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The structure, vibrational dynamics and thermodynamics of a chiral surface, Cu(532), has been calculated using a local approach and the harmonic approximation, with interatomic potentials based on the embedded atom method. The relaxation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Abdelkader Kara , Talat S. Rahman

A particle rotor model, which couples nucleons in four single-$j$ shells to a triaxial rotor core, is developed to investigate the five pairs of nearly degenerate doublet bands recently reported in the even-even nucleus $^{136}$Nd. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Q. B. Chen , B. F. Lv , C. M. Petrache , J. Meng

The dynamics of quasicrystals is more complicated than the dynamics of periodic solids and difficult to study in experiments. Here, we investigate a decagonal and a dodecagonal quasicrystal using molecular dynamics simulations of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-11 Michael Engel , Masahiro Umezaki , Hans-Rainer Trebin , Takashi Odagaki

We study the shape and texture of finite domains comprising chiral/achiral molecules carrying a tilt field embedded in a 2-dimensional surface. Using a combination of simulations and {\it exact} variational calculations, we determine the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarasij R. C. , Madan Rao

We study the chiral symmetry breaking and restoration in $ (2+1) $-dimensional gauge theories from the holographic hard and softwall models. We describe the behavior of the chiral condensate in the presence of an external magnetic field for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-13 Diego M. Rodrigues , Danning Li , Eduardo Folco Capossoli , Henrique Boschi-Filho

The present paper is a comment regarding the robustness of the chirality in presence of the space-reflection asymmetry, which leads to pairs of interleaved positive- and negative-parity bands. The recent results reported in Ref.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-09-01 C. M. Petrache

Systems of soft-core particles interacting via a two-scale potential are studied. The potential is responsible for peaks in the structure factor of the liquid state at two different but comparable length scales, and a similar bimodal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-03 A. J. Archer , A. M. Rucklidge , E. Knobloch

An effective hadronic lagrangian consistent with the symmetries of quantum chromodynamics and intended for applications to finite-density systems is constructed. The degrees of freedom are (valence) nucleons, pions, and the low-lying…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Furnstahl , Brian D. Serot , Hua-Bin Tang

For the first time, elastic pion-nucleon scattering is analyzed in the framework of chiral perturbation theory up to fourth order with explicit $\Delta$ degrees of freedom. The analysis is performed within the heavy-baryon expansion as well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-15 Dmitrij Siemens

We review the implications of the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in QCD for processes involving one, two or more nucleons.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Bernard , N. Kaiser , Ulf-G. Meißner

We study ground-state energies and charge radii of closed-shell medium-mass nuclei based on novel chiral nucleon-nucleon (NN) and three-nucleon (3N) interactions, with a focus on exploring the connections between finite nuclei and nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Hoppe , C. Drischler , K. Hebeler , A. Schwenk , J. Simonis

Currently, one application of the mean-field methods in nuclear physics is the investigation of exotic nuclear symmetries. This is related, in particular, to the study of nuclear rotation about an axis tilted with respect to the principal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Olbratowski

We describe our recent proposal that distinct phases of gauge theories with fundamental quarks translate into specific types of low-energy behavior in Dirac spectral density. The resulting scenario is built around new evidence…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-01 Andrei Alexandru , Ivan Horváth

Strain localization in granular materials arises from complex microscale dynamics, including intermittent particle rearrangements and spatiotemporally correlated deformation. While dynamic heterogeneity (DH) and dynamic facilitation (DF)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-26 Kwangmin Lee , Brett S. Kuwik , Ryan C. Hurley

A systematic investigation of the nuclear observables related to the triaxial degree of freedom is presented using the multi-quasiparticle triaxial projected shell model (TPSM) approach. These properties correspond to the observation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 J. A. Sheikh , G. H. Bhat , W. A. Dar , S. Jehangir , P. A. Ganai

We investigate the static scaling behavior of the chiral condensate near the two-flavor critical point within the framework of the soft-wall AdS/QCD. The scaling functions are extracted from the chiral order parameters and are found to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-31 Zhongzheng Zhang , Danning Li , Lang Yu , Zhibin Li , Xinyang Wang

In equilibrium liquid crystals, chirality leads to a variety of spectacular three-dimensional structures, but chiral and achiral phases with the same broken continuous symmetries have identical long-time, large-scale dynamics. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-23 S. J. Kole , Gareth P. Alexander , Sriram Ramaswamy , Ananyo Maitra

The geometric shape, symmetry, and topology of colloidal particles often allow for controlling colloidal phase behavior and physical properties of these soft matter systems. In liquid crystalline dispersions, colloidal particles with low…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-14 Ye Yuan , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Chirality is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the natural world. Many biomolecules without inversion symmetry such as amino acids and sugars are chiral molecules. Measuring and controlling molecular chirality at a high precision down to the…

Dynamical control of quantum matter is a challenging, yet promising direction for probing strongly correlated states. Motivated by recent experiments in twisted MoTe$_2$ that demonstrated optical control of magnetization, we propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-16 Fabian Pichler , Clemens Kuhlenkamp , Michael Knap