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We studied in-plane bistable alignments of nematic liquid crystals confined by two frustrated surfaces by means of Monte Carlo simulations of the Lebwohl-Lasher spin model. The surfaces are prepared with orientational checkerboard patterns,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-27 Takeaki Araki , Jumpei Nagura

We present a method to approximately solve general instances of combinatorial optimization problems using the physical dynamics of 3d rotors obeying Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert dynamics. Conventional techniques to solve discrete optimization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-29 Dairong Chen , Andrew D. Kent , Dries Sels , Flaviano Morone

Spin glasses are notoriously difficult to study both analytically and numerically due to the presence of frustration and metastability. Their highly non-convex landscapes require collective updates to explore efficiently. Currently, most…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-03 Yan Ru Pei , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Spin-dynamics techniques have been used to perform large-scale simulations of the dynamic behavior of the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet in simple cubic lattices with linear sizes $L\leq 60$. This system is widely recognized as an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shan-Ho Tsai , Alex Bunker , D. P. Landau

We introduce a new mesoscopic model for nematic liquid crystals (LCs). We extend the particle-based stochastic rotation dynamics method, which reproduces the Navier-Stokes equation, to anisotropic fluids by including a simplified…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Kuang-Wu Lee , Marco G. Mazza

Using Suzuki-Trotter decompositions of exponential operators we describe new algorithms for the numerical integration of the equations of motion for classical spin systems. These techniques conserve spin length exactly and, in special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 D. P. Landau , Shan-Ho Tsai , M. Krech , Alex Bunker

The microscopic control available over cold atoms in optical lattices has opened new opportunities to study the properties of quantum spin models. While a lot of attention is focussed on experimentally realizing ground or thermal states via…

It was recently demonstrated that a simple Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm involving the swap of particle pairs dramatically accelerates the equilibrium sampling of simulated supercooled liquids. We propose two numerical schemes integrating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-24 Ludovic Berthier , Elijah Flenner , Christopher J. Fullerton , Camille Scalliet , Murari Singh

Motivated by experiments on colloidal membranes composed of chiral rod-like viruses, we use Monte Carlo methods to determine the phase diagram for the liquid crystalline order of the rods and the membrane shape. We generalize the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-21 Lijie Ding , Robert A. Pelcovits , Thomas R. Powers

New hybrid Molecular Dynamics-Monte Carlo methods are proposed to increase the efficiency of constant-pressure simulations. Two variations of the isobaric Molecular Dynamics component of the algorithms are considered. In the first, we use…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Roland Faller , Juan J. de Pablo

The theory of spin drift and diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases is developed in terms of a random walk model incorporating Rashba, linear and cubic Dresselhaus, and intersubband spin-orbit couplings. The additional subband degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Gerson J. Ferreira , Felix G. G. Hernandez , Patrick Altmann , Gian Salis

Spin relaxation and decoherence is at the heart of spintronics and spin-based quantum information science. Currently, theoretical approaches that can accurately predict spin relaxation of general solids including necessary scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-01 Junqing Xu , Adela Habib , Ravishankar Sundararaman , Yuan Ping

We demonstrate the use of Langevin spin dynamics for studying dynamical properties of an archetypical spin glass system. Simulations are performed on CuMn (20% Mn) where we study the relaxation that follows a sudden quench of the system to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Skubic , O. E. Peil , J. Hellsvik , P. Nordblad , L. Nordström , O. Eriksson

We report the results of simulations of the Lebwohl-Lasher model of the nematic-isotropic transition using a new cluster Monte Carlo algorithm. The algorithm is a modification of the Wolff algorithm for spin systems, and greatly reduces…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Priezjev , Robert A. Pelcovits

A model of an arbitrary spin coupled to a bath of spins 1/2 in a star configuration is considered. The exact reduced dynamics of the central spin is found for the case of non-correlated initial conditions of the system and the bath. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 V. Semin , I. Sinayskiy , F. Petruccione

In spintronics, both electronic charge and spin are used to process and store information. Generation, manipulation, and detection of spin currents are essential for the development of next-generation spintronic technologies. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego B. Fonseca , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira , Anderson L. R. Barbosa

This work investigates a dynamical system functioning as a nonsmooth adaptation of the continuous Newton method, aimed at minimizing the sum of a primal lower-regular and a locally Lipschitz function, both potentially nonsmooth. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Juan Guillermo Garrido , Pedro Pérez-Aros , Emilio Vilches

We present a lattice Boltzmann algorithm for liquid crystal hydrodynamics. The coupling between the tensor order parameter and the flow is treated consistently allowing investigation of a wide range of non-Newtonian flow behavior. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Colin Denniston , E. Orlandini , J. M. Yeomans

We consider a continuum model describing the dynamic behavior of nematic liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) and implement a numerical scheme to solve the governing equations. In the model, the Helmholtz free energy and Rayleigh dissipation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Wei Zhu , Michael Shelley , Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Learning a stable Linear Dynamical System (LDS) from data involves creating models that both minimize reconstruction error and enforce stability of the learned representation. We propose a novel algorithm for learning stable LDSs. Using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Giorgos Mamakoukas , Orest Xherija , T. D. Murphey