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The formalism of two coupled Dirac equations within constraint instant form dynamics is used to study the nucleon-nucleon interaction. The salient features and the final Schroedinger type equation is given. Explicitly energy dependent…

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We study global minimizers of a continuum Landau-De Gennes energy functional for nematic liquid crystals, in three-dimensional domains, subject to uniaxial boundary conditions. We analyze the physically relevant limit of small elastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Apala Majumdar , Arghir Zarnescu

We use a two-dimensional (2D) elastic free energy to calculate the effective interaction between two circular disks immersed in smectic-$C$ films. For strong homeotropic anchoring, the distortion of the director field caused by the disks…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Patricio , M. Tasinkevych , M. M. Telo da Gama

We prove that quadratic pair interactions for functions defined on planar Poisson clouds and taking into account pairs of sites of distance up to a certain (large-enough) threshold can be almost surely approximated by the multiple of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Andrea Braides , Marco Caroccia

We introduce a dark energy-modified minimum length uncertainty relation (DE-MLUR) or dark energy uncertainty principle (DE-UP) for short. The new relation is structurally similar to the MLUR introduced by K{\' a}rolyh{\' a}zy (1968), and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-15 Matthew J. Lake

Point polarizable molecules at fixed spatial positions have solvable electrostatic properties in classical approximation, the most familiar being the Clausius-Mossotti (CM) formula. This paper generalizes the model and imagines various…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Philip B. Allen

We consider a one-dimensional variational problem arising in connection with a model for cholesteric liquid crystals. The principal feature of our study is the assumption that the twist deformation of the nematic director incurs much higher…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Dmitry Golovaty , Michael Novack , Peter Sternberg

Anisotropic fluids appear in a diverse array of systems, from liquid-crystal displays to bacterial swarms, and are characterized by orientational order. Large colloidal particles immersed in such environments disturb the medium's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-03 Thomas G. J. Chandler , Saverio E. Spagnolie

In local effective potential theories of electronic structure, the electron correlations due to the Pauli exclusion principle, Coulomb repulsion, and correlation-kinetic effects, are all incorporated in the local electron-interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhixin Qian , Viraht Sahni

In this paper, we focus on finite Bravais lattice energies per point in two dimensions. We compute the first and second derivatives of these energies. We prove that the Hessian at the square and the triangular lattice are diagonal and we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Laurent Bétermin

Liquid crystal droplets are of great interest from physics and applications. Rigorous mathematical analysis is challenging as the problem involves harmonic maps (and in general the Oseen-Frank model), free interfaces and topological defects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Fanghua Lin , Changyou Wang

While standard minimal coupling works well for Dirac fermions, its application to scalar fields features a known ``peculiarity'': the term linear in $A_\mu$ does not coincide with the conserved Noether current of the interacting theory. We…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 F. Minotti , G. Modanese

We consider a discrete-continuum model of a biomembrane with embedded particles. While the membrane is represented by a continuous surface, embedded particles are described by rigid discrete objects which are free to move and rotate in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Tobias Kies , Carsten Gräser

Criticality in a fluid of dielectric constant D that exhibits Ising-type behavior is studied as additional electrostatic (i.e., ionic) interactions are turned on. An exploratory perturbative calculation is performed for small ionicity as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. G. Moreira , M. M. Telo da Gama , M. E. Fisher

In this paper, we investigate how nonlocal correlations affect, selectively, the physics of correlated electrons over different energy scales, from the Fermi level to the band-edges. This goal is achieved by applying a diagrammatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-24 G. Rohringer , A. Toschi

It is demonstrated that both elastic and inelastic $NN$ scattering at laboratory energies up to 600--800 MeV, at least in some partial waves characterized by a large inelasticity, can be described by a superposition of the conventional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 V. I. Kukulin , V. N. Pomerantsev , O. A. Rubtsova , M. N. Platonova

We compute effective energies of thin bilayer structures composed by soft nematic elastic-liquid crystals in various geometrical regimes and functional configurations. Our focus is on order-strain interaction in elastic foundations composed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Pierluigi Cesana , Andres A Leon Baldelli

Most active colloid experiments are quasi-2D. Here a 3D density-matched solution of active particles propelled and aligned with an AC electric field uniquely facilitates measurement of short and long-range particle-wall interactions.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-02 Sandeep Ramteke , Jordan Dehmel , Touvia Miloh , Jarrod Schiffbauer , Alicia Boymelgreen

Van der Waals interactions between two neutral but polarizable systems at a separation $R$ much larger than the typical size of the systems are at the core of a broad sweep of contemporary problems in settings ranging from atomic, molecular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-14 Nora Brambilla , Vladyslav Shtabovenko , Jaume Tarrús Castellà , Antonio Vairo

We consider a non-local interaction energy over bounded densities of fixed mass $m$. We prove that under certain regularity assumptions on the interaction kernel these energies admit minimizers given by characteristic functions of sets when…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-01 Davide Carazzato , Aldo Pratelli , Ihsan Topaloglu