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We present simulations of stochastic fluid dynamics in the vicinity of a critical endpoint belonging to the universality class of the Ising model. This study is motivated by the challenge of modeling the dynamics of critical fluctuations…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay , Josh Ott , Thomas Schaefer , Vladimir V. Skokov

Studies of QCD phase transition signals are often conducted under spatially uniform temperature conditions. However, the influence of spatial temperature gradients on the signals emerging at the phase interface in the fireball generated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Lijia Jiang , Tao Yang , Jun-Hui Zheng

Hydrodynamics provides a concise but powerful description of long-time and long-distance physics of correlated systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Here we construct hydrodynamic equations for nonrelativistic particles with a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-27 Keisuke Fujii , Yusuke Nishida

We study non-equilibrium velocity fluctuations in a model for the sedimentation of non-Brownian particles experiencing long-range hydrodynamic interactions. The complex behavior of these fluctuations, the outcome of the collective dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. -Carmen Miguel , R. Pastor-Satorras

We study the effects of hydrodynamic fluctuations in non-boost-invariant longitudinal expansion of matter formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We formulate the theory of thermal noise within second-order viscous hydrodynamics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay , Subrata Pal

Recent experimental results suggest that a particular hydrodynamic theory describes charge fluctuations at long wavelengths in the square-lattice Hubbard model. Due to the continuity equation, the correlation functions for the charge and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-05 J. Vucicevic , S. Predin , M. Ferrero

How physical systems approach hydrodynamic behavior is governed by the decay of nonhydrodynamic modes. Here, we start from a relativistic kinetic theory that encodes relaxation mechanisms governed by different timescales thus sharing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 Aleksi Kurkela , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Hydrodynamic fluctuations have been studied in a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena in the past decade. In high energy heavy ion collisions, there will be intrinsic fluctuations even if the initial conditions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-18 Joseph I. Kapusta , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We investigate dynamical heterogeneities in the collective relaxation of a concentrated microgel system, for which the packing fraction can be conveniently varied by changing the temperature. The packing fraction dependent mechanical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-31 David A. Sessoms , Irmgard Bischofberger , Luca Cipelletti , Véronique Trappe

In many physical systems, degrees of freedom are coupled \emph{via} hydrodynamic forces, even in the absence of Hamiltonian interactions. A particularly important and widespread example concerns the transport of microscopic particles in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-11 Juliette Lacherez , Maxime Lavaud , Yacine Amarouchene , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

Critical slowing down (CSD) has been a trademark of critical dynamics for equilibrium phase transitions of a many-body system, where the relaxation time for the system to reach thermal equilibrium or quantum ground state diverges with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Wenqian Zhang , Yadong Wu , Xingze Qiu , Jue Nan , Xiaopeng Li

Aims. Qualitative analysis of key (but yet unappreciated) linear phenomena in stratified hydrodynamic Keplerian flows: (i) the occurrence of a vortex mode, as a consequence of strato-rotational balance, with its transient dynamics; (ii) the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Tevzadze , G. D. Chagelishvili , J. -P. Zahn

We consider non-equilibrium evolution of non-Gaussian fluctuations in a hydrodynamic system undergoing a boost-invariant expansion described by Bjorken flow. We derive the evolution equations for two- and three-point velocity correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Gokce Basar , Shuo Song

The dynamical development of expanding Quark-gluon Plasma (QGP) flow is studied in a 3+1D fluid dynamical model with a globally symmetric, initial condition. We minimize fluctuations arising from complex dynamical processes at finite impact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 D. J. Wang , L. P. Csernai , D. Strottman , Cs. Anderlik , Y. Cheng , D. M. Zhou , Y. L. Yan , X. Cai , B. H. Sa

We propose to study the fluid dynamic propagation of fluctuations in relativistic heavy ion collisions differentially with respect to their azimuthal, radial and longitudinal wavelength. To this end, we introduce a background-fluctuation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-13 Stefan Floerchinger , Urs Achim Wiedemann

Slow long-lived fluctuations of mechanical properties of drying drops of instant coffee water solutions have been found by means of the Drying Drop Technology developed earlier. Parameters of the fluctuations depended on the extent of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-26 Tatiana A. Yakhno , Vladimir G. Yakhno

The non-Gaussian fluctuations of baryon density are sensitive to the presence of the conjectured QCD critical point. Their observational consequences are crucial for the ongoing experimental search for this critical point through the beam…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Noriyuki Sogabe , Yi Yin

What features characterise complex system dynamics? Power laws and scale invariance of fluctuations are often taken as the hallmarks of complexity, drawing on analogies with equilibrium critical phenomena[1-3]. Here we argue that slow,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Anderson , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen , L. P. Oliveira , Paolo Sibani

In fluids under temperature gradients, long-range correlations (LRCs) emerge generically, leading to enhanced density fluctuations. This phenomenon, characterized by the $\boldsymbol{q}^{-4}$ divergence in the static structure factor (where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Hiroyoshi Nakano , Kazuma Yokota

Quasistatic evolutions of critical points of time-dependent energies exhibit piecewise smooth behavior, making them useful for modeling continuum mechanics phenomena like elastic-plasticity and fracture. Traditionally, such evolutions have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Stefano Almi , Massimo Fornasier , Jona Klemenc , Alessandro Scagliotti