Open Calls for Papers

EPJB: Topical Issue on Advances in Quasi-Periodic and Non-Commensurate Systems

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Published on 24 April 2019

Non-commensurate and quasi-periodic systems are ubiquitous in solid-state physics such as misaligned van-der-Waals heterostructures or 2D Moiré lattices, optical lattices, quantum chaos and stochastic processes as well as bichromatically driven systems. Usually, the communities are relatively disjunct and separated from each other - nevertheless they are employing related techniques and may benefit from each other.

This Topical Issue is dedicated to combine these different branches of solid-state physics and to take advantage of synergy effects. It aims to collect original research articles, mini-reviews and pedagogical introductions that report recent advances in these areas of active research. There will be a regular referee process before acceptance of the manuscripts.

Guest Editors:

• Tobias Stauber, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Sigmund Kohler, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Submission is now open. Contributions should be submitted to the Editorial Office of EPJ B via https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/epjb. Submissions should be clearly identified as intended for the topical issue “Advances in Quasi-Periodic and Non-Commensurate Systems” (use the pull down menu).

If you experience any difficulties with the submission process or for further details and information, please contact the editorial office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

EPJB: Topical Issue on Recent Advances in the Theory of Disordered Systems

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Published on 17 December 2018

Disordered systems in condensed matter theory and in statistical physics occur in various contexts: electrons or phonons in solids with many impurities, spins on aperiodic or random lattices, molecules in structural glasses, and many more. In recent years much progress has been made in understanding collective phenomena emerging from the interplay of the interaction between many fast degrees of freedom and the disordered environment: many body localization and quantum phase transitions in disordered quantum many body systems, dynamical heterogeneities in spin glasses and glassy materials, phase transitions in random ferromagnets and random field systems and much more. This Topical Issue intends to collect original research articles, mini-reviews and pedagogical introductions that report recent advances in these areas of active research: the theory of disordered systems.

Editors:

• Ferenc Iglói, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics,Budapest, Hungary, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Heiko Rieger, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Submission is now open. Contributions should be submitted to the Editorial Office of EPJ B https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/epjb. Submissions should be clearly identified as intended for the topical issue “Complex Systems Science meets Matter and Materials” (use the pull down menu).

If you experience any difficulties with the submission process or for further details and information, please contact the editorial office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

EPJ B Special Issue: Complex Systems Science meets Matter and Materials

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Published on 23 January 2018

Understanding the functional properties of materials is often a multi-scale problem where many factors cooperate. While for most practical purposes it is useful to idealize the materials response as a deterministic function of the externally applied perturbation, heterogeneities and fluctuations are unavoidable. This issue is particularly important in materials that have a disordered microstructure as in amorphous and glassy materials, granular matter, soft materials, but also in general for nano materials. While in macroscopic samples, noise and fluctuations are typically averaged out, when the sample size is reduced towards the nanoscale traditional methods are bound to fail. Small systems are typically associated with fluctuations that are large as compared to the mean, so that homogenization methods are ineffective. We thus need a theoretical formalism that can treat explicitly fluctuations. The physics of complex non-equilibrium disordered systems provides a possible framework to develop these ideas into concrete tools for understanding and designing the response of materials.

The EPJB topical issue on "Complex Systems Science meets Matter and Materials” will collect theoretical, experimental and computational contributions to materials science studied with the perspective of complex systems. Relevant topics include crackling noise, relaxation of glassy systems, mechanical properties of disordered systems, materials design using machine learning, rheology of soft matter (colloidal systems, fibre networks) and fluctuations in nano-materials. The unifying theme of this topical issue is the view of a material as a complex interacting system where the macroscopic response emerges from a non-trivial interaction between its microscopic or mesoscopic constituents.

Guest Editor:

• Stefano Zapperi, University of Milan, Department of Physics, Milano, Italy, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Submission is now open. Contributions should be submitted to the Editorial Office of EPJ B https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/epjb. Submissions should be clearly identified as intended for the topical issue “Complex Systems Science meets Matter and Materials” (use the pull down menu).

If you experience any difficulties with the submission process or for further details and information, please contact the editorial office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .