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We present a study of disorder origination and growth inside an ordered phase processes induced by the presence of multiplicative noise within mean-field approximation. Our research is based on the study of solutions of the nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 S. E. Kurushina , E. A. Shapovalova

We study the different phases and the phase transitions in a system of $Y$-shaped particles, examples of which include Immunoglobulin-G and trinaphthylene molecules, on a triangular lattice interacting exclusively through excluded volume…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-04 Dipanjan Mandal , Trisha Nath , R. Rajesh

We study non-locally coupled noisy integrate-and-fire neurons with the Fokker-Planck equation. A propagating pulse state and a wavy state appear as a phase transition from an asynchronous state. We also find a solution in which traveling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Sakaguchi

We study exact solutions of the steady state behaviour of several non-linear open quantum systems which can be applied to the field of circuit quantum electrodynamics. Using Fokker-Planck equations in the generalised P-representation we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Matthew Elliott , Eran Ginossar

One of the major theoretical methods in understanding polymer translocation through a nanopore is the Fokker-Planck formalism based on the assumption of quasi-equilibrium of polymer conformations. The criterion for applicability of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Harshwardhan H. Katkar , Murugappan Muthukumar

In this paper we consider interacting particle systems which are frequently used to model collective behavior in animal swarms and other applications. We study the stability of orientationally aligned formations called flock solutions, one…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-03-31 J. A. Carrillo , Y. Huang , S. Martin

We introduce a lattice model for active nematic composed of self-propelled apolar particles,study its different ordering states in the density-temperature parameter space, and compare with the corresponding equilibrium model. The active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-26 Rakesh Das , Manoranjan Kumar , Shradha Mishra

We present a comprehensive theory of the dynamics and fluctuations of a two-dimensional suspension of polar active particles in an incompressible fluid confined to a substrate. We show that, depending on the sign of a single parameter, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-22 Ananyo Maitra , Pragya Srivastava , M. Cristina Marchetti , Sriram Ramaswamy , Martin Lenz

The Vicsek-BGK equation is a kinetic model for alignment of particles moving with constant speed between stochastic reorientation events with sampling from a von Mises distribution. The spatially homogeneous model shows a steady state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Sara Merino-Aceituno , Christian Schmeiser , Raphael Winter

A variational framework is developed to examine the equilibrium states of a semi-flexible polymer that is constrained to lie on a fixed surface. As an application the confinement of a closed polymer loop of fixed length $2\pi R$ within a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-17 Jemal Guven , Pablo Vázquez-Montejo

We explore the dynamics of active elements performing persistent random motion with fluctuating active speed and in the presence of translational noise in a $d$-dimensional harmonic trap, modeling active speed generation through an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-18 Manish Patel , Amir Shee , Debasish Chaudhuri

We unravel the correlation effects of the second-order quantum phase transitions emerging on the ground state of a harmonically trapped spin-1 Bose gas, upon varying the involved Zeeman terms, as well as its breathing dynamics triggered by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-15 K. M. Mittal , S. I. Mistakidis , P. G. Kevrekidis , P. Schmelcher

In this work, we study the impact of non-Gaussian alpha-stable Levy motion on transitions between metastable equilibrium states (or attractors) in a stochastic Stommel two-box model for thermohaline circulation (THC). By maximizing the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Daniel Tesfay , Pingyuan Wei , Yayun Zheng , Jinqiao Duan , Jurgen Kurth

We study how solidification of model freely rotating polymers under athermal quasistatic compression varies with their bond angle $\theta_0$. All systems undergo two discrete, first-order-like transitions: entanglement at $\phi =…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-01 Joseph D. Dietz , Robert S. Hoy

We present a stochastic Justh-Krishnaprasad flocking model and study the phase transition of the Vlasov-McKean-Fokker-Planck (VMFP) equation, which can be obtained in the mean-field limit. To describe the alignment, we use order parameters…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Seung-Yeal Ha , Hui Yu , Baige Zhou

A one-dimensional driven lattice gas with disorder in the particle hopping probabilities is considered. It has previously been shown that in the version of the model with random sequential updating, a phase transition occurs from a low…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. R. Evans

We prove a scattering result near certain steady states for a Hartree equation for a random field. This equation describes the evolution of a system of infinitely many particles. It is an analogous formulation of the usual Hartree equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Charles Collot , Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni

Theoretical study of dynamical phenomena induced by a linearly polarized plane wave incident perpendicularly on a planar aligned nematic layer with the light intensity as the control parameter is reported. We find the threshold of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-29 Dmitry O. Krimer

We investigate experimentally the dynamic phase transition of a two-dimensional active nematic layer interfaced with a passive liquid crystal. Under a temperature ramp that leads to the transition of the passive liquid into a highly…

A coagulation-decoagulation model is introduced on a chain of length L with open boundary. The model consists of one species of particles which diffuse, coagulate and decoagulate preferentially in the leftward direction. They are also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Farhad H Jafarpour