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We study long-range interacting systems driven by external stochastic forces that act collectively on all the particles constituting the system. Such a scenario is frequently encountered in the context of plasmas, self-gravitating systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Cesare Nardini , Shamik Gupta , Stefano Ruffo , Thierry Dauxois , Freddy Bouchet

The synchronous dynamics and the stationary states of a recurrent attractor neural network model with competing synapses between symmetric sequence processing and Hebbian pattern reconstruction is studied in this work allowing for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 F. L. Metz , W. K. Theumann

Heterogeneous media constitute random disordered environments where transport is drastically hindered. Employing extensive molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of tracer particles in the Lorentz model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-14 Markus Spanner , Simon K. Schnyder , Felix Höfling , Thomas Voigtmann , Thomas Franosch

We realize an extensive numerical study of the Naming Game model with a noise term which accounts for perturbations. This model displays a non-equilibrium phase transition between an absorbing ordered consensus state, which occurs for small…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-15 E. Brigatti , A. Hernández

We study a system involving a single quantum degree of freedom per site of the lattice interacting with a few neighbors (up to second neighbors), with the interactions chosen as to produce frustration. At zero temperature, this system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-29 Heitor Casasola , Carlos A. Hernaski , Pedro R. S. Gomes , Paula F. Bienzobaz

Phase separation in a low-density gas-like phase and a high-density liquid-like one is a common trait of biological and synthetic self-propelling particles' systems. The competition between motility and stochastic forces is assumed to fix…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-15 Pin Nie , Joyjit Chattoraj , Antonio Piscitelli , Patrick Doyle , Ran Ni , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Collective human movement is a hallmark of complex systems, exhibiting emergent order across diverse settings, from pedestrian flows to biological collectives. In high-speed scenarios, alignment interactions ensure efficient flow and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-03 Debasish Sarker , Yi Zhang , Lynn K. Perry , Daniel S. Messinger , Chaoming Song

We propose and solve a Hamiltonian model for multidimensional epistastatic interactions between beneficial mutations. The model is able to give rise either to a phase transition between two equilibrium states, without any coexistence, or…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Seher Ozcelik , Ayse Erzan

We investigate the physical properties of steady flows in a holographic first-order phase transition model, extending from the thermodynamics at equilibrium to the real-time dynamics far from equilibrium. Through spinodal decomposition or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-24 Qian Chen , Yuxuan Liu , Yu Tian , Xiaoning Wu , Hongbao Zhang

We study the homogeneous symmetrical threshold model with independence (noise) by pair approximation and Monte Carlo simulations on Watts-Strogatz graphs. The model is a modified version of the famous Granovetter's threshold model: with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-27 Bartłomiej Nowak , Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron

Noise can shape the firing behaviors of neurons. Here, we show that noise acting on the fast variable of the Hedgehog burster can tune the spike counts of bursts via the self-induced stochastic resonance (SISR) phenomenon. Using the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-07-29 Jinjie Zhu , Hiroya Nakao

We consider the stochastic patterns of a system of communicating, or coupled, self-propelled particles in the presence of noise and communication time delay. For sufficiently large environmental noise, there exists a transition between a…

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The dynamics of phase transitions plays a crucial r\^ole in the so-called interface between high energy particle physics and cosmology. Many of the interesting results generated during the last fifteen years or so rely on simplified…

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We review recent advances in understanding the universal scaling properties of non-equilibrium phase transitions in non-ergodic disordered systems. We discuss dynamical critical points (also known as eigenstate phase transitions) between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-04-28 S. A. Parameswaran , Andrew C. Potter , Romain Vasseur

Synchronization is one of the emerging collective phenomena in interacting particle systems. Its ubiquitous presence in nature, science, and technology has fascinated the scientific community over the decades. Moreover, a great deal of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-12-18 Suvam Pal , Gourab Kumar Sar , Dibakar Ghosh , Arnab Pal

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

We apply modern methods in computational topology to the task of discovering and characterizing phase transitions. As illustrations, we apply our method to four two-dimensional lattice spin models: the Ising, square ice, XY, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Alex Cole , Gregory J. Loges , Gary Shiu

In this note, we study the phase transitions arising in a modified Smoluchowski equation on the sphere with dipolar potential. This equation models the competition between alignment and diffusion, and the modification consists in taking the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-18 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Jian-Guo Liu

A general approach to consider spatially extended stochastic systems with correlations between additive and multiplicative noises subject to nonlinear damping is developed. Within modified cumulant expansion method, we derive an effective…

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