular packings prepared by random deposition from a source line. We consider a class of random ballistic deposition models based on single-particle relaxation rules controlled by a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Bratberg , F. Radjai , A. Hansen

Entanglement is not only important for understanding the fundamental properties of many-body systems, but also the crucial resource enabling quantum advantages in practical information processing tasks. While previous works on entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Bingzhi Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

We study the entanglement spectrum of a translationally-invariant lattice system under a random partition, implemented by choosing each site to be in one subsystem with probability $p\in[0, 1]$. We apply this random partitioning to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Sagar Vijay , Liang Fu

The square lattice with central forces between nearest neighbors is isostatic with a subextensive number of floppy modes. It can be made rigid by the random addition of next-nearest neighbor bonds. This constitutes a rigidity percolation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-06 Wouter G. Ellenbroek , Xiaoming Mao

An important and incompletely answered question is whether a closed quantum system of many interacting particles can be localized by disorder. The time evolution of simple (unentangled) initial states is studied numerically for a system of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-11 Jens H. Bardarson , Frank Pollmann , Joel E. Moore

A collection of thin structures buckle, bend, and bump into each-other when confined. This contact can lead to the formation of patterns: hair will self-organize in curls; DNA strands will layer into cell nuclei; paper, when crumpled, will…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-19 Arman Guerra , Anja Slim , Douglas P. Holmes , Ousmane Kodio