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This paper is devoted to the robust approximation with a variational phase field approach of multiphase mean curvature flows with possibly highly contrasted mobilities. The case of harmonically additive mobilities has been addressed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Eric Bonnetier , Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou

Recent works have shown that the contact process running on the top of highly heterogeneous random networks is described by the heterogeneous mean-field theory. However, some important aspects as the transition point and strong corrections…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-08 Angélica S. Mata , Ronan S. Ferreira , Silvio C. Ferreira

We develop an approximation scheme for our worldsheet model of the sum of planar diagrams based on mean field theory. At finite coupling the mean field equations show a weak coupling solution that resembles the perturbative diagrams and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Korkut Bardakci , Charles B. Thorn

We briefly review the state-of-the-art in phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution. The focus is placed on recent applications of phase-field simulations of solid-state microstructure evolution and solidification that have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-14 D. Tourret , H. Liu , J. LLorca

This article introduces a novel mean-field game model for multi-sector economic growth in which a dynamically evolving externality, influenced by the collective actions of agents, plays a central role. Building on classical growth theories…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Pierre Lavigne , Quentin Petit , Xavier Warin

We introduce an analytical model for population dynamics with intra-specific competition, mutation and assortative mating as basic ingredients. The set of equations that describes the time evolution of population size in a mean-field…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-26 V. Schwämmle , K. Luz-Burgoa , J. S. Sá Martins , S. Moss de Oliveira

Mean-Field is an efficient way to approximate a posterior distribution in complex graphical models and constitutes the most popular class of Bayesian variational approximation methods. In most applications, the mean field distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Pierre Baqué , Jean-Hubert Hours , François Fleuret , Pascal Fua

Combinatorial optimization is a fertile testing ground for statistical physics methods developed in the context of disordered systems, allowing one to confront theoretical mean field predictions with actual properties of finite dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Houdayer , J. H. Boutet de Monvel , O. C. Martin

In this paper, a phase-field model is introduced to describe the evolution of a deformable, self-propelled object driven by surface-tension effects. The model couples an Allen-Cahn-type equation, which distinguishes the body from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Masaharu Nagayama , Koya Sakakibara , Keisuke Takasao

The structure of many multiphase systems is governed by an energy that penalizes the area of interfaces between phases weighted by surface tension coefficients. However, interface evolution laws depend also on interface mobility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Elie Bretin , Alexandre Danescu , José Penuelas , Simon Masnou

We investigate the nonequilibrium roughening transition of a one-dimensional restricted solid-on-solid model by directly sampling the stationary probability density of a suitable order parameter as the surface adsorption rate varies. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-10 J. Ricardo G. Mendonça

A phase-field formulation is introduced to simulate quantitatively microstructural pattern formation in alloys. The thin-interface limit of this formulation yields a much less stringent restriction on the choice of interface thickness than…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Alain Karma

In this paper we investigate the numerical approximation of a variant of the mean curvature flow. We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces with normal speed given by $H^k$, $k \ge 1$, where $H$ denotes the mean curvature. We use a level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Axel Kröner , Eva Kröner , Heiko Kröner

We generalize a model of growth over a disordered environment, to a large class of It\=o processes. In particular, we study how the microscopic properties of the noise influence the macroscopic growth rate. The present model can account for…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-26 Thomas Gueudré

We study the machine learning task for models with operators mapping between the Wasserstein space of probability measures and a space of functions, like e.g. in mean-field games/control problems. Two classes of neural networks, based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

Mean-field approximation is often used to explore the qualitative behaviour of phase transitions in classical spin models before employing computationally costly methods such as the Monte-Carlo techniques. We implement a 'lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Ondrej Hovorka , Timothy J. Sluckin

A limited mobility nonequilibrium solid-on-solid dynamical model for kinetic surface growth is introduced as a simple description for the morphological evolution of a growing interface under random vapor deposition and surface diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , P. Punyindu

A limited mobility nonequilibrium solid-on-solid dynamical model for kinetic surface growth is introduced as a simple description for the morphological evolution of a growing interface under random vapor deposition and surface diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Das Sarma , P. Punyindu

In this paper, we propose an efficient and flexible algorithm to solve dynamic mean-field planning problems based on an accelerated proximal gradient method. Besides an easy-to-implement gradient descent step in this algorithm, a crucial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Jiajia Yu , Rongjie Lai , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher

A multi-phase-field model for the description of the discontinuous precipitation reaction is formulated which takes into account surface diffusion along grain boundaries and interfaces as well as volume diffusion. Simulations reveal that…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-04 Lynda Amirouche , Mathis Plapp