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An effective Chern-Simons theory for the Abelian quantum Hall states with edges is proposed to study the edge and bulk properties in a unified fashion. We impose a condition that the currents do not flow outside the sample. With this…
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We study nematic liquid crystalline films within the framework of the Landau-de Gennes theory in the limit when both the thickness of the film and the nematic correlation length are vanishingly small compared to the lateral extent of the…
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We derive an Aronson-B\'enilan / Li-Yau estimate in the JKO scheme associated to the porous-medium, heat, and fast-diffusion equations, in dimensions $1$ and $2$, and on simple domains (cubes, quarter-space, half-spaces, whole space, and…
We study a system of penetrable bosons embedded in a spherical surface. Under the assumption of weak interaction between the particles, the ground state of the system is, to a good approximation, a pure condensate. We employ thermodynamic…
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