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Mean-field galactic dynamo theory is the leading theory to explain the prevalence of regular magnetic fields in spiral galaxies, but its systematic comparison with observations is still incomplete and fragmentary. Here we compare…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Luke Chamandy , Anvar Shukurov , A. Russ Taylor

In a previous study we developed a mean-field theory of dynamical transitions for the totally-asymmetric simple-exclusion process (TASEP) with open boundaries and Langmuir kinetics, in the so-called balanced regime, characterized by equal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-11 D. Botto , A. Pelizzola , M. Pretti , M. Zamparo

A standard assumption in mean-field game (MFG) theory is that the coupling between the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the transport equation is monotonically non-decreasing in the density of the population. In many cases, this assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Diogo A. Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan , Mariana Prazeres

We present a new multiphase-field theory for describing pattern formation in multi-domain and/or multi-component systems. The construction of the free energy functional and the dynamic equations is based on criteria that ensure mathematical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-09 Gyula I. Toth , Tamas Pusztai , Laszlo Granasy

Understanding quantum many-body systems with long-range or infinite-range interactions is of relevance across a broad set of physical disciplines, including quantum optics, nuclear magnetic resonance and nuclear physics. From a theoretical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-27 Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

Dynamics of many-body Hamiltonian systems with long range interactions is studied, in the context of the so called $\alpha-$HMF model. Building on the analogy with the related mean field model, we construct stationary states of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-15 Tineke L. Van Den Berg , Duccio Fanelli , Xavier Leoncini

We analyze the normal phase of the attractive Hubbard model within dynamical mean-field-theory. We present results for the pair-density, the spin-susceptibility, the specific heat, the momentum distribution, and for the quasiparticle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Keller , W. Metzner , U. Schollwoeck

We have mapped the physics of a system of semi-flexible inextensible polymers onto a complex Ginzburg-Landau field theory using techniques of functional integration. It is shown in the limit of low number density of monomers in a melt of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Shirish M. Chitanvis

We introduce a mean-field framework for the study of systems of interacting particles sharing a conserved quantity. The work generalises and unites the existing fields of asset-exchange models, often applied to socio-economic systems, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-14 Dominic T Robson , Andreas CW Baas , Alessia Annibale

We study a paradigmatic system with long-range interactions: the Hamiltonian Mean-Field Model (HMF). It is shown that in the thermodynamic limit this model does not relax to the usual equilibrium Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Instead, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-08 Renato Pakter , Yan Levin

Soft spheres interacting via a hard core and range of attractive and repulsive "soft-shoulder" potentials self-assemble into clusters forming a variety of mesophases. We combine a mean field theory developed from a lattice model with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-21 Homin Shin , Gregory M. Grason , Christian D. Santangelo

Mean-field games (MFGs) are models for large populations of competing rational agents that seek to optimize a suitable functional. In the case of congestion, this functional takes into account the difficulty of moving in high-density areas.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-05 David Evangelista , Rita Ferreira , Diogo A. Gomes , Levon Nurbekyan , Vardan Voskanyan

We develop a unified theory that encompasses the macroscopic dynamics of recurrent interactions of binary units within arbitrary network architectures. Using the martingale theory, our mathematical analysis provides a complete description…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Farzad Farkhooi , Wilhelm Stannat

Active polymeric systems exhibit a rich spectrum of non-equilibrium phenomena arising from stochastic forces that explicitly break detailed balance. Despite the rapid growth of experimental and numerical studies, analytical progress remains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-09 Takahiro Sakaue , Enrico Carlon

Exactly solvable many-body systems are few and far between, and the utility of approximate methods cannot be overestimated. Entanglement mean field theory is an approximate method to handle such systems. While mean field theories reduce the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

We formulate a kinetic theory of self-interacting meson fields with an aim to describe the freezeout stage of the space-time evolution of matter in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. Kinetic equations are obtained from the Heisenberg…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Matsui , M. Matsuo

We introduce and study a nonlinear discrete dynamical system describing the evolution of a resource distribution among interacting agents. The model generalizes several classical mean-field and opinion-dynamics frameworks and is defined on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Oksana Satur

In this article, from the viewpoint of control theory, we discuss the relationships among the commonly used monotonicity conditions that ensure the well-posedness of the solutions arising from problems of mean field games (MFGs) and mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Incorporating social interactions is essential to an accurate modeling of epidemic spreading. This work proposes a novel local mean-field density functional theory model by using the sum-of-exponential approximation of convolution kernels…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Ziheng Xu , Shenggao Zhou

I introduce a dynamical field theory to describe the glassy behavior in supercooled liquids. The mean-field approximation of the theory predicts a dynamical arrest transition, as in ideal Mode-Coupling-Theory and mean-field discontinuous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-07-08 Tommaso Rizzo