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An exact analytical solution of the statistical multifragmentation model is found in thermodynamic limit. Excluded volume effects are taken into account in the thermodynamically self-consistent way. The model exhibits a 1-st order phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bugaev , M. I. Gorenstein , I. N. Mishustin , W. Greiner

It is well known that Glauber dynamics on spin systems typically suffer exponential slowdowns at low temperatures. This is due to the emergence of multiple metastable phases in the state space, separated by narrow bottlenecks that are hard…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Reza Gheissari , Alistair Sinclair

We prove that Ising models on the hypercube with general quadratic interactions satisfy a Poincar\'{e} inequality with respect to the natural Dirichlet form corresponding to Glauber dynamics, as soon as the operator norm of the interaction…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Ronen Eldan , Frederic Koehler , Ofer Zeitouni

We survey existing techniques to bound the mixing time of Markov chains. The mixing time is related to a geometric parameter called conductance which is a measure of edge-expansion. Bounds on conductance are typically obtained by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Venkatesan Guruswami

A key open question in the glass transition field is whether a finite temperature thermodynamic transition to the glass state exists or not. Recent simulations of coupled replicas in atomistic models have found signatures of a static…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Juan P. Garrahan

The random-cluster model is a unifying framework for studying random graphs, spin systems and electrical networks that plays a fundamental role in designing efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling algorithms for the classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Antonio Blanca , Alistair Sinclair , Xusheng Zhang

Simulated and parallel tempering are families of Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms where a temperature parameter is varied during the simulation to overcome bottlenecks to convergence due to multimodality. In this work we introduce and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Nayantara Bhatnagar , Dana Randall

Glauber dynamics of a bond-diluted Ising model on a Bethe lattice (a random graph with fixed connectivity) is investigated by an approximate theory which provides exact results for equilibrium properties. The time-dependent solutions of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hiroki Ohta

Here we extend the approach developed in \cite{adel_2} to study the thermodynamics of Taub-NUT-AdS and dyonic Taub-NUT-AdS solutions. Furthermore, we investigate in details the possible phase structures of the dyonic Taub-NUT-AdS solution.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-22 Adel Awad , Esraa Elkhateeb

We study the coevolution of a generalized Glauber dynamics for Ising spins, with tunable threshold, and of the graph topology where the dynamics takes place. This simple coevolution dynamics generates a rich phase diagram in the space of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-25 Salvatore Mandra' , Santo Fortunato , Claudio Castellano

The simplest model for non-congruent phase transition of gas-liquid type was developed in frames of modified model with no associations of a binary ionic mixture (BIM) on a homogeneous compressible ideal background (or non-ideal) electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 Nikita Stroev , Igor Iosilevskiy

Considering turbulence is crucial to understanding clouds. However, covering all scales involved in the turbulent mixing of clouds with their environment is computationally challenging, urging the development of simpler models to represent…

Since the landmark work of Lee and Yang, locating the zeros of the partition function in the complex magnetic-field plane has become a powerful method for studying phase transitions. Fisher later extended this approach to complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-21 Leïla Moueddene , Nikolaos G Fytas , Bertrand Berche

In this paper, we derive the large deviations principle for the Potts model on the complete bipartite graph $K_{n,n}$ as $n$ increases to infinity. Next, for the Potts model on $K_{n,n}$, we provide an extension of the method of aggregate…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Jose C. Hernandez , Yevgeniy Kovchegov , Peter T. Otto

This article investigates the pseudo transitions of the Blume-Capel model on two-dimensional finite-size lattices. By employing the Wang-Landau sampling method and microcanonical inflection point analysis, we identified the positions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-10 Lei Shi , Wei Liu , Xiang Li , Xin Zhang , Fangfang Wang , Kai Qi , Zengru Di

A phase-field crystal model based on the density-field approach incorporating high-order interparticle direct correlations is developed to study vapor-liquid-solid coexistence and transitions within a single continuum description.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-21 Zi-Le Wang , Zhirong Liu , Zhi-Feng Huang , Wenhui Duan

We study how the thermodynamic properties of the Triangular Plaquette Model (TPM) are influenced by the addition of extra interactions. The thermodynamics of the original TPM is trivial, while its dynamics is glassy, as usual in Kinetically…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-03-23 Silvio Franz , Giacomo Gradenigo , Stefano Spigler

The predictions of the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT) for the tagged-particle density-correlation functions and the mean-squared displacement curves are compared quantitatively and in detail to results from Newtonian-…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Th. Voigtmann , A. M. Puertas , M. Fuchs

We review the pertinent features of the phase diagram of the zero-field Blume-Capel model, focusing on the aspects of transition order, finite-size scaling and universality. In particular, we employ a range of Monte Carlo simulation methods…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-06 J. Zierenberg , N. G. Fytas , M. Weigel , W. Janke , A. Malakis

Recent results have shown that there is an acceleration in the spread of the size distribution of droplet populations in the region bordering the cloud and undersaturated ambient. We have analyzed the supersaturation balance in this region,…

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