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Unlike the classical exponential relaxation law, the widely prevailing universal law with its fractional power-law dependence of susceptibility on frequency cannot be explained in the framework of any intuitively simple physical concept.…

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In complex systems, the interplay between nonlinear and stochastic dynamics, e.g., J. Monod's necessity and chance, gives rise to an evolutionary process in Darwinian sense, in terms of discrete jumps among attractors, with punctuated…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-03-18 Hong Qian

We are concerned with the complexity reduction of a stochastic system of differential equations governing the dynamics of a neuronal circuit describing a decision-making task. This reduction is based on the slow-fast behavior of the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-05 José A. Carrillo , Stéphane Cordier , Gustavo Deco , Simona Mancini

The nonexponential relaxation ocurring in complex dynamics manifested in a wide variety of systems is analyzed through a simple model of diffusion in phase space. It is found that the inability of the system to find its equilibrium state in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Perez-Madrid

The dynamics of a degree of freedom associated to an axial vector in contact with a heat bath is decribed by means of a probability distribution function obeying a Fokker-Planck equation. The equation is derived by using mesoscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-27 J. G. Méndez-Bermúdez , I. Santamaría-Holek

We develop the stochastic approach to thermodynamics based on the stochastic dynamics, which can be discrete (master equation) continuous (Fokker-Planck equation), and on two assumptions concerning entropy. The first is the definition of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tânia Tomé , Mário J. de Oliveira

The relaxation to equilibrium in many systems which show strange kinetics is described by fractional Fokker-Planck equations (FFPEs). These can be considered as phenomenological equations of linear nonequilibrium theory. We show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. M. Sokolov

In this study we obtained analytically relaxation function in terms of rotational correlation functions based on Brownian motion for complex disordered systems in a stochastic framework. We found out that rotational relaxation function has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ekrem Aydiner

Although coarse-grained models have been widely used to explain exotic phenomena in complex fluids, such as droplet formation in living cells, these conventional approaches often fail to capture the intricate microscopic degrees of freedom…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-13 Masanari Shimada , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

Dielectric relaxation has been investigated within the framework of a modified mean field theory, in which the dielectric response of an arbitrary condensed matter system to the applied electric field is assumed to consist of two parts, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-29 John Y. Fu

This study deals with continuous limits of interacting one-dimensional diffusive systems, arising from stochastic distortions of discrete curves with various kinds of coding representations. These systems are essentially of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-09 Guy Fayolle , Cyril Furtlehner

We review the mathematical formalism underlying the modelling of stochasticity in biological systems. Beginning with a description of the system in terms of its basic constituents, we derive the mesoscopic equations governing the dynamics…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-11-05 Alan J. McKane , Tommaso Biancalani , Tim Rogers

The theory of SOC, and related avalanche dynamics, is proposed as the origin of the ubiquitous nonexponential relaxation observed in complex systems. Introducing some scaling laws and relations we have obtained that the normalized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Vazquez , Oscar Sotolongo Costa , Carlos Antoranz

Many complex systems satisfy a set of constraints on their degrees of freedom, and at the same time, they are able to work and adapt to different conditions. Here, we describe the emergence of this ability in a simplified model in which the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Ginestra Bianconi , Roberto Mulet

In chaotic reaction-diffusion systems with two degrees of freedom, the modes governing the exponential relaxation to the thermodynamic equilibrium present a fractal structure which can be characterized by a Hausdorff dimension. For long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Claus , P. Gaspard

The stochastic thermodynamics provides a framework for the description of systems that are out of thermodynamic equilibrium. It is based on the assumption that the elementary constituents are acted by random forces that generate a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-26 Mário J. de Oliveira

The paper is devoted to recent advances in stochastic modeling of anomalous kinetic processes observed in dielectric materials which are prominent examples of disordered (complex) systems. Theoretical studies of dynamical properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-21 Aleksander Stanislavsky , Karina Weron

We have derived the dipolar relaxation function for a cluster model whose volume distribution was obtained from the generalized maximum Tsallis nonextensive entropy principle. The power law exponents of the relaxation function are simply…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Brouers , O. Sotolongo-Costa

Quasistationary states are long-lived nonequilibrium states, observed in some systems with long-range interactions under deterministic Hamiltonian evolution. These intriguing non-Boltzmann states relax to equilibrium over times which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Shamik Gupta , David Mukamel

We explain the ubiquity and extremely slow evolution of non gaussian out-of-equilibrium distributions for the Hamiltonian Mean-Field model, by means of traditional kinetic theory. Deriving the Fokker-Planck equation for a test particle, one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Freddy Bouchet , Thierry Dauxois
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