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physics.soc-ph2020★ 24 cited

Narrative structure of A Song of Ice and Fire creates a fictional world with realistic measures of social complexity

Thomas Gessey-Jones, Colm Connaughton, Robin Dunbar +4

Network science and data analytics are used to quantify static and dynamic structures in George R.R. Martin's epic novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, works noted for their scale and c…

cond-mat.soft2020

Sound absorption in glasses

U. Buchenau, G. D'Angelo, G. Carini +2

The paper presents a description of the sound wave absorption in glasses, from the lowest temperatures up to the glass transition, in terms of three compatible phenomenological mod…

quant-ph2020★ 3 cited

Universal separability criterion for arbitrary density matrices from causal properties of separable and entangled quantum states

Gleb A. Skorobagatko

General physical background of Peres-Horodecki positive partial transpose (ppt-) separability criterion is revealed. Especially, the physical sense of partial transpose operation i…

cond-mat.soft2020

On the swelling properties of pom-pom polymers in dilute solutions. Part 1: symmetric case

Khristine Haydukivska, Ostap Kalyuzhnyi, Viktoria Blavatska +1

We consider the simplest representative of the class of multiply branched polymer macromolecules, known as a pom-pom structure. The molecule consists of a backbone linear chain ter…

cond-mat.soft2020

Self-assembly in mixtures with competing interactions

O. Patsahan, M. Litniewski, A. Ciach

A binary mixture of particles interacting with spherically-symmetric potentials leading to microsegregation is studied by theory and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We conside…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 8 cited

Polarization rotation by external electric field in two-dimensional antiferroelectric squaric acid, HCO

A. P. Moina

A pseudospin model for description of the influence of the electric field, confined to the plane of sublattice polarization, on the two-dimensional squaric acid antiferroelectrics…

cond-mat.dis-nn2020★ 9 cited

Spreading processes in "post-epidemic" environments

V. Blavatska, Yu. Holovatch

We analyze infection spreading processes in a system where only a fraction of individuals can be affected by disease, while remaining individuals are immune. Such a pictu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 1 cited

Effect of hydrostatic pressure and longitudinal electric field on phase transitions and thermodynamic characteristics of quasione-dimensional CsHPO ferroelectric

A. S. Vdovych, I. R. Zachek, R. R. Levitskii

We propose a two-sublattice proton ordering model for the quasione-dimensional CsHPO ferroelectric with hydrogen bonds, which takes into account linear on lattice strains $…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 5 cited

Investigation of entanglement measures across the magnetization process of a highly frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg octahedral chain as a new paradigm of the localized-magnon approach

Jozef Strecka, Olesia Krupnitska, Johannes Richter

The bipartite entanglement across the magnetization process of a highly frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg octahedral chain is examined within the concept of localized magnons, which e…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 4 cited

Generalized diffusion equation with nonlocality of space-time: analytical and numerical analysis

P. Kostrobij, M. Tokarchuk, B. Markovych +1

Based on the non-Markov diffusion equation taking into account the spatial fractality and modeling for the generalized coefficient of particle diffusion $D^{αα'}(\mathbf{r},\mathbf…

cond-mat.dis-nn2020★ 4 cited

Comment on "Collective modes and gapped momentum states in liquid Ga: Experiment, theory, and simulation"

T. Bryk, I. Mryglod, G. Ruocco

We show that the presented in Phys.Rev.B, v.101, 214312 (2020) theoretical expressions for longitudinal current spectral function and dispersion of collective excitation…

physics.class-ph2020

Electrodynamics in flat spacetime of six dimensions

Yurij Yaremko

We consider the dynamics of a classical charge in flat spacetime of six dimensions. The mass shell relation of a free charge admits nonlinear oscillations. Having analyzed the prob…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 24 cited

Low-temperature thermodynamics of the two-leg ladder Ising model with trimer rungs: A mystery explained

Taras Hutak, Taras Krokhmalskii, Onofre Rojas +2

Recently, a surprising low-temperature behavior has been revealed in a two-leg ladder Ising model with trimer rungs (Weiguo Yin, arXiv:2006.08921). Motivated by these findings, we…

physics.class-ph2020★ 4 cited

Rotary dynamics of the rigid body electric dipole under the radiation reaction

Askold Duviryak

Rotation of a permanently polarized rigid body under the radiation reaction torque is considered. Dynamics of the spinning top is derived from a balance condition of the angular mo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 5 cited

Unusual Electrical Conductivity Driven by Localized Stoichiometry Modification at Vertical Epitaxial Interfaces

Wenrui Zhang, Shaobo Cheng, Christopher M Rouleau +7

Precise control of lattice mismatch accommodation and cation interdiffusion across the interface is critical to modulate correlated functionalities in epitaxial heterostructures, p…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 11 cited

DNA versus RNA -- which shows higher electronic conduction?

Abhishek Aggarwal, Saientan Bag, Ravindra Venkatramani +2

In this study, we compare the charge transport properties of multiple (double stranded) dsRNA sequences with corresponding dsDNA sequences. Recent studies have presented a contradi…

cs.DC2020★ 8 cited

Distributed-Memory DMRG via Sparse and Dense Parallel Tensor Contractions

Ryan Levy, Edgar Solomonik, Bryan K. Clark

The Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) algorithm is a powerful tool for solving eigenvalue problems to model quantum systems. DMRG relies on tensor contractions and dense…

gr-qc2020

Solvable two-particle systems with time-asymmetric interactions in de Sitter space

Askold Duviryak

The two-particle models in de Sitter space-time with time-asymmetric retarded-advanced interactions are constructed. Particular cases of the field-type electromagnetic and scalar i…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 2 cited

Correlation functions in mixtures with energetically favoured nearest-neighbours of different kind: a size-asymmetric case

O. Patsahan, A. Meyra, A. Ciach

Binary mixtures of hard-spheres with different diameters and square-well attraction between different particles are studied by theory and Monte Carlo simulations. In our mesoscopic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 17 cited

Voltage-controlled binary conductance switching in gold-4,4'-bipyridine-gold single-molecule nanowires

Gréta Mezei, Zoltán Balogh, András Magyarkuti +1

We investigate gold-4,4'-bipyridine-gold single-molecule junctions with the mechanically controllable break junction technique at cryogenic temperature (). We obse…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 8 cited

Insights into nature of a magnetization plateau of 3-4 coordination polymer [DyCu] from a spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg orthogonal-dimer chain

J. Strečka, L. Gálisová, T. Verkholyak

The ground state and magnetization process of an exactly solved spin- Ising-Heisenberg orthogonal-dimer chain with two different gyromagnetic factors of the Ising and Heisenbe…

hep-th2020★ 33 cited

Operator expansions, layer susceptibility and two-point functions in BCFT

Parijat Dey, Tobias Hansen, Mykola Shpot

We show that in boundary CFTs, there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the boundary operator expansion of the two-point correlation function and a power series expansion o…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 5 cited

Velocity autocorrelations across the molecular-atomic fluid transformation in hydrogen under pressure

G. Ruocco, T. Bryk, C. Pierleoni +1

Non-monotonous changes in velocity autocorrelations across the transformation from molecular to atomic fluid in hydrogen under pressure are studied by ab initio molecular dynamics…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 6 cited

Diffusion of hard sphere fluids in disordered porous media: Enskog theory description

M. F. Holovko, M. Ya. Korvatska

We use the Enskog theory for the description of the self-diffusion coefficient of hard sphere fluids in disordered porous media. Using the scaled particle theory previously develop…