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Stochastic resetting models diverse phenomena across numerous scientific disciplines. Current understanding stems from the renewal framework, which relates systems subject to global resetting to their non-resetting counterparts. Yet, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-10 Asaf Miron , Shlomi Reuveni

We analyze a macroscopic model with a maximal density constraint which describes short range repulsion in biological systems. This system aims at modeling finite-size particles which cannot overlap and repel each other when they are too…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Laurent Navoret , Richard Bon , David Sanchez

We consider the hydrodynamic behavior of some conservative particle systems with degenerate jump rates without exclusive constraints. More precisely, we study the particle systems without restrictions on the total number of particles per…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Makiko Sasada

In many experimental settings, one is tasked with obtaining information about certain relationships by applying perturbations to a set of independent variables and noting the changes in the set of dependent ones. While traditional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Gene A. Bunin

The equilibrium conditions of a system consisting of a box with gas divided by a piston are revised. The apparent indetermination of the problem is solved by explicitly imposing the constancy of the internal energy when the Entropy Maximum…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 Alberto Herrera-Gomez

The quantitative convergence to equilibrium for reaction-diffusion systems arising from complex balanced chemical reaction networks with mass action kinetics is studied by using the so-called entropy method. In the first part of the paper,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Laurent Desvillettes , Klemens Fellner , Bao Quoc Tang

We are concerned with random walks on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\geq 3$, in an i.i.d. random environment with transition probabilities $\epsilon$-close to those of simple random walk. We assume that the environment is balanced in one fixed…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-28 Erich Baur

We examine if the cosmological relaxation mechanism, which was proposed recently as a new solution to the hierarchy problem, can be compatible with high reheating temperature well above the weak scale. As the barrier potential disappears at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-13 Kiwoon Choi , Hyungjin Kim , Toyokazu Sekiguchi

We investigate an ideal gas in a time--dependent external trapping potential. We use the Boltzmann equation with the relaxation time ansatz to explore the time--dependent energy of an adiabatically isolated system. In particular we are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-18 Markus Wenin

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of a toy model of glasses: a hard-core lattice gas with nearest neighbor interaction in one dimension. The time-evolution is Markovian, with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest neighbor hoppings,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Deepak Dhar , Joel L. Lebowitz

The relaxation dynamics of the one-dimensional totally asymmetric simple exclusion process on a ring is considered in the case of step initial condition. Analyzing the time evolution of the local particle densities and currents by the Bethe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-23 Kohei Motegi , Kazumitsu Sakai , Jun Sato

We discuss a nonlinear model for the relaxation by energy redistribution within an isolated, closed system composed of non-interacting identical particles with energy levels e_i with i=1,2,...,N. The time-dependent occupation probabilities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Gian Paolo Beretta

Electro-energy-reaction-diffusion systems are thermodynamically consistent continuum models for reaction-diffusion processes that account for temperature and electrostatic effects in a way that total charge and energy are conserved. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Katharina Hopf , Michael Kniely , Alexander Mielke

We consider diffusion in arbitrary spatial dimension d with the addition of a resetting process wherein the diffusive particle stochastically resets to a fixed position at a constant rate $r$. We compute the non-equilibrium stationary state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

The concept of entropy in statistical physics is related to the existence of irreversible macroscopic processes. In this work, we explore a recently introduced entropy formula for a class of stochastic processes with more than one absorbing…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-21 Diogo Costa-Cabanas , Fabio A. C. C. Chalub , Max O. Souza

Earlier two of us (J.L. and L.P.) considered a matrix model for a two-level system interacting with a $n\times n$ reservoir and assuming that the interaction is modelled by a random matrix. We presented there a formula for the reduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-11-16 J. L. Lebowitz , A. Lytova , L. Pastur

We investigate the relaxation problem for the one-dimensional pressureless Euler--Poisson equations with the initial density being a finite Radon measure. The entropy solution of this linearly degenerate hyperbolic system converges to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 GuiRong Tang

We study the complex quantum dynamics of a system of many interacting atoms in an elongated anharmonic trap. The system is initially in a Bose-Einstein condensed state, well described by Thomas-Fermi profile in the elongated direction and…

We study a reaction-diffusion system on the real line, where the reactions of the species are given by one reversible reaction according to the mass-action law. We describe different positive limits at both sides of infinity and investigate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-07 Alexander Mielke , Stefanie Schindler

A space fractional diffusion-like equation is introduced, which embodies the nonlocality in time, represented by the memory kernel and the non-locality in space. A specific example of the nonlocal term is considered in combination with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Pece Trajanovski , Irina Petreska , Katarzyna Gorska , Ljupco Kocarev , Trifce Sandev