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A nonlinear parabolic differential equation with a quadratic nonlinearity is presented which has at least one equilibrium. The linearization about this equilibrium is asymptotically stable, but by using a technique inspired by H. Fujita, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-09-10 Michael Robinson

How is the irreversibility of a high-dimensional chaotic system controlled by the heterogeneity in the non-reciprocal interactions among its elements? In this paper, we address this question using a stochastic model of random recurrent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-18 Tuan Pham , Albert Alonso , Karel Proesmans

Detecting and quantifying non-equilibrium activity is essential for studying internally driven assemblies, including synthetic active matter and complex living systems such as cells or tissue. We discuss a non-invasive approach of measuring…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Grzegorz Gradziuk , Federica Mura , Chase P. Broedersz

A general theory is developed for describing the nonlinear relaxation of spin systems from a strongly nonequilibrium initial state, when, in addition, the sample is coupled to a resonator. Such processes are characterized by nonlinear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Yukalov

A finite quantum system evolving unitarily equilibrates in a probabilistic fashion. In the general many-body setting the time-fluctuations of an observable \mathcal{A} are typically exponentially small in the system size. We consider here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-22 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

We define correlational (von Neumann) entropy for an individual quantum state of a system whose time-independent hamiltonian contains random parameters and is treated as a member of a statistical ensemble. This entropy is representation…

chao-dyn · Physics 2013-01-16 Valentin V. Sokolov , B. Alex Brown , Vladimir Zelevinsky

The development of physical simulators, called Ising machines, that sample from low energy states of the Ising Hamiltonian has the potential to drastically transform our ability to understand and control complex systems. However, most of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Timothee Leleu , Farad Khoyratee , Timothee Levi , Ryan Hamerly , Takashi Kohno , Kazuyuki Aihara

We describe a method to extract from experimental data the important dynamical modes in spatio-temporal patterns in a system driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Using a novel optical technique for controlling fluid flow, we create an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-05-03 Adam C. Perkins , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

The integrable system is constrained strictly by the conservation law during the time evolution, and the nearly integrable system or nonintegrable system is also constrained by the conserved parameters (like the constants of motion) with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-10 Chen-Huan Wu

It is well known that, contrary to the autonomous case, the stability/instability of solutions of nonautonomous linear ordinary differential equations $x' = A(t) x$ is in no relation to the sign of the real parts of the eigenvalues of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Janusz Mierczyński

An equilibrium statistical system is known to be stable if the fluctuations of global observables are normal, when their dispersions are proportional to the number of particles, or to the system volume. A general theorem is rigorously…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Yukalov

These lecture notes give a short review of methods such as the matrix ansatz, the additivity principle or the macroscopic fluctuation theory, developed recently in the theory of non-equilibrium phenomena. They show how these methods allow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Derrida

Dynamical symmetries are of considerable importance in elucidating the complex behaviour of strongly interacting systems with many degrees of freedom. Paradigmatic examples are cooperative phenomena as they arise in phase transitions, where…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Malte Henkel

We study the out of equilibrium dynamics of an elastic manifold in a random potential using mean-field theory. We find two asymptotic time regimes: (i) stationary dynamics, (ii) slow aging dynamics with violation of equilibrium theorems. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Jorge Kurchan , Pierre Le Doussal

The stability of a complex system generally decreases with increasing system size and interconnectivity, a counterintuitive result of widespread importance across the physical, life, and social sciences. Despite recent interest in the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-20 A. Bradley Duthie

There are two main approaches to non-equlibrium statistical mechanics: one using stochastic processes and the other using dynamical systems. To model the dynamics during inflation one usually adopts a stochastic description, which is known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-29 Vitaly Vanchurin

Entropy is a central concept in physics, but can be challenging to calculate even for systems that are easily simulated. This is exacerbated out of equilibrium, where generally little is known about the distribution characterizing simulated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-09 Samuel D. Gelman , Guy Cohen

The transition from a non-equilibrium state to an equilibrium state is characterized not only by the disappearance of the entropy production, but mainly by the disappearance of the organized currents, due to the gradients present in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-15 E. G. D. Cohen , R. L. Merlino

Understanding a complex system entails capturing the non-trivial collective phenomena that arise from interactions between its different parts. Information theory is a flexible and robust framework to study such behaviours, with several…

We demonstrate the emergence of self-organized structures in the course of the relaxation of an initially excited, dissipative and finite chain of interacting particles in a periodic potential towards its many particle equilibrium…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-19 Benno Liebchen , Peter Schmelcher