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The evolution of inhomogeneities in a spherical collapse model is studied by expanding the Einstein equation in powers of inverse radial parameter. In the linear regime, the density contrast is obtained for flat, closed and open universes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Elcio Abdalla , Roya Mohayaee

We investigate nonlinear effects on the dynamics of entanglement and other quantum observables in a system of two harmonic modes coupled through angular momentum. The nonlinearity arises from a quartic anharmonic term in each mode. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 N. Canosa , R. Rossignoli , Javier Garcia , Swapan Mandal , Kartick Chandra Saha

A nonresonant cosmic-ray-current-driven instability may operate in the shock precursors of young supernova remnants and be responsible for magnetic-field amplification, plasma heating and turbulence. Earlier simulations demonstrated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Oleh Kobzar , Jacek Niemiec , Martin Pohl , Artem Bohdan

Catastrophic events in Nature can be often triggered by small perturbations, with "remote triggering" of earthquakes being an important example. Here we present a mechanism for the giant amplification of small perturbations that is expected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-01 Harish Charan , Oleg Gendelman , Itamar Procaccia , Yarden Sheffer

We develop a non-linear framework for describing long-wavelength perturbations in multiple-field inflation. The basic variables describing inhomogeneities are defined in a non-perturbative manner, are invariant under changes of time slicing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. I. Rigopoulos , E. P. S. Shellard , B. J. W. van Tent

Magnetic field amplification is an integral part of the process of particle acceleration at non-relativistic shocks. It is necessary to reach the maximum energies required by observations, especially in supernova remnants, thought to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Antonio Capanema , Pasquale Blasi , Emanuele Sobacchi

We study various dynamical aspects of systems possessing a first order phase transition in their phase diagram. We isolate three qualitatively distinct types of theories depending on the structure of instabilities and the nature of the low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-05 Loredana Bellantuono , Romuald A. Janik , Jakub Jankowski , Hesam Soltanpanahi

Slow dynamical changes in magnetic-field strength and invariance of the particles' magnetic moments generate ubiquitous pressure anisotropies in weakly collisional, magnetized astrophysical plasmas. This renders them unstable to fast,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Rincon , A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley

We study the instabilities of a harmonic oscillator subject to additive and dichotomous multiplicative noise, focussing on the dependance of the instability threshold on the mass. For multiplicative noise in the damping, the instability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Moshe Gitterman , David A. Kessler

The time evolution of collective modes in an expanding ultarelativistic and (effectively) Abelian plasma is studied in the hard-loop approximation semi-analytically by means of integro-differential equations. A previous treatment is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Anton Rebhan , Dominik Steineder

The one-dimensional non-boost-invariant evolution of the quark-gluon plasma, presumably produced during the early stages of heavy-ion collisions, is analyzed within the frameworks of viscous and anisotropic hydrodynamics. We neglect…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Michael Strickland , Leonardo Tinti

This paper is devoted to study the phase space analysis of isotropic and homogenous universe model by taking a noninteracting mixture of electromagnetic and viscous radiating fluids whose viscous pressure satisfies a nonlinear version of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 M. Sharif , Saadia Mumtaz

Instabilities driven by strong gradients appear in a wide variety of physical systems, including plasmas, neutral fluids, and self-gravitating systems. This work develops an analytic formulation to describe the transport structure and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Emma G. Devin , Vinícius N. Duarte

This study uses two-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations to explore Rayleigh-Taylor-like instability in a strongly coupled binary complex plasma, when heavier dust particles are positioned above the lighter ones, having the same…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Priya Deshwal , Hitendra K. Malik

Amplitude expansions are used to determine steady states of a semi-infinite solid subject to the Grinfeld instability in systems with a fixed (wave)length. We present two methods to obtain high-order weakly nonlinear results. Using the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-15 Peter Kohlert , Klaus Kassner , Chaouqi Misbah

In two recent articles a detailed study has been presented of the out of equilibrium dynamics of an infinite system of self-gravitating points initially located on a randomly perturbed lattice. In this article we extend the treatment of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thierry Baertschiger , Michael Joyce , Francesco Sylos Labini , Bruno Marcos

We study the evolution of the fine-structure constant, $\alpha$, induced by non-linear density perturbations in the context of the simplest class of quintessence models with a non-minimal coupling to the electromagnetic field, in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. P. Avelino , C. J. A. P. Martins , J. Menezes , C. Santos

We compute nonequilibrium dynamics for classical-statistical SU(2) pure gauge theory on a lattice. We consider anisotropic initial conditions with high occupation numbers in the transverse plane on a characteristic scale ~ Q_s. This is used…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Berges , S. Scheffler , D. Sexty

In this work we report a numerical study of the cosmic magnetic field amplification due to collisionless plasma instabilities. The collisionless magnetohydrodynamic equations derived account for the pressure anisotropy that leads, in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 D. Falceta-Goncalves , G. Kowal

We develop a new formalism to study nonlinear evolution in the growth of large-scale structure, by following the dynamics of gravitational clustering as it builds up in time. This approach is conveniently represented by Feynman diagrams…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Crocce , R. Scoccimarro