Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Programmable matter explores how collections of computationally limited agents acting locally and asynchronously can achieve some useful coordinated behavior.  We take a stochastic approach using techniques from randomized algorithms and statistical physics to develop distributed algorithms for emergent collective behaviors that give guarantees and are robust to failures.  By analyzing the Gibbs distribution of various fixed-magnetization models from equilibrium statistical mechanics, we show that particles moving stochastically according to local affinities can so

The work deals with the existence of solutions of an integro-differential equation in the case of the normal diffusion and the influx/efflux term proportional to the Dirac delta function in the presence of the drift term. The proof of the existence of solutions relies on a fixed point technique. We use the solvability conditions for the non-Fredholm elliptic operators in unbounded domains and discuss how the introduction of the transport term influences the regularity of the solutions.

The Ginzburg-Landau model is a phenomenological description of superconductivity. A key feature of type-II superconductors is the emergence of singularities, known as vortices, which occur when the external magnetic field exceeds the first critical field. Determining the location and number of these vortices is crucial. Furthermore, the presence of impurities in the material can influence the configuration of these singularities.

We consider the mean field Bose gas on the unit torus at temperatures proportional to the critical temperature of the Bose—Einstein condensation phase transition. We discuss trace norm convergence of the Gibbs state to a state given by a convex combination of quasi-free states. Two consequences of this relation are precise asymptotic formulas for the two-point function and the distribution of the number of particles in the condensate. A crucial ingredient of the proof is a novel abstract correlation inequality.

As is well known, many materials freeze at low temperatures. Microscopically,
  this means that their molecules form a phase where there is long range order
  in their positions. Despite their ubiquity, proving that these freezing
  transitions occur in realistic microscopic models has been a significant
  challenge, and it remains an open problem in continuum models at positive
  temperatures. In this talk, I will focus on lattice particle models, in which

As highly tunable platforms with exotic rich phase diagrams, moiré materials have captured the hearts and minds of physicists. Moiré materials arise when 2D crystal layers are stacked at relative twists. Their almost periodicity and multiscale behavior make these materials particularly mathematically appealing. We will describe the challenges in establishing a framework to study (phonon/vibrational) wave propagation in these materials, and explain how to overcome them.

We will discuss the quantum dynamics associated with ergodic Schroedinger operators. Anderson localization (pure point spectrum with exponentially decaying eigenfunctions) has been obtained for a variety of ergodic operator families, but it is well known that Anderson localization is highly unstable and can also be destroyed by generic rank one perturbations.