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In sustained growth with random dynamics stationary distributions can exist without detailed balance. This suggests thermodynamical behavior in fast growing complex systems. In order to model such phenomena we apply both a discrete and a…
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Entropy production plays a fundamental role in the study of non-equilibrium systems by offering a quantitative handle on the degree of time-reversal symmetry breaking. It depends crucially on the degree of freedom considered as well as on…
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We investigate entanglement growth for a pair of coupled kicked rotors. For weak coupling, the growth of the entanglement entropy is found to be initially linear followed by a logarithmic growth. We calculate analytically the time after…
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We study the self-similar behavior of the exchange-driven growth model, which describes a process in which pairs of clusters, consisting of an integer number of monomers, interact through the exchange of a single monomer. The rate of…
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We study an evolution cross-diffusion problem with mutualistic Lotka-Volterra reaction term to modelize the long-term spatial distribution of labor and capital. The mutualistic behavior is deduced from the gradient flow associated to…
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This paper is the first in a series which develops the theory of emittance dynamics based on simple statistical reasoning. Emittance is a central quantity used to characterize the quality of electron microscopes, photon sources and particle…
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