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    Topological stripelike coreless textures with inner incommensurability in two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet

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    For two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet we present an analysis of topological coreless excitations having a stripe form. These textures are characterized by singularities at boundaries. A detailed classification of the stripe textures results in a certain analogy with the coreless excitations in 3HeA^3He-A phase: Mermin-Ho and Anderson-Toulouse coreless vortices. The excitations of the last type may have a low bulk energy. The stripe textures may be observed as an occurrence of short-range incommensurate order in the antiferromagnetic environment

    Robust quantization of a molecular motor motion in a stochastic environment

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    We explore quantization of the response of a molecular motor to periodic modulation of control parameters. We formulate the Pumping-Quantization Theorem (PQT) that identifies the conditions for robust integer quantized behavior of a periodically driven molecular machine. Implication of PQT on experiments with catenane molecules are discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures. J. Chem. Phys. Communications (in press
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