Micro- and nanoplastics have emerged as persistent and pervasive pollutants, raising concerns across environmental and biological systems. In this talk, I will show how we can use ideas from soft matter physics, especially colloid and interface science, to better understand … Read More

Neutrino self-interaction with a larger “Fermi constant” is often resorted for understanding puzzles of our universe. I will first discuss how novel neutrino self-interactions can save the sterile neutrino dark matter produced through early universe oscillation mechanism, which is otherwise … Read More

In this talk, I will illustrate two recent results of our group concerning the statistical physics of branched polymers. In the first part, I will present a graph theoretical approach to the configurational statistics of random tree-like objects, which is based … Read More

Accurately simulating long-time dynamics of quantum many-body systems—whether in real or imaginary time—is a challenge in both classical and quantum computing due to the accumulation of Trotter errors. While low-order Trotter-Suzuki decompositions are straightforward to implement, their rapidly growing error … Read More

https://indico.ijs.si/event/2913/

In this talk, after some review of axion physics, I would like to discuss our recent work about a new framework of grand unification that is equipped with an axion solution to the strong CP problem without a domain wall … Read More

The leading order quantum corrections in quantum field theory appear in the form of functional determinants, and their evaluation is very important in theoretical and phenomenological studies. We propose an efficient regularization method using the heat kernel coefficients. It enables … Read More

Life is a self-sustaining system that continuously proliferates by synthesizing membrane molecules from external raw materials, thereby enabling vesicle growth and division. Such living systems exist in a state markedly distinct from conventional physical systems, and elucidating the fundamental differences … Read More

https://indico.ijs.si/event/2967/

We investigate star polymers with varying functionalities and under varying solvent conditions confined within a slit geometry. Our approach involves an accurate estimation and validation of the effective interaction by directly computing the force between a pair of star polymers … Read More