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Between space crystals and amorphous materials there exists a third class of aperiodic structures which lack translational symmetry but reveal long-range order. They are dubbed quasi-crystals and their formation, similarly as the formation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-19 Krzysztof Giergiel , Arkadiusz Kuroś , Krzysztof Sacha

One surprising result in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is that the abundance of various particles measured in experiments is consistent with the picture that they reach chemical equilibrium at a temperature much higher than the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-06 Jun Xu , Che Ming Ko

From a dynamical viewpoint, basic phase transitions of statistical mechanics can be regarded as a breaking of ergodicity. While many random models exhibiting such transitions at the thermodynamics limit exist, finite-dimensional examples…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Bastien Fernandez

We construct a two-class asymmetric interacting particle system with $U_q(so_6)$ or $U_q(so_8)$ symmetry, in which up to two particles may occupy a site if the two particles have different class. The particles exhibit a drift, but there is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Jeffrey Kuan , Mark Landry , Andrew Lin , Andrew Park , Zhengye Zhou

Within a scalar model theory of gravity, where the interaction between particles is given by the half-retarded + half-advanced solution of the scalar wave equation, we consider an N-body problem: we investigate configurations of N particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert Beig , J. Mark Heinzle , Bernd G. Schmidt

We consider an SDE system for signed Coulomb particles moving in $\mathbb R^2$. Due to the singular Coulomb interaction force, collisions between particles of opposite sign will happen in finite time. Upon collision, the colliding particles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Patrick van Meurs , Yoan Tardy

We consider particle collisions in the background of a nonextremal black hole. Two particles fall from infinity, particle 1 is fine-tuned (critical), collision occurs in its turning point. The first example is the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 O. B. Zaslavskii

Nanochains of atoms, molecules and polymers have gained recent interest in the experimental sciences. This article contributes to an advanced mathematical modeling of the mechanical properties of nanochains that allow for heterogenities,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Laura Lauerbach , Stefan Neukamm , Mathias Schäffner , Anja Schlömerkemper

We consider the motion of a spinning relativistic particle with an arbitrary value of spin in external electromagnetic and gravitational fields, to first order in the external field. We use the noncovariant description of spin. An explicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Pomeransky , R. A. Sen'kov

An approach to analyse the properties of a particle system is to compare it with different processes to understand when one of them is larger than other ones. The main technique for that is coupling, which may not be easy to construct. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Davide Borrello

In stationary spacetimes global equilibrium states can be defined, applying the maximum entropy principle, by the introduction of local thermodynamic fields determined solely by geometry. As an example, we study a class of equilibrium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-27 Rodolfo Panerai

We report new results on classical nonrelativistic dipole conserving particles - fractons. These have been previously shown to exhibit "Machian" dynamics where the motion of one particle requires the presence of others in its proximity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Aryaman Babbar , Ylias Sadki , Abhishodh Prakash , S. L. Sondhi

We study the stationary nonequilibrium states of N point particles moving under the influence of an electric field E among fixed obstacles (discs) in a two dimensional torus. The total kinetic energy of the system is kept constant through a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Bonetto , D. Daems , J. L. Lebowitz , V. Ricci

Motivated by the problem of formation control for vehicles moving at unit speed in three-dimensional space, we are led to models of gyroscopically interacting particles, which require the machinery of curves and frames to describe and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. W. Justh , P. S. Krishnaprasad

Elementary processes in astrophysical phenomena traditionally attract researchers attention. At first this can be attributed to a group of hemi-ionization processes in Rydberg atom collisions with ground state parent atoms. This processes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 Yu. N. Gnedin , A. A. Mihajlov , Lj. M. Ignjatovic , N. M. Sakan , V. A. Sreckovic , M. Yu. Zakharov , N. N. Bezuglov , A. N. Klycharev

We consider a bound system of particles interacting via electromagnetic forces in an external electromagnetic field, including leading relativistic corrections. Each particle has a definite mass, charge, spin, and charge radius. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Albert Wienczek , Mariusz Puchalski , Krzysztof Pachucki

Isolated systems tend to evolve towards equilibrium, a special state that has been the focus of many-body research for a century. Yet much of the richness of the world around us arises from conditions far from equilibrium. Phenomena such as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-27 Heinrich M. Jaeger , Andrea J. Liu

The symmetry and topology of the coincidence structure, i.e. the locus of points in configuration space corresponding to particles in the same position, plays a critical role in extracting universal properties for few-body models with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 N. L. Harshman , Adam Knapp

We consider a large class of interacting particle systems in 1D described by an energy whose interaction potential is singular and non-local. This class covers Riesz gases (in particular, log gases) and applications to plasticity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Masato Kimura , Patrick van Meurs

Ergodicity, a fundamental concept in statistical mechanics, is not yet a fully understood phenomena for closed quantum systems, particularly its connection with the underlying chaos. In this review, we consider a few examples of collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-20 Sudip Sinha , Sayak Ray , Subhasis Sinha