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Systems switching between different dynamical phases is an ubiquitous phenomenon. The general understanding of such a process is limited. To this end, we present a general expression that captures fluctuations of a system exhibiting a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-05 Ion Santra , Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Deepak Gupta

We study the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional optical lattice in the limit of weak atom-atom interactions, including an approximate model for quantum fluctuations. A pulsating dynamical instability in which atoms…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-17 Uttam Shrestha , Juha Javanainen , Janne Ruostekoski

The adiabatic criterion, widely used in astronomical dynamics, is based on the harmonic oscillator. It asserts that the change in action under a slowly varying perturbation is exponentially small. Recent mathematical results precisely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Martin D. Weinberg

We study the stochastic motion of active particles that undergo spontaneous transitions between two distinct modes of motion. Each mode is characterized by a velocity distribution and an arbitrary (anti-)persistence. We present an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-07 M. Reza Shaebani , Heiko Rieger , Zeinab Sadjadi

The dynamical properties of a particle in a gravitational field colliding with a rigid wall moving with piecewise constant velocity are studied. The linear nature of the wall's motion permits further analytical investigation than is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-02 Cameron K. Langer , Bruce N. Miller

A variation of fundamental constants of physics is proposed in a frame of static universe. It is shown when the velocity of light increases (decreases) the Planck's constant increases (decreases) and mass of bodies decreases (increases).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Jonauskas

Systems of particles interacting via inverse-power law potentials have an invariance with respect to changes in length and temperature, implying a correspondence in the dynamics and thermodynamics between different `isomorphic' sets of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Thibaud Maimbourg , Jorge Kurchan

A sequence of large invertible matrices given by a small random perturbation around a fixed diagonal and positive matrix induces a random dynamics on a high-dimensional sphere. For a certain class of rotationally invariant random…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Florian Dorsch , Hermann Schulz-Baldes

We study heterogeneities in a binary Lennard-Jones system below the glass transition using molecular dynamics simulations. We identify mobile and immobile particles and measure their distribution of vibrational amplitudes. For temperatures…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-29 Katharina Vollmayr-Lee , Annette Zippelius

Random magnetic field configurations are ubiquitous in nature. Such fields lead to a variety of dynamical phenomena, including localization and glassy physics in some condensed matter systems and novel transport processes in astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-11 Tian-Gang Zhou , Michael Winer , Brian Swingle

In the classical (non-quantum) relativity theory the course of the moving clock is dilated as compared to the course of the clock at rest (the Einstein dilation). Any unstable system may be regarded as a clock. The time evolution (e.g., the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. I. Shirokov

In 2005, Couder, Protiere, Fort and Badouad showed that oil droplets bouncing on a vibrating tray of oil can display nonlocal interactions reminiscent of the particle-wave associations in quantum mechanics; in particular they can move,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-20 Robert Brady , Ross Anderson

A group of transformations changing the phases of the single particle density matrix, but leaving unchanged the predictions for identical particles concerning the momentum distributions, momentum correlations etc., is identified. Its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Bialas , K. Zalewski

One of the intrinsic characteristics of far-from-equilibrium systems is the nonrelaxational nature of the system dynamics, which leads to novel properties that cannot be understood and described by conventional pathways based on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-25 Zhi-Feng Huang , Andreas M. Menzel , Hartmut Löwen

In this paper we examine the stability of scalar perturbations in nonsingular models which emerge from an interacting vacuum component. The analysis developed in this paper relies on two phenomenological choices for the energy exchange…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Filipe Cattete Alves , Rodrigo Maier

Late time properties of moving relativistic particles are studied. Within the proper relativistic treatment of the problem we find decay curves of such particles and we show that late time deviations of the survival probability of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-03 K. Urbanowski

The transformation of canonical decay laws of moving unstable quantum systems is studied by approximating, over intermediate times, the decay laws at rest with superpositions of exponential modes via the Prony analysis. The survival…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Filippo Giraldi

We present molecular dynamics simulations of mono- or bidisperse inelastic granular gases driven by vibrating walls, in two dimensions (without gravity). Because of the energy injection at the boundaries, a situation often met…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alain Barrat , Emmanuel Trizac

We present a simple dynamical systems model for the effect of invisible space dimensions on the visible ones. There are three premises. A: Orbits consist of flows of probabilities [P].which is the case in the setting of quantum mechanics.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Boyarsky , P. Gora

Deformable self-propelled particles provide us with one of the most important nonlinear dissipative systems, which are related, for example, to the motion of microorganisms. It is emphasized that this is a subject of localized objects in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Tarama , Y. Itino , A. M. Menzel , T. Ohta