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This paper develops a geometrical model of dislocations and disclinations in single crystals at the mesoscopic scale. In the continuation of previous work the distribution theory is used to represent concentrated effects in the defect lines…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Nicolas Van Goethem , Francois Dupret

A discrete model describing defects in crystal lattices and having the standard linear anisotropic elasticity as its continuum limit is proposed. The main ingredients entering the model are the elastic stiffness constants of the material…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Carpio , L. L. Bonilla

Point defects such as interstitials, vacancies, and impurities in otherwise perfect crystals induce complex displacement fields that are of long-range nature. In the present paper we study numerically the response of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Wolfgang Lechner , Elisabeth Schöll-Paschinger , Christoph Dellago

Electromagnetism in an inhomogeneous dielectric medium at rest is described using the methods of differential geometry. In contrast to a general relativistic approach the electromagnetic fields are discussed in three-dimensional space only.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul Piwnicki

We develop a fully coupled theoretical description of dislocation dynamics on deformable crystalline surfaces, using continuum modeling and the amplitude-phase-field crystal (APFC) framework extended to curved geometries. We derive a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-17 Marcello De Donno , Luiza Angheluta , Marco Salvalaglio

Geodesic deviation is the most basic manifestation of the influence of gravitational fields on matter. We investigate geodesic deviation within the framework of Regge calculus, and compare the results with the continuous formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sukanya Chakrabarti , Adrian P. Gentle , Arkady Kheyfets , Warner A. Miller

We study the free motion of a massive particle moving in the background of a Finslerian deformation of a plane gravitational wave in Einstein's General Relativity. The deformation is a curved version of a one-parameter family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 M. Elbistan , P. -M. Zhang , N. Dimakis , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

A formalism is proposed to study the electronic and transport properties of graphene sheets with corrugations as the one recently synthesized. The formalism is based on coupling the Dirac equation that models the low energy electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano

Edges are abundant when elastic solids glide in guiding rails or fluids are contained in vessels. We here address induced displacements in elastic solids or small-scale flows in viscous fluids in the vicinity of one such edge. For this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-25 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Andreas M. Menzel

The dynamics of defect excitations in crystalline solids is necessary to understand the macroscopic low-energy properties of elastic media. We use fracton-elasticity duality to systematically study the defect dynamics and interactions in…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-07 Lazaros Tsaloukidis , Piotr Surówka

An exact description is provided of an almost spherical fluid vesicle with a fixed area and a fixed enclosed volume locally deformed by external normal forces bringing two nearby points on the surface together symmetrically. The conformal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-17 Jemal Guven , Pablo Vázquez-Montejo

Topological defects play a critical role across many fields, mediating phase transitions and macroscopic behaviors as they move through space. Their role as robust information carriers has also generated much attention. However, controlling…

The geodesic deviation equation has been investigated in the framework of $f(T,\mathcal{T})$ gravity, where $T$ denotes the torsion and $\mathcal{T}$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, respectively. The FRW metric is assumed and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-06 M. G. Ganiou , Ines G. Salako , M. J. S. Houndjo , J. Tossa

The current state of the art for analytical and computational modelling of deformation in nonlinear electroelastic and magnetoelastic membranes is reviewed. A general framework and a list of methods to model large deformation and associated…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-04-15 Prashant Saxena

New phenomenological approach for the description of elementary collective excitations is proposed. The crystal is considered to be an anisotropic space-time vacuum with a prescribed metric tensor in which the information on electromagnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Yu. A. Danilov , A. V. Rozhkov , V. L. Safonov

The approach to incorporate quantum effects in gravity by replacing free particle geodesics with Bohmian non-geodesic trajectories has an equivalent description in terms of a conformally related geometry, where the motion is force free,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Sandip Chowdhury , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

Many materials of contemporary interest, such as gels, biological tissues and elastomers, are easily deformed but essentially incompressible. Traditional linear theory of elasticity implements incompressibility only to first order and thus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 J. S. Biggins , Z. Wei , L. Mahadevan

What characterises a solid is its way to respond to external stresses. Ordered solids, such crystals, display an elastic regime followed by a plastic one, both well understood microscopically in terms of lattice distortion and dislocations.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-21 Giulio Biroli , Pierfrancesco Urbani

In this paper, we use the Kaluza-Klein approach to describe topological defects in a graphene layer. Using this approach, we propose a geometric model allowing to discuss the quantum flux in $K$-spin subspace. Within this model, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-23 K. Bakke , A. Yu. Petrov , C. Furtado

We study the general properties of fluid spheres satisfying the heuristic assumption that their areas and proper radius are equal (the Euclidean condition). Dissipative and non-dissipative models are considered. In the latter case, all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Herrera , N. O. Santos