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Space-time varying media enable unprecedented control over electromagnetic waves, yet most existing studies assume idealized, nondispersive materials and thus fail to capture the intrinsic frequency dispersion of realistic platforms. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

Reaction-diffusion waves in multiple spatial dimensions advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. These waves have important applications in many physical, ecological, and biological systems. In this work,…

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We study the critical phenomena of the dynamical transition from a metastable state to a stable state in the model of first-order phase transition via two different triggering mechanisms. Three universal stages during the fully nonlinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Qian Chen , Yuxuan Liu , Yu Tian , Bin Wang , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Hongbao Zhang

Vertical oscillation of a fluid interface above a critical amplitude excites the Faraday instability, typically manifesting itself as a standing wave pattern. Fundamentally, the phenomenon is an example of parametric resonance. At high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-10 William Batson , Farzam Zoueshtiagh , Ranga Narayanan

The spectrum of electromagnetic waves in periodic linear structures, such as periodic waveguides or chains of microelements i.e. spheres, cavities, exhibit the sequence of stop bands for propagating waves. Breaking the translational…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 L. Ivzhenko , A. Girich , M. Baranowski , A. Kharchenko , S. Mieszczak , S. Polevoy , S. Tarapov , M. Krawczyk , J. Klos

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

Dispersion curves characterize the frequency dependence of the phase and the group velocities of propagating elastic waves. Many analytical and numerical techniques produce dispersion curves from physics-based models. However, it is often…

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We determine the modulational stability of standing waves with small group velocity in quasi-onedimensional systems slightly above the threshold of a supercritical Hopf bifurcation. The stability limits are given by two different…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-09-25 Hermann Riecke , Lorenz Kramer

One of the most well known features of active matter is the tendencey of self-propelled particles to undergo system-wide collective motion. With low enough rotational noise or high enough global density, these systems spontaneously break…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-21 Caleb J. Anderson Olivier Dauchot , Alberto Fernandez-Nieves

Force-based models describe pedestrian dynamics in analogy to classical mechanics by a system of second order ordinary differential equations. By investigating the linear stability of two main classes of forces, parameter regions with…

We reassess the "dispersionless transport regime" of Brownian particles in tilted periodic potentials. We show that the particles exhibit normal diffusive motion right after transitioning into the running state dragged by the constant bias…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-30 I. G. Marchenko , V. Yu. Aksenova , I. I. Marchenko , A. V. Zhiglo

We introduce a description of the collective transverse dynamics of charged (proton) beams in the stability regime by suitable classical stochastic fluctuations. In this scheme, the collective beam dynamics is described by time--reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicola Cufaro Petroni , Salvatore De Martino , Silvio De Siena , Fabrizio Illuminati

The dynamical response of an Ising ferromagnet to a plane polarised standing magnetic field wave is modelled and studied here by Monte Carlo simulation in two dimensions. The amplitude of standing magnetic wave is modulated along the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-08 Ajay Halder , Muktish Acharyya

In this paper we consider a classical model of gasless combustion in a one dimensional formulation under the assumption of ignition temperature kinetics. We study the propagation of flame fronts in this model when the initial distribution…

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The time dependence of quantum evanescent waves generated by a point source with an infinite or a limited frequency band is analyzed. The evanescent wave is characterized by a forerunner (transient) related to the precise way the source is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. G. Muga , M. Buttiker

We introduce a novel characterization of phase transitions based on hypothesis testing. In our formulation, a phase transition is defined as the breakdown of statistical indistinguishability under vanishing parameter perturbations in the…

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Photonic time crystals are electromagnetic media with periodically time-varying parameters, enabling momentum band gaps, parametric amplification, and frequency conversion beyond what is possible in time-invariant systems. So far, they have…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-15 Z. Li , M. S. Mirmoosa , V. Asadchy , X. Wang

We study a frequency-dependent damping model of hyper-diffusion within the generalized Langevin equation. The model allows for the colored noise defined by its spectral density, assumed to be proportional to $\omega^{\delta-1}$ at low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Jia-Ming Zhang , Jing-Dong Bao

The phenomenon of stable lift oscillations occurring on an elliptic wing section utilizing circulation control at transonic speeds was evaluated using numerical simulations. As the momentum of the jet increases beyond a prescribed…

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