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An approximation within Wertheim's second order perturbation theory is proposed which allows for the development of a general solution for pure component fluids with an arbitrary number and functionality of association sites. The solution…

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Algorithms based on normalizing flows are emerging as promising machine learning approaches to sampling complicated probability distributions in a way that can be made asymptotically exact. In the context of lattice field theory,…

We develop a maximum relative entropy formalism to generate optimal approximations to probability distributions. The central results consist in (a) justifying the use of relative entropy as the uniquely natural criterion to select a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-17 Chih-Yuan Tseng , Ariel Caticha

We solve the Einstein constraint equations for a first-order causal viscous relativistic hydrodynamic theory in the case of a conformal fluid. For such a theory, a direct application of the conformal method does not lead to a decoupling of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Marcelo M. Disconzi , James Isenberg , David Maxwell

A simple practical approach to describe transverse (shear) waves in strongly-coupled Yukawa fluids is presented. Theoretical dispersion curves, based on hydrodynamic consideration, are shown to compare favorably with existing numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 S. Khrapak , A. Khrapak , N. Kryuchkov , S. Yurchenko

Structural and thermodynamic properties of multicomponent hard-sphere fluids at odd dimensions have recently been derived in the framework of the rational function approximation (RFA) [Rohrmann and Santos, Phys. Rev. E \textbf{83}, 011201…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-28 René D. Rohrmann , Andrés Santos

We propose a deep learning approach to the obstacle problem inspired by the first-order system least-squares (FOSLS) framework. This method reformulates the problem as a convex minimization task; by simultaneously approximating the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Gabriel Acosta , Eugenia Belén , Francisco M. Bersetche , Juan Pablo Borthagaray

This thesis explores the evolution of liquid-state theories based on the Ornstein-Zernike (OZ) equation, summarizing the foundational methods developed by Baxter, Lebowitz, Wertheim, and others. A unifying feature of these approaches is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jianzhong Wu

We devise a simplified parameter estimator for a second order stochastic differential equation by a first order system based on the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation. We establish the consistency of the estimator by using…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Ziying He , Jinqiao Duan , Xiujun Cheng

We introduce a simple and efficient numerical method to compute mean curvature flow with obstacles. The method augments the Merrimam-Bence-Osher scheme with a pointwise update that enforces the constraint and therefore retains the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Fabius Krämer , Tim Laux

The first well founded perturbation theory for classical solid systems is presented. Theoretical approaches to thermodynamic and structural properties of the hard-sphere solid provide us with the reference system. The traditional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Rascon , L. Mederos , G. Navascues

This paper concerns quasi-stochastic approximation (QSA) to solve root finding problems commonly found in applications to optimization and reinforcement learning. The general constant gain algorithm may be expressed as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Caio Kalil Lauand , Sean Meyn

The swimming of a deformable uniform sphere is studied in second order perturbation theory in the amplitude of the stroke. The effect of the first order reaction force on the first order center of mass velocity is calculated in linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-09 B. U. Felderhof , R. B. Jones

The Self-Consistent Ornstein-Zernike Approximation (SCOZA) is an accurate liquid state theory. So far it has been tied to interactions composed of hard core repulsion and long-range attraction, whereas real molecules have soft core…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Hoye , A. Reiner

The Ornstein-Zernike equation is solved for the hard-sphere and square-well fluids using a diverse selection of closure relations; the attraction range of the square-well is chosen to be $\lambda=1.5.$ In particular, for both fluids we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-20 Edwin Bedolla , Luis Carlos Padierna , Ramón Castañeda-Priego

We calculate the shear relaxation times in four important simple monatomic model fluids: Lennard-Jones, Yukawa, soft-sphere and hard-sphere fluids. It is observed that in properly reduced units, the shear relaxation times exhibit…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-11 S. A. Khrapak , A. G. Khrapak

Itinerant ferromagnetism in dilute Fermi gases is predicted to emerge at values of the gas parameter where second-order perturbation theory is not accurate enough to properly describe the system. We have revisited perturbation theory for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-07 Jordi Pera , Joaquim Casulleras , Jordi Boronat

Solving Fredholm equations of the first kind is crucial in many areas of the applied sciences. In this work we adopt a probabilistic and variational point of view by considering a minimization problem in the space of probability measures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Francesca R. Crucinio , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet , Adam M. Johansen

A mean-field approach (MFA) is proposed for the analysis of orientational order in a two-dimensional system of stochastic self-propelled particles interacting by local velocity alignment mechanism. The treatment is applied to the cases of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando Peruani , Andreas Deutsch , Markus Baer

We study several aspects of the recently introduced fixed-phase spin-orbit diffusion Monte Carlo (FPSODMC) method, in particular, its relation to the fixed-node method and its potential use as a general approach for electronic structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Cody A. Melton , Lubos Mitas