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    <title>[1911.09160] Three-dimensional crystals of adaptive knots</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Starting from Gauss and Kelvin, knots in fields were postulated behaving like particles, but experimentally they were found only as transient features or required complex boundary conditions to exist and couldn't self-assemble into three-dimensional crystals. We introduce energetically stable micrometer-sized knots in helical fields of chiral liquid crystals. While spatially localized and freely diffusing in all directions, they resemble colloidal particles and atoms, self-assembling into crystalline lattices with open and closed structures. These knots are robust and topologically distinct from the host medium, though they can be morphed and reconfigured by weak stimuli under conditions like in displays. A combination of energy-minimizing numerical modeling and optical imaging uncovers the internal structure and topology of individual helical field knots and various hierarchical crystalline organizations they form.
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    <title>[cond-mat/0203236] Vortices in vibrated granular rods</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We report the experimental observation of novel vortex patterns in vertically vibrated granular rods. Above a critical packing fraction, moving ordered domains of nearly vertical rods spontaneously form and coexist with horizontal rods. The domains of vertical rods coarsen in time to form large vortices. We investigate the conditions under which the vortices occur by varying the number of rods, vibration amplitude and frequency. The size of the vortices increases with the number of rods. We characterize the growth of the ordered domains by measuring the area fraction of the ordered regions as a function of time. A {\em void filling} model is presented to describe the nucleation and growth of the vertical domains. We track the ends of the vertical rods and obtain the velocity fields of the vortices. The rotation speed of the rods is observed to depend on the vibration velocity of the container and on the packing. To investigate the impact of the direction of driving on the observed phenomena, we performed experiments with the container vibrated horizontally. Although vertical domains form, vortices are not observed. We therefore argue that the motion is generated due to the interaction of the inclination of the rods with the bottom of a vertically vibrated container. We also perform simple experiments with a single row of rods in an annulus. These experiments directly demonstrate that the rod motion is generated when the rods are inclined from the vertical, and is always in the direction of the inclination.
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    <title>[1902.00565] Random packing of rods in small containers</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-14T11:31:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We conduct experiments and simulations to study the disordered packing of rods in small containers. Experiments study cylindrical rods with aspect ratio ranging from 4 to 32; simulations use of spherocylinders with similar aspect ratios. In all cases, rods pack randomly in cylindrical containers whose smallest dimension is larger than the rod length. Packings in smaller containers have lower volume fractions than those in larger containers, demonstrating the influence of the boundaries. The volume fraction extrapolated to infinite container size decreases with increasing aspect ratio, in agreement with previous work. X-ray tomography experiments show that the boundary effects depend on the orientation of the boundary, indicating a strong influence of gravity, whereas the simulation finds boundary effects that are purely geometric. In all cases, the boundary influence extends approximately half a particle length into the interior of the container.
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    <title>[1603.07147] Frustration of freezing in a two dimensional hard-core fluid due to particle shape anisotropy</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-24T10:45:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The freezing mechanism suggested for a fluid composed of hard disks [Huerta et al., Phys. Rev. E, 2006, 74, 061106] is used here to probe the fluid-to-solid transition in a hard-dumbbell fluid composed of overlapping hard disks with a variable length between disk centers. Analyzing the trends in the shape of second maximum of the radial distribution function of the planar hard-dumbbell fluid it has been found that the type of transition could be sensitive to the length of hard-dumbbell molecules. From the NpT Monte Carlo simulations data we show that if a hard-dumbbell length does not exceed 15% of the disk diameter, the fluid-to-solid transition scenario follows the case of a hard-disk fluid, i.e., the isotropic hard-dumbbell fluid experiences freezing. However, for a hard-dumbbell length larger than 15% of disk diameter, there is evidence that fluid-to-solid transition may change to continuous transition, i.e., such an isotropic hard-dumbbell fluid will avoid freezing.
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    <title>[1803.04918] Uniform phases in fluids of hard isosceles triangles: one component and binary mixtures</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-17T22:21:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We formulate the scaled particle theory for a general mixture of hard isosceles triangles and calculate different phase diagrams for the one-component fluid and for certain binary mixtures. The fluid of hard triangles exhibits a complex phase behavior: (i) the presence of a triatic phase with sixfold symmetry, (ii) the isotropic-uniaxial nematic transition is of first order for certain ranges of aspect ratios, and (iii) the one-component system exhibits nematic-nematic transitions ending in critical points. We found the triatic phase to be stable not only for equilateral triangles but also for triangles of similar aspect ratios. We focus the study of binary mixtures on the case of symmetric mixtures: equal particle areas with aspect ratios (κi) symmetric with respect to the equilateral one: κ1κ2=3. For these mixtures we found, aside from first-order isotropic-nematic and nematic-nematic transitions (the latter ending in a critical point): (i) A region of triatic phase stability even for mixtures made of particles that do not form this phase at the one-component limit, and (ii) the presence of a Landau point at which two isotropic-nematic first-order transitions and a nematic-nematic demixing transition coalesce. This phase behavior is analog to that of a symmetric three-dimensional mixture of rods and plates.
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    <title>[1904.05970] Transverse excitations and zigzag transition in quasi-1D hard-disk system</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-03T12:07:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Molecular dynamics computer simulations of collective excitations in a system of hard disks confined to a narrow channel of the specific width, that resembles 2D triangular lattice at disk close packing, are performed. We found that transverse excitations, which for hard-disk system are absent in the limit of 1D and are of acoustic nature in the limit of 2D, in the case of q1D hard-disk system emerge in the form of transverse optical excitations and could be considered as a tool to detect the structural transition to a zigzag ordering. By analyzing density evolution of longitudinal static structure factor and pair distribution function we have shown that driving force of zigzag ordering is caging phenomenon that in the case of hard-disk system is governed by excluded volume interaction with first and second neighbors and is of entropic origin.
