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We show that the large deviations of nonequilibrium systems are determined by the fluctuations of associated equilibrium dynamics. In particular, this implies that numerical calculations and experimental measurements of nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-11 David Andrieux

A central challenge in physics is to describe non-equilibrium systems driven by randomness, such as a randomly growing interface, or fluids subject to random fluctuations that account e.g. for local stresses and heat fluxes not related to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mickaël D. Chekroun , Honghu Liu , James C. McWilliams , Shouhong Wang

We present a review of recent work on the statistical mechanics of non equilibrium processes based on the analysis of large deviations properties of microscopic systems. Stochastic lattice gases are non trivial models of such phenomena and…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

Equilibrium statistical mechanics provides a robust framework for characterizing phase transitions in systems whose microsopic dynamics are time-reversible. Efforts to develop and validate theoretical frameworks for time-irreversible,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-18 Stuart J. Thomson , Jack-William Barotta , Daniel M. Harris

Throughout the history of science, physics-based modeling has relied on judiciously approximating observed dynamics as a balance between a few dominant processes. However, this traditional approach is mathematically cumbersome and only…

Machine learning (ML) has been well applied to studying equilibrium phase transition models, by accurately predicating critical thresholds and some critical exponents. Difficulty will be raised, however, for integrating ML into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Jianmin Shen , Wei Li , Shengfeng Deng , Tao Zhang

Multiscale stochastic dynamical systems have been widely adopted to a variety of scientific and engineering problems due to their capability of depicting complex phenomena in many real world applications. This work is devoted to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Lingyu Feng , Ting Gao , Min Dai , Jinqiao Duan

The nonequilibrium dynamic phase transition, in the kinetic Ising model in presence of an oscillating magnetic field, has been studied by Monte Carlo simulation. The fluctuation of dynamic order parameter has been studied as a function of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Muktish Acharyya

Simple models of irreversible dynamical processes such as Bootstrap Percolation have been successfully applied to describe cascade processes in a large variety of different contexts. However, the problem of analyzing non-typical…

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We introduce a machine learning framework for moment-equation modeling of rarefied gas flows, addressing strongly non-equilibrium conditions inaccessible to conventional computational fluid dynamics. Our approach utilizes high-order moments…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Hang Song , Satyvir Singh , Manuel Torrilhon , Semih Cayci

Complex systems are commonly modeled using nonlinear dynamical systems. These models are often high-dimensional and chaotic. An important goal in studying physical systems through the lens of mathematical models is to determine when the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Jesse Berwald , Marian Gidea , Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

Based on the 2PI quantum effective action of the linear sigma model with constituent quarks, we develop a transport approach to study systems out of equilibrium. In particular, we focus on the chiral phase transition as well as the critical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Alex Meistrenko , Christian Wesp , Hendrik van Hees , Carsten Greiner

Deep neural networks, when optimized with sufficient data, provide accurate representations of high-dimensional functions; in contrast, function approximation techniques that have predominated in scientific computing do not scale well with…

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We study the formation of coherent structures in a system with long-range interactions where particles moving on a circle interact through a repulsive cosine potential. Non equilibrium structures are shown to correspond to statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Julien Barre' , Freddy Bouchet , Thierry Dauxois , Stefano Ruffo

Finding and sampling rare trajectories in dynamical systems is a difficult computational task underlying numerous problems and applications. In this paper we show how to construct Metropolis- Hastings Monte Carlo methods that can…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-16 Jorge C. Leitao , Joao M. Viana Parente Lopes , Eduardo G. Altmann

We study the problem of generating control laws for systems with unknown dynamics. Our approach is to represent the controller and the value function with neural networks, and to train them using loss functions adapted from the…

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We introduce a path sampling method for obtaining statistical properties of an arbitrary stochastic dynamics. The method works by decomposing a trajectory in time, estimating the probability of satisfying a progress constraint, modifying…

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We employ deep learning techniques to investigate the critical properties of the continuous phase transition in the majority vote model. In addition to deep learning, principal component analysis is utilized to analyze the transition. For…