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For any configuration of a static plane-symmetric distribution of matter along space-time, there are coordinates where the metric can be put explicitly as a functional of the energy density and pressures. It satisfies Einstein equations as…

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We study the inverse problem in Optical Tomography of determining the optical properties of a medium $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, with $n\geq 3$, under the so-called diffusion approximation. We consider the time-harmonic case where $\Omega$…

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Time crystals are unexpected states of matter that spontaneously break time translation symmetry either in a discrete or continuous manner. However, spatially-mesoscale space-time crystals that break both the space and time symmetries have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-24 Hanqing Zhao , Ivan I. Smalyukh

In the Hammersley harness processes the real-valued height at each site i in Z^d is updated at rate 1 to an average of the neighboring heights plus a centered random variable (the noise). We construct the process "a la Harris"…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Pablo A. Ferrari , Beat M. Niederhauser

Stability of self-similar solutions for gravitational collapse is an important problem to be investigated from the perspectives of their nature as an attractor, critical phenomena and instability of a naked singularity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eiji Mitsuda , Akira Tomimatsu

We report a systematic molecular dynamics study of the isochoric equilibration of hard-sphere fluids in their metastable regime close to the glass transition. The thermalization process starts with the system prepared in a non-equilibrium…

The microscopic structure of space and time is investigated. It is proposed that space and time of an inertial observer $\Sigma$ are most conveniently described as a crystal array $\Lambda$, with nodes representing measurement `tickmarks'…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Lieu

This article deals with Coulomb gases at an intermediate temperature regime, in which no structure is observed at the microscopic level, but the mass in confined to a compact set. Our main result is a concentration inequality around the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-13 David Padilla-Garza

We show that the mechanism of quantum freeze of fidelity decay for perturbations with zero time-average, recently discovered for a specific case of integrable dynamics [New J. Phys. 5 (2003) 109], can be generalized to arbitrary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomaz Prosen , Marko Znidaric

Open many-body quantum systems can exhibit intriguing nonequilibrium phases of matter, such as time crystals. In these phases, the state of the system spontaneously breaks the time-translation symmetry of the dynamical generator, which…

Self-gravitating systems are expected to reach a statistical equilibrium state either through collisional relaxation or violent collisionless relaxation. However, a maximum entropy state does not always exist and the system may undergo a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. H. Chavanis , C. Rosier , C. Sire

This work studies the symmetries, the associated momentum map, and relative equilibria of a mechanical system consisting of a small axisymmetric magnetic body-dipole in an also axisymmetric external magnetic field that additionally exhibits…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Lyudmila Grigoryeva , Juan-Pablo Ortega , Stanislav Zub

We consider scenarios where the dynamics of a quantum system are partially determined by prior local measurements of some interacting environmental degrees of freedom. The resulting effective system dynamics are described by a disordered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Šárka Blahnik , Sarah Shandera

In crystal optics the special status of the rest frame of the crystal means that space-time symmetry is less restrictive of electrodynamic phenomena than it is of static electromagnetic effects. A relativistic justification for this claim…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-28 Richard J. Potton

The coupling of a mesoscopic system with its environment usually causes total decoherence: at long times the reduced density matrix of the system evolves in time to a limit which is independent of its initial value, losing all the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Amnon Aharony , Shmuel Gurvitz , Yasuhiro Tokura , Ora Entin-Wohlmna , Sushanta Dattagupta

This study explores singularity-free solutions to the static, spherical symmetric Einstein equations with the standard Schwarzschild solution as a boundary condition. Imposing the absence of curvature singularities and requiring…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Sune Rastad Bahn , Michael Cramer Andersen

We perform a detailed study of the relaxation towards equilibrium in the Hamiltonian Mean-Field (HMF) model, a prototype for long-range interactions in $N$-particle dynamics. In particular, we point out the role played by the infinity of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Y. Yamaguchi , J. Barr'e , F. Bouchet , T. Dauxois , S. Ruffo

Motivated by the Generalized Uncertainty Principle, covariance, and a minimum measurable time, we propose a deformation of the Heisenberg algebra and show that this leads to corrections to all quantum mechanical systems. We also demonstrate…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Mir Faizal , Mohammed M. Khalil , Saurya Das

The formation of a phase of matter can be associated with the spontaneous breaking of a symmetry. For crystallization, this broken symmetry is the spatial translation symmetry, as the atoms spontaneously localize in a periodic fashion. In…

We analyze equilibration times of subsystems of a larger system under a random total Hamiltonian, in which the basis of the Hamiltonian is drawn from the Haar measure. We obtain that the time of equilibration is of the order of the inverse…