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    <title>[1501.04472] Local analysis of the history dependence in tetrahedra packings</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-21T16:39:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The mechanical properties of a granular sample depend frequently on the way the packing was prepared. However, is not well understood which properties of the packing store this information. Here we present an X-ray tomography study of three pairs of tetrahedra packings prepared with three different tapping protocols. The packings in each pair differs in the number of mechanical constraints C imposed on the particles by their contacts, while their bulk volume fraction ϕglobal is approximately the same. We decompose C into the contributions of the three different contact types possible between tetrahedra -- face-to-face (F2F), edge-to-face (E2F), and point contacts -- which each fix a different amount of constraints. We then perform a local analysis of the contact distribution by grouping the particles together according to their individual volume fraction ϕlocal computed from a Voronoi tessellation. We find that in samples which have been tapped sufficiently long the number of F2F contacts becomes an universal function of ϕlocal. In contrast the number of E2F and point contacts varies with the applied tapping protocol. Moreover, we find that the anisotropy of the shape of the Voronoi cells depends on the tapping protocol. This behavior differs from spheres and ellipsoids and posses a significant constraint for any mean-field approach to tetrahedra packings.
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    <title>[math-ph/0212015] Combinatorial problems of (quasi-)crystallography</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-07T22:14:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0212015</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Several combinatorial problems of (quasi-)crystallography are reviewed with special emphasis on a unified approach, valid for both crystals and quasicrystals. In particular, we consider planar sublattices, similarity sublattices, coincidence sublattices, their module counterparts, and central and averaged shelling. The corresponding counting functions are encapsulated in Dirichlet series generating functions, with explicit results for the triangular lattice and the twelvefold symmetric shield tiling. Other combinatorial properties are briefly summarised.
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    <title>[1808.06271] Transforming mesoscale granular plasticity through particle shape</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-02T08:55:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When an amorphous material is strained beyond the point of yielding it enters a state of continual reconfiguration via dissipative, avalanche-like slip events that relieve built-up local stress. However, how the statistics of such events depend on local interactions among the constituent units remains debated. To address this we perform experiments on granular material in which we use particle shape to vary the interactions systematically. Granular material, confined under constant pressure boundary conditions, is uniaxially compressed while stress is measured and internal rearrangements are imaged with x-rays. We introduce volatility, a quantity from economic theory, as a powerful new tool to quantify the magnitude of stress fluctuations, finding systematic, shape-dependent trends. For all 22 investigated shapes the magnitude s of relaxation events is well-fit by a truncated power law distribution P(s)∼s−τexp(−s/s∗), as has been proposed within the context of plasticity models. The power law exponent τ for all shapes tested clusters around τ= 1.5, within experimental uncertainty covering the range 1.3 - 1.7. The shape independence of τ and its compatibility with mean field models indicate that the granularity of the system, but not particle shape, modifies the stress redistribution after a slip event away from that of continuum elasticity. Meanwhile, the characteristic maximum event size s∗ changes by two orders of magnitude and tracks the shape dependence of volatility. Particle shape in granular materials is therefore a powerful new factor influencing the distance at which an amorphous system operates from scale-free criticality. These experimental results are not captured by current models and suggest a need to reexamine the mechanisms driving mesoscale plastic deformation in amorphous systems.
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<dc:subject>granular-materials condensed-matter rather-interesting looking-to-see experiment engineering-design consider:simulation consider:performance-measures complexology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ae5ff6a5ef63/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:looking-to-see"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:experiment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:engineering-design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:performance-measures"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complexology"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04097">
    <title>[1805.04097] Fractal Symmetric Phases of Matter</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-05T11:49:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04097</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We study spin systems which exhibit symmetries that act on a fractal subset of sites, with fractal structures generated by linear cellular automata. In addition to the trivial symmetric paramagnet and spontaneously symmetry broken phases, we construct additional fractal symmetry protected topological (FSPT) phases via a decorated defect approach. Such phases have edges along which fractal symmetries are realized projectively, leading to a symmetry protected degeneracy along the edge. Isolated excitations above the ground state are symmetry protected fractons, which cannot be moved without breaking the symmetry. In 3D, our construction leads additionally to FSPT phases protected by higher form fractal symmetries and fracton topologically ordered phases enriched by the additional fractal symmetries.
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<dc:subject>physics! fractals nonlinear-dynamics spin-glasses condensed-matter physics-recreations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:cbad965b5a19/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fractals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nonlinear-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:spin-glasses"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04692">
    <title>[1810.04692] Probability distributions related to tilings of non-convex Polygons</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-16T13:49:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04692</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This paper is based on the study of random lozenge tilings of non-convex polygonal regions with interacting non-convexities (cuts) and the corresponding asymptotic kernel as in [3] and [4] (discrete tacnode kernel). Here this kernel is used to find the probability distributions and joint probability distributions for the fluctuation of tiles along lines in between the cuts. These distributions are new.]]></description>
<dc:subject>combinatorics tiling counting rather-interesting phase-transitions condensed-matter statistical-mechanics feature-extraction representation to-write-about consider:feature-discovery</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4c78a12b3262/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:counting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:phase-transitions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:statistical-mechanics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:feature-extraction"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-write-about"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:feature-discovery"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10962">
