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This study introduces a physics-based machine learning framework for modeling both brittle and ductile fractures. Unlike physics-informed neural networks, which solve partial differential equations by embedding physical laws as soft…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Fadi Aldakheel , Elsayed S. Elsayed , Yousef Heider , Oliver Weeger

We check the robustness of a recently proposed dynamical model of associative Pavlovian learning that extends the Rescorla-Wagner (RW) model in a natural way and predicts progressively damped oscillations in the response of the subjects.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-20 Gianluca Calcagni , Justin A. Harris , Ricardo Pellón

This paper proposes a new method to analyze the spatial structure of urban systems using ideas from fractals. Regarding a system of cities as a set of "particles" distributed randomly on a triangular lattice, we construct a spatial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-15 Yanguang Chen , Shiguo Jiang

A frequently encountered situation in the study of delay systems is that the length of the delay time changes with time, which is of relevance in many fields such as optics, mechanical machining, biology or physiology. A characteristic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-12-07 Jian Wang , Günter Radons , Hongliu Yang

In this article, we have employed fractal formalism to calculate the Fracture Functions of the Leading neutron produced in \textit{ep} collisions. The fractal concept describes the self-similar behavior of the proton structure at Leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Samira Shoeibi Mohsenabadi , F. Taghavi-Shahri

Persistent homology analysis provides means to capture the connectivity structure of data sets in various dimensions. On the mathematical level, by defining a metric between the objects that persistence attaches to data sets, we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Henri Riihimäki , José Licón-Saláiz

We study novel three-dimensional gapped quantum phases of matter which support quasiparticles with restricted mobility, including immobile "fracton" excitations. So far, most existing fracton models may be instructively viewed as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-10 Hao Song , Abhinav Prem , Sheng-Jie Huang , M. A. Martin-Delgado

For a Borel measure on the unit interval and a sequence of scales that tend to zero, we define a one-parameter family of zeta functions called multifractal zeta functions. These functions are a first attempt to associate a zeta function to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-09 Michel L. Lapidus , Jacques Levy Vehel , John A. Rock

The metriplectic formalism couples Poisson brackets of the Hamiltonian description with metric brackets for describing systems with both Hamiltonian and dissipative components. The construction builds in asymptotic convergence to a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Massimo Materassi , Philip J. Morrison

Fractal behavior is found on the topographies of pericellular brushes on the surfaces of model healthy and cancerous cells, using dissipative particle dynamics models and simulations. The influence of brush composition, chain stiffness and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-18 J. D. Hernández Velázquez , S. Mejía-Rosales , A. Gama Goicochea

In chaotic reaction-diffusion systems with two degrees of freedom, the modes governing the exponential relaxation to the thermodynamic equilibrium present a fractal structure which can be characterized by a Hausdorff dimension. For long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Claus , P. Gaspard

This paper investigates fractal dimension of linear combination of fractal continuous functions with the same or different fractal dimensions. It has been proved that: (1) $BV_{I}$ all fractal continuous functions with bounded variation is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Wei Xiao

As well known, Hebb's learning traces its origin in Pavlov's Classical Conditioning, however, while the former has been extensively modelled in the past decades (e.g., by Hopfield model and countless variations on theme), as for the latter…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-05 Elena Agliari , Miriam Aquaro , Adriano Barra , Alberto Fachechi , Chiara Marullo

In this paper I discuss the formation of topological defects in quantum field theory and the relation between fractals and coherent states. The study of defect formation is particularly useful in the understanding of the same mathematical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-08-22 Giuseppe Vitiello

We describe the fractal solid by a special continuous medium model. We propose to describe the fractal solid by a fractional continuous model, where all characteristics and fields are defined everywhere in the volume but they follow some…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 Vasily E. Tarasov

Fractal behaviour, i.e. scale invariance in spatio-temporal dynamics, have been found to describe and model many systems in nature, in particular fluid mechanics and geophysical related geometrical objects, like the convective boundary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 S. de Franciscis , J. Pascual-Granado , J. C. Suárez , A. García Hernández , R. Garrido

We focus on mesoscopic dislocation patterning via a continuum dislocation dynamics theory (CDD) in three dimensions (3D). We study three distinct physically motivated dynamics which consistently lead to fractal formation in 3D with rather…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Yong S. Chen , Woosong Choi , Stefanos Papanikolaou , Matthew Bierbaum , James P. Sethna

The fractal dimension of a surface allows its degree of roughness to be characterized quantitatively. However, limited effort is attempted to calculate the fractal dimension of surfaces computed from precisely known atomic coordinates from…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jonathan Yik Chang Ting , Andrew Thomas Agars Wood , Amanda Susan Barnard

Clouds in observations are fractals: they show self-similarity across scales ranging from one to 1000 km. This includes individual storms and large-scale cloud structures typical of organised convection. It is not known whether global…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Hannah M. Christensen , Oliver G. A. Driver