Stavros Komineas
Publications

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• Theory of magnetism and magnetic materials


• Nonlinear phenomena in Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC)


• Pattern formation in nematic liquid crystals


• Non-topological solitons


• Charge transport in a DNA chain


• Chaotic dynamics

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Theory of magnetism and magnetic materials

• C. Moutafis, S. Komineas, C.A.F. Vaz, J.A.C. Bland, T. Shima, T. Seki, K. Takanashi
  Magnetic bubbles in perpendicular anisotropy FePt dots, 2006
  
  
• C. Moutafis, S. Komineas, C.A.F. Vaz, J.A.C. Bland, P. Eames
  Vortices in ferromagnetic elements with perpendicular anisotropy , 2006
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• S. Komineas,
  A virial theorem for vortices in ferromagnetic elements
  J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39, 5669-5679 (2006)
  
  
• S. Komineas, C.A.F. Vaz, J.A.C. Bland, N. Papanicolaou
  Bubble domains in disc-shaped ferromagnetic particles
  Phys. Rev. B 71, 060405(R) (2005)
  Visit my collaborators in the experimental Thin Film Magnetism group and Cambridge research on nanomagnets.
  
  
• S. Komineas, A.R. Bishop, F.G. Mertens,
  Stretched exponential relaxation in two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnets (postscript, pdf)
  Europhys. Lett. 61, 389-395 (2003)
  abstract / animations
  
  
• A.S. Kovalev, S. Komineas, F.G. Mertens,
  Scattering of vortex pairs in 2D easy-plane ferromagnets
  Eur. Phys. J. B 25, 89-100 (2002)
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• J. Chovan, N. Papanicolaou, and S. Komineas,
  Intermediate phase in the spiral antiferromagnet Ba₂CuGe₂O₇
  Phys. Rev. B 65, 064433 (2002)
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• S. Komineas,
  Scattering of magnetic solitons in two dimensions
  Physica D 155, 223-234 (2001)
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• S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou,
  Vortex dynamics in two-dimensional antiferromagnets
  Nonlinearity 11, 265-290 (1998)
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  See a first "step for a rigorous mathematical justification of dynamical laws for the magnetic vortices formally derived" in our paper, in:
  Feng Bo Hang and Fang Hua Lin, Acta Mathematica Sinica 17, 541-580 (2001)
  
  
• S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou,
  Topology and dynamics in ferromagnetic media
  Physica D 99, 81-107 (1996) (also available locally as pdf and postscript)
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  See a first "step for a rigorous mathematical justification of dynamical laws for the magnetic vortices formally derived" in our paper, in:
  Feng Bo Hang and Fang Hua Lin, Acta Mathematica Sinica 17, 541-580 (2001)
  

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Bose-Einstein Condensates

• N. Papanicolaou, S. Komineas, N.R. Cooper,
  Virial theorems for vortex states in a confined Bose-Einstein condensate
  Phys. Rev. A 72, 053609 (2005)
  
  
• S. Komineas, N.R. Cooper, N. Papanicolaou,
  Single vortex states in a confined Bose-Einstein condensate
  Phys. Rev. A 72, 053624 (2005)
  
  
• S. Komineas and J. Brand,
  Collisions of solitons and vortex rings in cylindrical Bose-Einstein condensates
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110401 (2005)
  See closely related recent experiments:
  N.S. Ginsberg, J. Brand, and L.V. Hau, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 040403 (2005),
  also covered in web Physics news.
  
  

N.R. Cooper, S. Komineas, N. Read, Vortex lattices in the lowest Landau level for confined Bose-Einstein condensates Phys. Rev. A 70, 033604 (2004)

S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou, Static solitary waves in axisymmetric Bose-Einstein condensates Laser Physics 14, 571 (2004) abstract

• S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou,
  Solitons, solitonic vortices, and vortex rings in a confined Bose-Einstein condensate
  Phys. Rev. A 68, 043617 (2003)
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  See related recent experiments:
  N.S. Ginsberg, J. Brand, and L.V. Hau, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 040403 (2005).
  
  

S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou, Nonlinear waves in a Cylindrical Bose-Einstein Condensate Phys. Rev. A 67, 023615 (2003) abstract / Numerical solutions for solitary waves S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou, Vortex Rings and Lieb Modes in a Cylindrical Bose-Einstein Condensate Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 070402 (2002) abstract / Numerical solutions for solitary waves

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Pattern formation in nematic liquid crystals

• S. Komineas, H. Zhao, and L. Kramer,
  Modulated structures in electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals
  Phys. Rev. E 67, 031701 (2003)
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  See a recent experiment refering to this work:
  N. Oikawa, Y. Hidaka, S. Kai, Phys. Rev. E. 70, 066204 (2005).
  
  
• S. Komineas, F. Heilmann, L. Kramer,
  Patterns formed by spiral pairs in oscillatory media
  Phys. Rev. E 63, 011103 (2001)
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Non-topological solitons

• M. Axenides, E. Floratos, S. Komineas, L. Perivolaropoulos,
  Metastable ringlike semitopological solitons
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4459 (2001)
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  See animations: Simulation of Perturbed Q Ring Decay
  
  
• M. Axenides, S. Komineas, L. Perivolaropoulos, M. Floratos,
  Dynamics of Nontopological Solitons - Q Balls
  Phys. Rev. D 61, 085006 (2000)
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  See animations: Dynamics of Q Balls (simulations on-line)
  

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Charge transport in a DNA chain

• S. Komineas, G. Kalosakas, and A.R. Bishop,
  Effects of intrinsic base-pair fluctuations on charge transport in DNA
  Phys. Rev. E 65, 061905 (2002)
  Also listed in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research (2002)
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  See recent related research of my collaborators:
  G. Kalosakas, K.O. Rasmussen, and A.R. Bishop, Journal of Chemical Physics 118, 3731 (2003)
  G. Kalosakas, K.L. Ngai, and S. Flach, Physical Review E 71, 061901 (2005).
  

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Chaotic dynamics

• S. Komineas, M. N. Vrahatis, T. Bountis,
  2D universality of period-doubling bifurcations in 3D conservative reversible mappings
  Physica A 211 (1994) 218-233 (also available locally as pdf)
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