    <title>[1804.10962] Stress anisotropy in shear-jammed packings of frictionless disks</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-14T12:25:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10962</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We perform computational studies of repulsive, frictionless disks to investigate the development of stress anisotropy in mechanically stable (MS) packings. We focus on two protocols for generating MS packings: 1) isotropic compression and 2) applied simple or pure shear strain γ at fixed packing fraction ϕ. MS packings of frictionless disks occur as geometric families (i.e. parabolic segments with positive curvature) in the ϕ-γ plane. MS packings from protocol 1 populate parabolic segments with both signs of the slope, dϕ/dγ>0 and dϕ/dγ<0. In contrast, MS packings from protocol 2 populate segments with dϕ/dγ<0 only. For both simple and pure shear, we derive a relationship between the stress anisotropy and dilatancy dϕ/dγ obeyed by MS packings along geometrical families. We show that for MS packings prepared using isotropic compression, the stress anisotropy distribution is Gaussian centered at zero with a standard deviation that decreases with increasing system size. For shear jammed MS packings, the stress anisotropy distribution is a convolution of Weibull distributions that depend on strain, which has a nonzero average and standard deviation in the large-system limit. We also develop a framework to calculate the stress anisotropy distribution for packings generated via protocol 2 in terms of the stress anisotropy distribution for packings generated via protocol 1. These results emphasize that for repulsive frictionless disks, different packing-generation protocols give rise to different MS packing probabilities, which lead to differences in macroscopic properties of MS packings.]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics! sandpiles materials-science simulation rather-interesting condensed-matter phase-transitions looking-to-see</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4c9714294e91/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:materials-science"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06150">
    <title>[1801.06150] Jamming of Deformable Polygons</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-19T11:19:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06150</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There are two main classes of physics-based models for two-dimensional cellular materials: packings of repulsive disks and the vertex model. These models have several disadvantages. For example, disk interactions are typically a function of particle overlap, yet the model assumes that the disks remain circular during overlap. The shapes of the cells can vary in the vertex model, however, the packing fraction is fixed at ϕ=1. Here, we describe the deformable particle model (DPM), where each particle is a polygon composed of a large number of vertices. The total energy includes three terms: two quadratic terms to penalize deviations from the preferred particle area a0 and perimeter p0 and a repulsive interaction between DPM polygons that penalizes overlaps. We performed simulations to study the onset of jamming in packings of DPM polygons as a function of asphericity, =p20/4πa0. We show that the packing fraction at jamming onset ϕJ() grows with increasing , reaching confluence at ≈1.16. ∗ corresponds to the value at which DPM polygons completely fill the cells obtained from a surface-Voronoi tessellation. Further, we show that DPM polygons develop invaginations for >∗ with excess perimeter that grows linearly with −∗. We confirm that packings of DPM polygons are solid-like over the full range of  by showing that the shear modulus is nonzero.]]></description>
<dc:subject>packing condensed-matter simulation rather-interesting algorithms representation to-write-about multiobjective-optimization consider:simulation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:def9782a965b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:multiobjective-optimization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:simulation"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01565">
    <title>[1704.01565] Charging changes contact composition in binary sphere packings</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-13T14:03:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01565</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Equal volume mixtures of small and large polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) spheres are shaken in an atmosphere of controlled humidity which allows to also control their tribo-charging. We find that the contact numbers are charge-dependent: as the charge density of the beads increases, the number of same-type contacts decreases and the number of opposite-type contacts increases. This change is not caused by a global segregation of the sample. Hence, tribo-charging can be a way to tune the local composition of a granular material.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>packing condensed-matter looking-to-see experiment rather-interesting granular-materials to-write-about it's-more-complicated-than-you-think</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1bd0c0af7328/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:looking-to-see"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:granular-materials"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-write-about"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:it's-more-complicated-than-you-think"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06716">
    <title>[1605.06716] A geometric-Structure Theory for maximally Random Jammed Packings</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-25T23:12:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06716</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Maximally random jammed (MRJ) particle packings can be viewed as prototypical glasses in that they are maximally disordered while simultaneously being mechanically rigid. The prediction of the MRJ packing density phi, among other packing properties of frictionless particles, still poses many theoretical challenges, even for congruent spheres or disks. Using the geometric-structure approach, we derive for the first time a highly accurate formula for MRJ densities for a very wide class of twodimensional frictionless packings, namely, binary convex superdisks, with shapes that continuously interpolate between circles and squares.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>packing experiment simulation physics! phase-transitions condensed-matter nudge-targets consider:feature-discovery</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ff3893431a2f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:feature-discovery"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07160">
    <title>[1605.07160] Self-assembly of a space-tessellating structure in the binary system of hard tetrahedra and octahedra</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-24T01:44:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07160</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We report the formation of a binary crystal of hard polyhedra due solely to entropic forces. Although the alternating arrangement of octahedra and tetrahedra is a known space-tessellation, it had not previously been observed in self-assembly simulations. Both known one-component phases - the dodecagonal quasicrystal of tetrahedra and the densest-packing of octahedra in the Minkowski lattice - are found to coexist with the binary phase. No additional crystalline phases were observed.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>local self-assembly phase-transitions simulation nudge-targets condensed-matter consider:feature-discovery</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:470c5fa31912/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-assembly"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:phase-transitions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:feature-discovery"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06589">
    <title>[1605.06589] Large compact clusters and fast dynamics in coupled nonequilibrium systems</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-28T21:01:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06589</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We demonstrate particle clustering on macroscopic scales in a coupled nonequilibrium system where two species of particles are advected by a fluctuating landscape and modify the landscape in the process. The phase diagram generated by varying the particle-landscape coupling, valid for all particle density and in both one and two dimensions, shows novel nonequilibrium phases. While particle species are completely phase separated, the landscape develops macroscopically ordered regions coexisting with a disordered region, resulting in coarsening and steady state dynamics on time scales which grow algebraically with size, not seen earlier in systems with pure domains.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>self-organization condensed-matter pattern-formation nonlinear-dynamics nudge-targets simulation consider:robustness consider:looking-to-see</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6e676bf68cda/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:pattern-formation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nonlinear-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:looking-to-see"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05180">
