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Hydrodynamics of Suspensions of Passive and Active Rigid Particles: A Rigid Multiblob Approach
We develop a rigid multiblob method for numerically solving the mobility
problem for suspensions of passive and active rigid particles of complex shape
in Stokes flow in unconfined, partially confined, and fully confined
geometries. As in a number of existing methods, we discretize rigid bodies
using a collection of minimally-resolved spherical blobs constrained to move as
a rigid body, to arrive at a potentially large linear system of equations for
the unknown Lagrange multipliers and rigid-body motions. Here we develop a
block-diagonal preconditioner for this linear system and show that a standard
Krylov solver converges in a modest number of iterations that is essentially
independent of the number of particles. For unbounded suspensions and
suspensions sedimented against a single no-slip boundary, we rely on existing
analytical expressions for the Rotne-Prager tensor combined with a fast
multipole method or a direct summation on a Graphical Processing Unit to obtain
an simple yet efficient and scalable implementation. For fully confined
domains, such as periodic suspensions or suspensions confined in slit and
square channels, we extend a recently-developed rigid-body immersed boundary
method to suspensions of freely-moving passive or active rigid particles at
zero Reynolds number. We demonstrate that the iterative solver for the coupled
fluid and rigid body equations converges in a bounded number of iterations
regardless of the system size. We optimize a number of parameters in the
iterative solvers and apply our method to a variety of benchmark problems to
carefully assess the accuracy of the rigid multiblob approach as a function of
the resolution. We also model the dynamics of colloidal particles studied in
recent experiments, such as passive boomerangs in a slit channel, as well as a
pair of non-Brownian active nanorods sedimented against a wall.Comment: Under revision in CAMCOS, Nov 201
Topological Aspect of high- Superconductivity, Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and Berry Phase
We have analysed here the equivalence of RVB states with FQH states
in terms of the Berry Phase which is associated with the chiral anomaly in 3+1
dimensions. It is observed that the 3-dimensional spinons and holons are
characterised by the non-Abelian Berry phase and these reduce to 1/2 fractional
statistics when the motion is confined to the equatorial planes. The
topological mechanism of superconductivity is analogous to the topological
aspects of fractional quantum Hall effect with .Comment: 12 pages latex fil
Magnetization in electron- and Mn- doped SrTiO3
Mn-doped SrTiO_3.0, when synthesized free of impurities, is a paramagnetic
insulator with interesting dielectric properties. Since delocalized charge
carriers are known to promote ferromagnetism in a large number of systems via
diverse mechanisms, we have looked for the possibility of any intrinsic,
spontaneous magnetization by simultaneous doping of Mn ions and electrons into
SrTiO_3 via oxygen vacancies, thereby forming SrTi_(1-x)Mn_xO_(3-d), to the
extent of making the doped system metallic. We find an absence of any
enhancement of the magnetization in the metallic sample when compared with a
similarly prepared Mn doped, however, insulating sample. Our results, thus, are
not in agreement with a recent observation of a weak ferromagnetism in metallic
Mn doped SrTiO_3 system.Comment: 10 pages and 4 figure
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