SerraNA: a program to determine nucleic acids elasticity from simulation data

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 22:34 (2020) 19254-19266

Authors:

Victor Velasco-Berrelleza, Matthew Burman, Jack W Shepherd, Mark C Leake, Ramin Golestanian, Agnes Noy

Spin crossovers and superdiffusion in the one-dimensional Hubbard model

Physical Review B American Physical Society 102:11 (2020) 115121

Authors:

Michele Fava, Brayden Ware, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Romain Vasseur, Siddharth Ashok Parameswaran

Abstract:

We use tools from integrability and generalized hydrodynamics to study finite-temperature dynamics in the one-dimensional Hubbard model. First, we examine charge, spin, and energy transport away from half-filling and zero magnetization, focusing on the strong coupling regime where we identify a rich interplay of temperature and energy scales, with crossovers between distinct dynamical regimes. We identify an intermediate-temperature regime analogous to the spin-incoherent Luttinger liquid, where spin degrees of freedom are hot but charge degrees of freedom are at low temperature. We demonstrate that the spin Drude weight exhibits sharp features at the crossover between this regime and the low-temperature Luttinger liquid regime, which are absent in the charge and energy response, and rationalize this behavior in terms of the properties of Bethe ansatz quasiparticles. We then turn to the dynamics along special lines in the phase diagram corresponding to half-filling and/or zero magnetization where on general grounds we anticipate that the transport is subballistic but superdiffusive. We provide analytical and numerical evidence for Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) dynamical scaling (with length and time scales related via x 鈭� t 2 / 3 ) along both lines and at the SO ( 4 ) -symmetric point where they intersect. Our results suggest that both spin-coherence crossovers and KPZ scaling may be accessed in near-term experiments with optical lattice Hubbard emulators.

Wrinkling Instability in 3D Active Nematics

Nano Letters American Chemical Society (ACS) 20:9 (2020) 6281-6288

Authors:

Tobias Stru虉bing, Amir Khosravanizadeh, Andrej Vilfan, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Ramin Golestanian, Isabella Guido

Reconfigurable T鈥恓unction DNA Origami

Angewandte Chemie Wiley 132:37 (2020) 16076-16080

Authors:

Katherine G Young, Behnam Najafi, William M Sant, Sonia Contera, Ard A Louis, Jonathan PK Doye, Andrew J Turberfield, Jonathan Bath

Abstract:

AbstractDNA self鈥恆ssembly allows the construction of nanometre鈥恠cale structures and devices. Structures with thousands of unique components are routinely assembled in good yield. Experimental progress has been rapid, based largely on empirical design rules. Herein, we demonstrate a DNA origami technique designed as a model system with which to explore the mechanism of assembly. The origami fold is controlled through single鈥恠tranded loops embedded in a double鈥恠tranded DNA template and is programmed by a set of double鈥恠tranded linkers that specify pairwise interactions between loop sequences. Assembly is via T鈥恓unctions formed by hybridization of single鈥恠tranded overhangs on the linkers with the loops. The sequence of loops on the template and the set of interaction rules embodied in the linkers can be reconfigured with ease. We show that a set of just two interaction rules can be used to assemble simple T鈥恓unction origami motifs and that assembly can be performed at room temperature.

Finite temperature and quench dynamics in the Transverse Field Ising Model from form factor expansions

SciPost Physics SciPost 9:3 (2020) 033

Authors:

E Granet, M Fagotti, Fhl Essler

Abstract:

We consider the problems of calculating the dynamical order parameter two-point function at finite temperatures and the one-point function after a quantum quench in the transverse field Ising chain. Both of these can be expressed in terms of form factor sums in the basis of physical excitations of the model. We develop a general framework for carrying out these sums based on a decomposition of form factors into partial fractions, which leads to a factorization of the multiple sums and permits them to be evaluated asymptotically. This naturally leads to systematic low density expansions. At late times these expansions can be summed to all orders by means of a determinant representation. Our method has a natural generalization to semi-local operators in interacting integrable models.