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Asymmetric Ising model, in which coupled spins affect each other differently, plays an important role in diverse fields, from physics to biology to artificial intelligence. We show that coupled parametric oscillators provide a…

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We address the question of how the time-resolved bulk Hall response of a two dimensional honeycomb lattice develops when driving the system with a pulsed perturbation. A simple toy model that switches a valley Hall signal by breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The success of the transistor as the cornerstone of digital computation motivates analogous efforts to identify an equivalent hardware primitive, the probabilistic bit or p-bit, for the emerging paradigm of probabilistic computing. Here, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Abir Hasan , Nikhil Shukla

We study the instabilities of a harmonic oscillator subject to additive and dichotomous multiplicative noise, focussing on the dependance of the instability threshold on the mass. For multiplicative noise in the damping, the instability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Moshe Gitterman , David A. Kessler

We present a maximum entropy approach to analyze the internal dynamics of a small system in contact with a large bath e.g. a solute-solvent system. For the small solute, the fluctuations around the mean values of observables are not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Purushottam D. Dixit

We consider the dynamics of a periodic chain of N coupled overdamped particles under the influence of noise, in the limit of large N. Each particle is subjected to a bistable local potential, to a linear coupling with its nearest…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-16 Nils Berglund , Bastien Fernandez , Barbara Gentz

We introduce and study a class of models of free fermions hopping between neighbouring sites with random Brownian amplitudes. These simple models describe stochastic, diffusive, quantum, unitary dynamics. We focus on periodic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-17 M. Bauer , D. Bernard , T. Jin

Singularities in macroscopic systems at discontinuous phase transitions are replaced in finite systems by sharp but continuous changes. Both the energy differences between metastable and stable phases and the energy barriers separating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Patashinski , Mark Ratner

To understand the non-equilibrium relaxation dynamics of a liquid droplet on a switchable substrate the interplay of different length- and time-scales needs to be understood. We present a method to map the microscopic information, resulting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-01 Moritz Stieneker , Leon Topp , Svetlana Gurevich , Andreas Heuer

The correlation between the values of wavefunctions at two different spatial points is examined for chaotic systems with time-reversal symmetry. Employing a supermatrix method, we find that there exist long-range Friedel oscillations of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 V. N. Prigodin , N. Taniguchi , A. Kudrolli , V. Kidambi , S. Sridhar

We study disorder-induced spectral correlations and their effect on the magnetic susceptibility of mesoscopic quantum systems in the non-diffusive regime. By combining a diagrammatic perturbative approach with semiclassical techniques we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Edward McCann , Klaus Richter

The paper addresses the problem of relaxation of open quantum systems. Using the path integral methods we found an analytical expression for time-dependent density matrix of two coupled quantum oscillators interacting with different baths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Illarion Dorofeyev

We investigate quench dynamics in a one-dimensional spin model, comparing both quantum and classical descriptions. Our primary focus is on the different timescales involved in the evolution of the observables as they approach statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-21 Fausto Borgonovi , Felix M. Izrailev , Lea F. Santos

Within random matrix theory, the statistics of the eigensolutions depend fundamentally on the presence (or absence) of time reversal symmetry. Accepting the Bohigas-Giannoni-Schmit conjecture, this statement extends to quantum systems with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Tomsovic , D. Ullmo , T. Nagano

Weakly coupled oscillators adjust their dynamics to work in unison: they synchronize. This ubiquitous phenomenon is observed for oscillating pendulum, electronic devices, as well as clapping crowds or flashing fireflies. In effect,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-24 Yaocheng Li , Ivan Palaia , Jinzi Mac Huang , Antoine Aubret , Jeremie Palacci

We propose an exactly soluble W*-dynamical system generated by repeated harmonic perturbations of the one-mode quantum oscillator. In the present paper we deal with the case of isolated system. Although dynamics is Hamiltonian and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Hiroshi Tamura , Valentin Zagrebnov

How can a system in a macroscopically stable state explore energetically more favorable states, which are far away from the current equilibrium state? Based on continuum mechanical considerations we derive a Boussinesq-type equation which…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Theil , V. I. Levitas

The dynamics of a system formed by a finite number $N$ of globally coupled bistable oscillators and driven by external forces is studied focusing on a global variable defined as the arithmetic mean of each oscillator variable. Several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Cubero

In this paper we extend the earlier treatment of out-of-equilibrium mesoscopic fluctuations in glassy systems in several significant ways. First, via extensive simulations, we demonstrate that models of glassy behavior without quenched…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Chamon , P. Charbonneau , L. F. Cugliandolo , D. R. Reichman , M. Sellitto

We investigate two prototypical dissipative bosonic systems under slow driving and arbitrary system-bath coupling strength, recovering their dynamic evolution as well as the heat and work rates, and we verify that thermodynamic laws are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Maicol A. Ochoa , Natalya Zymbovskaya , Abraham Nitzan