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Phase transition and anisotropic deformations of neutron star matter (2012)
Journal Article
Nelmes, S., & Piette, B. (2012). Phase transition and anisotropic deformations of neutron star matter. Physical Review D, 85(12), Article 123004. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.85.123004

The Skyrme model is a low energy, effective field theory for QCD that when coupled to a gravitational field provides an ideal semiclassical model to describe neutron stars. We use the Skyrme crystal solution composed of a lattice of α-like particles... Read More about Phase transition and anisotropic deformations of neutron star matter.

Biopolymer hairpin loops sustained by polarons (2012)
Journal Article
Chakrabarti, B., Piette, B., & Zakrzewski, W. (2012). Biopolymer hairpin loops sustained by polarons. Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 86(2), Article 021910. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.86.021910

We show that polarons can sustain looplike configurations in flexible biopolymers and that the size of the loops depend on both the flexural rigidity of the polymer and the electron-phonon coupling constant. In particular we show that for single stra... Read More about Biopolymer hairpin loops sustained by polarons.