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We outline here a simple mathematical introduction to the notions of multipoles for a general extensive property $\Pi$ from the point of view of continuum mechanics. Classically, $\Pi$ is the electric charge, but the theory is not limited…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Vladimir Gol'dshtein , Reuven Segev

A pathwise large deviation principle in the Wasserstein topology and a pathwise central limit theorem are proved for the empirical measure of a mean-field system of interacting diffusions. The coefficients are path-dependent. The framework…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Louis-Pierre Chaintron

We give an explicit relation, up to second-order terms, between scalar-field fluctuations defined on spatially-flat slices and the curvature perturbation on uniform-density slices. This expression is a necessary ingredient for calculating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-18 Mafalda Dias , Joseph Elliston , Jonathan Frazer , David Mulryne , David Seery

Perturbation theory for a class of topological field theories containing antisymmetric tensor fields is considered. These models are characterized by a supersymmetric structure which allows to establish their perturbative finiteness.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Nicola Maggiore , Silvio P. Sorella

In materials science the phase field crystal approach has become popular to model crystallization processes. Phase field crystal models are in essence Landau-Ginzburg-type models, which should be derivable from the underlying microscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Oettel , S. Dorosz , M. Berghoff , B. Nestler , T. Schilling

Dielectric microcavities based on cylindrical and deformed cylindrical shapes have been employed as resonators for microlasers. Such systems support spiral resonances with finite momentum along the cylinder axis. For such modes the boundary…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Harald G. L. Schwefel , Hakan E. Tureci , A. Douglas Stone

Selected theoretical developments in modeling of deposition of submicrometer size (submicron) particles on solid surfaces, with and without surface diffusion, of interest in colloid, polymer, and certain biological systems, are surveyed. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-16 Vladimir Privman

Weak Wave Turbulence is a powerful theory to predict statistical observables of diverse relevant physical phenomena, such as ocean waves, magnetohydrodynamics and nonlinear optics. The theory is based upon an asymptotic closure permitted in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-13 Sergio Chibbaro , Christophe Josserand

We consider photonic crystal fibers made from arbitrary base materials and derive a unified semi-analytical approach for the dispersion and modal properties which applies to the short-wavelength regime. In particular we calculate the…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Niels Asger Mortensen

Mean Field Theory has been extensively used in the study of systems of anyons in two spatial dimensions. In this paper we study the physical grounds for the validity of this approximation by considering the Quantum Mechanical scattering of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Ken Kiers , Nathan Weiss

A nontrivial conformally invariant model is obtained via generalization the method of obtaining conformally invariant models in $2D$ Euclidean space to the Euclidean space with dimension $D>2$. This method was previously developed by E.S.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 V. N. Zaikin

We discuss nonstandard continuum quantum field theories in 2+1 dimensions. They exhibit exotic global symmetries, a subtle spectrum of charged excitations, and dualities similar to dualities of systems in 1+1 dimensions. These continuum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-10 Nathan Seiberg , Shu-Heng Shao

Using a generalized order parameter gradient expansion within density functional theory, we derive a phase-field-crystal model for liquid crystals composed by apolar particles in three spatial dimensions. Both the translational density and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-28 Raphael Wittkowski , Hartmut Löwen , Helmut R. Brand

Mean-field dynamo theory has important applications in solar physics and galactic magnetism. We discuss some of the many turbulence effects relevant to the generation of large-scale magnetic fields in the solar convection zone. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Axel Brandenburg , Detlef Elstner , Youhei Masada , Valery Pipin

Spherical field theory is a new non-perturbative method for studying quantum field theories. It uses the spherical partial wave expansion to reduce a general d-dimensional Euclidean field theory into a set of coupled one-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Dean Lee

The nontrivial dispersion relation of a periodic medium affects both the spectral and the spatial distribution of Cherenkov radiation. We present a theory of the spatial distribution of Cherenkov radiation in the far-field zone inside…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christian Kremers , Dmitry N. Chigrin

We introduce and develop the theory of metaparticles. At the classical level, this is a world-line theory with the usual reparameterization invariance and two additional features. The theory is motivated by string theory on compact targets,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Laurent Freidel , Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman , Robert G. Leigh , Djordje Minic

Crystal lattice deformations can be described microscopically by explicitly accounting for the position of atoms or macroscopically by continuum elasticity. In this work, we report on the description of continuous elastic fields derived…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-25 Marco Salvalaglio , Axel Voigt , Ken R. Elder

We generalize the invariant imbedding theory of the wave propagation and derive new invariant imbedding equations for the propagation of arbitrary number of coupled waves of any kind in arbitrarily-inhomogeneous stratified media, where the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kihong Kim , Dong-Hun Lee , H. Lim

According to recent experimental and numerical investigations if the characteristic size of a specimen is in the submicron size regime several new interesting phenomena emerge during the deformation of the samples. Since in such a systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Istvan Groma , Zoltan Vandrus , Peter Dusan Ispanovity