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Particles interacting through long-range attraction and short-range repulsion given by power-laws have been widely used to model physical and biological systems, and to predict or explain many of the patterns they display. Apart from rare…

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In this paper we study a class of stationary states for reaction--diffusion systems of $k\geq 3$ densities having disjoint supports. For a class of segregation states governed by a variational principle we prove existence and provide…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Monica Conti , Susanna Terracini , Gianmaria Verzini

We consider an evolution model with nonlinear diffusion of porous medium type in competition with a nonlocal drift term favoring mass aggregation. The distinguishing trait of the model is the choice of a nonlinear $(s,p)$ Riesz potential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Francesco Bozzola , Edoardo Mainini

We introduce and analyze a model for the transport of particles or energy in extended lattice systems. The dynamics of the model acts on a discrete phase space at discrete times but has nonetheless some of the characteristic properties of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Raphael Lefevere

We study a model of diffusive oscillators whose internal states are subject to a periodic drive. These models are inspired by the dynamics of deformable particles with pulsating sizes, where repulsion leads to arrest the internal pulsation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-15 Alessandro Manacorda , Étienne Fodor

We study the diffusion of $N$ particles in one dimension interacting via a drift proportional to their rank. In the attractive case (self-gravitating gas) a mapping to the Lieb Liniger quantum model allows to obtain stationary time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-24 Pierre Le Doussal

It is shown that stochastic processes of diffusion type possess, in all generality, a structure of uncertainty relations and of coherent and squeezed states. This fact is used to obtain, via Nelson stochastic formulation of quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 S. De Martino , S. De Siena , F. Illuminati , G. Vitiello

We investigate systems of self-propelled particles with alignment interaction. Compared to previous work, the force acting on the particles is not normalized and this modification gives rise to phase transitions from disordered states at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Jian-Guo Liu

Macroscopic models for systems involving diffusion, short-range repulsion, and long-range attraction have been studied extensively in the last decades. In this paper we extend the analysis to a system for two species interacting with each…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Martin Burger , Marco Di Francesco , Simone Fagioli , Angela Stevens

A fermion ground state energy functional is set up in terms of particle density, relative pair density, and kinetic energy tensor density. It satisfies a minimum principle if constrained by a complete set of compatibility conditions. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-17 Bin Liu , Jerome K. Percus

We study a higher-dimensional thin film equation that incorporates competitive effects between aggregation and repulsion, where repulsion is modeled by fourth-order diffusion and aggregation by backward second-order degenerate diffusion,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Shen Bian

We study the existence and uniqueness of nontrivial stationary solutions to a nonlocal aggregation equation with quadratic diffusion arising in many contexts in population dynamics. The equation is the Wasserstein gradient flow generated by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-29 M. Burger , M. Di Francesco , M. Franek

Consider a particle diffusing in a confined volume which is divided into two equal regions. In one region the diffusion coefficient is twice the value of the diffusion coefficient in the other region. Will the particle spend equal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 P. F. Tupper , Xin Yang

How can repulsive and attractive forces, acting on a conservative system, create stable traveling patterns or branching instabilities? We have proposed to study this question in the framework of the hyperbolic Keller-Segel system with…

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Deterministic diffusive systems such as the periodic Lorentz gas, multi-baker map, as well as spatially periodic systems of interacting particles, have non-equilibrium stationary states with fractal properties when put in contact with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-28 Felipe Barra , Pierre Gaspard , Thomas Gilbert

The behavior of particles driven through a narrow constriction is investigated in experiment and simulation. The system of particles adapts to the confining potentials and the interaction energies by a self-consistent arrangement of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-10-15 P. Henseler , A. Erbe , M. Köppl , P. Leiderer , P. Nielaba

Diffusive operations, which mix the populations of different elements of phase space, can irreversibly transform a given initial state into any of a spectrum of different states from which no further energy can be extracted through…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 E. J. Kolmes , N. J. Fisch

We consider a Keller-Segel model with non-linear porous medium type diffusion and non-local attractive power law interaction, focusing on potentials that are less singular than Newtonian interaction. Here, the nonlinear diffusion is chosen…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Shen Bian , Yichen Zou

Chemotaxis phenomena govern the directed movement of micro-organisms in response to chemical stimuli. In this paper, we investigate two Keller--Segel systems of reaction-advection-diffusion equations modeling chemotaxis on thin networks.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Hewan Shemtaga , Wenxian Shen , Selim Sukhtaiev

A class of parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel systems with degenerate diffusion and volume filling is studied in a bounded domain subject to no-flux boundary conditions. The equations are derived from a multiphase fluid model. The interplay…

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