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We perform the finite-temperature determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulation for the attractive Hubbard model on the half-filled bilayer square lattice. Recent progress on optical lattice experiments lead us to investigate various…

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There have been separate studies of the polymer collapse transition, where the collapse was induced by two different types of attraction. In each case, the configurations of the polymer were given by the same subset of random walks being…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrea Bedini , Aleksander L Owczarek , Thomas Prellberg

Previously, it has been shown that the direct correlation function for a Lennard-Jones fluid could be modeled by a sum of that for hard-spheres, a mean-field tail and a simple linear correction in the core region constructed so as to…

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The organization of water molecules and ions between charged mineral surfaces determines the stability of colloidal suspensions and the strength of phase-separated particulate gels. In this article we assemble a density functional that…

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We report Monte Carlo simulations of a lattice-polymer model that can account for both polymer crystallization and liquid-liquid demixing in solutions of semiflexible homopolymers. In our model, neighboring polymer segments can have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Wenbing Hu , Daan Frenkel , Vincent B. F. Mathot

The influence of confinement, due to flat parallel structureless walls, on phase separation in colloid-polymer mixtures, is investigated by means of grand-canonical Monte Carlo simulations. Ultra-thin films, with thicknesses between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Richard L. C. Vink , Andres De Virgiliis , Juergen Horbach , Kurt Binder

We consider an efficient scheme to simulate fermionic Hubbard models with nonlocal density-density interactions in two dimensions, based on bond-centered auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo. The simulations are shown to be sign-problem free…

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The change of the structure of concentrated colloidal suspensions upon addition of non-adsorbing polymer is studied within a two-component, Ornstein-Zernicke based liquid state approach. The polymers' conformational degrees of freedom are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Fuchs , K. S. Schweizer

We use cluster dynamical mean field theory to study the phase diagram of the square lattice bilayer Hubbard model with an interlayer interaction. The layers are populated by two-component fermions, and the densities in both layers and the…

We compute lattice correlation functions for the model of critical dense polymers on a semi-infinite cylinder of perimeter $n$. In the lattice loop model, contractible loops have a vanishing fugacity whereas non-contractible loops have a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-15 Alexi Morin-Duchesne , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen

We study the static properties of a semiflexible polymer exposed to a quenched random environment by means of computer simulations. The polymer is modeled as two-dimensional Heisenberg chain. For the random environment we consider hard…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-20 Sebastian Schoebl , Johannes Zierenberg , Wolfhard Janke

Density functional theory is used to study binary colloidal fluids consisting of hard spheres and thin platelets in their bulk and near a planar hard wall. This system exhibits liquid-liquid coexistence of a phase that is rich in spheres…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Harnau , S. Dietrich

A density functional theory for a mixture of hard rods and polymers modeled as chains built of hard tangent spheres is proposed by combining the functional due to Yu and Wu for the polymer mixtures [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 117}, 2368 (2002)]…

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We study both static and transport properties of model quantum dots, employing density functional theory as well as (numerically) exact methods. For the lattice model under consideration the accuracy of the local-density approximation…

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A colloidal particle placed in an inhomogeneous solution of smaller non-adsorbing polymers will move towards regions of lower polymer concentration, in order to reduce the free energy of the interface between the surface of the particle and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-13 Richard P. Sear , Patrick B. Warren

We use an extension of fundamental measure theory to lattice hard-core fluids to study the phase diagram of two different systems. First, two-dimensional parallel hard squares with edge-length $\sigma=2$ in a simple square lattice. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Luis Lafuente , Jose A. Cuesta

The phase separation of a simple binary mixture of incompatible linear polymers in solution is investigated using an extension of the sedimentation equilibrium method, whereby the osmotic pressure of the mixture is extracted from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 Chris I. Addison , Pierre-Arnaud Artola , Jean-Pierre Hansen , Ard A. Louis

Strongly-interacting ultra-cold atoms in tight-binding optical lattice potentials provide an ideal platform to realize the fundamental Hubbard model. Here, after outlining the elementary single particle solution, we review and expand our…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-23 David Petrosyan , Manuel Valiente

A coarse-graining strategy for dilute and semi-dilute solutions of interacting polymers, and of colloid polymer mixtures is briefly described. Monomer degrees of freedom are traced out to derive an effective, state dependent pair potential…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 J. -P. Hansen , C. I. Addison , A. A. Louis