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Response of pure Ising systems to time-dependent external magnetic fields, like pulsed and oscillating fields, are discussed and compared here. Because of the two time scales involved, namely the thermodynamic relaxation time of the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Arkajyoti Misra

We investigate the laws of coarsening of a two-dimensional system of Ising spins evolving under single-spin-flip irreversible dynamics at low temperature from a disordered initial condition. The irreversibility of the dynamics comes from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-28 C. Godreche , M. Pleimling

We consider the non-conserved dynamics of the Ising model on the two-dimensional square lattice, where each spin is influenced preferentially by its East and North neighbours. The single-spin flip rates are such that the stationary state is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-09 Claude Godreche , Michel Pleimling

The kinetics of domain growth and aging in conserved order parameter systems, in the presence of short-range interaction, is widely studied. Due to technical difficulties and lack of resources, regarding computation, the dynamics is still…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Soumik Ghosh , Subir K. Das

Reactive pathways to nucleation in a three-dimensional Ising model at 60% of the critical temperature are studied using transition path sampling of single spin flip Monte Carlo dynamics. Analysis of the transition state ensemble (TSE)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert C. Pan , David Chandler

We study metastability and mixing time for a non-reversible probabilistic cellular automaton. With a suitable choice of the parameters, we first show that the stationary distribution is close in total variation to a low temperature Ising…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Paolo Dai Pra , Benedetto Scoppola , Elisabetta Scoppola

In this work the two-dimensional Ising model with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor interactions is revisited. We obtain the dynamic critical exponents $z$ and $\theta$ from short-time Monte Carlo simulations. The dynamic critical exponent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-27 N. Alves, , J. R. Drugowich de Felicio

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of the Luttinger model after a quantum quench, when the initial state is a finite temperature thermal equilibrium state. The diagonal elements of the density matrix in the steady state show thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-16 Ádám Bácsi , Balázs Dóra

Heritability is a central concept in the long-standing debate about nature versus nurture in biological and social sciences. However, existing notions of heritability are based on strong assumptions and do not use explicit causal models. We…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-26 Haochen Lei , Jieru Shi , Hongyuan Cao , Qingyuan Zhao

Random metastability occurs when an externally forced or noisy system possesses more than one state of apparent equilibrium. This work investigates a class of random dynamical systems, arising from perturbing a one-dimensional piecewise…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Cecilia González-Tokman , Joshua Peters

We replicate a renewal process at random times, which is equivalent to nesting two renewal processes, or considering a renewal process subject to stochastic resetting. We investigate the consequences on the statistical properties of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-31 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

Using an efficient one and two qubit gate simulator, operating on graphical processing units, we investigate ergodic properties of a quantum Ising spin 1/2 model on a two dimensional lattice, which is periodically driven by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-07 Carlos Pineda , Tomaž Prosen , Eduardo Villaseñor

We consider a one-dimensional classical ferromagnetic Ising model when it is quenched from a low temperature to zero temperature in finite time using Glauber or Kawasaki dynamics. Most of the previous work on finite-time quenches assume…

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We numerically study a one-dimensional conserved growth equation with competing linear (Ehrlich-Schwoebel) and nonlinear instabilities. As a control parameter is varied, this model exhibits a non-equilibrium phase transition between two…

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Recent advances in physics-augmented neural networks have enabled thermodynamically consistent data-driven constitutive modeling of complex inelastic materials. Most existing approaches, however, implicitly adopt a specific thermodynamic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Reese E. Jones , Jan N. Fuhg

We are interested in modeling some two-level population dynamics, resulting from the interplay of ecological interactions and phenotypic variation of individuals (or hosts) and the evolution of cells (or parasites) of two types living in…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-21 Sylvie Méléard , Sylvie Roelly

We study the relaxation of the local ferromagnetic order in the transverse field quantum Ising chain with power-law decaying interactions $1/r^{\alpha}$. We prepare the system in the GHZ state and study the time evolution of the probability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Nishan Ranabhat , Mario Collura

We consider the $d$-dimensional transverse-field Ising model with power-law interactions $J/r^{d+\sigma}$ in the presence of a noisy longitudinal field with zero average. We study the longitudinal-magnetization dynamics of an initial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-12 Jad C. Halimeh , Matthias Punk , Francesco Piazza

Low temperature dynamics of Ising ferromagnets under finite magnetic fields are studied in terms of quantum spin representations of stochastic evolution operators. These are constructed for the Glauber dynamic as well as for a modification…

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