    <title>[1512.05180] Failure Mechanism of True 2D Granular Flows</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-29T11:54:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05180</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Most previous experimental investigations of two-dimensional (2D) granular column collapses have been conducted using three-dimensional (3D) granular materials in narrow horizontal channels (i.e., quasi-2D condition). Our recent research on 2D granular column collapses by using 2D granular materials (i.e., aluminum rods) has revealed results that differ markedly from those reported in the literature. We assume a 2D column with an initial height of h0 and initial width of d0, a defined as their ratio (a =h0/d0), a final height of h , and maximum run-out distance of d . The experimental data suggest that for the low a regime (a <0.65) the ratio of the final height to initial height is 1. However, for the high a regime (a >0.65), the ratio of a to (d-d0)/d0, h0/h , or d/d0 is expressed by power-law relations. In particular, the following power-function ratios (h0/h=1.42a^2/3 and d/d0=4.30a^0.72) are proposed for every a >0.65. In contrast, the ratio (d-d0)/d0=3.25a^0.96 only holds for 0.65< a< 1.5, whereas the ratio (d-d0)/d0=3.80a^0.73 holds for a>1.5. In addition, the influence of ground contact surfaces (hard or soft beds) on the final run-out distance and destruction zone of the granular column under true 2D conditions is investigated.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics granular-materials condensed-matter rather-interesting experiment</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c092b3b910a3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3285">
    <title>[1407.3285] Enumerating rigid sphere packings</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-12T13:42:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3285</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Packing problems, which ask how to arrange a collection of objects in space to meet certain criteria, are important in a great many physical and biological systems, where geometrical arrangements at small scales control behaviour at larger ones. In many systems there is no single, optimal packing that dominates, but rather one must understand the entire set of possible packings. As a step in this direction we enumerate rigid clusters of identical hard spheres for n≤14, and clusters with the maximum number of contacts for n≤19. A rigid cluster is one that cannot be continuously deformed while maintaining all contacts. This is a nonlinear notion that arises naturally because such clusters are the metastable states when the spheres interact with a short-range potential, as is the case in many nano- or micro-scale systems. We expect these lists are nearly complete, except for a small number of highly singular clusters (linearly floppy but nonlinearly rigid.) The data contains some major geometrical surprises, such as the prevalence of hypostatic clusters: those with less than the 3n−6 contacts generically necessary for rigidity. We discuss these and several other unusual clusters, whose geometries may shed insight into physical mechanisms, pose mathematical and computational problems, or bring inspiration for designing new materials.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>condensed-matter enumeration combinatorics statics rather-interesting nudge-targets consider:classification consider:feature-discovery</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4328d321eef5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:combinatorics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04590">
    <title>[1507.04590] Jamming and percolation in generalized models of random sequential adsorption of linear $k$-mers on a square lattice</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-16T11:59:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.04590</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The jamming and percolation for two generalized models of random sequential adsorption (RSA) of linear k-mers (particles occupying k adjacent sites) on a square lattice are studied by means of Monte Carlo simulation. The classical random sequential adsorption (RSA) model assumes the absence of overlapping of the new incoming particle with the previously deposited ones. The first model LKd is a generalized variant of the RSA model for both k-mers and a lattice with defects. Some of the occupying k adjacent sites are considered as insulating and some of the lattice sites are occupied by defects (impurities). For this model even a small concentration of defects can inhibit percolation for relatively long k-mers. The second model is the cooperative sequential adsorption (CSA) one, where, for each new k-mer, only a restricted number of lateral contacts z with previously deposited k-mers is allowed. Deposition occurs in the case when z≤(1−d)zm where zm=2(k+1) is the maximum numbers of the contacts of k-mer, and d is the fraction of forbidden NN contacts. Percolation is observed only at some interval kmin≤k≤kmax where the values kmin and kmax depend upon the fraction of forbidden contacts d. The value kmax decreases as d increases. A logarithmic dependence of the type log(kmax)=a+bd, where a=−4.03±0.22, b=4.93±0.57, is obtained.
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<dc:subject>aggregation simulation physics condensed-matter rather-interesting nudge-targets statistical-mechanics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:88a5c4fb7990/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:physics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:statistical-mechanics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4886">
    <title>[1401.4886] Crystal phases of soft spheres systems in a slab geometry</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-06T11:40:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4886</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We have identified the ground state configurations of soft particles (interacting via inverse power potentials) confined between two hard, impenetrable walls. To this end we have used a highly reliable optimization scheme at {\it vanishing} temperature while varying the wall separation over a representative range. Apart from the expected layered triangular and square structures (which are compatible with the three dimensional bulk fcc lattice), we have identified a cascade of highly complex intermediate structures. Taking benefit of the general scaling properties of inverse power potentials, we could identify -- for a given softness value -- one single master curve which relates the energy to the wall separation, irrespective of the density of the system. Via extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we have performed closer investigations of these intermediate structures at {\it finite} temperature: we could provide evidence to which extent these particle arrangements remain stable over a relatively large temperature range.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics! simulation condensed-matter rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:52646361b555/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01023">
    <title>[1505.01023] Classical Liquids in Fractal Dimension</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-05T17:24:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01023</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We introduce fractal liquids by generalizing classical liquids of integer dimensions d=1,2,3 to a fractal dimension df. The particles composing the liquid are fractal objects and their configuration space is also fractal, with the same non-integer dimension. Realizations of our generic model system include microphase separated binary liquids in porous media, and highly branched liquid droplets confined to a fractal polymer backbone in a gel. Here we study the thermodynamics and pair correlations of fractal liquids by computer simulation and semi-analytical statistical mechanics. Our results are based on a model where fractal hard spheres move on a near-critical percolating lattice cluster. The predictions of the fractal Percus-Yevick liquid integral equation compare well with our simulation results.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fluid-dynamics but-different fractals physics simulation percolation molecular-design rather-interesting nonlinear-dynamics condensed-matter</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ab7a548b3cdb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:but-different"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fractals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:physics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:percolation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:molecular-design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nonlinear-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04284">
