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Granular systems confined in vertically vibrated shallow horizontal boxes (quasi two-dimensional geometry) present a liquid to solid phase transition when the frequency of the periodic forcing is increased. An effective model, where grains…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-08 Dino Risso , Rodrigo Soto , Marcelo Guzman

We study phase-transition-like behavior in neutron stars using a simplified, piecewise equation of state that couples a modified van der Waals-type core to a polytropic crust. The model remains analytically tractable while allowing for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 P. H. F. Arruda , S. D. Campos

In this paper we have studied Van-Der-Waals fluid system with the generalized EOS as as discussed in the recent works of Kremer, G.M [1, 4], Vardiashvili, G [2], Jantsch, R.C [3], Capozziello, S [5]. and are functions of energy density and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Alokananda Kar , Shouvik Sadhukhan , Surajit Chattopadhyay

When a liquid melt is cooled, a glass or phase transition can be obtained depending on the cooling rate. Yet, this behavior has not been clearly captured in energy landscape models. Here a model is provided in which two key ingredients are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-12 Gerardo G. Naumis

The hard sphere system plays a basic role in condensed matter physics and related fields, and equation of state (EoS) is the ultimate solution to its thermodynamic properties (1-3). Dozens of EoSs have been proposed since van der Waals…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongqin Liu

An extension of the Kinetic Ising model with nonuniform coupling constants on a one-dimensional lattice with boundaries is investigated, and the relaxation of such a system towards its equilibrium is studied. Using a transfer matrix method,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-20 Mohammad Khorrami , Amir Aghamohammadi

According to the dynamic van der Waals theory, we propose a thermodynamically consistent model for non-isothermal compressible two-phase flows with contact line motion. In this model, fluid temperature is treated as a primary variable,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-11 Junkai Wang , Qiaolin He

We numerically study the metastable states of the 2d Potts model. Both of equilibrium and relaxation properties are investigated focusing on the finite size effect. The former is investigated by finding the free energy extremal point by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-09 Tomoaki Nogawa , Nobuyasu Ito , Hiroshi Watanabe

Two-phase flow systems in porous media have complex dynamics. It is well established that a wide range of system parameters like viscosities and porosity as well as flow parameters such as pressure gradient and fluid saturation have strong…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Arendt Knudsen , Alex Hansen

We present a 5-phase equation of state (EOS) for elemental carbon. The phases considered are: diamond, BC8, simple-cubic, simple-hexagonal, and the liquid/plasma state. The solid phase free energies are constrained by density functional…

A model is proposed that describes the evolution of a mixed state of a quantum system for which gain and loss of energy or amplitude are present. Properties of the model are worked out in detail. In particular, invariant subspaces of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 Dorje C. Brody , Eva-Maria Graefe

It is understood that congestion in traffic can be interpreted in terms of the instability of the equation of dynamic motion. The evolution of a traffic system from an unstable or metastable state to a globally stable state bears a strong…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-06 Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Kai Lin , Romuel F. Machado , Yogiro Hama

Consider a model of particles (nucleons) which has a two-body interaction which leads to bound composites with saturation properties. These properties are : all composites have the same density and the ground state energies of composites…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Chaudhuri , S. Das Gupta , M. Sutton

The East model has a dynamical phase transition between an active (fluid) and inactive (glass) state. We show that this phase transition generalizes to "softened" systems where constraint violations are allowed with small but finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yael S. Elmatad , Robert L. Jack

Consider a droplet of liquid on top of a grooved substrate. The wetting or not of a groove implies the crossing of a potential barrier as the interface has to distort, to hit the bottom of the groove. We start with computing the free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Joel De Coninck , François Dunlop , Thierry Huillet

In the present paper, a continuum model is introduced for fluid flow in a deformable porous medium, where the fluid may undergo phase transitions. Typically, such problems arise in modeling liquid-solid phase transformations in groundwater…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Pavel Krejci , Elisabetta Rocca , Juergen Sprekels

We construct a phase field model including hydrodynamics and elasticity in one-component systems. It can be used to investigate solid-liquid and liquid-liquid phase transitions. Upon first-order phase transition, a velocity field is induced…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Kyohei Takae , Akira Onuki

We discuss metastable states in the mean-field version of the strong coupling BCS-model and study the evolution of a superconducting equilibrium state subjected to a dynamical semi-group with Lindblad generator in detailed balance w.r.t.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joris Lauwers , Andre Verbeure

Transitions between different states of matter and their thermodynamic properties are described by the Equation of State (EoS). A universal representation of the EoS of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) for the wide range of phase diagram has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-22 Maria Stefaniak , Klaus Werner , Johannes Jahan , Hanna Zbroszczyk

Fluctuating hydrodynamics provides a model for fluids at mesoscopic scales where thermal fluctuations can have a significant impact on the behavior of the system. Here we investigate a model for fluctuating hydrodynamics of a single…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Anuj Chaudhri , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Aleksandar Donev