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Nonperturbative effects in c<1 noncritical string theory are studied using the two-matrix model. Such effects are known to have the form fixed by the string equations but the numerical coefficients have not been known so far. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nobuyuki Ishibashi , Tsunehide Kuroki , Atsushi Yamaguchi

The coherent control of wave absorption has important applications in areas such as energy harvesting, imaging, and sensing. However, most practical scenarios involve the absorption of partially coherent rather than fully coherent waves.…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-13 Cheng Guo , Shanhui Fan

While there exists a well-developed asymptotic theory of Fr\'echet means of random variables taking values in a general "finite-dimensional" metric space, there are only a few known results in which the random variables can take values in…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Adam Quinn Jaffe

The muscle contraction, operation of ATP synthase, maintaining the shape of a cell are believed to be secured by motor proteins, which can be modelled using the Brownian ratchet mechanism. We consider the randomly flashing ratchet model of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-05-09 Dmitry Vorotnikov

We investigate experimentally a two-dimensional rocking ratchet for cold atoms, realized by using a driven three-beam dissipative optical lattice. AC forces are applied in perpendicular directions by phase-modulating two of the lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-29 V. Lebedev , F. Renzoni

Low-order quantum resonances manifested by directed currents have been realized with cold atoms. Here we show that by increasing the strength of an experimentally achievable delta-kicking ratchet potential, quantum resonances of a very high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anatole Kenfack , Jiangbin Gong , Arjendu K. Pattanayak

The unreduced, universally nonperturbative analysis of arbitrary many-body interaction process reveals the irreducible, purely dynamic source of randomness. It leads to the universal definition of real system complexity (physics/9806002),…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

The purpose of this paper is to investigate forcing as a tool to construct universal models. In particular, we look at theories of initial segments of the universe and show that any model of a sufficiently rich fragment of those theories…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Francesco Parente , Matteo Viale

The emergence of nonequilibrium phenomena in individual complex wave systems has long been of fundamental interests. Its analytic studies remain notoriously difficult. Using the mathematical tool of the concentration of measure (CM), we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Ping Fang , Liyi Zhao , Chushun Tian

When active matter particles such as swimming bacteria are placed in an asymmetric array of funnels, it has been shown that a ratchet effect can occur even in the absence of an external drive. Here we examine active ratchets for two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Water molecules, confined in a carbon nanotube, were monitored using molecular dynamics simulation. Spontaneous directional transportation during a long timescale was observed in the symmetrical nanochannel by a ratchet-like mechanism. This…

Biological Physics · Physics 2008-03-21 Rongzheng Wan , Hangjun Lu , Jinyuan Li , Jingdong Bao , Jun Hu , Haiping Fang

As an effective theory, relativistic hydrodynamics is fixed by symmetries up to a set of transport coefficients. A lot of effort has been devoted to explicit calculations of these coefficients. Here we propose a shift in perspective: we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 Michal P. Heller , Alexandre Serantes , Michał Spaliński , Benjamin Withers

The central arguments for a generalised form of proper time as the basis for a unified theory, accounting for the Standard Model of particle physics and encompassing all four forces of nature including a consistent `quantum gravity', are…

General Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 David J. Jackson

We discuss here the significance of the generalization of the newtonian concept of force by that of a transformation of a certain Standard Borel Space of cardinality $\mathbf{c}$ of the continuum as the ``cause'' behind motions of material…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay M. Wagh

The goal is to show that an edge-reinforced random walk on a graph of bounded degree, with reinforcement weight function $W$ taken from a general class of reciprocally summable reinforcement weight functions, traverses a random attracting…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Vlada Limic , Pierre Tarrès

A non-autonomous version of the standard map with a periodic variation of the parameter is introduced and studied. Symmetry properties in the variables and parameters of the map are found and used to find relations between rotation numbers…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Renato Calleja , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , David Martinez-del-Rio , Arturo Olvera

We prove that the one-dimensional Euler-Poisson system driven by the Poisson forcing together with the usual &gamma;-law pressure, &gamma; &geq; 1, admits global solutions for a large class of initial data. Thus, the Poisson forcing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eitan Tadmor , Dongming Wei

Recent theoretical advances offer an exact, first-principle theory of jamming criticality in infinite dimension as well as universal scaling relations between critical exponents in all dimensions. For packings of frictionless spheres near…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-21 P. Charbonneau , E. I. Corwin , G. Parisi , F. Zamponi

The formalism of classical particle dynamics is reinvestigated according to the basic requirement of causal consistency, and a new equation of particle dynamics, which is more general and more in line with classical mechanics experiments…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 ChiYi Chen

A thorough analysis of the dynamics in a deterministic optical rocking ratchet (introduced in A. V. Arzola et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 168104 (2011)) and a comparison with experimental results are presented. The studied system consists of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-19 Alejandro V. Arzola , Karen Volke-Sepúlveda , José L. Mateos