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The morphology and dynamics of polymerization-induced phase separation in the initially homogeneous solution of a non-reactive component in reactive monomers are investigated by incorporating the reaction kinetics into the time-dependent…

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We show that systematic particle rotations in a fluid composed of disk-shaped spinners can spontaneously lead to phase separation. The phenomenon arises out of a homogeneous and hydrostatic stationary state, due to a pressure feedback…

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The behavior of polymers in combined flow and electric fields underlies many manufacturing processes but remains poorly understood. To address this, we model charged polymers across scales. We extend the original Rouse model for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-22 Zachary Wolfgram , Jeffrey G. Ethier , Matthew Grasinger

Limitations of the Quasiparticle Random Phase Approximation (QRPA) are studied within an exactly solvable model, with a two body interaction of Fermi type. A special attention is paid to the violation of the Pauli exclusion principle (PEP)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-18 F. Simkovic , A. Raduta , M. Veselsky , Amand Faessler

Phase separation of a liquid mixture embedded within an elastic network is relevant to a wide range of natural and industrial systems, including biomolecular condensates interacting with the cytoskeleton, structural colouring in bird…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-14 Oliver W. Paulin , Yicheng Qiang , David Zwicker

We show that simulations of polymer rheology at a fluctuating mesoscopic scale and at the macroscopic scale where flow instabilities occur can be achieved at the same time with dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) technique.} We model the…

We study the dynamics of polymer chains in a bath of self-propelled particles (SPP) by extensive Langevin dynamics simulations in a two dimensional system. Specifically, we analyse the polymer looping properties versus the SPP activity and…

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We use thermodynamic perturbation theory to calculate the free energies and resulting phase diagrams of binary systems of spherical colloidal particles and interacting polymer coils in good solvent within an effective one-component…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Rotenberg , J. Dzubiella , J. -P. Hansen , A. A. Louis

We use the random phase approximation (RPA) method with the singles correlation energy contributions to calculate lattice energies of ten molecular solids. While RPA gives too weak binding, underestimating the reference data by $13.7$\% on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Jiří Klimeš

We present an analytic proof demonstrating the equivalence between the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) to the ground state correlation energy and a ring-diagram simplification of the Coupled Cluster Doubles (CCD) equations. In the CCD…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gustavo E. Scuseria , Thomas M. Henderson , Danny C. Sorensen

The resonant state expansion, a rigorous perturbation theory, recently developed in electrodynamics, is applied to non-relativistic quantum mechanical systems in one dimension. The method is used here for finding the resonant states in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 A. Tanimu , E. A. Muljarov

The random-phase approximation with second-order screened exchange (RPA+SOSEX) is a model of electron correlation energy with two caveats: its accuracy depends on an arbitrary choice of mean field, and it scales as $\mathcal{O}(n^5)$…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-16 Jonathan E. Moussa

The effects of ground-state correlations on the damping of isovector giant dipole resonances in $LS$ closed shell nuclei $^{16}$O and $^{40}$Ca are studied using extended random-phase-approximation (RPA) approaches derived from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-24 Mitsuru Tohyama

Results are presented for the phase separation process of a binary mixture subject to an uniform shear flow quenched from a disordered to a homogeneous ordered phase. The kinetics of the process is described in the context of the…

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The random-phase approximation to the ground state correlation energy (RPA) in combination with exact exchange (EX) has brought Kohn-Sham (KS) density functional theory one step closer towards a universal, "general purpose first principles…

The strong coupling $\alpha_s$ is determined with high precision from fits to lattice QCD simulations on the static energy. Our theoretical setup relies on R-improving the three-loop fixed-order prediction for the static energy by removing…

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The isoscalar giant dipole resonance structure in $^{208}$Pb is calculated in the framework of a fully consistent relativistic random phase approximation, based on effective mean-field Lagrangians with nonlinear meson self-interaction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Vretenar , A. Wandelt , P. Ring

The conformational and rheological properties of active polar linear polymers (APLPs) under linear shear flow are studied analytically. We describe a discrete APLP as an inextensible flexible Gaussian bead-spring chain supplemented by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-13 Arindam Panda , Sunil P Singh , Roland G. Winkler

We calculate the full density response function, and from it the long-wavelength acoustic dispersion for a two-dimensional system of strongly coupled point dipoles interacting through a 1/r^3 potential at arbitrary degeneracy. Such a system…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Kenneth I. Golden , Gabor J. Kalman , Zoltan Donko , Peter Hartmann