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We explain a method, inspired by control theory model reduction and interpolation theory, that rigorously establishes the types of coarse graining that are appropriate for systems with quadratic, generalized Hamiltonians. For such systems,…

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Coarse-graining is a molecular modeling technique in which an atomistic system is represented in a simplified fashion that retains the most significant system features that contribute to a target output, while removing the degrees of…

Discrete models usually represent approximations to continuum physics. Cylindrical consistency provides a framework in which discretizations mirror exactly the continuum limit. Being a standard tool for the kinematics of loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Bianca Dittrich

This survey on stationary and evolutionary problems with gradient constraints is based on developments of monotonicity and compactness methods applied to large classes of scalar and vectorial solutions to variational and quasi-variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-07 José Francisco Rodrigues , Lisa Santos

The two most commonly used methods to model the behaviour of granular flows are discrete element and continuum mechanics simulations. These approaches concentrate on the deterministic description of particle or bulk material motion. Unlike…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-15 Benjy Marks , Shivakumar Athani , Itai Einav

Sampling a target probability distribution with an unknown normalization constant is a fundamental challenge in computational science and engineering. Recent work shows that algorithms derived by considering gradient flows in the space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Yifan Chen , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang , Sebastian Reich , Andrew M Stuart

Starting from the basic path integral in phase space we reconsider the functional approach to the RG flow of the one particle irreducible effective average action. On employing a balanced coarse-graining procedure for the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-08 G. P. Vacca , L. Zambelli

Given a set of inelastic material models, a microstructure, a macroscopic structural geometry, and a set of boundary conditions, one can in principle always solve the governing equations to determine the system's mechanical response.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Ghina Jezdan , Sanjay Govindjee , Klaus Hackl

We construct a stochastic model showing the relationship between noise, gradient flows and rate-independent systems. The model consists of a one-dimensional birth-death process on a lattice, with rates derived from Kramers' law as an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Giovanni A. Bonaschi , Mark A. Peletier

Recent experiments, atomistic simulations, and theoretical predictions have identified various new types of grain boundary motions that are controlled by the dynamics of underlying microstructure of line defects (dislocations or…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-26 Luchan Zhang , Xiaoxue Qin , Yang Xiang

Simulations of quantum systems with Hamiltonian classical stochastic noise can be challenging when the noise exhibits temporal correlations over a multitude of time scales, such as for $1/f$ noise in solid-state quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Tameem Albash , Steve Young , N. Tobias Jacobson

We present a loss function for neural networks that encompasses an idea of trivial versus non-trivial predictions, such that the network jointly determines its own prediction goals and learns to satisfy them. This permits the network to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Nicholas Guttenberg , Martin Biehl , Ryota Kanai

In this paper, we use a generic and general variational method to obtain solutions to the flow of generalized Newtonian fluids through circular pipes and plane slits. The new method is not based on the use of the Euler-Lagrange variational…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-01 Taha Sochi

A recent line of work has shown remarkable behaviors of the generalization error curves in simple learning models. Even the least-squares regression has shown atypical features such as the model-wise double descent, and further works have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-20 Antoine Bodin , Nicolas Macris

We present a real-space formulation for coarse-graining Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory that significantly speeds up the analysis of material defects without appreciable loss of accuracy. The approximation scheme consists of two steps.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Phanish Suryanarayana , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Michael Ortiz

Lossy data transformations by definition lose information. Yet, in modern machine learning, methods like data pruning and lossy data augmentation can help improve generalization performance. We study this paradox using a solvable model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-19 Alex Nguyen , David J. Schwab , Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn

Fluctuating hydrodynamics provides a quantitative, large-scale description of many-body systems in terms of smooth variables, with microscopic details entering only through a small set of transport coefficients. Although this framework has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Soumyabrata Saha , Sandeep Jangid , Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Juliane U. Klamser , Tridib Sadhu

We poorly understand the macroscopic properties of complex fluids and of amorphous bodies in general. This is mainly due to the interplay between phenomena at different levels and length-scales. In particular, it is not necessarily true…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-14 Alessio Zaccone

We investigate the Weighted Energy-Dissipation variational approach to semilinear gradient flows with state-dependent dissipation. A family of parameter-dependent functionals defined over entire trajectories is introduced and proved to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Goro Akagi , Ulisse Stefanelli , Riccardo Voso

We study the evolution under their self-gravity of infinite ``shuffled lattice'' particle distributions, focussing specifically on the comparison of this evolution with that of ``daughter'' particle distributions, defined by a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Baertschiger , M. Joyce , A. Gabrielli , F. Sylos Labini