    <title>[1508.04284] Multifractal analysis of electronic states on random Voronoi-Delaunay lattices</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-23T10:42:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04284</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We consider the transport of non-interacting electrons on two- and three-dimensional random Voronoi-Delaunay lattices. It was recently shown that these topologically disordered lattices feature strong disorder anticorrelations between the coordination numbers that qualitatively change the properties of continuous and first-order phase transitions. To determine whether or not these unusual features also influence Anderson localization, we study the electronic wave functions by multifractal analysis and finite-size scaling. We observe only localized states for all energies in the two-dimensional system. In three dimensions, we find two Anderson transitions between localized and extended states very close to the band edges. The critical exponent of the localization length is about 1.6. All these results agree with the usual orthogonal universality class. Additional generic energetic randomness introduced via random potentials does not lead to qualitative changes but allows us to obtain a phase diagram by varying the strength of these potentials.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics materials-science simulation electromagnetism condensed-matter nudge-targets consider:generating-functions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a8a74e1b1c46/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:materials-science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:electromagnetism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:generating-functions"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00776">
    <title>[1504.00776] Packing of elastic wires in flexible shells</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-09T11:07:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00776</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The packing problem of long thin filaments that are injected into confined spaces is of fundamental interest for physicists, biologists and materials engineers alike. How linear threads pack and coil is well known only for the ideal case of rigid containers, however. Here, we force long elastic rods into flexible spatial confinement borne by an elastic shell to examine under which conditions recently acquired knowledge on wire packing in rigid spheres breaks down. We find that unlike in rigid cavities, friction plays a key role by giving rise to the emergence of two distinct packing patterns. At low friction, the wire densely coils into an ordered toroidal bundle with semi-ellipsoidal cross section, while at high friction, it packs into a highly disordered, self-similar structure. These two morphologies are shown to be separated by a continuous phase transition.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>packing condensed-matter granular-materials (sortof) wires-in-balloons biophysics simulation experiment rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8f346c7447e5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:granular-materials"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:(sortof)"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:wires-in-balloons"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:biophysics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:experiment"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00593">
    <title>[1501.00593] Characterization of maximally random jammed sphere packings: Voronoi correlation functions</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-06T11:26:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00593</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We characterize the structure of maximally random jammed (MRJ) sphere packings by computing the Minkowski functionals (volume, surface area, and integrated mean curvature) of their associated Voronoi cells. The probability distribution functions of these functionals of Voronoi cells in MRJ sphere packings are qualitatively similar to those of an equilibrium hard-sphere liquid and partly even to the uncorrelated Poisson point process, implying that such local statistics are relatively structurally insensitive. This is not surprising because the Minkowski functionals of a single Voronoi cell incorporate only local information and are insensitive to global structural information. To improve upon this, we introduce descriptors that incorporate nonlocal information via the correlation functions of the Minkowski functionals of two cells at a given distance as well as certain cell-cell probability density functions. We evaluate these higher-order functions for our MRJ packings as well as equilibrium hard spheres and the Poisson point process. We find strong anticorrelations in the Voronoi volumes for the hyperuniform MRJ packings, consistent with previous findings for other pair correlations [A. Donev et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090604 (2005)], indicating that large-scale volume fluctuations are suppressed by accompanying large Voronoi cells with small cells, and vice versa. In contrast to the aforementioned local Voronoi statistics, the correlation functions of the Voronoi cells qualitatively distinguish the structure of MRJ sphere packings (prototypical glasses) from that of the correlated equilibrium hard-sphere liquids. Moreover, while we did not find any perfect icosahedra (the locally densest possible structure in which a central sphere contacts 12 neighbors) in the MRJ packings, a preliminary Voronoi topology analysis indicates the presence of strongly distorted icosahedra.
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<dc:subject>physics rather-interesting simulation condensed-matter metamaterials materials-science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:63f97acecc04/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:metamaterials"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:materials-science"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4475">
    <title>[1401.4475] Controlled self-assembly of periodic and aperiodic cluster crystals</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-28T11:43:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4475</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Soft particles are known to overlap and form stable clusters that self-assemble into periodic crystalline phases with density-independent lattice constants. We use molecular dynamics simulations in two dimensions to demonstrate that, through a judicious design of an isotropic pair potential, one can control the ordering of the clusters and generate a variety of phases, including decagonal and dodecagonal quasicrystals. Our results confirm analytical predictions based on a mean-field approximation, providing insight into the stabilization of quasicrystals in soft macromolecular systems, and suggesting a practical approach for their controlled self-assembly in laboratory realizations using synthesized soft-matter particles.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>molecular-design self-organization self-assembly nanotechnology simulation condensed-matter pattern-formation nudge-targets consider:diversity-of-particles</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a9917f955e14/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:molecular-design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-assembly"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nanotechnology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:pattern-formation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:diversity-of-particles"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6866">
    <title>[1401.6866] Unconventional ordering behavior of semi-flexible polymers in dense brushes under compression</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-07T11:30:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6866</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Using a coarse-grained bead-spring model for semi-flexible macromolecules forming a polymer brush, structure and dynamics of the polymers is investigated, varying chain stiffness and grafting density. The anchoring condition for the grafted chains is chosen such that their first bonds are oriented along the normal to the substrate plane. 
Compression of such a semi-flexible brush by a planar piston is observed to be a two-stage process: for small compressions the chains contract by "buckling" deformation whereas for larger compression the chains exhibit a collective (almost uniform) bending deformation. Thus, the stiff polymer brush undergoes a 2-nd order phase transition of collective bond reorientation. The pressure, required to keep the stiff brush at a given degree of compression, is thereby significantly smaller than for an otherwise identical brush made of entirely flexible polymer chains! While both the brush height and the chain linear dimension in the z-direction perpendicular to the substrate increase monotonically with increasing chain stiffness, lateral (xy) chain linear dimensions exhibit a maximum at intermediate chain stiffness. Increasing the grafting density leads to a strong decrease of these lateral dimensions, compatible with an exponential decay. Also the recovery kinetics after removal of the compressing piston is studied, and found to follow a power-law / exponential decay with time. 
