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Influence of the particle shape on the equilibrium morphologies of supracolloidal magnetic filaments
We investigate the equilibrium morphologies of linear and ring-shaped
magnetic filaments made from crosslinked ferromagnetic spherical or ellipsoidal
colloidal particles. Using Langevin dynamics simulations, we calculate the
radius of gyration and total magnetic moment of a single filament at zero field
and different temperatures, analyzing the influence of the particles shape, the
strength of their magnetic moment and the filament length. Our results show
that, among such parameters, the shape of the particles has the strongest
qualitative impact on the equilibrium behavior of the filaments
Suspensions of supracolloidal magnetic polymers: self-assembly properties from computer simulations
We study self-assembly in suspensions of supracolloidal polymer-like
structures made of crosslinked magnetic particles. Inspired by self-assembly
motifs observed for dipolar hard spheres, we focus on four different topologies
of the polymer-like structures: linear chains, rings, Y-shaped and X-shaped
polymers. We show how the presence of the crosslinkers, the number of beads in
the polymer and the magnetic interparticle interaction affect the structure of
the suspension. It turns out that for the same set of parameters, the rings are
the least active in assembling larger structures, whereas the system of Y- and
especially X-like magnetic polymers tend to form very large loose aggregates
Effect of electron-lattice interaction on the phase separation in strongly correlated electron systems with two types of charge carriers
The effect of electron-lattice interaction is studied for a strongly
correlated electron system described by the two-band Hubbard model. A two-fold
effect of electron-lattice interaction is taken into account: in non-diagonal
terms, it changes the effective bandwidth, whereas in diagonal terms, it shifts
the positions of the bands and the chemical potential. It is shown that this
interaction significantly affects the doping range corresponding to the
electronic phase separation and can even lead to a jump-like transition between
states with different values of strains.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Significance of Operative Legal Investigation as the Criterion of Reasonable Term Definition
The article is devoted to the problem of tardiness of criminal procedure which can lead to breaches of human rights self-dependently
A nearly closed ballistic billiard with random boundary transmission
A variety of mesoscopic systems can be represented as a billiard with a
random coupling to the exterior at the boundary. Examples include quantum dots
with multiple leads, quantum corrals with different kinds of atoms forming the
boundary, and optical cavities with random surface refractive index. The
specific example we study is a circular (integrable) billiard with no internal
impurities weakly coupled to the exterior by a large number of leads with one
channel open in each lead. We construct a supersymmetric nonlinear
-model by averaging over the random coupling strengths between bound
states and channels. The resulting theory can be used to evaluate the
statistical properties of any physically measurable quantity in a billiard. As
an illustration, we present results for the local density of states.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Kinky Behavior in Josephson Junctions
We analyze nonperturbatively the behavior of a Josephson junction in which
two BCS superconductors are coupled through an Anderson impurity. We recover
earlier perturbative results which found that a phase difference
is preferred when the impurity is singly occupied and the on-site Coulomb
interaction is large. We find a novel intermediate phase in which one of
and is stable while the other is metastable, with the
energy having a kink somewhere in between. As a consequence of the
kink, the characteristics of the junction are modified at low voltages.Comment: 7 pages, 7 encapsulated PostScript figures; figure 3 correcte
Higher order effective low-energy theories
Three well-known perturbative approaches to deriving low-energy effective
theories, the degenerate Brillouin-Wigner perturbation theory (projection
method), the canonical transformation, and the resolvent methods are compared.
We use the Hubbard model as an example to show how, to fourth order in hopping
t, all methods lead to the same effective theory, namely the t-J model with
ring exchange and various correlated hoppings. We emphasize subtle technical
difficulties that make such a derivation less trivial to carry out for orders
higher than second. We also show that in higher orders, different approaches
can lead to seemingly different forms for the low-energy Hamiltonian. All of
these forms are equivalent since they are connected by an additional unitary
transformation whose generator is given explicitly. The importance of
transforming the operators is emphasized and the equivalence of their
transformed structure within the different approaches is also demonstrated.Comment: 14 pages, no figure
Ballistic dynamics of a convex smooth-wall billiard with finite escape rate along the boundary
We focus on the problem of an impurity-free billiard with a random
position-dependent boundary coupling to the environment. The response functions
of such an open system can be obtained non-perturbatively from a supersymmetric
generating functional. The derivation of this functional is based on averaging
over the escape rates and results in a non-linear ballistic -model,
characterized by system-specific parameters. Particular emphasis is placed on
the {}``whispering gallery modes'' as the origin of surface diffusion modes in
the limit of large dimensionless conductance.Comment: 12 pages, no figure
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