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We study a binary metric-free Vicsek model involving two species of self-propelled particles aligning with their Voronoi neighbors, focusing on a weakly nonreciprocal regime, where species $A$ aligns with both $A$ and $B$, but species $B$…

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We investigate collective behavior in a $Q$-species Vicsek model with a nonreciprocal velocity alignment interaction. This system is characterized by a constant phase shift $\alpha$ in the inter-species velocity alignment rule. While the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Chul-Ung Woo , Heiko Rieger , Jae Dong Noh

In the paper we study a measure version of the evolutionary nonlinear Boltzmann-type equation in which we admit a random number of collisions of particles. We consider first a stationary model and use two methods to find its fixed points:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-31 H. Gacki , Ł. Stettner

Partition function zeros are powerful tools in understanding critical behavior. In this paper we present new results of the Fisher zeros of two-dimensional Ising models, in the framework of free-fermion eight-vertex model. First we succeed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-30 De-Zhang Li , Xin Wang

We introduce a lattice Boltzmann for simulating an immiscible binary fluid mixture. Our collision rules are derived from a macroscopic thermodynamic description of the fluid in a way motivated by the Cahn-Hilliard approach to…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-28 Enzo Orlandini , Michael R. Swift , J. M. Yeomans

We rigorously show that a class of systems of partial differential equations modeling wave bifurcations supports stationary equivariant bifurcation dynamics through deriving its full dynamics on the center manifold(s). A direct consequence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Tong Li , Xiaoyan Wang , Jinghua Yao

The Ohta-Kawasaki model for diblock copolymers exhibits a rich equilibrium bifurcation structure. Even on one-dimensional base domains the bifurcation set is characterized by high levels of multi-stability and numerous secondary bifurcation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Peter Rizzi , Evelyn Sander , Thomas Wanner

We study dynamical ordering of rods. In this process, rod alignment via pairwise interactions competes with diffusive wiggling. Under strong diffusion, the system is disordered, but at weak diffusion, the system is ordered. We present an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

We consider the problem of ''energy conserving'' lattice Boltzmann models. A major difficulty observed in previous studies is the coupling between the viscous and thermal waves even at moderate wave numbers. We propose a theoretical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-13 Pierre Lallemand , François Dubois

Understanding collective self-organization in active matter, such as bird flocks and fish schools, remains a grand challenge in physics. Interactions that induce alignment are essential for flocking; however, alignment alone is generally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-01 Julian Giraldo-Barreto , Viktor Holubec

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the effect of spatio-temporal fluctuations in quasi-reversible systems displaying a spatial quintic supercritical bifurcation. The saturation mechanism is drastically changed by the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-27 Marcel G. Clerc , Claudio Falcón , René G. Rojas

This paper describes a simple and general method for deriving the inelastic collision term in the electron Boltzmann equation for scattering from a coupled electron-phonon system, and applies the method to the case of doped polar…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 B. A. Sanborn

We compare and contrast the mean-field and many-body properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a double well potential with a single impurity atom. The mean-field solutions display a rich structure of bifurcations as parameters…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-05 F. Mulansky , J. Mumford , D. H. J. O'Dell

Bifurcations of solitary waves are classified for the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with arbitrary nonlinearities and external potentials in arbitrary spatial dimensions. Analytical conditions are derived for three major…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-03-26 Jianke Yang

In active matter, such as the Vicsek Model of flocking, particles possesses an internal degree of freedom, such as their director, which is subject to interaction with other particles, provided they are within a certain range. In an effort…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-07 Letian Chen , Gunnar Pruessner

A previously proposed [X. Shan and H. Chen, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 47}, 1815, (1993)] lattice Boltzmann model for simulating fluids with multiple components and interparticle forces is described in detail. Macroscopic equations governing the…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-28 Xiaowen Shan , Gary Doolen

We introduce a novel mesoscopic computational model based on a multiphase-multicomponent lattice Boltzmann method for the simulation of self-phoretic particles in the presence of liquid-liquid interfaces. Our model features fully resolved…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-22 Lucas Palacios , Andrea Scagliarini , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

The Vicsek model has long stood as a pivotal framework in exploring collective behavior and self-organization, captivating the scientific community with its compelling dynamics. However, understanding how noise influences synchronization…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Wei Su , Yongguang Yu , Ge Chen

We consider two-parameter bifurcation of equilibrium states of an elastic rod on a deformable foundation. Our main theorem shows that bifurcation occurs if and only if the linearization of our problem has nontrivial solutions. In fact our…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Marek Izydorek , Joanna Janczewska , Nils Waterstraat , Anita Zgorzelska

We consider a continuum active polar fluid model for the spreading of epithelial monolayers introduced by R. Alert, C. Blanch-Mercader, and J. Casademunt, 2019. The corresponding free boundary problem possesses flat front traveling wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Leonid Berlyand , Antonina Rybalko , Volodymyr Rybalko , Clarke Alex Safsten