A simple mean-field theoretical consideration, accounting for the buckling/bending behavior of semi-flexible polymer brushes under compression, is suggested.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>simulation molecular-design nanotechnology condensed-matter phase-transitions emergence nudge-targets consider:heterogeneity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:60808dad545c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:molecular-design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nanotechnology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:phase-transitions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:emergence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:heterogeneity"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3260">
    <title>[1402.3260] Active Matter Transport and Jamming on Disordered Landscapes</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-17T12:06:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3260</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We numerically examine the transport of active run-and-tumble particles driven with a drift force over random disordered landscapes comprised of fixed obstacles. For increasing run lengths, the net particle transport initially increases before reaching a maximum and decreasing at larger run lengths. The transport reduction is associated with the formation of cluster or living crystal states that become locally jammed or clogged by the obstacles. We also find that the system dynamically jams at lower particle densities when the run length is increased. Our results indicate that there is an optimal activity level for active matter transport through quenched disorder, and could be important for understanding biological transport in complex environments or for applications of active matter particles in random media.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>traffic-models condensed-matter physics simulation interesting emergence</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a62a7d04f812/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:traffic-models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:physics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:emergence"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6242">
    <title>[1310.6242] A Random Laser as a Dynamical Network</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-30T11:21:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6242</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The mode dynamics of a random laser is investigated in experiment and theory. The laser consists of a ZnCdO/ZnO multiple quantum well with air-holes that provide the necessary feedback. Time-resolved measurements reveal multimode spectra with individually developing features but no variation from shot to shot. These findings are qualitatively reproduced with a model that exploits the specifics of a dilute system of weak scatterers and can be interpreted in terms of a lasing network. Introducing the phase-sensitive node coherence reveals new aspects of the self-organization of the laser field. Lasing is carried by connected links between a subset of scatterers, the fields on which are oscillating coherently in phase. In addition, perturbing feedback with possibly unfitting phases from frustrated other scatterers is suppressed by destructive superposition. We believe that our findings are representative at least for weakly scattering random lasers. A generalization to random laser with dense and strong scatterers seems to be possible when using a more complex scattering theory for this case.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics frickin-lasers disordered-media condensed-matter how-odd simulation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5a9761aeac83/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:frickin-lasers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:disordered-media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:how-odd"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2989">
    <title>[1309.2989] Phase behavior of binary mixtures of hard convex polyehdra</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-17T17:13:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2989</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Shape anisotropy of colloidal nanoparticles has emerged as an important design variable for engineering assemblies with targeted structure and properties. In particular, a number of polyhedral nanoparticles have been shown to exhibit a rich phase behavior [Agarwal et al., Nature Materials, 2011, 10, 230]. Since real synthesized particles have polydispersity not only in size but also in shape, we explore here the phase behavior of binary mixtures of hard convex polyhedra having similar sizes but different shapes. Choosing representative particle shapes from those readily synthesizable, we study in particular four mixtures: (i) cubes and spheres (with spheres providing a non-polyhedral reference case), (ii) cubes and truncated octahedra, (iii) cubes and cuboctahedra, and (iv) cuboctahedra and truncated octahedra. The phase behavior of such mixtures is dependent on the interplay of mixing and packing entropy, which can give rise to miscible or phase-separated states. The extent of mixing of two such particle types is expected to depend on the degree of shape similarity, relative sizes, composition, and compatibility of the crystal structures formed by the pure components. While expectedly the binary systems studied exhibit phase separation at high pressures due to the incompatible pure-component crystal structures, our study shows that the essential qualitative trends in miscibility and phase separation can be correlated to properties of the pure components, such as the relative values of the order-disorder transition pressure (ODP) of each component. Specifically, if for a mixture A+B we have that ODP_B <ODP_A and \Delta ODP = ODP_A - ODP_B, then at any particular pressure where phase separation occurs, the larger the \Delta ODP the lower the solubility of A in the B-rich ordered phase and the higher the solubility of B in the A-rich ordered phase.
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<dc:subject>physics condensed-matter simulation nanotechnology nudge-targets interesting consider:metamaterials-design</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:027ed9eb2392/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6762">
    <title>[1211.6762] Evolving fracture patterns: columnar joints, mud cracks, and polygonal terrain</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-21T13:59:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6762</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When cracks form in a thin contracting layer, they sequentially break the layer into smaller and smaller pieces. A rectilinear crack pattern encodes information about the order of crack formation, as later cracks tend to intersect with earlier cracks at right angles. In a hexagonal pattern, in contrast, the angles between all cracks at a vertex are near 120$^\circ$. However, hexagonal crack patterns are typically only seen when a crack network opens and heals repeatedly, in a thin layer, or advances by many intermittent steps into a thick layer. Here it is shown how both types of pattern can arise from identical forces, and how a rectilinear crack pattern evolves towards a hexagonal one. Such an evolution is expected when cracks undergo many opening cycles, where the cracks in any cycle are guided by the positions of cracks in the previous cycle, but when they can slightly vary their position, and order of opening. The general features of this evolution are outlined, and compared to a review of the specific patterns of contraction cracks in dried mud, polygonal terrain, columnar joints, and eroding gypsum-sand cements
]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics condensed-matter self-organization materials-science geology interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:64c8e85ce7c4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:materials-science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:geology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:interesting"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1645">
    <title>[1302.1645] Glass Transitions and Critical Points in Orientationally Disordered Crystals and Structural Glassformers: &quot;Strong&quot; Liquids are More Interesting Than We Thought</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-06T18:53:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1645</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When liquids are classified using Tg -scaled Arrhenius plots of relaxation times (or relative rates of entropy increase above Tg) across a "strong-fragile" spectrum of behaviors, the "strong" liquids have always appeared rather uninteresting [1, 2]. Here we use updated plots of the same type for crystal phases of the "rotator" variety [3] to confirm that the same pattern of behavior exists for these simpler (center of mass ordered) systems. However, in this case we can show that the "strong" systems owe their behavior to the existence of lambda-type order-disorder transitions at higher temperatures (directly observable in the cases where observations are not interrupted by prior melting)....]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics experiment condensed-matter nonlinear-dynamics models nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e9d6ce44b0fa/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:experiment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nonlinear-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6497">
