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On the basis of the transfer matrix technique an analytical method to investigate the stationary states, for an electron in one-dimensional periodic structures in an external electrical field, displaying the symmetry of the problem is…

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Dynamic equations that are the simplest conformally invariant generalization of Einstein equations with cosmological term are considered. Dimensions and Weyl weights of the additional geometrical fields (the vector and the antisymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Gorbatenko

The influence of an external electric field on the spin dynamics of an electrically neutral Fermi liquid is considered, the mechanism of such an influence being the relativistic spin-orbital interaction. As a result, Leggett's equations for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. L. Krotkov

We propose a simple model of self-propelled particles to show that coherent structures, such as jets and swirls, can arise from a plausible microscopic mechanisms: (i) the elongated shape of the self-propelled particles with (ii) the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicholas Sambelashvili , A. W. C. Lau , David Cai

It is known that homogeneous distribution of particles in Coulomb-like systems can be unstable, and spatially inhomogeneous structures can be formed. A simple method for describing such inhomogeneous systems and obtaining spacial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 B. I. Lev , V. P. Ostroukh , V. B. Tymchyshyn , A. G. Zagorodny

The electrohydrodynamics of vesicle suspensions is characterized by studying their pairwise interactions in applied DC electric fields in two dimensions. In the dilute limit, the rheology of the suspension is shown to vary nonlinearly with…

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We derive a F\"{o}ppl-von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n-type constitutive model for solid liquid crystalline plates where the nematic director may or may not rotate freely relative to the elastic network. To obtain the reduced two-dimensional model, we…

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We establish the existence of spatially localised one-dimensional free surfaces of a ferrofluid near onset of the Rosensweig instability, assuming a general (nonlinear) magnetisation law. It is shown that the ferrohydrostatic equations can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Mark D. Groves , David J. B. Lloyd , Athanasios Stylianou

The Einstein field equations are derived for a static cylindrically symmetric spacetime with elastic matter. The equations can be reduced to a system of two nonlinear ordinary differential equations and we present analytical and numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-25 I. Brito , J. Carot , F. C. Mena , E. G. L. R. Vaz

We use holography to study the ground state of a system with interacting bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom at finite density. The gravitational model consists of Einstein-Maxwell gravity coupled to a perfect fluid of charged fermions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Nitti , Giuseppe Policastro , Thomas Vanel

We study the interplay of activity, order and flow through a set of coarse-grained equations governing the hydrodynamic velocity, concentration and stress fields in a suspension of active, energy-dissipating particles. We make several…

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Pure liquids in thermodynamic equilibrium are structurally homogeneous. In liquid crystals, flow and light pulses are used to create reconfigurable domains with polar order. Moreover, through careful engineering of concerted microfluidic…

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The article summarizes the studies of wave fields in structured non-equilibrium media describing by means of nonlocal hydrodynamic models. Due to the symmetry properties of models, we derived the invariant wave solutions satisfying…

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The Debye source representation for solutions to the time harmonic Maxwell equations is extended to bounded domains with finitely many smooth boundary components. A strong uniqueness result is proved for this representation. Natural complex…

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A method of building and investigation of the Fermi surfaces for three-dimensional crystals subjected to a uniform magnetic field is presented. The Hamiltonian of a charged particle in the crystal is treated in the framework of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Bruening , V. Demidov , V. Geyler

We combine Maxwell's equations with Eulers's equation, related to a velocity field of an immaterial fluid, where the density of mass is replaced by a charge density. We come out with a differential system able to describe a relevant…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 Daniele Funaro

In the present work we analyse the structure of the Hamiltonian field theory in the neighbourhood of the wave equation $q_{tt}=q_{xx}$. We show that, restricting to ``graded'' polynomial perturbations in $q_x$, $p$ and their space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Matteo Gallone , Antonio Ponno

Fluid-mediated interactions between particles in a vibrating fluid lead to both long range attraction and short range repulsion. The resulting patterns include hexagonally ordered micro-crystallites, time-periodic structures, and chaotic…

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