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In the present paper we discuss arguments, favouring the view that massive fermions represent dislocations (i.e. topological solitons) in discrete space-time with Burgers vectors, parallel to an axis of time. If to put symmetrical parts of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 Andrey I. Musienko

Smectic orders on curved substrates can be described by differential forms of rank one (1-forms), whose geometric meaning is the differential of the local phase field of density modulation. The exterior derivative of 1-form is the local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiangjun Xing

Quantum systems are often described by parameter-dependent Hamiltonians. Points in parameter space where two levels are degenerate can carry a topological charge. Here we theoretically study an interacting two-spin system where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 György Frank , Dániel Varjas , Péter Vrana , Gergő Pintér , András Pályi

Finding the ground states of identical particles packed on spheres has relevance for stabilizing emulsions and a venerable history in the literature of theoretical physics and mathematics. Theory and experiment have confirmed that defects…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-13 Mark J. Bowick , David R. Nelson , Homin Shin

We attack generalized Thomson problems with a continuum formalism which exploits a universal long range interaction between defects depending on the Young modulus of the underlying lattice. Our predictions for the ground state energy agree…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-24 Mark Bowick , Angelo Cacciuto , David R. Nelson , Alex Travesset

We have studied the configurations of minimal energy of $N$ charges on a curve on the plane, interacting with a repulsive potential $V_{ij} = 1/r_{ij}^s$, with $s \geq 1$ and $i,j=1,\dots, N$. Among the examples considered are ellipses of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Paolo Amore , Martin Jacobo

Given a natural number N, one may ask what configuration of N points on the two-sphere minimizes the discrete generalized Coulomb energy. If one applies a gradient-based numerical optimization to this problem, one encounters many…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-17 Matthew Calef , Whitney Griffiths , Alexia Schulz

We consider static charged fluid spheres with a cosmological constant. We assume a polytropic equation of state, $p \propto \rho^\Gamma$, and a power law charge distribution, $q\propto r^n$. Using this, we convert the generalised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Alex Stornelli , Anish Agashe

Correspondences between the Thomson Problem and atomic electron shell-filling patterns are observed as systematic non-uniformities in the distribution of potential energy necessary to change configurations of $N\le 100$ electrons into…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 Tim LaFave

This research paper investigates the impact of non-metricity and matter source on the geometry of charged spheres in the presence of anisotropic matter configuration. We use a specific model of extended symmetric teleparallel theory to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 M. Zeeshan Gul , Faisal Javed , M. Sharif , Shalan Alkarni

In this paper we study the effect of non-trivial spatial topology on quantum entanglement by examining the degenerate ground states of a topologically ordered system on torus. Using the string-net (fixed-point) wave-function, we propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-17 Zhu-Xi Luo , Yu-Ting Hu , Yong-Shi Wu

We give a description of numerical Newton algorithm on a constraint manifold using only the ambient coordinates (usually Euclidean coordinates) and the geometry of the constraint manifold. We apply the numerical Newton algorithm on a sphere…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Petre Birtea , Dan Comănescu

We discuss the basic principles of a self-organization of a finite number of charged particles interacting via the 1/r Coulomb potential in a disk geometry. Our approach is based on the cyclic symmetry and periodicity of the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 M. Cerkaski , R. G. Nazmitdinov , A. Puente

In this work stability of polygonal configurations on a plane and sphere is investigated. The conditions of linear stability are obtained. A nonlinear analysis of the problem is made with the help of Birkhoff normalization. Some problems…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Borisov , A. A. Kilin

General topological principles how to transfer the planar orders onto a sphere are considered. Formation of extended topological defects (ETDs), which have a reconstructed inner structure surrounded by perfect initial order, is discussed.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-01 D. S. Roshal , C. Yu. Petrov , A. E. Myasnikova , S. B. Rochal

We have performed a detailed exploration of the energy landscape for configurations of points on the sphere, interacting via the logarithmic potential, and corresponding to local minima of the total energy, up to $N = 160$. The growth of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-16 Paolo Amore , Victor Figueroa , Raymundo Ramos

We study the ground state of two-dimensional classical electron solids under the influence of modulation-doped impurities by using a simulated annealing molecular dynamics method. By changing the setback distance as a parameter, we find…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Min-Chul Cha , H. A. Fertig

A fundamental problem in spherical distance geometry aims to recover an $n$-tuple of points on a 2-sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$, viewed up to oriented isometry, from $O(n)$ input measurements. We solve this problem using algorithms that employ…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Katie Waddle

"Topological ordered" phases such as gapped quantum spin-liquids and fractional quantum Hall states possess ground state degeneracy on a torus. We show that the topological nature of this degeneracy has interesting consequences for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-13 Tarun Grover

Characterizing the complex spectrum of topological defects in ground states of curved crystals is a long-standing problem with wide implications, from the mathematical Thomson problem to diverse physical realizations, including fullerenes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Amir Azadi , Gregory M. Grason