    <title>[1212.6497] Hard ellipses: Equation of state, structure and self-diffusion</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-06T16:20:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6497</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We present an event-driven molecular dynamics study for hard ellipses and assess the effects of aspect ratio and area fraction on their physical properties. For state points in the plane of aspect ratio (k=1-9) and area fraction (phi=0.01-0.8), we identify three different phases, including isotropic, plastic and nematic states. The equation of state (EOS) is shown for a wide range of aspect ratios and is compared with the scaled particle theory (SPT) for the isotropic states. We find that SPT provides a good description of the EOS for the isotropic phase of hard ellipses. At large fixed phi, the reduced pressure p increases with k in both the isotropic and the plastic phases, and interestingly, its dependence on k is rather weak in the nematic phase. We rationalize the thermodynamics of hard ellipses in terms of particle motions. The plastic crystal is shown to form for aspect ratios up to k=1.4, while appearance of the stable nematic phase starts approximately at k=3. We quantitatively determine the locations of the isotropic-plastic (I-P) transition and the isotropic-nematic (I-N) transition by analyzing the bond-orientation correlations and the angular correlations, respectively. As expected, the I-P transition point is found to increase with k, while a larger k leads to a smaller area fraction where the I-N transition takes place. Moreover, our simulations strongly support that the two-dimensional nematic phase in hard ellipses has only quasi-long-range orientational order. The self-diffusion of hard ellipses is further explored and connections are revealed between the structure and the self-diffusion. We discuss the relevance of our results to the glass transition in hard ellipses. Finally, the results of the isodiffusivity lines are evaluated for hard ellipses and we discuss the effect of spatial dimension on the diffusive dynamics of hard ellipsoidal particles.]]></description>
<dc:subject>condensed-matter liquid-crystals simulation nonlinear-dynamics nudge-targets emergence discrete-event-simulators</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f84715f6aec2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:liquid-crystals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nonlinear-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:emergence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:discrete-event-simulators"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1649">
    <title>[1212.1649] The paramagnetic and glass transitions in sudoku</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-17T17:13:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1649</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We study the statistical mechanics of a model glassy system based on a familiar and popular mathematical puzzle. Sudoku puzzles provide a very rare example of a class of frustrated systems with a unique groundstate without symmetry. Here, the puzzle is recast as thermodynamic system where the number of violated rules defines the energy. We use Monte Carlo simulation to show that the "Sudoku Hamiltonian" exhibits two transitions as a function of temperature, a paramagnetic and a glass transition. Of these, the intermediate condensed phase is the only one which visits the ground state (i.e. it solves the puzzle, though this is not the purpose of the study). Both transitions are associated with an entropy change, paramagnetism measured from the dynamics of the Monte Carlo run, showing a peak in specific heat, while the residual glass entropy is determined by finding multiple instances of the glass by repeated annealing. There are relatively few such simple models for frustrated or glassy systems which exhibit both ordering and glass transitions, sudoku puzzles are unique for the ease with which they can be obtained with the proof of the existence of a unique ground state via the satisfiability of all constraints. Simulations suggest that in the glass phase there is an increase in information entropy with lowering temperature. In fact, we have shown that sudoku have the type of rugged energy landscape with multiple minima which typifies glasses in many physical systems, and this puzzling result is a manifestation of the paradox of the residual glass entropy. These readily-available puzzles can now be used as solvable model Hamiltonian systems for studying the glass transition.]]></description>
<dc:subject>condensed-matter physics critical-phenomena Sudoku phase-transitions complexology nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e63f78bf0348/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:physics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:critical-phenomena"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Sudoku"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:phase-transitions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complexology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5043">
    <title>[1212.5043] On shape and electrostatics: competing anisotropies in charged colloidal platelets</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-17T13:20:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5043</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Charged platelet suspensions, such as swelling clays, disc-like mineral crystallites or exfoliated nanosheets, are ubiquitous in nature. Their puzzling phase behaviours are nevertheless still poorly understood: while Laponite and Bentonite clay suspensions form arrested states at low densities, others, like Beidellite and Gibbsite, exhibit an equilibrium isotropic-nematic transition at moderate densities. These observations raise fundamental questions about the influence of electrostatic interactions on the isotropic-nematic transition and more generally on the organisation of charged platelets. We investigate the competition between anisotropic excluded-volume and electrostatic interactions in suspensions of thin charged disks, by means of Monte-Carlo simulations. We show that the original intrinsic anisotropy of the electrostatic potential between charged platelets, obtained within the non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann formalism, not only captures the generic features of the complex phase diagram of charged colloidal platelets, but also predicts the existence of novel structures and arrested states upon varying density and ionic strength.]]></description>
<dc:subject>condensed-matter complex-systems self-organization exotic-matter such-mundane-stuff</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a62e444852ef/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complex-systems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:exotic-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:such-mundane-stuff"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0499">
    <title>[1208.0499] Particle shape dependence in 2D granular media</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-28T11:54:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0499</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Particle shape is a key to the space-filling and strength properties of granular matter. We consider a shape parameter $eta$ describing the degree of distortion from a perfectly spherical shape. Encompassing most specific shape characteristics such as elongation, angularity and nonconvexity, $eta$ is a low-order but generic parameter that we used in a numerical benchmark test for a systematic investigation of shape-dependence in sheared granular packings composed of particles of different shapes. We find that the shear strength is an increasing function of $eta$ with nearly the same trend for all shapes, the differences appearing thus to be of second order compared to $eta$. We also observe a nontrivial behavior of packing fraction which, for all our simulated shapes, increases with $eta$ from the random close packing fraction for disks, reaches a peak considerably higher than that for disks, and subsequently declines as $eta$ is further increased. These findings suggest that a low-order description of particle shape accounts for the principal trends of packing fraction and shear strength. Hence, the effect of second-order shape parameters may be investigated by considering different shapes at the same level of $eta$.]]></description>
<dc:subject>granular-materials materials-science details-matter complex-systems condensed-matter nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:614f283ec499/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:granular-materials"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:materials-science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:details-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complex-systems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3761">
    <title>[1207.3761] The Graphs of Planar Soap Bubbles</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-03T16:23:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3761</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We characterize the graphs formed by two-dimensional soap bubbles as being exactly the 3-regular bridgeless planar multigraphs. Our characterization combines a local characterization of soap bubble graphs in terms of the curvatures of arcs meeting at common vertices, a proof that this characterization remains invariant under Moebius transformations, an application of Moebius invariance to prove bridgelessness, and a Moebius-invariant power diagram of circles previously developed by the author for its applications in graph drawing."]]></description>
<dc:subject>bubbles condensed-matter graphic-design energy-landscapes nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c23ee668387a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bubbles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:graphic-design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:energy-landscapes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3650">
