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We introduce and implement a method to compute stationary states of nonlinear Schr\''odinger equations on metric graphs. Stationary states are obtained as local minimizers of the nonlinear Schr\''odinger energy at fixed mass. Our method is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Christophe Besse , Romain Duboscq , Stefan Le Coz

We uncover a geometric organization of the differential equations for the wavefunction coefficients of conformally coupled scalars in power-law cosmologies. To do this, we introduce a basis of functions inspired by a decomposition of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-23 Daniel Baumann , Harry Goodhew , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel , Tom Westerdijk

Alliances and conflicts in social, political and economic relations can be represented by positive and negative edges in signed networks. A cycle is said to be positive if the product of its edge signs is positive, otherwise it is negative.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-13 Fernando Diaz-Diaz , Paolo Bartesaghi , Ernesto Estrada

In this work we review some recent development in the mathematical modelling of quantitative sociology by means of statistical mechanics. After a short pedagogical introduction to static and dynamic properties of many body systems, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-15 Elena Agliari , Adriano Barra , Raffaella Burioni , Pierluigi Contucci

Perturbation theory using self-consistent Green's functions is one of the most widely used approaches to study many-body effects in condensed matter. On the basis of general considerations and by performing analytical calculations for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 Walter Tarantino , Pina Romaniello , J. A. Berger , Lucia Reining

A fundamental question in nonequilibrium statistical physics is whether effective equilibrium behavior can emerge at coarse-grained scales in strongly driven systems. Here, we investigate this question in the context of human mobility by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-24 Lei Dong

Inhomogeneous flows and shear banding are of interest for a range of applications but have been eluding a comprehensive theoretical understanding, mostly due to the lack of a framework comparable to equilibrium statistical mechanics. Here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-15 Thomas Speck

We present a hybrid scheme based on classical density functional theory and machine learning for determining the equilibrium structure and thermodynamics of inhomogeneous fluids. The exact functional map from the density profile to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-12 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Daniel de las Heras , Matthias Schmidt

Imbalanced node classification is a critical challenge in graph learning, where most existing methods typically utilize Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn node representations. These methods can be broadly categorized into the data-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zhixiao Wang , Chaofan Zhu , Qihan Feng , Jian Zhang , Xiaobin Rui , Philip S Yu

The Heider theory of cognitive dissonance in social groups, formulated recently in terms of differential equations, is generalized here for the case of asymmetric interpersonal ties. The space of initial states is penetrated by starting the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-04-26 P. Gawronski , K. Kulakowski

Force-based models describe pedestrian dynamics in analogy to classical mechanics by a system of second order ordinary differential equations. By investigating the linear stability of two main classes of forces, parameter regions with…

In this paper we present an analytical study of dynamic membership (aka churn) in structured peer-to-peer networks. We use a fluid model approach to describe steady-state or transient phenomena, and apply it to the Chord system. For any…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Supriya Krishnamurthy , Sameh El-Ansary , Erik Aurell , Seif Haridi

Although ubiquitous, interactions of groups of individuals (e.g., modern messaging applications, group meetings, or even a parliament discussion) are not yet thoroughly studied. Frequently, single-groups are modeled as critical-mass…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-19 Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Giovanni Petri , Pablo Martín Rodriguez , Yamir Moreno

Graph signal processing (GSP) is a key tool for satisfying the growing demand for information processing over networks. However, the success of GSP in downstream learning and inference tasks is heavily dependent on the prior identification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Seyed Saman Saboksayr , Gonzalo Mateos , Mujdat Cetin

The flow equation method (Wegner 1994) is used as continuous unitary transformation to construct perturbatively effective Hamiltonians. The method is illustrated in detail for dimerized and frustrated antiferromagnetic S=1/2 chains. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Christian Knetter , Goetz S. Uhrig

Influence diagram is a graphical representation of belief networks with uncertainty. This article studies the structural properties of a probabilistic model in an influence diagram. In particular, structural controllability theorems and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Brian Y. Chan , Ross D. Shachter

We construct a stochastic dynamical systems theory in which sustainability is a structural boundary property of a fully coupled Earth--Human--Production system. Each subsystem is modelled as a vector-valued process governed by stochastic…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-02 Claudio Pirrone , Stefano Fricano , Gioacchino Fazio

Structure-based coarse graining of molecular systems offers a systematic route to reproduce the many-body potential of mean force. Unfortunately, common strategies are inherently limited by the molecular mechanics force field employed.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-27 Tristan Bereau , Joseph F. Rudzinski

Bladder function is typically assessed through pressure volume relations, compliance indices and flow measurements, whereas structural evaluation relies largely on qualitative imaging findings. These approaches do not formally quantify how…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Arturo Tozzi

Coherence is an important aspect of text quality, and various approaches have been applied to coherence modeling. However, existing methods solely focus on a single document's coherence patterns, ignoring the underlying correlation between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Wei Liu , Xiyan Fu , Michael Strube