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Publication list:
o "String-nets, single and double stranded quantum loop gases for
non-Abelian anyons",
A.Velenich, C.Chamon, X.-G. Wen
o arXiv:0911.1132
Systems with non-Abelian excitations could provide the physical
support for quantum computers. In the paper we highlight the origin
of the complexity of the Fibonacci topological phase and emphasize
the equivalence of various descriptions appearing in the literature.
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o "Spanning trees for the geometry and dynamics of compact polymers",
A.Rahmani, A.Velenich, C.Chamon,
submitted for publication.
Inspired by DNA molecules packed inside viral capsids or absorbed
on lipid membranes, we develop a computationally effective framework
to study the statics and the aging dynamics of strongly confined
polymers in two dimensions.
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o "On the Brownian gas: a field theory with a Poissonian ground state",
A.Velenich, C.Chamon, L.F.Cugliandolo, D.Kreimer,
o J.Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 235002
o arXiv:0802.3212
In order to provide a sound foundation to field-theoretic studies
of interacting fluids, we solve exactly the field theory for a gas
of non-interacting Brownian particles.
Classical particles lack a particle/antiparticle symmetry and
the corresponding field theory is strongly interacting.
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o "Dynamical arrest and replica symmetry breaking in attractive colloids",
A.Velenich, A.Parola, L.Reatto,
o Physical Review E 74, 021410 (2006)
o arXiv:cond-mat/0605466
Complex fluids for which the interparticle potential has more than
one length-scale may display counter-intuitive dynamical properties
e.g. by "freezing" upon increases in temperature.
We describe such a phenomenology using the replica method.
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