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We discuss a {\em family} of planar (two-dimensional) systems with the following phase strucure: a Fermi liquid, which goes by a second order transition (with non classical exponent even in mean-field) to an intermediate, inhomogeneous…

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Within the framework of the $s$-$d(f)$ exchange model in the mean-field approximation for square, simple cubic, body-centered and face-centered cubic lattices, the formation of a ferromagnetic, spiral, and commensurate antiferromagnetic…

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The unconstrained ensemble describes completely open systems in which energy, volume and number of particles fluctuate. Here we show that not only equilibrium states can exist in this ensemble, but also that completely open systems can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-14 Alessandro Campa , Lapo Casetti , Ivan Latella , Stefano Ruffo

The ordinary Landau problem consists of describing a charged particle in time-independent magnetic field. In the present case the problem is generalized onto time-dependent uniform electric fields with time-dependent mass and harmonic…

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Nematic liquid crystals exhibit configurations in which the underlying ordering changes markedly on macroscopic length scales. Such structures include topological defects in the nematic phase and tactoids within nematic-isotropic…

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The equilibrium properties of a minimal tiling model are investigated. The model has extensive ground state entropy, with each ground state having a quasiperiodic sequence of rows. It is found that the transition from the quasiperiodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-27 Nikolai Nikola , Daniel Hexner , Dov Levine

The generic transition in the boson Hubbard model, occurring at an incommensurate chemical potential, is studied in the link-current representation using the recently developed directed geometrical worm algorithm. We find clear evidence for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabien Alet , Erik S. Sorensen

Using the density matrix renormalization group method (DMRG) we calculate the magnetization of frustrated S=1/2 Heisenberg chains for various modulation patterns of the nearest neighbour coupling: commensurate, incommensurate with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Schönfeld , G. Bouzerar , G. S. Uhrig , E. Müller-Hartmann

An incommensurate phase refers to a solid state in which the period of a superstructure is incommensurable with the primitive unit cell. Recently the incommensurate phase is induced by applying an in-plane strain to hexagonal manganites,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-27 Fei Xue , Xueyun Wang , Sang-Wook Cheong , Long-Qing Chen

The paper shows that inhomogeneity of translation properties of condensate leads to the interaction of local order parameter (OP) and its compensating field which is similar to gauge fields in the field theory. Dynamic models were…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-12 A. Ya. Braginsky

The study of critical phenomena and phase transitions is an important part of modern condensed matter physics. In this regard, the phenomenological Landau theory has been extraordinarily useful. Hereby we present an alternative theoretical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-24 Yi Wang , Long-Qing Chen , Zi-Kui Liu

A non-isothermal phase field model that captures both displacive and diffusive phase transformations in a unified framework is presented. The model is developed in a formal thermodynamic setting, which provides guidance on admissible…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-02 Mirko Maraldi , Garth N. Wells , Luisa Molari

An exact solution of a Landau model of an order-disorder transition with activated critical dynamics is presented. The model describes a funnel-shaped topography of the order parameter space in which the number of energy lowering…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Satya N. Majumdar , Dibyendu Das , Jane' Kondev , Bulbul Chakraborty

We study interfacial behavior of a lamellar (stripe) phase coexisting with a disordered phase. Systematic analytical expansions are obtained for the interfacial profile in the vicinity of a tricritical point. They are characterized by a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Simon Villain-Guillot , David Andelman

For the frustrated two-dimensional $S=1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model close to quantum phase transition we consider the singlet ground states retaining both translational and SU(2) symmetry. Besides usually discussed checkerboard,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 A. V. Mikheyenkov , N. A. Kozlov , A. F. Barabanov

Based on our recently proposed plane wave framework, we theoretically study the localized-extended transition in the one dimensional incommensurate systems with cosine type of potentials, which are in close connection to many recent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Huajie Chen , Aihui Zhou , Yuzhi Zhou

It is well known that systems with long-range interactions may exhibit different phase diagrams when studied within two different ensembles. In many of the previously studied examples of ensemble inequivalence, the phase diagrams differ…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Or Cohen , David Mukamel

The structures of order parameters which determine the bounds of the phase states in the framework of the $CP^{1}$ Ginzburg-Landau model were considered. Using the formulation of this model in terms of the gauged order parameters (the unit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 L. S. Isaev , A. P. Protogenov

An anisotropic spin model on a triangular semiinfinite lattice with ferromagnetic nearest-neighbour interactions and one antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbour interaction is investigated by the cluster transfer-matrix method. A phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Pajersky , A. Surda

An axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising (ANNNI) model is studied by using the non-equilibrium relaxation method. We find that the incommensurate stripe phase between the ordered phase and the paramagnetic phase is negligibly narrow or may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Takashi Shirahata , Tota Nakamura