135 research outputs found
Integrable discrete nets in Grassmannians
We consider discrete nets in Grassmannians which generalize
Q-nets (maps with planar elementary
quadrilaterals) and Darboux nets (-valued maps defined on the
edges of such that quadruples of points corresponding to
elementary squares are all collinear). We give a geometric proof of
integrability (multidimensional consistency) of these novel nets, and show that
they are analytically described by the noncommutative discrete Darboux system.Comment: 10 p
Discrete Laplace Cycles of Period Four
We study discrete conjugate nets whose Laplace sequence is of period four.
Corresponding points of opposite nets in this cyclic sequence have equal
osculating planes in different net directions, that is, they correspond in an
asymptotic transformation. We show that this implies that the connecting lines
of corresponding points form a discrete W-congruence. We derive some properties
of discrete Laplace cycles of period four and describe two explicit methods for
their construction
Finite-Size Effects in a Supercooled Liquid
We study the influence of the system size on various static and dynamic
properties of a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones liquid via computer
simulations. In this way, we demonstrate that the treatment of systems as small
as N=65 particles yields relevant results for the understanding of bulk
properties. Especially, we find that a system of N=130 particles behaves
basically as two non-interacting systems of half the size.Comment: Proceedings of the III Workshop on Non Equilibrium Phenomena in
Supercooled Fluids, Glasses and Amorphous Materials, Sep 2002, Pis
Integrable lattices and their sublattices II. From the B-quadrilateral lattice to the self-adjoint schemes on the triangular and the honeycomb lattices
An integrable self-adjoint 7-point scheme on the triangular lattice and an
integrable self-adjoint scheme on the honeycomb lattice are studied using the
sublattice approach. The star-triangle relation between these systems is
introduced, and the Darboux transformations for both linear problems from the
Moutard transformation of the B-(Moutard) quadrilateral lattice are obtained. A
geometric interpretation of the Laplace transformations of the self-adjoint
7-point scheme is given and the corresponding novel integrable discrete 3D
system is constructed.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures; references added, some typos correcte
Subdiffusion and the cage effect studied near the colloidal glass transition
The dynamics of a glass-forming material slow greatly near the glass
transition, and molecular motion becomes inhibited. We use confocal microscopy
to investigate the motion of colloidal particles near the colloidal glass
transition. As the concentration in a dense colloidal suspension is increased,
particles become confined in transient cages formed by their neighbors. This
prevents them from diffusing freely throughout the sample. We quantify the
properties of these cages by measuring temporal anticorrelations of the
particles' displacements. The local cage properties are related to the
subdiffusive rise of the mean square displacement: over a broad range of time
scales, the mean square displacement grows slower than linearly in time.Comment: submitted to Chemical Physics, special issue on "Strange Kinetics
A Symmetric Generalization of Linear B\"acklund Transformation associated with the Hirota Bilinear Difference Equation
The Hirota bilinear difference equation is generalized to discrete space of
arbitrary dimension. Solutions to the nonlinear difference equations can be
obtained via B\"acklund transformation of the corresponding linear problems.Comment: Latex, 12 pages, 1 figur
Integrable dynamics of Toda-type on the square and triangular lattices
In a recent paper we constructed an integrable generalization of the Toda law
on the square lattice. In this paper we construct other examples of integrable
dynamics of Toda-type on the square lattice, as well as on the triangular
lattice, as nonlinear symmetries of the discrete Laplace equations on the
square and triangular lattices. We also construct the - function
formulations and the Darboux-B\"acklund transformations of these novel
dynamics.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figure
On -function of the quadrilateral lattice
We investigate the -function of the quadrilateral lattice using the
nonlocal -dressing method, and we show that it can be identified
with the Fredholm determinant of the integral equation which naturally appears
within that approach.Comment: 7 page
Generalized isothermic lattices
We study multidimensional quadrilateral lattices satisfying simultaneously
two integrable constraints: a quadratic constraint and the projective Moutard
constraint. When the lattice is two dimensional and the quadric under
consideration is the Moebius sphere one obtains, after the stereographic
projection, the discrete isothermic surfaces defined by Bobenko and Pinkall by
an algebraic constraint imposed on the (complex) cross-ratio of the circular
lattice. We derive the analogous condition for our generalized isthermic
lattices using Steiner's projective structure of conics and we present basic
geometric constructions which encode integrability of the lattice. In
particular, we introduce the Darboux transformation of the generalized
isothermic lattice and we derive the corresponding Bianchi permutability
principle. Finally, we study two dimensional generalized isothermic lattices,
in particular geometry of their initial boundary value problem.Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures; v2. some typos corrected; v3. new references
added, higlighted similarities and differences with recent papers on the
subjec
Slow dynamics of a confined supercooled binary mixture II: Q space analysis
We report the analysis in the wavevector space of the density correlator of a
Lennard Jones binary mixture confined in a disordered matrix of soft spheres
upon supercooling. In spite of the strong confining medium the behavior of the
mixture is consistent with the Mode Coupling Theory predictions for bulk
supercooled liquids. The relaxation times extracted from the fit of the density
correlator to the stretched exponential function follow a unique power law
behavior as a function of wavevector and temperature. The von Schweidler
scaling properties are valid for an extended wavevector range around the peak
of the structure factor. The parameters extracted in the present work are
compared with the bulk values obtained in literature.Comment: 8 pages with 8 figures. RevTeX. Accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev.
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