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We propose experimentally feasible ways to probe universal features of absorbing phase transitions from two different approaches, both based on numerical validations. On one hand, we numerically study a probability distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-20 Keiichi Tamai , Masaki Sano

A mathematical modeling process for phenomena with a single state variable that attempts to be realistic must be given by a scalar nonautonomous differential equation $x'=f(t,x)$ that is concave with respect to the state variable $x$ in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Jesús Dueñas , Carmen Núñez , Rafael Obaya

In this paper we study a phase transition model for vehicular traffic flows. Two phases are taken into account, according to whether the traffic is light or heavy. We assume that the two phases have a non-empty intersection, the so called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Mohamed Benyahia , Carlotta Donadello , Nikodem Dymski , Massimiliano D. Rosini

Propagation of uncertainty in dynamical systems is a significant challenge. Here we focus on random multiscale ordinary differential equation models. In particular, we study Hopf bifurcation in the fast subsystem for random initial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Christian Kuehn

Transition interface sampling (TIS) and replica exchange TIS (RETIS) are powerful methods for computing rates of rare events inaccessible to straightforward molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Path reweighting extends their output,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Titus S. van Erp , Daniel T. Zhang , Elias Wils , Sina Safaei , An Ghysels

We explore the cooperative behaviour and phase transitions of interacting networks by studying a simplified model consisting of Ising spins placed on the nodes of two coupled Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs. We derive analytical expressions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-27 Maíra Bolfe , Lucas Nicolao , Fernando L. Metz

Mainstream flow matching methods typically focus on learning the local velocity field, which inherently requires multiple integration steps during generation. In contrast, Mean Velocity Flow models establish a relationship between the local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chenrui Ma

In this paper, we propose a framework to investigate the collective dynamics in ensembles of globally coupled phase oscillators when higher-order modes dominate the coupling. The spatiotemporal properties of the attractors in various…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-04-19 Can Xu , Hairong Xiang , Jian Gao , Zhigang Zheng

We consider the behavior of a collective variable in a complex system formed by a finite number of interacting subunits. Each of them is characterized by a degree of freedom with an intrinsic nonlinear bistable stochastic dynamics. The lack…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-16 M. Morillo , J. M. Casado

For a transition between two stable states, the committor is the probability that the dynamics leads to one stable state before the other. It can be estimated from trajectory data by minimizing an expression for the transition rate that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Chatipat Lorpaiboon , Jonathan Weare , Aaron R. Dinner

The transition mechanism of jump processes between two different subsets in state space reveals important dynamical information of the processes and therefore has attracted considerable attention in the past years. In this paper, we study…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Max von Kleist , Christof Schütte , Wei Zhang

We propose a model that describes phase transition including metastable phases present in the van der Waals Equation of State (EoS). We introduce a dynamical system that is able to depict the mass transfer between two phases, for which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-07 François James , Hélène Mathis

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is an effective mesoscopic particle model with a lower computational cost than molecular dynamics because of the soft potentials that it employs. However, the soft potential is not strong enough to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Zhijie Xu , Paul Meakin

Rare events such as nucleation processes are of ubiquitous importance in real systems. The most popular method for nonequilibrium systems, forward flux sampling (FFS), samples rare events by using interfaces to partition the whole…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-11-22 Huijun Jiang , Mingfeng Pu , Zhonghuai Hou

Numerous variable selection methods rely on a two-stage procedure, where a sparsity-inducing penalty is used in the first stage to predict the support, which is then conveyed to the second stage for estimation or inference purposes. In this…

Applications · Statistics 2015-05-28 Jean-Michel Bécu , Yves Grandvalet , Christophe Ambroise , Cyril Dalmasso

An analytical method is developed describing the approach to a finite-time singularity associated with collapse of a narrow fluid layer in an unstable Hele-Shaw flow. Under the separation of time scales near a bifurcation point, a…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-28 Raymond E. Goldstein , Adriana I. Pesci , Michael J. Shelley

The solid-liquid interface free energy \gamma sl is a key parameter controlling nucleation and growth during solidification and other phenomena. There are intrinsic difficulties in obtaining accurate experimental values, and the previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-20 Stefano Angioletti-Uberti , Michele Ceriotti , Mike W. Finnis , Peter D. Lee

Simple classical thermodynamic approach to the general description of metastable states is presented. It makes possible to calculate the explicit dependence of the Gibbs free energy on temperature, to calculate the heat capacity, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Kornyushin

Understanding transition pathways between two meta-stable states of a molecular system is crucial to advance drug discovery and material design. However, unbiased molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are computationally infeasible because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kiyoung Seong , Seonghyun Park , Seonghwan Kim , Woo Youn Kim , Sungsoo Ahn

We present a method for determining the free energy dependence on a selected number of collective variables using an adaptive bias. The formalism provides a unified description which has metadynamics and canonical sampling as limiting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-31 Alessandro Barducci , Giovanni Bussi , Michele Parrinello
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