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Identifying the universality class of critical active phase transitions has been the subject of recent interest and controversy. Resolving these controversies will require robust numerical investigations to determine whether active critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 Jiechao Feng , Daniel Evans , Ahmad K. Omar

It has been known since Lanford [19] that the dynamics of a hard sphere gas is described in the low density limit by the Boltzmann equation, at least for short times. The classical strategy of proof fails for longer times, even close to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

We investigate the overdamped stochastic dynamics of a particle in an asymptotically flat external potential field, in contact with a thermal bath. For an infinite system size, the particles may escape the force field and diffuse freely at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Erez Aghion , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

We investigate a model of high-dimensional dynamical variables with all-to-all interactions that are random and non-reciprocal. We characterize its phase diagram and show that the model can exhibit chaotic dynamics. We show that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-15 Samantha J. Fournier , Alessandro Pacco , Valentina Ros , Pierfrancesco Urbani

Confined fluids display complex behavior due to layering and local packing. Here, we disentangle these effects by confining a hard-sphere fluid to the surface of a cylinder, such the circumference extends only over a few particle diameters.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-23 Charlotte F. Petersen , Lukas Schrack , Thomas Franosch

A holistic view of the cosmological appearance and development of space is obtained by studying space as a spherically closed surface of a 4-sphere in a zero energy balance between motion and gravitation. Such an approach re-establishes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tuomo Suntola

Multidimensional cosmological models in the presence of a bare cosmological constant and a perfect fluid are investigated under dimensional reduction to 4-dimensional effective models. Stable compactification of the internal spaces is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Guenther , A. Zhuk

We extend our theory of amorphous packings of hard spheres to binary mixtures and more generally to multicomponent systems. The theory is based on the assumption that amorphous packings produced by typical experimental or numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Indaco Biazzo , Francesco Caltagirone , Giorgio Parisi , Francesco Zamponi

Nonlinear waves are a robust phenomenon observed in complex systems ranging from mechanics to ecology. Fronts are fundamental due to their robustness against perturbations and capacity to propagate one state over another. Controlling and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-14 David Pinto-Ramos

If a state is passive for uniformly accelerated observers in n-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time (i.e. cannot be used by them to operate a perpetuum mobile), they will (a) register a universal value of the Unruh temperature, (b)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Detlev Buchholz , Stephen J. Summers

We present a mathematical theory of dynamical fluctuations for the hard sphere gas in the Boltzmann-Grad limit. We prove that: (1) fluctuations of the empirical measure from the solution of the Boltzmann equation, scaled with the square…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Thierry Bodineau , Isabelle Gallagher , Laure Saint-Raymond , Sergio Simonella

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

By employing Husimi quasiprobability distributions, we show that a bounded portion of an unbounded phase space induces a finite effective dimension in an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. We compare our general expressions with numerical…

Supersolidity -- a quantum-mechanical phenomenon characterized by the presence of both superfluidity and crystalline order -- was initially envisioned in the context of bulk solid helium, as a possible answer to the question of whether a…

This paper reviews (and expands) some recent results on the modeling of aggregation-diffusion phenomena at various scales, focusing on the emergence of collective dynamics as a result of the competition between attractive and repulsive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Inwon Kim , Antoine Mellet , Jeremy Sheung-Him Wu

We study the formation of coherent structures in a system with long-range interactions where particles moving on a circle interact through a repulsive cosine potential. Non equilibrium structures are shown to correspond to statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julien Barre' , Freddy Bouchet , Thierry Dauxois , Stefano Ruffo

The conditions of multi-phase equilibrium are solved for generic polydisperse systems. The case of multiple polydispersity is treated, where several properties (e.g. size, charge, shape) simultaneously vary from one particle to another. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. M. L. Evans

We propose quantum-mechanical systems in which the number of spatial dimensions is promoted to a dynamical quantum variable, making the effective dimension state-dependent. Interestingly, systems of this form can exhibit enhanced symmetries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Mikołaj Myszkowski , Mattia Damia Paciarini , Francesco Sannino

We calculate the phase behavior of hard spheres with size polydispersity, using accurate free energy expressions for the fluid and solid phases. Cloud and shadow curves, which determine the onset of phase coexistence, are found exactly by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Fasolo , P. Sollich

By analytically solving some simple models of phase-ordering kinetics, we suggest a mechanism for the onset of non-equilibrium behaviour in colloid-polymer mixtures. These mixtures can function as models of atomic systems; their physics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 R. M. L. Evans , W. C. K. Poon