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We show that density fluctuations in standard inflationary scenarios may take the most general non-Gaussian distribution if the wave function of the Universe is not in the ground state. We adopt the Schr\"odinger picture to find a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. R. Contaldi , R. Bean , J. Magueijo

The multipolar decomposition of current distributions is used in many branches of physics. Here, we obtain new exact expressions for the dipolar moments of a localized electric current distribution. The typical integrals for the dipole…

The response of particle density to a dilation of a periodic potential in an insulator, with or without a fixed background potential or a magnetic field, is shown to be quantized. A similar phenomenon occurs in a quantum Hall system, where…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Q. Niu

We investigate the universal fluctuations of localized wavefunction in the Fock space of two interacting particles in one-dimensional disordered systems, focusing on the interplay between random potentials and random long-range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-04 Sen Mu , Gabriel Lemarié , Jiangbin Gong

The backscattering process of injected electrons on exchange-splitted levels of quantum well (QW) in ferromagnetic metal / insulator / semiconductor heterostructure is studied. It is found that, if one of the exchange-splitted levels lies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 Leonid Lutsev

Motivated by the wide range of applicability of the fluctuation and dissipation phenomena in non-equilibrium systems, we provide a universal study scheme for the dissipation of the energy and the corresponding Brownian motion analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Dimitrios Giataganas , Da-Shin Lee , Chen-Pin Yeh

Glassy behavior is a generic feature of electrons close to disorder-driven metal-insulator transitions. Deep in the insulating phase, electrons are tightly bound to impurities, and thus classical models for electron glasses have long been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Dobrosavljevic

Two-dimensional materials are a highly tunable platform for studying the momentum space topology of the electronic wavefunctions and real space topology in terms of skyrmions, merons, and vortices of an order parameter. Such textures for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Daniel Bennett , Aneesh Agarwal , Gaurav Chaudhary , Robert-Jan Slager

In this note we study the block spin mean-field Potts model, in which the spins are divided into $s$ blocks and can take $q\ge 2$ different values (colors). Each block is allowed to contain a different proportion of vertices and behaves…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Jonas Jalowy , Matthias Löwe , Holger Sambale

With the forthcoming release of high precision polarization measurements, such as from the Planck satellite, it becomes critical to evaluate the performance of estimators for the polarization fraction and angle. These two physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 L. Montier , S. Plaszczynski , F. Levrier , M. Tristram , D. Alina , I. Ristorcelli , J. -P. Bernard , V. Guillet

Based on two-time observation protocol, we consider heat transfer in a given time interval $t_{M}$ in lead-junction-lead system taking coupling between the leads into account. In view of the two-time observation, consistency conditions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-16 Huanan Li , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Sheng Wang

Fermions become polarized in a vorticular fluid due to spin-vorticity coupling. Such a polarization can be calculated from the Wigner function in a quantum kinetic approach. Extending previous results for chiral fermions, we derive the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Ren-hong Fang , Long-gang Pang , Qun Wang , Xin-nian Wang

We introduce a fundamental complex quantity, $z_{L}$, which allows us to discriminate between a conducting and non-conducting thermodynamic phase in extended quantum systems. Its phase can be related to the expectation value of the position…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Aligia , G. Ortiz

Reporting extensions of a recently developed approach to density functional theory with correct long-range be-havior (Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 043002 (2005)). The central quantities are a splitting functional gamma[n] and a complementary…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Ester Livshits , Roi Baer

his article extends the fluctuation-dissipation analysis to generic complex fluids in confined geometries and to all the cases the hydromechanic fluid-interaction kernels may depend on the particle position. This represents a completely new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-13 Massimiliano Giona , Giuseppe Procopo , Chiara Pezzotti

This article generalizes the notion of the local density of a many-body system to introduce collective coordinates as explicit degrees of freedom. It is shown that the energy of the system can be expressed as a functional of this object.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Thomas Lesinski

We study how interacting localized degrees of freedom are affected by slow thermal fluctuations that change the effective local disorder. We compute the time-averaged (annealed) conductance in the insulating regime and find three distinct…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-29 Valentina Ros , Markus Müller

We examine the thermal fluctuations of the local electric field $E_k^{\rm loc}$ and the dipole moment $\mu_k$ in liquid water at $T=298$ K between metal walls in electric field applied in the perpendicular direction. We use analytic theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-19 Kyohei Takae , Akira Onuki

We develop a numerical technique to study Anderson localization in interacting electronic systems. The ground state of the disordered system is calculated with quantum Monte-Carlo simulations while the localization properties are extracted…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-02-25 Genevieve Fleury , Xavier Waintal

The factorization theorem for organizing multiple electroweak boson emissions at future colliders with energy far above the electroweak scale is formulated. Taking the inclusive muon-pair production in electron-positron collisions as an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Yang-Ting Chien , Hsiang-nan Li