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The purpose of this paper is to study the evolution of moving interacting particles on the mesoscopic scale. We will introduce an uncertainty principle and a new priori bound for the evolution of particles subject to a general mesoscopic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Nima Moini

We present a general formalism able to derive the kinetic equations of polymer dynamics. It is based on the application of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to analyze the irreversible processes taking place in the conformational space of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid

Crystallography typically studies collections of point particles whose interaction forces are the gradient of a potential. Lifting this assumption generically gives rise in the continuum limit to a form of elasticity with additional moduli…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-30 Lara Braverman , Colin Scheibner , Bryan VanSaders , Vincenzo Vitelli

In this article, we study spatial Stark-Zeeman systems which describe the dynamics of a charged particle moving in three-dimensional space under the influence of a Coulomb potential, a magnetic field, and an electric field, possibly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Seongchan Kim , Kevin Ruck

We consider the effect of non-reciprocity in a binary mixture of self-propelled particles with anti-aligning interactions, where a particle of type A reacts differently to a particle of type B than vice versa. Starting from a well-known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Jakob Mihatsch , Thomas Ihle

A field theoretic representation of the classical partition function is derived for a system composed of a mixture of anisotropic and isotropic mobile charges that interact {\sl via} long range Coulomb and short range nematic interactions.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-29 Rudolf Podgornik

We consider the dynamics of systems of self propelling particles with nonholonomic constraints. A continuum model for a discrete algorithm used in works by T. Vicsek et al. is proposed. For a case of planar geometry the finite flocking…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Kulinskii , V. I. Ratushnaya , A. V. Zvelindovsky , D. Bedeaux

We consider a finite number of particles characterised by their positions and velocities. At random times a randomly chosen particle, the follower, adopts the velocity of another particle, the leader. The follower chooses its leader…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Adrien Blanchet , Pierre Degond

Transport of cold atoms in shallow optical lattices is characterized by slow, nonstationary momentum relaxation. We here develop a projector operator method able to derive in this case a generalized Smoluchowski equation for the position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Dechant , E. Lutz

The paper considers a linear system of Boltzmann transport equations modelling the evolution of three species of particles, photons, electrons and positrons. The system is coupled because of the collision term (an integral operator). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Jouko Tervo , Petri Kokkonen

We derive a set of minimal yet complete nonlinear field equations describing the collective properties of self-propelled rods from a simple microscopic starting point, the Vicsek model with nematic alignment. Analysis of their linear and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-07-30 Anton Peshkov , Igor S. Aranson , Eric Bertin , Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli

Motivated by the recent interest in non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum many-body systems, we study strongly interacting fermions on a lattice by deriving and numerically solving quantum Boltzmann equations that describe their relaxation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Friedemann Queisser , Sebastian Schreiber , Peter Kratzer , Ralf Schützhold

We extend the Gutzwiller trace formula to systems of noninteracting identical particles. The standard relation for isolated orbits does not apply since the energy of each particle is separately conserved causing the periodic orbits to occur…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-06 Jamal Sakhr , Niall D. Whelan

Study of the classical motion of two identical particles on a plane subject to non-Coulomb potentials in a constant magnetic field presented in polar coordinates. With the rigorous analysis of the potentials and the constants of motion, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 André Vallières , Malik Amir

A system of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena, which has arbitrary friction depending on both state and distribution is investigated. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is seen to describe dynamics in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Xueru Liu , Qianqian Jiang , Wei Wang

We provide a linear analysis on normal modes of the spin Boltzmann equation proposed in \cite{Weickgenannt:2021cuo}, where the non-diagonal or polarized part of the transition rate is neglected to ensure the Hermitian property of linearized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Jin Hu

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation supports solitons -- self-interacting, localized states that behave as nearly independent objects. We exhibit solitons with self-induced nonreciprocal dynamics in a discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Pedro Fittipaldi de Castro , Wladimir Alejandro Benalcazar

Normally, in mathematics and physics, only point particle systems, which are either finite or countable, are studied. We introduce new formal mathematical object called regular continuum system of point particles (with continuum number of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 V. N. Chubarikov , A. A. Lykov , V. A. Malyshev

In this paper we consider the conformal dynamics for a system of $N$ interacting relativistic massless particles. A detailed study is done for the case of two-particles, with a particular attention to the symmetries of the problem. In fact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-28 Roberto Casalbuoni , Joaquim Gomis

We study equations for the mechanical movement of chains of identical particles in the plane interacting with their nearest-neighbors by bond stretching and by van der Waals and Coulomb forces. We find collinear and circular equilibria as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Carlos García-Azpeitia , Manuel Tejada-Wriedt