    <title>[1204.3650] Evolutionary Metadynamics: a Novel Method to Predict Crystal Structures</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-19T11:36:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3650</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A novel method for crystal structure prediction, based on metadynamics and evolutionary algorithms, is presented here. This technique can be used to produce efficiently both the ground state and metastable states easily reachable from a reasonable initial structure. We use the cell shape as collective variable and evolutionary variation operators developed in the context of the USPEX method [Oganov, Glass, textit{J. Chem. Phys.}, 2006, textbf{124}, 244704; Lyakhov textit{et al., Comp. Phys. Comm.}, 2010, textbf{181}, 1623; Oganov textit{et al., Acc. Chem. Res.}, 2011, textbf{44}, 227] to equilibrate the system as a function of the collective variables. We illustrate how this approach helps one to find stable and metastable states for Al$_2$SiO$_5$, SiO$_2$, MgSiO$_3$, and carbon. Apart from predicting crystal structures, the new method can also provide insight into mechanisms of phase transitions."]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolutionary-algorithms search-algorithms physics nudge-targets condensed-matter</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a45f00f57ea0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evolutionary-algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:search-algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:physics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5440">
    <title>[1201.5440] Self-assembly of anisotropic soft particles in two dimensions</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-27T13:37:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5440</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The self assembly of core-corona discs interacting via anisotropic potentials is investigated using Monte Carlo computer simulations. A minimal interaction potential that incorporates anisotropy in a simple way is introduced. It consists in a core-corona architecture in which the center of the core is shifted with respect to the center of the corona. Anisotropy can thus be tuned by progressively shifting the position of the core. Despite its simplicity, the system self organize in a rich variety of structures including stripes, triangular and rectangular lattices, and unusual plastic crystals. Our results indicate that the amount of anisotropy does not alter the lattice spacing and only influences the type of clustering (stripes, micells, etc.) of the individual particles."]]></description>
<dc:subject>self-assembly biologically-inspired simulation pattern-formation condensed-matter</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a69592e63de5/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-assembly"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:biologically-inspired"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:pattern-formation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3516">
    <title>[1104.3516] An adaptive hierarchical domain decomposition method for parallel contact dynamics simulations of granular materials</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-02T21:41:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3516</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A fully parallel version of the contact dynamics (CD) method is presented in this paper. For large enough systems, 100% efficiency has been demonstrated for up to 256 processors using a hierarchical domain decomposition with dynamic load balancing. The iterative scheme to calculate the contact forces is left domain-wise sequential, with data exchange after each iteration step, which ensures its stability. The number of additional iterations required for convergence by the partially parallel updates at the domain boundaries becomes negligible with increasing number of particles, which allows for an effective parallelization. Compared to the sequential implementation, we found no influence of the parallelization on simulation results.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>simulation condensed-matter granular-materials complex-systems</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:bbc2bb8ca7d4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:granular-materials"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complex-systems"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1729">
    <title>[1105.1729] Evolutionary search for novel superhard materials</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-04T13:55:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1729</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We have developed a method for prediction of the hardest crystal structures in a given chemical system. It is based on the evolutionary algorithm USPEX and electronegativity-based hardness model that we have augmented with bond-valence model and graph theory. These extensions enable correct description of the hardness of layered, molecular and low-symmetry crystal structures. Applying this method to C and TiO2, we have (i) obtained a number of low-energy carbon structures with hardness slightly lower than diamond and (ii) proved that TiO2 in any of its possible polymorphs cannot be the hardest oxide, its hardness being below 17 GPa."]]></description>
<dc:subject>materials-science genetic-algorithm condensed-matter simulation nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0344adb68450/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:materials-science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:genetic-algorithm"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2359">
    <title>[1102.2359] A Phyllotactic Approach to the Structure of Collagen Fibrils</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-02T12:48:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2359</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["… We examine here how the algorithm of phyllotaxis could contribute to the analysis of the structure of collagen fibrils. Such an algorithm indeed leads to organizations giving to each element of the assembly the most homogeneous and isotropic dense environment in a situation of cylindrical symmetry. The scattered intensity expected from a phyllotactic distribution of triple helices in collagen fibrils well agrees with the major features observed along the equatorial direction of their X ray patterns. Following this approach, the aggregation of triple helices in fibrils should be considered within the frame of soft condensed matter studies rather than that of molecular crystal studies."]]></description>
<dc:subject>self-assembly nanotechnology molecular-design molecular-machinery theoretical-biology structural-biology crystallography condensed-matter</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4e0746d267c7/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-assembly"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nanotechnology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:molecular-design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:molecular-machinery"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:theoretical-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:structural-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:crystallography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3908">
    <title>[1007.3908] The effect of force chains on granular acoustics</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-03T01:16:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3908</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[can I have some of these particles, please?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>physics condensed-matter granular-materials complex-systems emergence</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3dbe793529a0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:physics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:granular-materials"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complex-systems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:emergence"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0197">
    <title>[1007.0197] Phase behavior and structure of colloidal bowl-shaped particles: simulations</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-03T14:21:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0197</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We study the phase behavior of bowl-shaped particles using computer simulations. These particles were found experimentally to form a meta-stable worm-like fluid phase in which the bowl-shaped particles have a strong tendency to stack on top of each other [M.Marechal et al, Nano Letters 10, 1907 (2010)]. In this work, we show that the transition from the low-density fluid to the worm-like phase has an interesting effect on the equation of state. The simulation results also show that the worm-like fluid phase transforms spontaneously into a columnar phase for bowls that are sufficiently deep. Furthermore, we describe the phase behavior as obtained from free energy calculations employing Monte Carlo simulations. The columnar phase is stable for bowl shapes ranging from infinitely thin bowls to surprisingly shallow bowls. … the phase diagram features four novel crystal phases and a region where the stable fluid contains worm-like stacks."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>nanotechnology self-assembly liquid-crystals condensed-matter simulation physics-is-fun</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1330956dd1e4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nanotechnology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-assembly"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:liquid-crystals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:condensed-matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:physics-is-fun"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4515">
    <title>[1006.4515] Novel Properties of Frustrated Low Dimensional Magnets with Pentagonal Symmetry</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-29T13:52:07+00:00</dc:date>
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