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Detection of material inhomogeneities is an important task in magnetic imaging and plays a significant role in understanding physical processes. For example, in spintronics, the sample heterogeneity determines the onset of current-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Illia Horenko , Davi Rodrigues , Terence O'Kane , Karin Everschor-Sitte

Elastomeric mechanical metamaterials exhibit unconventional behaviour, emerging from their microstructures often deforming in a highly nonlinear and unstable manner. Such microstructural pattern transformations lead to non-local behaviour…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-18 S. O. Sperling , T. Guo , R. H. J. Peerlings , V. G. Kouznetsova , M. G. D. Geers , O. Rokoš

We prove that the statistical properties of random perturbations of a nonuniformly hyperbolic diffeomorphism are described by a finite number of stationary measures. We also give necessary and sufficient conditions for the stochastic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Jose F. Alves , Vitor Araujo , Carlos H. Vasquez

In this work, we investigate the statistical computation of the Boltzmann entropy of statistical samples. For this purpose, we use both histogram and kernel function to estimate the probability density function of statistical samples. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-23 Ning Sui , Min Li , Ping He

Chaotic systems that decompose into two cells connected only by a narrow channel exhibit characteristic deviations of their quantum spectral statistics from the canonical random-matrix ensembles. The equilibration between the cells…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 Thomas Dittrich , Gert Koboldt , Bernhard Mehlig , Holger Schanz

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between chaos and homoclinic orbits from a quantitative perspective. Let f be a C^r diffeomorphism (r > 1) on a compact Riemannian manifold preserving an ergodic hyperbolic measure. We show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Gang Liao , Jing Wei

A general method is presented for modeling high entropy alloys as ensembles of randomly sampled, ordered configurations on a given lattice. Statistical mechanics is applied post hoc to derive the ensemble properties as a function of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-24 Andrew Novick , Quan Nguyen , Roman Garnett , Eric Toberer , Vladan Stevanović

In this Rapid Research Note the application of recently introduced [Physica A 277 (2000) 157] entropic measure S_Delta of spatial disorder for systems of finite-sized objects is presented. In the thermodynamic limit the critical behaviour…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-27 R. Piasecki , A. Czainski

This paper examines the statistical mechanical and thermodynamical consequences of variable phase-space volume element $h_I=\bigtriangleup x_i\bigtriangleup p_i$. Varying $h_I$ leads to variations in the amount of measured information of a…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Kevin Vanslette

We generate new hierarchy of many-parameter family of maps of the interval [0,1] with an invariant measure, by composition of the chaotic maps of reference [1]. Using the measure, we calculate Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, or equivalently…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. A. Jafarizadeh , S. Behnia , S. Khorram , H. Naghshara

Computing the electronic structure of incommensurate materials is a central challenge in condensed matter physics, requiring efficient ways to approximate spectral quantities such as the density of states (DoS). In this paper, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Eric Cancès , Daniel Massatt , Long Meng , Étienne Polack , Xue Quan

Highly excited many-particle states in quantum systems such as nuclei, atoms, quantum dots, spin systems, quantum computers etc., can be considered as ``chaotic'' superpositions of mean-field basis states (Slater determinants, products of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 V. V. Flambaum , F. M. Izrailev

We study stochastic ordering of system lifetimes with dependent and heterogeneous components whose marginal distributions are obtained through transformations of a common baseline. The dependence structure is modeled via Archimedean…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Idir Arab , Milto Hadjikyriakou , Paulo Eduardo Oliveira

We introduce structural heterogeneity, a new topological characteristic for semi-ordered materials that captures their degree of organisation at a mesoscopic level and tracks their time-evolution, ultimately detecting the order-disorder…

Statistical mechanics has grown without bounds in space. Statistical mechanics of point particles in an unbounded perfect gas is commonly accepted as a foundation for understanding many systems, including liquids like the concentrated salt…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-24 Bob Eisenberg

The time evolution of complex systems usually can be described through stochastic processes. These processes are measured at finite resolution, what necessarily reduces them to finite sequences of real numbers. In order to relate these data…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Tavares , L. S. Lucena

When an experimentalist measures a time series of qubits, the outcomes generate a classical stochastic process. We show that measurement induces high complexity in these processes in two specific senses: they are inherently unpredictable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ariadna E. Venegas-Li , Alexandra M. Jurgens , James P. Crutchfield

It is always some constraint that yields any nontrivial structure from statistical averages. As epitomized by the Boltzmann distribution, the energy conservation is often the principal constraint acting on mechanical systems. Here, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Naoki Sato , Zensho Yoshida

Exponential stochastic compression is the process when every second cell of an infinite chain may increase its weight merging randomly with left, right, or both neighboring cells. The total mass conservation is assumed. After that, merged…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Anton A Kutsenko

Nonparametric rank tests for homogeneity and component independence are proposed, which are based on data compressors. For homogeneity testing the idea is to compress the binary string obtained by ordering the two joint samples and writing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Daniil Ryabko , Juergen Schmidhuber