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We derive the the long-wavelength elastic theory for the quantum Hall smectic state starting from the Hartree-Fock approximation. Dislocations in this state lead to an effective nematic model for $T>0$, which undergoes a disclination…

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We investigate the competition between electron-solid and quantum-liquid phases in graphene, which arise in partially filled Landau levels. The differences in the wave function describing the electrons in the presence of a perpendicular…

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A scanning probe technique was used to obtain a high-resolution map of the random electrostatic potential inside the quantum Hall liquid. A sharp metal tip, scanned above a semiconductor surface, sensed charges in an embedded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Finkelstein , P. I. Glicofridis , R. C. Ashoori , M. Shayegan

We derive the Hydrodynamics for a system of N active, spherical, underdamped particles, interacting through conservative forces. At the microscopic level, we represent the evolution of the particles in terms of the Kramers equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Lorenzo Caprini

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for a hydrodynamical model of smectic-A liquid crystals. The model, derived from the variational approach of the modified Oseen-Frank energy, is a highly nonlinear system that couples…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Rui Chen , Xiaofeng Yang , Hui Zhang

Quantum Hall (QH) states are predicted to display an intriguing non-dissipative stress response to a shear deformation rate, a phenomenon variously known as asymmetric or Hall viscosity, or Lorentz shear response. Just as the QH effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Rudro R. Biswas

We present nonlinear dynamic equations for nematic and smectic $A$ liquid crystals in the presence of an alternating electric field and explain their derivation in detail. The local electric field acting in any liquid-crystalline system is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-30 E. S. Pikina , E. I. Kats , A. R. Muratov , V. V. Lebedev

An overview of theoretical results and experimental data on the thermodynamics, structure and dynamics of the heterophase glass-forming liquids is presented. The theoretical approach is based on the mesoscopic heterophase fluctuations model…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-13 A. S. Bakai

We search for emergent hydrodynamic modes in real-time Hamiltonian dynamics of $2+1$-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory on a quasi one dimensional plaquette chain, by numerically computing symmetric correlation functions of energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-06 Francesco Turro , Xiaojun Yao

Hydrodynamic equations (HDEQs) are derived which describe spatio-temporal evolutions of the electron temperature and the chemical potential of two-dimensional systems in strong magnetic fields in states with large diagonal resistivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroshi Akera

We undertake a theoretical study of edge spin-vortex excitations in fractional quantum Hall fluid. This is done in view of quantised Euler hydrodynamics theory. The dispersions of true excitations for fractions within $0\leq \nu \leq 1$ are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , I. Y. Seini , S. S Abukari

There is growing experimental and theoretical evidence that very clean two dimensional electron systems form unidirectional charge density waves (UCDW) or ``striped'' states at low temperatures and at Landau level filling fractions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anna Lopatnikova , Steven H. Simon , Bertrand I. Halperin , Xiao-Gang Wen

We study dynamics of a locally conserved energy in ergodic, local many-body quantum systems on a lattice with no additional symmetry. The resulting dynamics is well approximated by a coarse grained, classical linear functional diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-13 Tom Banks , Andrew Lucas

Weakly conducting dielectric liquid drops suspended in another dielectric liquid and subject to an applied uniform electric field exhibit a wide range of dynamical behaviors contingent on field strength and material properties. These…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Debasish Das , David Saintillan

We propose a hydrodynamics theory of collective quantum Hall states, which describes incompressible liquids, hexatic liquid crystals, a bubble solid and a Wigner crystal states within a unified framework. The structure of the theory is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Tokatly

We simulate the mesoscopic dynamics of droplets formed by phase separated fluids at nanometer scales where thermal fluctuations are significant. Both spherical droplets fully immersed in a second fluid and sessile droplets which are also in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-18 John B. Bell , Andrew Nonaka , Alejandro L. Garcia

A simple and physically transparent magnetoelasticity theory is proposed to describe linear dynamics of incompressible fractional quantum Hall states. The theory manifestly satisfies the Kohn theorem and the $f$-sum rule, and predicts a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Tokatly

In this note we demonstrate that vortices in a non-relativistic Chern-Simons theory form a quantum Hall fluid. We show that the vortex dynamics is controlled by the matrix mechanics previously proposed by Polychronakos as a description of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 David Tong

We revisit the quantum dynamics of a charged particle in a time-dependent magnetic field, a fundamental problem exhibiting rich non-adiabatic behaviour, from the complementary perspective of the Madelung fluid formulation. We first analyse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Nicolas Perez , Eyal Heifetz

A flux liquid can condense into a smectic crystal in a pure layered superconductors with the magnetic field oriented nearly parallel to the layers. If the smectic order is commensurate with the layering, this crystal is {\sl stable} to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Leon Balents , David R. Nelson