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The nonconformal scalar field is considered in N-dimensional space-time with metric which includes, in particular, the cases of nonhomogeneous spaces and anisotropic spaces of Bianchi type-I. The modified Hamiltonian is constructed. Under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Pavlov

A generator of spatio-temporal pseudo-random Gaussian fields that satisfy the "proportionality of scales" property (Tsyroulnikov, 2001) is presented. The generator is based on a third-order in time stochastic differential equation with a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-05-15 Michael Tsyrulnikov , Dmitry Gayfulin

Hyperuniform states of matter exhibit unusual suppression of density fluctuations at large scales, contrasting sharply with typical disordered configurations. Various types of hyperuniformity emerge in multicomponent disordered systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-14 Hiroshi Frusawa

Structure formation in our Universe creates non-Gaussian random fields that will soon be observed over almost the entire sky by the Euclid satellite, the Vera-Rubin observatory, and the Square Kilometre Array. An unsolved problem is how to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-10 Joey R. Braspenning , Elena Sellentin

Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter having suppressed density fluctuations at large length-scale similar to perfect crystals and quasicrystals but without any long range orientational order. In the past decade,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-18 Yusheng Lei , Ran Ni

Recently a Hamiltonian formulation for the evolution of the universe dominated by multiple oscillatory scalar fields was developed by the present author and was applied to the investigation of the evolution of cosmological perturbations on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Takashi Hamazaki

In periodically sheared suspensions there is a dynamical phase transition characterized by a critical strain amplitude $\gamma_c$ between an absorbing state where particle trajectories are reversible and an active state where trajectories…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-07 Sam Wilken , Rodrigo E. Guerra , David J. Pine , Paul M. Chaikin

In this work we present a study on the characterization of ordered and disordered hyperuniform point distributions on spherical surfaces. In spite of the extensive literature on disordered hyperuniform systems in Euclidean geometries, to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-14 Ariel G. Meyra , Guillermo J. Zarragoicoechea , Alberto. L. Maltz , Enrique Lomba , Salvatore Torquato

Hyperuniform disorder is a type of correlated disorder characterized by vanishing spectral density at small wavevectors, making the configuration effectively homogeneous on long length scales. In photonics, hyperuniform disorder is…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-05 Zeyu Zhang , Koorosh Sadri , Brian Gould , Mikael Rechtsman

Disordered multihyperuniform many-particle systems are exotic amorphous states that allow exquisite color sensing capabilities due to their anomalous suppression of density fluctuations for distinct subsets of particles, as recently…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Enrique Lomba , Jean-Jacques Weis , Salvatore Torquato

We study the two-dimensional snake-like pattern that arises in phase separation of alloys described by spinodal decomposition in the Cahn-Hilliard model. These are somewhat universal patterns due to an overlay of eigenfunctions of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Luigi Amedeo Bianchi , Dirk Blömker , Philipp Wacker

This paper investigates a Cahn-Hilliard-Swift-Hohenberg system, focusing on a three-species chemical mixture subject to physical constraints on volume fractions. The resulting system leads to complex patterns involving a separation into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Harald Garcke , Kei Fong Lam , Robert Nürnberg , Andrea Signori

We study structure formation in a set of cosmological simulations to uncover the scales in the initial density field that gave rise to the formation of present-day structures. Our simulations share a common primordial power spectrum (here…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-22 Till Sawala , Adrian Jenkins , Stuart McAlpine , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Peter H. Johansson , Carlos S. Frenk

We explore quantitative descriptors that herald when a many-particle system in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ approaches a hyperuniform state as a function of the relevant control parameter. We establish quantitative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Salvatore Torquato

Hyperuniform continuous random fields suppress large-scale fluctuations while preserving rich local disorder, making them highly attractive for next-generation photonic, thermal and mechanical materials. However, traditional reconstruction…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-11 Liyu Zhong , Sheng Mao

Gravitational theories with multiple scalar fields coupled to the metric and each other --- a natural extension of the well studied single-scalar-tensor theories --- are interesting phenomenological frameworks to describe deviations from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-02 Michael Horbatsch , Hector O. Silva , Davide Gerosa , Paolo Pani , Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Ulrich Sperhake

A free massive scalar field in inhomogeneous random media is investigated. The coefficients of the Klein-Gordon equation are taken to be random functions of the spatial coordinates. The case of an annealed-like disordered medium, modeled by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-05 E. Arias , E. Goulart , G. Krein , G. Menezes , N. F. Svaiter

In this paper I shall consider field theories in a space of four-dimensions which have field variables consisting of the components of a metric tensor and scalar field. The field equations of these scalar-tensor field theories will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Gregory W. Horndeski

We investigate cosmological perturbations of f(G) gravity in the presence of a scalar field. Using the 1 + 3 covariant formalism, we present the energy overdensity perturbation equations responsible for large scale structure formation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 Albert Munyeshyaka , Joseph Ntahompagaze , Tom Mutabazi , Manasse. R Mbonye

Understanding how particles are arranged on the sphere is not only central to numerous physical, biological, and materials systems but also finds applications in mathematics and in analysis of geophysical and meteorological measurements. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-06 Anže Lošdorfer Božič , Simon Čopar