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We consider classical N-particle system with arbitrary central pair potential. Mechanical equilibrium condition in spherically-symmetric case leads to a nonlinear integro-differential equation for concentration n(r). For special state…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey S. Kokarev

To advance Thomson problem we generalize physical principles suggested by Caspar and Klug (CK) to model icosahedral capsids. Proposed simplest distortions of the CK spherical arrangements yield new-type trial structures very close to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-21 D. S. Roshal , A. E. Myasnikova , S. B. Rochal

We study the atomistic-to-continuum limit of a class of energy functionals for crystalline materials via Gamma-convergence. We consider energy densities that may depend on interactions between all points of the lattice and we give…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Annika Bach , Andrea Braides , Marco Cicalese

The present article introduces a generalization of the (multisymplectic) Hamiltonian field theory for a Lagrangian density, allowing the formulation of this kind of field theories for variational problem of more general nature than those…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Guadalupe Quijón , Santiago Capriotti

We study the corrections to the fine-structure constant from the generalized uncertainty principle in the spacetime of a domain wall. We also calculate the corrections to the standard formula to the energy of the electron in the hydrogen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-20 Luigi Tedesco

This thesis is devoted to the first-quantized approach to quantum field theory, commonly known as the 'Worldline Formalism'. It collects most of the works completed by the author during the PhD, illustrating the versatility and efficiency…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-23 Filippo Fecit

In Ref. [1, 2] a formalism to deal with high-order perturbations of a general spherical background was developed. In this article, we apply it to the particular case of a perfect fluid background. We have expressed the perturbations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-13 David Brizuela , Jose M. Martin-Garcia , Ulrich Sperhake , Kostas D. Kokkotas

The interaction of (linearized) gravitation with matter is studied in the causal approach up to the second order of perturbation theory. We consider the generic case and prove that gravitation is universal in the sense that the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 D. R. Grigore

Problems consisting in finding the ground state of particles interacting with a given potential constrained to move on a particular geometry are surprisingly difficult. Explicit solutions have been found for small numbers of particles by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alex Travesset

A generalized scalar-tensor theory is investigated whose cosmological term depends on both a scalar field and its time derivative. A correspondence with solutions of five-dimensional Space-Time-Matter theory is noted. Analytic solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Fukui , J. M. Overduin

We consider a system of $N$ hard spheres sitting on the nodes of either the $\mathrm{FCC}$ or $\mathrm{HCP}$ lattice and interacting via a sticky-disk potential. As $N$ tends to infinity (continuum limit), assuming the interaction energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Marco Cicalese , Leonard Kreutz , Gian Paolo Leonardi

We introduce a generalization of conventional lattice gauge theory to describe fracton topological phases, which are characterized by immobile, point-like topological excitations, and sub-extensive topological degeneracy. We demonstrate a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-04 Sagar Vijay , Jeongwan Haah , Liang Fu

Systems of identical particles with equal charge are studied under a special type of confinement. These classical particles are free to move inside some convex region S and on the boundary of it $\Omega$ (the $S^{d-1}-$ sphere, in our…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 J. Batle

In this work stability of polygonal configurations on a plane and sphere is investigated. The conditions of linear stability are obtained. A nonlinear analysis of the problem is made with the help of Birkhoff normalization. Some problems…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Borisov , A. A. Kilin

The classical Thomson problem of $n$ charged particles confined to the surface of a sphere of radius $a$ is analyzed within the Darwin approximation of electrodynamics. For $n<n_c(a)$ the ground state corresponds to a hexagonal Wigner…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jayme De Luca , Savio B. Rodrigues , Yan Levin

The theory of Gaussian quantum fluctuations around classical steady states in nonlinear quantum-optical systems (also known as standard linearization) is a cornerstone for the analysis of such systems. Its simplicity, together with its…

Uniformly distributed point sets on the unit sphere with and without symmetry constraints have been found useful in many scientific and engineering applications. Here, a novel variant of the Thomson problem is proposed and formulated as an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Cheng Guan Koay

We elaborate on the notion of generalized tomograms, both in the classical and quantum domains. We construct a scheme of star-products of thick tomographic symbols and obtain in explicit form the kernels of classical and quantum generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-07 M. Asorey , P. Facchi , V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , S. Pascazio , E. C. G. Sudarshan

Many systems in nature and the synthetic world involve ordered arrangements of units on two-dimensional surfaces. We review here the fundamental role payed by both the topology of the underlying surface and its detailed curvature. Topology…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-31 Mark J. Bowick , Luca Giomi

A continuum density-field formulation with particle-scale resolution is constructed to simultaneously incorporate the orientation dependence of interparticle interactions and the rotational invariance of the system, a fundamental but…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-28 Zi-Le Wang , Zhirong Liu , Zhi-Feng Huang