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Using a solvable model, the two-dimensional two-component plasma, we study a Coulomb gas confined in a disk and in an annulus with boundaries that can adsorb some of the negative particles of the system. We obtain explicit analytic…

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The propagation of surface plasmons on a quantum plasma half-space in the absence of any external confinement is investigated. By means of Quantum Hydrodynamic Model in the electrostatic limit it is found that the equilibrium density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 D. I. Palade

Starting from a continuum theory of defects, that is the analogous to three-dimensional Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble gravity, we consider a charged particle with spin 1/2 propagating in a uniform magnetic field coincident with a wedge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 S. A. Ali , C. Cafaro , S. Capozziello , Ch. Corda

We study a lattice model describing the non-equilibrium dynamics emerging from the pulling of a tracer particle through a disordered medium occupied by randomly placed obstacles. The model is considered in a restricted geometry pertinent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-09 A. Squarcini , A. Tinti , P. Illien , O. Bénichou , T. Franosch

Rectification and diffusion of non-interacting self-propelled particles is numerically investigated in a two-dimensional corrugated channel. From numerical simulations, we obtain the average velocity and the effective diffusion coefficient.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-29 Bao-quan Ai , Qiu-yan Chen , Ya-feng He , Feng-guo Li , Wei-rong Zhong

The problems of high linear conductivity in an electric field, as well as nonlinear conductivity, are considered for plasma-like systems. First, we recall several observations of nonlinear fast charge transport in dusty plasma, molecular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. A. Trigger , W. Ebeling , G. J. F. van Heijst , D. Litinski

We study the well-posedness of a class of nonlocal-interaction equations on general domains $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, including nonconvex ones. We show that under mild assumptions on the regularity of domains (uniform prox-regularity),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-07 José A. Carrillo , Dejan Slepčev , Lijiang Wu

Collections of self-propelled particles that move persistently by continuously consuming free energy are a paradigmatic example of active matter. In these systems, unlike Brownian "hot colloids", the breakdown of detailed balance yields a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-12 Suraj Shankar , M. Cristina Marchetti

We analyze the continuous time evolution of a $d$-dimensional system of $N$ self propelled particles with a kinematic constraint on the velocities inspired by the original Vicsek's one \cite{VCB-JCS}. Interactions among particles are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Michele Gianfelice , Enza Orlandi

We consider a non relativistic charged particle in a 1-dimensional infinite square potential well. This quantum system is subjected to a control, which is a uniform (in space) time depending electric field. It is represented by a complex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-11 Karine Beauchard , Mazyar Mirrahimi

In this paper, we develop a large-$N$ field theory for a system of $N$ classical particles in one dimension at thermal equilibrium. The particles are confined by an arbitrary external potential, $V_\text{ex} (x)$, and repel each other via a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-23 Avanish Kumar , Manas Kulkarni , Anupam Kundu

We study the perfect Bose gas in random external potentials and show that there is generalized Bose-Einstein condensation in the random eigenstates if and only if the same occurs in the one-particle kinetic-energy eigenstates, which…

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This paper studies the long-time behavior of optimal solutions for a class of linear-convex optimal control problems. We focus on a partial exponential turnpike property, established without imposing controllability or stabilizability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Jingrui Sun , Lvning Yuan

Some novel TWO-body effects analogous to the well-known THREE-body Efimov effect are predicted. In the systems considered, particle A is constrained on a TRUNCATED or BENT one-dimensional line or two-dimensional plane, or on one side of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shina Tan

We study the probability of arbitrary density profiles in conserving diffusive fields which are driven by the boundaries. We demonstrate the existence of singularities in the large-deviation functional, the direct analog of the free-energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Guy Bunin , Yariv Kafri , Daniel Podolsky

We consider positive one-dimensional solutions of a Lane-Emden relative Dirichlet problem in a cylinder and study their stability/instability properties as the energy varies with respect to domain perturbations. This depends on the exponent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Francesca De Marchis , Lisa Mazzuoli , Filomena Pacella

The Sutherland approximation to the van der Waals forces is applied to the derivation of a self-consistent Vlasov-type field in a liquid filling a half space, bordering vacuum. The ensuing Vlasov equation is then derived, and solved to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-02 V. Molinari , B. D. Ganapol , D. Mostacci

Self-propelled particles display unique collective phenomena, due to the intrinsic coupling of density and polarity. For instance, the giant number fluctuation appears in the orientationally ordered state, and the motility-induced phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-04 Kyosuke Adachi , Hiroyoshi Nakano

The properties of systems with Bose-Einstein condensate in external time-independent random potentials are investigated in the frame of a self-consistent stochastic mean-field approximation. General considerations are presented, which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Yukalov , R. Graham

We investigate the Schrodinger equation for a particle with a nonuniform solitonic mass density. First, we discuss in extent the (nontrivial) position-dependent mass $V(x)=0$ case whose solutions are hypergeometric functions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 M. S. Cunha , H. R. Christiansen