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The aim of this paper is to investigate the distribution of a continuous polymer in the presence of an attractive finitely supported potential. The most intricate behavior can be observed if we simultaneously and independently vary two…

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Recent developments of microscopic mechanical experiments allow the manipulation of individual polymer molecules in two main ways: \textit{uniform} stretching by external forces and \textit{non-uniform} stretching by external fields. Many…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Fabio Manca , Stefano Giordano , Pier Luca Palla , Fabrizio Cleri , Luciano Colombo

I consider the problem of computing the mass of a charged, gravitating particle in quantum field theory. It is shown how solving for the first quantized propagator of a particle in the presence of its own potentials reproduces the gauge and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. P. Woodard

Partitioning of (bio)materials in polymeric mixtures is a key phenomenon both in cellular environments, as well as in industrial applications. In cells, several macromolecules are suspended within different biomolecular phases. On the other…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-15 Vikki Anand Varma , Alberto Scacchi

Coined quantum walks may be interpreted as the motion in position space of a quantum particle with a spin degree of freedom; the dynamics are determined by iterating a unitary transformation which is the product of a spin transformation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alex D. Gottlieb , Svante Janson , Petra F. Scudo

Under unitary evolution, a typical macroscopic quantum system is thought to develop wavefunction branches: a time-dependent decomposition into orthogonal components that (1) form a tree structure forward in time, (2) are approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 C. Jess Riedel

Conventional approaches to cosmology in supergravity assume the existence of multiple sectors that only communicate gravitationally. In principle these sectors decouple in the limit Planck mass to infinity. In practice such a limit is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 Ana Achúcarro , Sjoerd Hardeman , Johannes M. Oberreuter , Koenraad Schalm , Ted van der Aalst

We prove sharp estimates for the mean-field limit of weakly interacting diffusions with repulsive logarithmic interaction in arbitrary dimension. More precisely, we show that the associated partition function is uniformly bounded in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Matias G. Delgadino , Rishabh S. Gvalani

The miscibility of polymer blends, a classical problem in polymer science, may be altered, if one or both of the component do not have chain ends. Based on the idea of {\it topological volume}, we propose a mean-field theory to clarify how…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-04 Takahiro Sakaue , Chihiro H. Nakajima

One can try to define the theory of quantum gravity as the sum over geometries. In two dimensions the sum over {\it Euclidean} geometries can be performed constructively by the method of {\it dynamical triangulations}. One can define a {\it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 J. Ambjorn

If G is a countable discrete group acting linearly on a finite-dimensional vector space over any topological field, then the groups of coboundaries are closed for the product topology in all degrees, and hence the cohomology is reduced in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Tim Austin

A theory of graded manifolds can be viewed as a generalization of differential geometry of smooth manifolds. It allows one to work with functions which locally depend not only on ordinary real variables, but also on $\mathbb{Z}$-graded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Jan Vysoky

We investigate the universality of correlation functions of chaotic and disordered quantum systems as an external parameter is varied. A new, general scaling procedure is introduced which makes the theory invariant under reparametrizations.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-09 P. Leboeuf , M. Sieber

We re-examine the nonperturbative curvature properties of two-dimensional Euclidean quantum gravity, obtained as the scaling limit of a path integral over dynamical triangulations of a two-sphere, which lies in the same universality class…

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We show that by coupling complex three-state systems to branched-polymer like ensembles we can obtain models with gamma-string different from one half. It is also possible to study the interpolation between dynamical and crystalline graphs…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 Joao D. Correia , Behrouz Mirza , John F. Wheater

We analyze correlation functions in a toy model of a random geometry interacting with matter. We show that in general the connected correlator will contain a long--range scaling part. This result supports the previously conjectured general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Bialas

In this comment it is pointed out that the perturbative dynamics of general massive field theories can be mapped to delimited sums of determined integral functions. The limits on the sums are the remaining obstacle to finding the general…

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We consider a system of particles with arms that are activated randomly to grab other particles as a toy model for polymerization. We assume that the following two rules are fulfilled: Once a particle has been grabbed then it cannot be…

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A lattice model of critical spanning webs is considered for the finite cylinder geometry. Due to the presence of cycles, the model is a generalization of the known spanning tree model which belongs to the class of logarithmic theories with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-18 J. G. Brankov , S. Y. Grigorev , V. B. Priezzhev , I. Y. Tipunin

We present using simple scaling arguments and one step replica symmetry breaking a theory for the localization of semiflexible polymers in a quenched random environment. In contrast to completely flexible polymers, localization of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Arti Dua , Thomas A. Vilgis