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Refractive index is a fundamental electromagnetic (EM) parameter that can describe photonic continuous media (PCM) traditionally as either transparency or opacity. Recently, topological theory offers a new set of phases to characterize PCM…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 Xin-Tao He , Shuo-Shi Zhang , Xiao-Dong Chen , Jian-Wen Dong

Aptamers are single stranded DNA, RNA or peptide sequences having the ability to bind a variety of specific targets (proteins, molecules as well as ions). Therefore, aptamer production and selection for therapeutic and diagnostic…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-04 R. Cataldo , E. Alfinito , L. Reggiani

We introduce an algorithm for the reduction of computer generated atomistic polymer samples to networks of primitive paths. By examining network ensembles of Polyethylene and cis-1,4 Polybutadiene melts, we quantify the underlying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Christos Tzoumanekas , Doros N. Theodorou

Topological indices are graph-theoretic descriptors that play a crucial role in mathematical chemistry, capturing the structural characteristics of molecules and enabling the prediction of their physicochemical properties. A widely studied…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sébastien Bonte , Gauvain Devillez , Valentin Dusollier , Alain Hertz , Hadrien Mélot , David Schindl

Recent advanced experimental implementations of optical lattices with highly tunable geometry open up new regimes for quantum many-body states of matter that previously had not been accessible. Here we introduce a symmetry-based method of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-12 Maksims Arzamasovs , Shuai Li , W. Vincent Liu , Bo Liu

We calculate the higher topological complexity TC$_s$ for the complements of reflection arrangements, in other words for the pure Artin type groups of all finite complex reflection groups. In order to do that we introduce a simple…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-10 Sergey Yuzvinsky

Motivated by the three-dimensional topological field theory / two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) correspondence, we study a broad class of one-dimensional quantum mechanical models, known as anyonic chains, that can give rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Matthew Buican , Andrey Gromov

In many areas of applied geometric/numeric computational mathematics, including geo-mapping, computer vision, computer graphics, finite element analysis, medical imaging, geometric design, and solid modeling, one has to compute incidences,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alberto Paoluzzi , Vadim Shapiro , Antonio DiCarlo , Francesco Furiani , Giulio Martella , Giorgio Scorzelli

Cyclopentadiene (CPD) is an important intermediate in the combustion of fuel and the formation of aromatics. In the present study, the kinetics and thermodynamic properties for hydrogen abstraction and addition with CPD, and the related…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Qian Mao , Liming Cai , Heinz Pitsch

We use low-depth quantum circuits, a specific type of tensor networks, to classify two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological many-body localized phases. For (anti-)unitary on-site symmetries we show that the (generalized) third…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-29 Joey Li , Amos Chan , Thorsten B. Wahl

To gain insight into reaction mechanism of activated processes, we introduce an exact approach for quantifying the topology of high-dimensional probability surfaces of the underlying dynamic processes. Instead of Morse indexes, we study the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Farid Manuchehrfar , Huiyu Li , Wei Tian , Ao Ma , Jie Liang

Diels-Alder cycloadditions are efficient routes for the synthesis of cyclic organic compounds. There has been a long-standing discussion whether these reactions proceed via stepwise or concerted mechanisms. Here, we adopt a new experimental…

In this paper, we propose a concept to design, track, and compare application-specific feature definitions expressed as sets of critical points. Our work has been inspired by the observation that in many applications a large variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Wito Engelke , Talha Bin Masood , Jakob Beran , Rodrigo Caballero , Ingrid Hotz

Complex systems of intracellular biochemical reactions have a central role in regulating cell identities and functions. Biochemical reaction systems are typically studied using the language and tools of graph theory. However, graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Raffaella Mulas , Rubén J. Sánchez-García , Ben D. MacArthur

In the realm of invertible symmetry, the topological approach based on classifying spaces dominates the classification of 't Hooft anomalies and symmetry protected topological phases. We explore the alternative algebraic approach based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Shi Chen

The presence of a topological phase in a topological many-body system can be distinguished through the analysis of topological invariants. In the present study, the topological invariants for the strongly coupled holographic semimetals have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-27 Xiantong Chen , Xuanting Ji , Ya-Wen Sun

We consider the statistical mechanics of a system of topologically linked polymers, such as for instance a dense solution of polymer rings. If the possible topological states of the system are distinguished using the Gauss linking number as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-05 Franco Ferrari

The control of thermal radiation by shaping its spatial and spectral emission characteristics plays a key role in many areas of science and engineering. Conventional approaches to tailor thermal emission using metamaterials are severely…

Topological photonics provides a robust and flexible platform for controlling light, enabling functionalities such as backscattering-immune edge transport and slow-light propagation. In this work, we design and characterize photonic…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-12 Ondřej Novák , Martin Veis , Gervasi Herranz

We investigate a supersymmetric generalisation of topological recursion from two perspectives: algebraic and geometric. The algebraic side concerns a recursive structure encoded in modules of a super Virasoro algebra, and the geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Nezhla Aghaei , Reinier Kramer , Nicolas Orantin , Kento Osuga