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Half of the world population resides in cities and urban segregation is becoming a global issue. One of the best known attempts to understand it is the Schelling model, which considers two types of agents that relocate whenever a transfer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-09 Diego Ortega , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Elka Korutcheva

Fragile materials ranging from sand to fire-retardant to toothpaste are able to exhibit both solid and fluid-like properties across the jamming transition. Unlike ordinary fusion, systems of grains, foams and colloids jam and cease to flow…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-12 Kevin Lu , E. E. Brodsky , H. P. Kavehpour

In Schelling's segregation model, the successive moves of agents optimizing their own locations lead to a suboptimal segregated distribution of the population, even though all agents have the same preference for mixed neighborhoods. One of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-20 Nicolas Houy

Interest in the dynamical arrest leading to a fluid --> solid transition in thermal and athermal systems has led to questions about the nature of these transitions. These jamming transitions may be dependent on the influence of extended…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Allison Ferguson , Bulbul Chakraborty

Numerous soft materials jam into an amorphous solid at high packing fraction. This non-equilibrium phase transition is best understood in the context of a model system in which particles repel elastically when they overlap. Recently,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-26 Dion J. Koeze , Lingtjien Hong , Abhishek Kumar , Brian P. Tighe

Jamming transition is traditionally regarded as a geometric transition governed by static contact networks. Recently, dynamic phase transitions of athermal particles under periodic shearing provide a new lens on this problem, leading to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-24 He-Da Wang , Bo Wang , Qun-Li Lei , Yu-Qiang Ma

This paper develops a neural jamming phase diagram that interprets the emergence of consciousness in large language models as a critical phenomenon in high-dimensional disordered systems.By establishing analogies with jamming transitions in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-14 Kaichen Ouyang

Jamming is a fundamental transition that governs the mechanical behavior of particulate media, including sand, foam and dense suspensions but also biological tissues: Upon compression, particulate media can change from freely flowing to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-10 Zhaoyu Xie , Timothy J Atherton

We have recently developed some simple continuum models of static granular media which display "fragile" behaviour: they predict that the medium is unable to support certain types of infinitesimal load (which we call "incompatible" loads)…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Cates , J. P. Wittmer , J. -P. Bouchaud , P. Claudin

We investigate a general class of models for swarming/self-collective behaviour in domains with boundaries. The model is expressed as a stochastic system of interacting particles subject to both reflecting boundary condition and common…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Razvan C. Fetecau , Hui Huang , Jinniao Qiu

We study the nonlinear chaotic dynamics in a system of linear oscillators coupled by social network links with an additional stratification of oscillator energies, or frequencies, and supplementary nonlinear interactions. It is argued that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-26 Klaus M. Frahm , Dima L. Shepelyansky

We investigate a stochastic model describing a column of grains in the jamming limit, in the presence of a low vibrational intensity. The key control parameter of the model, $\epsilon$, is a representation of granular shape, related to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Luck , Anita Mehta

We consider percolation and jamming transitions for particulate systems exposed to compression. For the systems built of particles interacting by purely repulsive forces in addition to friction and viscous damping, it is found that these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 L. Kovalcinova , A. Goullet , L. Kondic

In the framework of schematic hard spheres lattice models for granular media we investigate the phenomenon of the ``jamming transition''. In particular, using Edwards' approach, by analytical calculations at a mean field level, we derive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Tarzia , A. de Candia , A. Fierro , M. Nicodemi , A. Coniglio

Within the Nagel-Schreckenberg traffic flow model we consider the transition from the free flow regime to the jammed regime. We introduce a method of analyzing the data which is based on the local density distribution. This analyzes allows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Lubeck , M. Schreckenberg , K. D. Usadel

In this paper we derive and analyse mean-field models for the dynamics of groups of individuals undergoing a random walk. The random motion of individuals is only influenced by the perceived densities of the different groups present as well…

Jamming is ubiquitous in disordered systems, but the critical behavior of jammed solids subjected to active forces or thermal fluctuations remains elusive. In particular, while passive athermal jamming remains mean-field-like in two and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-26 Shalabh K. Anand , Chiu Fan Lee , Thibault Bertrand

The similarities between phase separation in physics and residential segregation by preference in the Schelling model of 1971 are reviewed. Also, new computer simulations of asymmetric interactions different from the usual Ising model are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Stauffer , S. Solomon

We assume that the energy spectrum of a chaotic system undergoing symmetry breaking transitions can be represented as a superposition of independent level sequences, one increasing on the expense of the others. The relation between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Y. Abul-Magd , M. H. Simbel

Understanding the pattern formation in communities has been at the center of attention in various fields. Here we introduce a novel model, called an "information-particle model," which is based on the reaction-diffusion model and the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-21 Junichi Miyakoshi