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A cellular automaton model is presented for random walkers with biologically motivated interactions favoring local alignment and leading to collective motion or swarming behavior. The degree of alignment is controlled by a sensitivity…

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The standard field-theoretical procedure to study the effect of long wavelength fluctuations on a genuine second-order phase transition is applied to the Mode-Coupling-Theory (MCT) dynamical singularity at $T_c$ in the $\beta$ regime.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-07-17 Tommaso Rizzo

We develop a dynamic mean-field theory for polar active particles that interact through a self-generated field, in particular one generated through emitting a chemical signal. While being a form of chemotactic response, it is different from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-15 Andreas Fischer , Friederike Schmid , Thomas Speck

We predict spontaneous nematic order in an ensemble of active force generators with elastic interactions as a minimal model for early nematic alignment of short stress fibers in non-motile, adhered cells. Mean-field theory is formally…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Benjamin M. Friedrich , Samuel A. Safran

Within the constrained Hartree-Fock (CHF) theory, an analytic condition is derived to estimate whether a concept of the self-consistent mean field is realized or not in level repulsive region. The derived condition states that an iterative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Lu Guo , Fumihiko Sakata , Enguang Zhao

The mean-field optical phase transition in multimode equal-coupling photonic networks is studied by temporal evolution of the nonlinear equations of motion of the coupled modes. Analogies to statistical mechanics models of interacting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-18 Oliver Melchert

We discuss conditions to be put on mean-field-like theories to be able to describe fundamental physical phenomena in disordered electron systems. In particular, we investigate options for a consistent mean-field theory of electron…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-09-16 V. Janis , J. Kolorenc

We propose an entanglement mean field theory inspired approach for dealing with interacting classical many-body systems. It involves a coarse-graining technique that terminates a step before the mean field theory: While mean field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-12 Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

We present a novel and convenient mean-field method, and apply it to study the metallic/antiferromagnetic interface of k-(BEDT-TTF)_2Cu[N(CN)]_2 Y organic superconductors (BEDT_TTF is bis-ethylen-dithio-tetrathiafulvalene, Y=Cl, Br). The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-26 A. Painelli , A. Girlando , A. Fortunelli

We present a comprehensive study of Vicsek-style self-propelled particle models in two and three space dimensions. The onset of collective motion in such stochastic models with only local alignment interactions is studied in detail and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Guillaume Grégoire , Franck Raynaud

In a system of noisy self-propelled particles with interactions that favor directional alignment, collective motion will appear if the density of particles increases beyond a certain threshold. In this paper, we argue that such a threshold…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-29 Chiu Fan Lee

We study the mean-field limits of critical points of interaction energies with Coulombian singularity. An important feature of our setting is that we allow interaction between particles of opposite signs. Particles of opposite signs attract…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Jan Peszek , Rémy Rodiac

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) has opened new perspectives for the investigation of strongly correlated electron systems and greatly improved our understanding of correlation effects in models and materials. In contrast to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-16 Dieter Vollhardt

The extended dynamical mean field theory has played an important role in the study of quantum phase transitions in heavy fermion systems. In order to incorporate the physics of unconventional superconductivity, we develop a cluster version…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 J. H. Pixley , Ang Cai , Qimiao Si

In this paper, we consider the problem of joint parameter estimation for drift and diffusion coefficients of a stochastic McKean-Vlasov equation and for the associated system of interacting particles. The analysis is provided in a general…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Chiara Amorino , Akram Heidari , Vytautė Pilipauskaitė , Mark Podolskij

We study the pairwise annihilation process $A+A\to$ inert of a number of random walkers, which originally are localized in a small region in space. The size of the colony and the typical distance between particles increases with time and,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg Foltin , Karin A. Dahmen , Nadav M. Shnerb

Motivated by mean-field games (MFG) with common noise on the one hand and pathwise stochastic control theory on the other, we formulate here a linear-quadratic (LQ) MFG with rough common noise, along with a satisfactory well-posedness…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Peter K. Friz , Ioannis Gasteratos , Ulrich Horst , Stefanos Theodorakopoulos

In this work, we formulate an abstract framework to study mean-field systems. In contrast to most approaches in the available literature which primarily rely on the analysis of SDEs, ours is based on optimal transport and semigroup theory.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Tau Shean Lim , Chao Dun Teoh

We develop a classical density functional theory (DFT) for two site associating fluids in spatially uniform external fields which exhibit orientational inhomogeneities. The Helmholtz free energy functional is obtain using Wertheim's…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 B. D. Marshall , W. G. Chapman , M. M. Telo da Gama

In real magnets the tendency towards ferromagnetism, promoted by exchange coupling, is usually frustrated by dipolar interaction. As a result, the uniformly ordered phase is replaced by modulated (multi-domain) phases, characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Sergio A. Cannas , Alessandro Vindigni