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The condensation transition, leading to complete mutual synchronization in large populations of globally coupled chaotic Roessler oscillators, is investigated. Statistical properties of this transition and the cluster structure of partially…

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We investigate the correlation between the distribution of galaxies and the predicted gravitational-wave background of astrophysical origin. We show that the large angular scale anisotropies of this background are dominated by nearby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Omar Contigiani , Valeri Vardanyan

The clustering in redshift space is studied here to first order within the framework of gravitational instability. The distortion introduced by the peculiar velocities of galaxies results in anisotropy in the galaxy distribution and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Saleem Zaroubi , Yehuda Hoffman

We propose a mechanism borrowed from string theory which yields a non-singular transition from a phase of Ekpyrotic contraction to the expanding phase of Standard Big Bang cosmology. The same mechanism converts the initial vacuum spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-21 Robert Brandenberger , Ziwei Wang

We study the imprint of new particles on the primordial cosmological fluctuations. New particles with masses comparable to the Hubble scale produce a distinctive signature on the non-gaussianities. This feature arises in the squeezed limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-30 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Juan Maldacena

We investigate non-linear scaling relations for two-dimensional gravitational collapse in an expanding background using a 2D TreePM code and study the strongly non-linear regime ($\bar\xi \leq 200$) for power law models. Evolution of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ray , J. S. Bagla , T. Padmanabhan

We discuss gravitational effects of global scalar fields and, especially, of global topological defects. We first give an introduction to the dynamics of global fields and the formation of defects. Next we investigate the induced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ruth Durrer

We develop a straightforward analytical framework for the propagation of spatial light modes through a turbulent atmosphere. Built upon the split-step approach with the mode-based optical field representation, it directly assesses how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Konstantin Kravtsov

We investigate the feasibility of carrying out likelihood analysis on the velocities of galaxy clusters to determine power spectrum parameters. Using N-body simulations of cosmological density fields we show that the velocity field traced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rupert Croft , George Efstathiou

Turbulence exhibits significant velocity fluctuations even if the scale is much larger than the scale of the energy supply. Since any spatial correlation is negligible, these large-scale fluctuations have many degrees of freedom and are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 H. Mouri , A. Hori , Y. Kawashima , K. Hashimoto

Scale invariance and the resulting power law behaviours are seen in diverse systems. In this work we consider translation, rotational and scale invariant systems defined on a lattice, such that the variables defining the state at every…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-19 Vaibhav Wasnik

.Stochastic models based on random diffusivities, such as the diffusing-diffusivity approach, are popular concepts for the description of non-Gaussian diffusion in heterogeneous media. Studies of these models typically focus on the moments…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 V. Sposini , D. S. Grebenkov , R. Metzler , G. Oshanin , F. Seno

We numerically analyse the behavior of the full distribution of collective observables in quantum spin chains. While most of previous studies of quantum critical phenomena are limited to the first moments, here we demonstrate how quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-25 M. Moreno-Cardoner , J. F. Sherson , G. De Chiara

Noncommutative geometry can provide effective description of physics at very short distances taking into account generic effects of quantum gravity. Inflation amplifies tiny quantum fluctuations in the early universe to macroscopic scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-18 Tomi S. Koivisto , David F. Mota

The zero range process is of particular importance as a generic model for domain wall dynamics of one-dimensional systems far from equilibrium. We study this process in one dimension with rates which induce an effective attraction between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-26 Stefan Grosskinsky , Gunter M. Schuetz , Herbert Spohn

The contribution from quantum vacuum fluctuations of a real massless scalar field to the motion of a test particle that interacts with the field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting flat boundary is here investigated. There is no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-03 G. H. Camargo , V. A. De Lorenci , C. C. H. Ribeiro , F. F. Rodrigues , M. M. Silva

Fluctuations and noise may alter the behavior of dynamical systems considerably. For example, oscillations may be sustained by demographic fluctuations in biological systems where a stable fixed point is found in the absence of noise. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard P. Boland , Tobias Galla , Alan J. McKane

Observed power spectrum of matter found in Papers I and II is compared with analytical power spectra. Spatially flat cold and mixed dark matter models with cosmological constant and open models are considered. The primordial power spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Einasto , M. Einasto , E. Tago , A. A. Starobinsky , F. Atrio-Barandela , V. M"uller , A. Knebe , R. Cen

We consider the stochastic gravitational wave background induced by arbitrary source fields that are amplified during cosmological inflation. The associated tensor spectral index is shown to be given, under minimal assumptions, by a simple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Martin Teuscher , Ruth Durrer , Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau

A higher-order multiscale analysis of the dissipation range of collisionless plasma turbulence is presented using in-situ high-frequency magnetic field measurements from the Cluster spacecraft in a stationary interval of fast ambient solar…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 K. H. Kiyani , S. C. Chapman , Yu. V. Khotyaintsev , M. W. Dunlop