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In exact density functional theory (DFT) the total ground-state energy is a series of linear segments between integer electron points, a condition known as "piecewise linearity". Deviation from this condition is indicative of poor…

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We report here new electrical laws, derived from nonlinear electro-diffusion theory, about the effect of the local geometrical structure, such as curvature, on the electrical properties of a cell. We adopt the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP)…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-22 Jerome Cartailler , Zeev Schuss , David Holcman

Many-electron systems confined to a quasi-1D geometry by a cylindrical distribution of positive charge have been investigated by density functional computations in the unrestricted local spin density approximation. Our investigations have…

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We introduce a new Lorentz-violating modification to a scalar quantum field theory. This interaction, while super-renormalizable by power counting, is fundamentally different from the interactions previously considered within the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Altschul

We study theoretically the electronic structure of topological nodal-line semimetals. We show that, in the presence of a gap-opening spatially dependent mass term that forms a domain wall, an in-gap charged localized mode emerges at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Akihiko Sekine , Naoto Nagaosa

We consider Inverse Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) problem on recovering electrical conductivity and potential in the body based on the measurement of the boundary voltages on the $m$ electrodes for a given electrode current. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Ugur G. Abdulla , Saleheh Seif

We study the quantization of the excess charge on $N$ localized (ultra-screened) impurities in $d$-dimensional crystalline insulating systems. Solving Dyson's equation, we demonstrate that such charges are topological, by expressing them as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Kiryl Piasotski

We apply general variational techniques to the problem of the counterion distribution around highly charged objects where strong condensation of counterions takes place. Within a field-theoretic formulation using a fluctuating electrostatic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Roland R. Netz , Henri Orland

Epsilon-near-zero and epsilon near-pole materials enable reflective systems supporting a class of symmetry-protected and accidental embedded eigenstates (EE) characterized by a diverging phase-resonance. Here we show that pairs of…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-16 Zarko Sakotic , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alú , Nikolina Jankovic

Recently, it has been shown how topological phases of matter with crystalline symmetry and $U(1)$ charge conservation can be partially characterized by a set of many-body invariants, the discrete shift $\mathscr{S}_{\text{o}}$ and electric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-28 Yuxuan Zhang , Maissam Barkeshli

Spin-polarized reconstruction of the v=1 quantum Hall edge is accompanied by a spatial modulation of the charge density along the edge. We find that this is also the case for finite quantum Hall droplets: current spin density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Reimann , M. Koskinen , S. Viefers , M. Manninen , B. Mottelson

We consider states bound at the flip of the electric field in buckled silicene. Along the electric flip lines a topological confinement is formed with the orientation of the charge current and the resulting magnetic dipole moment determined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Piotr Jurkowski , Bartlomiej Szafran

Electrified liquids are well known to be prone to a variety of interfacial instabilities that result in the onset of apparent interfacial singularities and liquid fragmentation. In the case of electrically conducting liquids, one of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Cyrill B. Muratov , Matteo Novaga

Asymmetric electrical conductance is theoretically demonstrated on the surface of a topological insulator (TI) in the limit of infinitesimally small forward and reverse biases between two spin selective electrodes. The discontinuous…

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We study the properties of one-dimensional topological superconductors under the influence of generic boundary conditions mimicking the coupling with external environments. We identify a general four-parameters classification of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 A. Maiellaro , F. Romeo , F. Illuminati

Analytical expressions for the osmotic pressure of electrolytes confined within electrolyte-filled, hollow, charged nanoparticles are studied using contact theorems for cavity nanoshells immersed in a low-concentration electrolyte. Three…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-10 Marcelo Lozada-Cassou , Sócrates Aníbal Rivera-Cerecero

The piecewise linearity condition on the total energy with respect to the total magnetization of finite quantum systems is derived, using the infinite-separation-limit technique. This generalizes the well-known constancy condition, related…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-22 Andrew C. Burgess , Edward Linscott , David D. O'Regan

In the present work, we study an electrolyte solution confined between planar surfaces with nonopatterned charged domains, which has been connected to a bulk ionic reservoir. The system is investigated through an improved Monte Carlo (MC)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-29 Amin Bakhshandeh , Maximiliano Segala , Thiago Colla

Entropic independence is a structural property of measures that underlies modern proofs of functional inequalities, notably (modified) log-Sobolev inequalities, via ``annealing'' or local-to-global schemes. Existing sufficient criteria for…

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