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A non-isothermal phase field model that captures both displacive and diffusive phase transformations in a unified framework is presented. The model is developed in a formal thermodynamic setting, which provides guidance on admissible…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-02 Mirko Maraldi , Garth N. Wells , Luisa Molari

In this paper general dynamic equations describing the time evolution of isothermal quasi-incompressible multicomponent liquids are derived in the framework of the classical Ginzburg-Landau theory of first order phase transformations. Based…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-28 Gyula I. Toth

Liquid-gas phase transition in statistical mechanics is a long-standing dilemma not yet well explained. In this paper we propose a novel approach to this dilemma, by: 1). Putting forth a new space homogeneity assumption. 2). Giving a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuan-Xing Gui

An industrial scheme, to simulate the two compressible phase flow in porous media, consists in a finite volume method together with a phase-by-phase upstream scheme. The implicit finite volume scheme satisfies industrial constraints of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Bilal Saad , Mazen Saad

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of the anatomy of both thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, together with the relationships between their constituent parts. Based on this analysis, using the renormalization group and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-22 David A. Lavis , Reimer Kuehn , Roman Frigg

We have considered a model of a small finite system with internal particles and surface degrees of freedom. All the main statistical distributions were explicitly obtained, on a pre thermodynamic limit basis. The concept of temperature or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-11 D. M. Naplekov , V. V. Yanovsky

We study a discrete version of a biaxial nematic liquid crystal model with external fields via an approach based on the solution of differential identities for the partition function. In the thermodynamic limit, we derive the free energy of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2024-02-12 Giovanni De Matteis , Francesco Giglio , Antonio Moro

A general equation of state for the hard-body reference system of real fluid has been developed from first principles, statistical mechanical arguments using metric differential geometry to describe the "available volume," V0, and its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. Kenney , Richard J. Petti

Stochastic hydrodynamics is a central tool in the study of first order phase transitions at a fundamental level. Combined with sophisticated free energy models, e.g. as developed in classical Density Functional Theory, complex processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 James F. Lutsko

Numerous full-field numerical methods exist concerning the digital description of polycrystalline materials and the modeling of their evolution during thermomechanical treatments. However, these strategies are globally dedicated to the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Nitish Chandrappa , Marc Bernacki

We identify a phase transition between two kinds of volume-law entangled phases in non-local but few-body unitary dynamics with local projective measurements. In one phase, a finite fraction of the system belongs to a fully-entangled state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Sagar Vijay

We develop a general framework to calculate the many-body density of states (DOS) of isolated and interacting quantum systems. Based on the generalized coherent state formalism and the Simon-Lieb bounds for a quantum partition function, our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-17 Deniz Coskun , R. Chitra

We construct a finite element method for the numerical solution of a fractional porous medium equation on a bounded open Lipschitz polytopal domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$, where $d = 2$ or $3$. The pressure in the model is defined…

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We present a formalism to describe slowly decaying systems in the context of finite Markov chains obeying detailed balance. We show that phase space can be partitioned into approximately decoupled regions, in which one may introduce…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hernan Larralde , Francois Leyvraz , David P. Sanders

Among theoretical issues in General Relativity the problem of constructing its Hamiltonian formulation is still of interest. The most of attempts to quantize Gravity are based upon Dirac generalization of Hamiltonian dynamics for system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-09 T. P. Shestakova

We have obtained an exact expression for the phase-space volume corresponding to a microcanonical ensemble of systems under center of mass, total linear and angular momenta conservation constraints, and arbitrary constraints on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-08 I. H. Umirzakov

We introduce a numerical method to simulate nonlinear open quantum dynamics of a particle in situations where its state undergoes significant expansion in phase space while generating small quantum features at the phase-space Planck scale.…

The numerical solutions of nonlocal and local Boltzmann kinetic equations for the simulation of central heavy ion reactions are parameterized in terms of time dependent thermodynamical variables in the Fermi liquid sense. This allows one to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Klaus Morawetz

In a recent class of phase field crystal (PFC) models, the density order parameter is coupled to powers of its mean field. This effectively introduces a phenomenology of higher-order direct correlation functions acting on long wavelengths,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Daniel L. Coelho , Duncan Burns , Emily Wilson , Nikolas Provatas