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We study the global geometry of the energy landscape of a simple model of a self-gravitating system, the self-gravitating ring (SGR). This is done by endowing the configuration space with a metric such that the dynamical trajectories are…

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The approach of nonequilibrium evolution thermodynamics earlier offered is developed. It helps to describe the processes of defect formation within the adiabatic approximation. The basic equations system depends on the initial defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-23 A. V. Khomenko , D. S. Troshchenko , L. S. Metlov

Supercooled liquids are metastable states realized by suppressing crystallization below the melting temperature. While it is well established that their dynamics slow down dramatically and become spatially heterogeneous upon cooling, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-07 Norihiro Oyama , Yusuke Hara , Takeshi Kawasaki , Kang Kim

Simulating charge and energy transfer in extended molecular networks requires an effective model to include the environment because it significantly affects the quantum dynamics. A prototypical effect known as Environment-Assisted Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Federico Gallina , Matteo Bruschi , Barbara Fresch

Transient growth analysis has been extensively studied in asymptotically stable flows to identify their short-term amplification of perturbations. Generally, in global transient growth analyses, matrix-free methods are adopted, requiring…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-24 Yin Wang , Xuerui Mao

A numerical model able to simulate solid-state constrained sintering is presented. The model couples an existing kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) model for free sintering with a finite element model (FEM) for calculating stresses on a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-10 R. Bjørk , H. L. Frandsen , N. Pryds

Statistical mechanics is founded on the assumption that all accessible configurations of a system are equally likely. This requires dynamics that explore all states over time, known as ergodic dynamics. In isolated quantum systems, however,…

The selection of an equilibrium state by maximising the entropy of a system, subject to certain constraints, is often powerfully motivated as an exercise in logical inference, a procedure where conclusions are reached on the basis of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-03 Ian J. Ford

A thermodynamically consistent phase-field model is developed to study the non-isothermal grain coalescence during the sintering process, with a potential application to the simulation in unconventional sintering techniques, e.g. spark…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-08 Yangyiwei Yang , Min Yi , Bai-Xiang Xu , Long-Qing Chen

Cells generally convert external nutrient resources to support metabolismand growth. Understanding the thermodynamic efficiency of this conversion is essential to determine the general characteristics of cellular growth. Using a simple…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-19 Yusuke Himeoka , Kunihiko Kaneko

Spatial patterns are widely observed in numerous nonequilibrium natural systems, often undergoing complex transitions and bifurcations, thereby exhibiting significant importance in many physical and biological systems such as embryonic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Jie Su , Wei Wu , Denis Patterson , Simon Asher Levin , Jin Wang

We explore whether the topology of energy landscapes in chemical systems obeys any rules and what these rules are. To answer this and related questions we use several tools: (i)Reduced energy surface and its density of states, (ii)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Artem R. Oganov , Mario Valle

Mound formation on flat and miscut crystal surfaces exhibits distinct growth behaviors. While mound structures are the predominant feature on flat surfaces, miscut surfaces display a smooth transition from meandered patterns to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Marta A. Chabowska , Hristina Popova , Magdalena A. Załuska-Kotur

We compare the performance of energy-based and entropy-conserving schemes for modeling nonthermal energy components, such as unresolved turbulence and cosmic rays, using idealized fluid dynamics tests and isolated galaxy simulations. While…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Vadim A. Semenov , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Benedikt Diemer

An alternative approach - nonequilibrium evolution thermodynamics, is compared with classical Landau approach. A statistical justification of the approach is carried out with help of probability distribution function on an example of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-13 Leonid S. Metlov

Generating energy functions for heterogeneous systems suitable for quantitative and predictive atomistic simulations is a challenging undertaking. The present work combines a cluster-based approach with electronic structure calculations at…

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Effective locomotion in nature happens by transitioning across multiple modes (e.g., walk, run, climb). Despite this, far more mechanistic understanding of terrestrial locomotion has been on how to generate and stabilize around…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Ratan Othayoth , George Thoms , Chen Li

The folding pathway and rate coefficients of the folding of a knotted protein are calculated for a potential energy function with minimal energetic frustration. A kinetic transition network is constructed using the discrete path sampling…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-05 Michael C. Prentiss , David J. Wales , Peter G. Wolynes

We employ a coarse-graining approach to analyze nonlinear cascades in Boussinesq flows using high-resolution simulation data. We derive budgets which resolve the evolution of energy and potential enstrophy simultaneously in space and in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hussein Aluie , Susan Kurien

There is a growing belief that the mode coupling theory is the proper microscopic theory for the dynamics of the undercooled liquid above a critical temperature T_c. In addition, there is some evidence that the system leaves the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Buchenau