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We study the phase transition in the abelian lattice gauge theory using the Wilson-Polyakov line as the order parameter. The Wilson-Polyakov line remains very small at strong coupling and becomes non-zero at weak coupling, signalling a…

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We consider functions of Wiener--Hopf type operators on the Hilbert space $L^2(\mathbb R^d)$. It has been known for a long time that the quasi-classical asymptotics for traces of resulting operators strongly depend on the smoothness of the…

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The $\mathbb{C}P^{N-1}$ sigma model at finite temperature is studied using lattice Monte Carlo simulations on $S_{s}^{1} \times S_{\tau}^{1}$ with radii $L_{s}$ and $L_{\tau}$, respectively, where the ratio of the circumferences is taken to…

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Localization-delocalization transition in a discrete Anderson nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with disorder is shown to be a critical phenomenon $-$ similar to a percolation transition on a disordered lattice, with the nonlinearity…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-03-20 A. V. Milovanov , A. Iomin

Wang and Landau proposed recently, a simple and flexible non-Boltzmann Monte Carlo method for estimating the density of states, from which the macroscopic properties of a closed system can be calculated. They demonstrated their algorithm by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Jayasri , V. S. S. Sastry , K. P. N. Murthy

We have studied numerically the random interchange model and related loop models on the three-dimensional cubic lattice. We have determined the transition time for the occurrence of long loops. The joint distribution of the lengths of long…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 Alessandro Barp , Edoardo Gabriele Barp , Francois-Xavier Briol , Daniel Ueltschi

We examine the behavior of a function sampled from the invariant measure associated to the focusing discrete Non Linear Schr\"odinger equation, defined on a discrete torus of dimension $d \geq 3$, and nonlinearity parameter $p>4$, in the…

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Motivated by the recent experimental observations of the DNA loop extrusion by protein motors, in this paper we investigate the statistical properties of the growing polymer loops within the ideal chain model. The loop conformation is…

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The first order transition between the confining and the center symmetry breaking phases of the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory is marked by discontinuities in various thermodynamics functions, such as the energy density or the value of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-04-12 Sz. Borsanyi , Z. Fodor , D. A. Godzieba , R. Kara , P. Parotto , D. Sexty , R. Vig

We study various statistical properties of the double-dimer model, a generalization of the dimer model, on rectangular domains of the square lattice. We take advantage of the Grassmannian representation of the dimer model, first to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Nahid Ghodratipour , Shahin Rouhani

Self-organization of charged particles on a 2D lattice, subject to an anisotropic Jahn-Teller-type interaction and 3D Coulomb repulsion is investigated. In the mean-field approximation without Coulomb interaction, the system displays a…

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Linear defects such as dislocations and disclinations in ordered materials attract foreign particles since they replace strong elastic distortions at the defect cores. In this work, we explore the behavior of isotropic droplets nucleating…

Let \alpha ([0,1]^p) denote the intersection local time of p independent d-dimensional Brownian motions running up to the time 1. Under the conditions p(d-2)<d and d\ge 2, we prove lim_{t\to\infty}t^{-1}\log P\bigl{\alpha([0,1]^p)\ge…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xia Chen

We study the gradient flow model for the Landau-de Gennes energy functional for nematic liquid crystals at the nematic-isotropic transition temperature on prototype geometries. We study the dynamic model on a three-dimensional droplet and…

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We explore the properties of the low-temperature phase of the O($n$) loop model in two dimensions by means of transfer-matrix calculations and finite-size scaling. We determine the stability of this phase with respect to several kinds of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-12 Wenan Guo , Henk W. J. Blöte

We present simulation data of first-order isotropic-to-nematic transitions in lattice models of liquid crystals and locate the thermodynamic limit inverse transition temperature $\epsilon_\infty$ via finite-size scaling. We observe that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-24 J. M. Fish , R. L. C. Vink

In order to gain a better understanding of the Ising model in higher dimensions we have made a comparative study of how the boundary, open versus cyclic, of a d-dimensional simple lattice, for d=1,...,5, affects the behaviour of the…

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