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We study a directed polymer model in a random environment on infinite binary trees. The model is characterized by a phase transition depending on the inverse temperature. We concentrate on the asymptotics of the partition function in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-04 Tom Alberts , Marcel Ortgiese

In this paper, we present a theory to efficiently deal with mechanical properties of heterogeneous polymer chain in free space and the central problem is to evaluate the diffusion equation and orientation-orientation correlation function,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Ming Li , Jizeng Wang

There are some particular one-dimensional models, such as the Ising-Heisenberg spin models with a variety of chain structures, which exhibit unexpected behaviors quite similar to the first and second order phase transition, which could be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-06 S. M. de Souza , Onofre Rojas

The nematic ordering in semiflexible polymers with contour length $L$ exceeding their persistence length $\ell_p$ is described by a confinement of the polymers in a cylinder of radius $r_{eff}$ much larger than the radius $r_\rho$, expected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-11 Sergei A. Egorov , Andrey Milchev , Kurt Binder

We study a quasi two dimensional dipolar gas at finite, but ultralow temperatures using the classical field approximation. The method, already used for a contact interacting gas, is extended here to samples with a weakly interacting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-23 Krzysztof Pawlowski , Przemyslaw Bienias , Tilman Pfau , Kazimierz Rzazewski

Numerical simulation of the dislocation motion in 2D Frenkel - Kontorova (FK) model in the thermostat shows an unusual dynamical behavior. It appears that ''kink'' regime of dislocation gliding takes place in a certain region of parameters…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu. N. Gornostyrev , M. I. Katsnelson , A. V. Kravtsov , A. V. Trefilov

Pattern formation in a two-dimensional system of rod-like particles has been simulated using a lattice approach. Rod-like particles were modelled as linear $k$-mers of two mutually perpendicular orientations ($k_x$- and $k_y$-mers) on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-27 Yuri Yu. Tarasevich , Valeri V. Laptev , Valentiva V. Chirkova , Nikolai I. Lebovka

Based on the wormlike chain model, a coarse-grained description of the nonlinear dynamics of a weakly bending semiflexible polymer is developed. By means of a multiple scale perturbation analysis, a length-scale separation inherent to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-04 Oskar Hallatschek , Erwin Frey , Klaus Kroy

The spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain exhibits a quantum critical regime characterized by quasi long-range magnetic order at zero temperature. We quantify the strength of quantum fluctuations in the ground state by determining the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Mario Collura , Fabian H. L. Essler , Stefan Groha

We developed a lattice dynamical theory of an atomically-thin compressional piezoelectric resonator. Acoustic and optical dynamic displacement response functions are derived and account for frequency-dependent electromechanical coupling.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Karl H. Michel , Cem Sevik , Milorad V. Milosevic

We determine the dynamical structure factor of the two-leg spin-1/2 Heisenberg ladder at low temperatures in the regime of strong rung coupling. The dominant feature at zero temperature is the coherent triplon mode. We show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-17 W. D. Goetze , U. Karahasanovic , F. H. L. Essler

We study antiferromagnetic two-leg spin-1/2 ladders with strong bond randomness, using the real space renormalization group method. We find the low-temperature spin susceptibility of the system follows non-universal power laws, and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Eddy Yusuf , Kun Yang

Equilibrium statistical physics is applied to layered neural networks with differentiable activation functions. A first analysis of off-line learning in soft-committee machines with a finite number (K) of hidden units learning a perfectly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Biehl , E. Schloesser , M. Ahr

Thermodynamic properties of the spinless Falicov-Kimball model are studied on a triangular lattice using numerical diagonalization technique with Monte-Carlo simulation algorithm. Discontinuous metal-insulator transition is observed at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-16 Umesh K. Yadav , T. Maitra , Ishwar Singh

A coarse-grained molecular dynamics model of linear polyethylene-like polymer chain system was built to investigate the responds of structure and mechanical properties during uniaxial deformation. The influence of chain length, temperature,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 Cheng Li , Yingrui Shang , Huan Xu , Jinqing Li , Shichun Jiang

In this study, we experimentally investigated the time dependence of the statistical properties of two-dimensional drying crack patterns to determine the functional form of fragment size distribution. Experiments using a thin layer of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-30 Shin-ichi Ito , Akio Nakahara , Satoshi Yukawa

We present a comprehensive theory of the dynamics and fluctuations of a two-dimensional suspension of polar active particles in an incompressible fluid confined to a substrate. We show that, depending on the sign of a single parameter, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-22 Ananyo Maitra , Pragya Srivastava , M. Cristina Marchetti , Sriram Ramaswamy , Martin Lenz

We have mapped the physics of a system of semi-flexible inextensible polymers onto a complex Ginzburg-Landau field theory using techniques of functional integration. It is shown in the limit of low number density of monomers in a melt of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Shirish M. Chitanvis

We study a random matrix model for the statistical properties of the purity of a bipartite quantum system at a finite (fictitious) temperature. This enables us to write the generating function for the cumulants, for both balanced and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-30 P. Facchi , U. Marzolino , G. Parisi , S. Pascazio , A. Scardicchio

One fundamental assumption in statistical physics is that generic closed quantum many-body systems thermalize under their own dynamics. Recently, the emergence of many-body localized systems has questioned this concept, challenging our…

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