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We introduce a new mean-field approximation based on the reconciliation of maximum entropy and linear response for correlations in the cluster variation method. Within a general formalism that includes previous mean-field methods, we derive…

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Starting from successful self-consistent mean-field models, this paper discusses why and how to go beyond the mean field approximation. To include long-range correlations from fluctuations in collective degrees of freedom, one has to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-22 M. Bender , P. -H. Heenen

Coupled oscillators are prevalent throughout the physical world. Dynamical system formulations of weakly coupled oscillator systems have proven effective at capturing the properties of real-world systems. However, these formulations usually…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-06-23 Charles F. Cadieu , Kilian Koepsell

Reaction-diffusion systems offer a powerful framework for understanding self-organized patterns in biological systems, yet controlling these patterns remains a significant challenge. As a consequence, we present a rigorous framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri , Hamza Faquir , Saad Benjelloun , Mohamed Adlene Maghenem , Irene Otero-Muras , Adnane Saoud

We establish the mean-field convergence for systems of points evolving along the gradient flow of their interaction energy when the interaction is the Coulomb potential or a super-coulombic Riesz potential, for the first time in arbitrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Sylvia Serfaty , appendix with Mitia Duerinckx

We consider a particle system with uniform coupling between a macroscopic component and individual particles. The constraint for each particle is of full rank, which implies that each movement of the macroscopic component leads to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Steffen Plunder , Bernd Simeon

Optimal prediction approximates the average solution of a large system of ordinary differential equations by a smaller system. We present how optimal prediction can be applied to a typical problem in the field of molecular dynamics, in…

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An universal approximation technique for analysis of different characteristics of states of composite infinite-dimensional quantum systems is proposed and used to prove general results concerning the properties of correlation and…

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Mean field approximation is a popular method to study the behaviour of stochastic models composed of a large number of interacting objects. When the objects are asynchronous, the mean field approximation of a population model can be…

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A continuum model for a population of self-propelled particles interacting through nematic alignment is derived from an individual-based model. The methodology consists of introducing a hydrodynamic scaling of the corresponding mean-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Pierre Degond , Angelika Manhart , Hui Yu

The Random Batch Method proposed in our previous work [Jin et al., J. Comput. Phys., 400(1), 2020] is not only a numerical method for interacting particle systems and its mean-field limit, but also can be viewed as a model of particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Shi Jin , Lei Li

Systems describing the long-range interaction between individuals have attracted a lot of attention in the last years, in particular in relation with living systems. These systems are quadratic, written under the form of transport equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Marie Doumic , Sophie Hecht , Benoit Perthame , Diane Peurichard

The paper presents a method by which the mean field dynamics of a population of dynamical systems with parameter diversity and global coupling can be described in terms of a few macroscopic degrees of freedom. The method applies to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Silvia De Monte , Francesco d'Ovidio , Erik Mosekilde

We consider a finite element approximation for a system consisting of the evolution of a curve evolving by forced curve shortening flow coupled to a reaction-diffusion equation on the evolving curve. The curve evolves inside a given domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Vanessa Styles , James Van Yperen

The mean-field approximations of many-boson dynamics are known to be effective in many physical relevant situations. The mathematical justifications of such approximations rely generally on specific considerations which depend too much on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-29 Clément Rouffort

We develop a limit theory for controlled mean field stochastic partial differential equations in a variational framework. More precisely, we prove existence results for mean field limits and particle approximations, and we establish a…

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A maximal coupling of two diffusion processes makes two diffusion particles meet as early as possible. We study the uniqueness of maximal couplings under a sort of "reflection structure" which ensures the existence of such couplings. In…

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Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bender , T. Duguet

We develop an approximation scheme for our worldsheet model of the sum of planar diagrams based on mean field theory. At finite coupling the mean field equations show a weak coupling solution that resembles the perturbative diagrams and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Korkut Bardakci , Charles B. Thorn

We address the numerical approximation of Mean Field Games with local couplings. For power-like Hamiltonians, we consider both unconstrained and constrained stationary systems with density constraints in order to model hard congestion…

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