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In the framework of multiple-scattering theory, we show that the dispersion relations of certain electromagnetic (EM) and elastic metamaterials can be obtained analytically in the long-wavelength limit. Specific examples are given to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-06 Ying Wu , Zhao-Qing Zhang

The strongly interacting matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions possesses several conserved quantum numbers, such as baryon number, strangeness, and electric charge. The diffusion process of these charges can be characterized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-06 Sourav Dey , Amaresh Jaiswal , Hiranmaya Mishra

Relativistic transport phenomena are important from both theoretical and practical point of view. Accordingly, hydrodynamics of relativistic gas has been extensively studied theoretically. Here, we introduce a three-dimensional canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Malihe Ghodrat , Afshin Montakhab

A quantum theory of dispersion for an inhomogeneous solid is obtained, from a starting point of multipolar coupled atoms interacting with an electromagnetic field. The dispersion relations obtained are equivalent to the standard classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. D. Drummond , M. Hillery

We study the combined effects of electrostatic and hydrodynamic interactions (HI) on the short-time dynamics of charge-stabilized colloidal spheres. For this purpose, we calculate the translational and the rotational self-diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Watzlawek , G. Naegele

This thesis focuses on the mechanisms of energy transport in multidimensional heterogeneous lattice models, studying in particular the case of the Klein-Gordon model of coupled anharmonic oscillators in one and two spatial dimensions. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-26 Bob Senyange

We study potentially observable consequences of spatiotemporal discreteness for the motion of massive and massless particles. First we describe some simple intrinsic models for the motion of a massive point particle in a fixed causal set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-25 Fay Dowker , Lydia Philpott , Rafael Sorkin

We define a particular combination of charge and heat currents that is decoupled with the heat current. This `heat-decoupled' (HD) current can be transported by diffusion at long distances, when some thermo-electric conductivities and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Shao-Feng Wu , Bin Wang , Xian-Hui Ge , Yu Tian

We perform molecular dynamics simulations using the extended simple point charge SPC/E water model in order to investigate the dynamical behavior of supercooled-stretched water. We focus on the behavior of the translational diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. A. Netz , F. Starr , M. C. Barbosa , H. Eugene Stanley

Transport by normal diffusion can be decomposed into the so-called hydrodynamic modes which relax exponentially toward the equilibrium state. In chaotic systems with two degrees of freedom, the fine scale structure of these hydrodynamic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Gaspard , I. Claus , T. Gilbert , J. R. Dorfman

The diffusivity of tagged particles is demonstrated to be very heterogeneous on time scales comparable to or shorter than the $\alpha$ relaxation time $\tau_{\alpha}$ ($\cong$ the stress relaxation time) in a highly supercooled liquid via…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryoichi Yamamoto , Akira Onuki

In many natural and artificial devices diffusive transport takes place in confined geometries with corrugated boundaries. Such boundaries cause both entropic and hydrodynamic effects, which have been studied only for the case of spherical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-25 Xiang Yang , Qian Zhu , Chang Liu , Wei Wang , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni , Peter Hänggi , Hepeng Zhang

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

The self-diffusion process of a hard sphere fluid confined by two parallel plates separated by a distance on the order of the particle diameter is studied. The starting point is a closed kinetic equation for the distribution function that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Manuel Mayo , María Isabel García de Soria , Pablo Maynar , José Javier Brey

We study the propogation and diffusion of electric charge fluctuations in high energy heavy ion collisions using the Cattaneo form for the dissipative part of the electric current. As opposed to the ordinary diffusion equation this form…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Joseph I. Kapusta , Christopher Plumberg

Prolongating our previous paper on the Einstein relation, we study the motion of a particle diffusing in a random reversible environment when subject to a small external forcing. In order to describe the long time behavior of the particle,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Pierre Mathieu , Andrey Piatnitski

We model the expansion of an interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a disordered lattice with a nonlinear diffusion equation normally used for a variety of classical systems. We find approximate solutions of the diffusion equation…

We discuss the derivation and the solutions of integro-differential equations (variable-order time-fractional diffusion equations) following as continuous limits for lattice continuous time random walk schemes with power-law waiting-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-22 Philipp Roth , Igor M. Sokolov

Locally broken symmetries are used across fields to transport matter, particles and information in preferential directions. Beyond local mechanisms, spatially distributed nonlinearities in crystalline media have enabled non-reciprocal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Aaron Winn , Justine Parmentier , Eleni Katifori , Martin Brandenbourger

The divergence of the heat conductivity in the thermodynamic limit is investigated in 2d-lattice models of anharmonic solids with nearest-neighbour interaction from single-well potentials. Two different numerical approaches based on…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lippi , R. Livi