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In this work we study many-body 'steady states' that arise in the non-Hermitian generalisation of the non-interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model at a finite density of fermions. We find that the hitherto known phase diagrams for this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Ayan Banerjee , Suraj S. Hegde , Adhip Agarwala , Awadhesh Narayan

We present a modification of the generalized Flory dimer theory to investigate the nematic (N) to isotropic (I) phase transition in chain fluids. We focus on rigid linear fused hard-sphere (LFHS) chain molecules in this study. A generalized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. M. Jaffer , S. B. Opps , D. E. Sullivan

Spontaneous onset of a low temperature topologically ordered phase in a 2-dimensional (2D) lattice model of uniaxial liquid crystal (LC) was debated extensively pointing to a suspected underlying mechanism affecting the RG flow near the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-29 B. Kamala Latha , Surajit Dhara , V. S. S. Sastry

Molecular anisotropy plays an important role in the glass transition of a liquid. Recently, a novel bulk glass state has been discovered by optical microscopy experiments on suspensions of ellipsoidal colloids. 'Liquid glass' is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-16 Mohammed Alhissi , Andreas Zumbusch , Matthias Fuchs

We employ the recently introduced generalized microcanonical inflection point method for the statistical analysis of phase transitions in flexible and semiflexible polymers and study the impact of the bending stiffness upon the character…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-05 Dilimulati Aierken , Michael Bachmann

A fluid particle changes its dynamics from diffusive to oscillatory as the system density increases up to the melting density. Hence, the notion of the Frenkel line was introduced to demarcate the fluid region into rigid and nonrigid liquid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-05-15 Tae Jun Yoon , Emanuel A. Lazar , Min Young Ha , Won Bo Lee , Youn-Woo Lee

We introduce a mesoscale method for simulating hydrodynamic transport and self assembly of inhomogeneous polymer melts in pressure driven and drag induced flows. This method extends dynamic self consistent field theory (DSCFT) into the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 David M. Hall , Turab Lookman , Glenn H. Fredrickson , Sanjoy Banerjee

The extension elasticity of rod-coil mutliblock copolymers is analyzed for two experimentally accessible situations. In the quenched case, when the architecture is fixed by the synthesis, the force law is distinguished by a sharp change in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Buhot , A. Halperin

We study structure and fluid-phase behaviour of a binary mixture of hard spheres (HSs) and hard spherocylinders (HSCs) in isotropic and nematic states using the $NP_nAT$ ensemble Monte Carlo (MC) method in which a normal pressure tensor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-18 Liang Wu , Alexandr Malijevský , George Jackson , Erich A. Müller , Carlos Avendaño

Morphological transformations of amphiphilic AB diblock copolymers in mixtures of a common solvent (S1) and a selective solvent (S2) for the B block are studied using the simulated annealing method. We focus on the morphological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-28 Zheng Wang , Yuhua Yin , Run Jiang , Baohui Li

We investigate the self-organization of a binary mixture of similar sized rods and dipolar soft spheres by means of Monte-Carlo simulations. We model the interparticle interactions by employing anisotropic Gay-Berne, dipolar and soft-sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-17 Stavros D. Peroukidis , Ken Lichtner , Sabine H. L. Klapp

The presence of ordered structures such as helices in collapsed states of polymer chains is still an open question challenging physics and biology. In this work, we present a potential model for polymer chains with monomers that are not…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-28 Sid Ahmed Sabeur , Mounira Bouarkat , Friederike Schmid

The reformulation of the mode-coupling theory (MCT) of the liquid-glass transition which incorporates the element of metastability is applied to the hard-sphere system. It is shown that the glass transition in this system is not a sharp one…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Joonhyun Yeo

In this sequel (to [Phys. Rev. Res. 3, 023044(2021)], arXiv:2006.10072), we study randomly driven $(1+1)$ dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), a family of quantum many-body systems with soluble non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-01 Xueda Wen , Yingfei Gu , Ashvin Vishwanath , Ruihua Fan

The steady sliding state of periodic structures such as charge density waves and flux line lattices is numerically studied based on two and three dimensional driven random field XY models. We focus on the dynamical phase transition between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Tomoaki Nogawa , Hajime Yoshino , Hiroshi Matsukawa

Topology is being widely adopted to understand and to categorize quantum matter in modern physics. The nexus of topology orders, which engenders distinct quantum phases with benefits to both fundamental research and practical applications…

Binary mixtures of semiflexible polymers with the same chain length but different persistence lengths separate into two coexisting different nematic phases when the osmotic pressure of the lyotropic solution is varied. Molecular Dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-15 Andrey Milchev , Sergei A. Egorov , Jiarul Midya , Kurt Binder , Arash Nikoubashman

The phase behaviour of amphiphilic multiblock copolymers with a large number of blocks in semidilute solutions is studied by lattice Monte Carlo simulations. The influence on the resulting structures of the concentration, the solvent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-18 Virginie Hugouvieux , Monique A. V. Axelos , Max Kolb

Classical spin liquids are disordered magnetic phases, governed by local constraints that often give rise to flat-band ground states. When constraints take the form of a zero-divergence field within a cluster of spins, the spin liquid is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-30 Naïmo Davier , Ludovic D. C. Jaubert

We use the Self Consisten Generalized Langevin Equation theory (SCGLE) to study the dynamic arrest transitions of a system of three species of hard sphere colloidal system in the size ratio 1:3:9. We find that the inclusion of the smallest…

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