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The conventional, time-dependent Schroedinger equation describes only unidirectional time evolution of the state of a physical system, i.e., forward or, less commonly, backward. This paper proposes a generalized quantum dynamics for the…

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The thermodynamic behavior of vacuum decaying cosmologies is investigated within a manifestly covariant formulation. Such a process corresponds to a continuous irreversible energy flow from the vacuum component to the created matter…

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The asymptotic decay of passive scalar fields is solved analytically for the Kraichnan model, where the velocity has a short correlation time. At long times, two universality classes are found, both characterized by a distribution of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Chaves , G. Eyink , U. Frisch , M. Vergassola

We derive fast decay estimates of the total energy for wave equations with localized variable damping coefficients, which are dealt with in the one dimensional half line $(0,\infty)$. The variable damping coefficient vanishes near the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Ryo Ikehata , Takeshi Komatsu

The work provides an integrated pipeline for the model order reduction of turbulent flows around parametrised geometries in aerodynamics. In particular, Free-Form Deformation is applied for geometry parametrisation, whereas two different…

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According to the standard model of cosmology, the early universe has been dominated by radiation or non-relativistic matter in several eras of its history. However, many cosmological calculations involving particle processes are commonly…

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An exactly solvable position-dependent mass Schr\"odinger equation in two dimensions, depicting a particle moving in a semi-infinite layer, is re-examined in the light of recent theories describing superintegrable two-dimensional systems…

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We study a system of semilinear wave equations satisfying the weak null condition, which can be regarded as a simplified model for the Einstein vacuum equations. The main objective is to establish precise pointwise decay estimates, as both…

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We are concerned with the decay of long time solutions of the initial value problem associated with the Schr\"odinger-Korteweg-de Vries system. We use recent techniques in order to show that solutions of this system decay to zero in the…

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We suggest to use "minimal" choice of quantum gravity theory, that is the quantum field theory, in which space-time is seen as Riemannian space and metric (or vierbein field) is the dynamical variable. We then suggest to use the simplest…

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The decay rate of a false vacuum is studied in gauge theory, paying particular attention to its gauge invariance. Although the decay rate should not depend on the gauge parameter $\xi$ according to the Nielsen identity, the gauge invariance…

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Dissipative particle dynamics is a widely used mesoscale technique for the simulation of hydrodynamics (as well as immersed particles) utilizing coarse-grained molecular dynamics. While the method is capable of describing any fluid, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Ryan C. Krafnick , Angel E. Garcia

In the context of instanton method for stochastic system this paper purposes a modification of the arclength parametrization of the Hamilton's equations allowing for an arbitrary instanton speed. The main results of the paper are: (i) it…

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We present a chaplygin gas Friedmann-Robertson-Walker quantum cosmological model. In this work the Schutz's variational formalism is applied with positive, negative, and zero constant spatial curvature. In this approach the notion of time…

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We show that the decay of a passive scalar $\theta$ advected by a random incompressible flow with zero correlation time in Batchelor limit can be mapped exactly to a certain quantum-mechanical system with a finite number of degrees of…

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We present a space-time ultra-weak discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the linear Schr\"odinger equation with variable potential. The proposed method is well-posed and quasi-optimal in mesh-dependent norms for very general discrete…

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We present a numerical method for approximating the solutions of degenerate parabolic equations with a formal gradient flow structure. The numerical method we propose preserves at the discrete level the formal gradient flow structure,…

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We consider the total energy decay of the Cauchy problem for wave equations with a potential and an effective damping. We treat it in the whole one-dimensional Euclidean space. Fast energy decay is established with the help of potential.…

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