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A two-dimensional bistable lattice is a periodic triangular network of non-linear bi-stable rods. The energy of each rod is piecewise quadratic and has two minima. Consequently, a rod undergoes a reversible phase transition when its…
We discuss a series of 8 energy scales, some of which just speculated by ourselves, and fit the logarithms of these energies as a straight line versus a quantity related to the dimensionalities of action terms in a way to be defined in the…
This work provides the first combined analysis of low-energy p$\Lambda$ scattering, considering both cross section and correlation data. The obtained results establish the most stringent constraints to date on the two-body p$\Lambda$…
Optical lattices are typically created via the ac-Stark shift, which are limited by diffraction to periodicities $\ge\lambda/2$, where $\lambda$ is the wavelength of light used to create them. Lattices with smaller periodicities may be…
We analyze minimizers of the Lawrence-Doniach energy for layered superconductors occupying a bounded generalized cylinder, $ \Omega\times[0,L]$, in $\mathbb{R}^3$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded simply connected Lipschitz domain in…
We prove lower bounds for energy in the Gaussian core model, in which point particles interact via a Gaussian potential. Under the potential function $t \mapsto e^{-\alpha t^2}$ with $0 < \alpha < 4\pi/e$, we show that no point…
This is the first of two papers which study asymptotic behavior of minimal energy solutions to the fractional Lane-Emden system in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ \[(-\Delta)^s u = v^p, \quad (-\Delta)^s v = u^q \text{ in } \Omega \quad…
Obtaining the rest mass of leptons with electric charge minus 1 is pursued by considering the existence of a medium made up of sub-quantum particles, called etherons, having a rest energy at the lowest limit which is possible in the…
At very low density, the electrons in a uniform electron gas spontaneously break symmetry and form a crystalline lattice called a Wigner crystal. But which type of crystal will the electrons form? We report a numerical study of the density…
The goal of this work is to investigate the optimality of the $d$-dimensional rock-salt structure, i.e., the cubic lattice $V^{1/d}\mathbb{Z}^d$ of volume $V$ with an alternation of charges $\pm 1$ at lattice points, among periodic…
Let $\Lambda$ be a lattice in $\R^n$, and let $Z\subseteq \R^{m+n}$ be a definable family in an o-minimal structure over $\R$. We give sharp estimates for the number of lattice points in the fibers $Z_T={x\in \R^n: (T,x)\in Z}$. Along the…
We consider a geodesic $\gamma$ of length $2L$ in an oriented Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal M, g)$ and a thin tube $\Omega^*_h$ around $\gamma$ of radius $h$. We study an 'elastic' energy per unit volume $E_h(u)$ of maps $u$ from…
Following a recent suggestion by Nielsen, Rugh, and Rugh, we study the energy scaling of the maximal Lyapunov exponent of classical Hamiltonian SU(2) lattice gauge theory. It is shown that the conjectured scaling behavior $\lambda_0\sim…
The existence and stability of solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive inter-atomic interactions, described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a three-dimensional (3D) periodic potential, are investigated in a systematic…
In this paper, we investigate the minimality of the map $\frac{x}{\|x\|}$ from the euclidean unit ball $\mathbf{B}^n$ to its boundary $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ for weighted energy functionals of the type $E\_{p,f}= \int\_{\mathbf{B}^n}f(r)\|\nabla…
We investigate the problem of dimension reduction for plates in nonlinear magnetoelasticity. The model features a mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian formulation, as magnetizations are defined on the deformed set in the actual space. We consider…
Lattice defects are inevitably present in two-dimensional materials, with direct implications on their physical and chemical properties. We show that the formation energy of a lattice defect in buckled two-dimensional crystals is not…
We develop a variational formalism in order to study the structure of low energy spectra of frustrated quantum spin systems. It is first applied to trial wavefunctions of ladders with one spin-1/2 on each site. We determine energy minima of…
We prove a compactness and integral-representation theorem for sequences of families of lattice energies describing atomistic interactions defined on lattices with vanishing lattice spacing. The densities of these energies may depend on…
We consider low-energy nucleons at next-to-next-to-leading order in lattice chiral effective field theory. Three-body interactions first appear at this order, and we discuss several methods for determining three-body interaction…