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We consider the demixing of a binary fluid mixture, under gravity, which is steadily driven into a two phase region by slowly ramping the temperature. We assume, as a first approximation, that the system remains spatially isothermal, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. Cates , J. Vollmer , A. Wagner , D. Vollmer

Many lyotropic liquid crystals are composed of mesogens that display a considerable spread in size or shape affecting their material properties and thermodynamics via various demixing and multi-phase coexistence scenarios. Starting from a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-04 C. Ferreiro-Córdova , H. H. Wensink

"Fluid polyamorphism" is the existence of different condensed amorphous states in a single-component fluid. It is either found or predicted, usually at extreme conditions, for a broad group of very different substances, including helium,…

If a binary liquid mixture, composed of two alternative species with equal amounts, is quenched from a high temperature to a low temperature, below the critical point of demixing, then the mixture will phase separate through a process known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-04 Thomas J. Longo , Mikhail A. Anisimov

The phase diagram of nuclear matter is quite rich - it shows such phenomena as phase-transitions, formation of condensates, clustering, etc. From the analysis of the spinodal instability, one can learn about the region of liquid-gas…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jerome Margueron , Philippe Chomaz

We study, theoretically and numerically, the onset and development of modulational instability in an incoherently pumped spatially homogeneous polariton condensate. Within the framework of mean-field theory, we identify regimes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 T. C. H. Liew , O. A. Egorov , M. Matuszewski , O. Kyriienko , X. Ma , E. A. Ostrovskaya

This is the first of two articles on the study of a particle system model that exhibits a Turing instability type effect. The model is based on two discrete lines (or toruses) with Ising spins, that evolve according to a continuous time…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Monia Capanna , Nahuel Soprano-Loto

We demonstrate that the instabilities of asymmetric nuclear matter at sub-saturation densities do not present two types of instabilities as usually discussed but a unique one. The associated order parameter is everywhere dominated by the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Philippe Chomaz , Jerome Margueron

Instabilities of fluid-fluid interfaces are ubiquitous in passive soft matter. Adding activity to the interface or either fluid can dramatically change the stability of the interface. Using experiment and theory, we investigate the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-04 Bennett C. Sessa , Federico Cao , Robert A. Pelcovits , Thomas R. Powers , Guillaume Duclos

An intriguing phenomenon displayed by granular flows and predicted by kinetic-theory-based models is the instability known as particle "clustering," which refers to the tendency of dissipative grains to form transient, loose regions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-17 Peter P. Mitrano , Vicente Garzó , Andrew M. Hilger , Christopher J. Ewasko , Christine M. Hrenya

We extend the dynamic van der Waals model introduced by A. Onuki [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 054501 (2005)] to the description of cohesive granular flows under a plane shear to study their hydrodynamic instabilities. Numerically solving the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-26 Kuniyasu Saitoh , Satoshi Takada , Hisao Hayakawa

We show that even weak nonreciprocal alignment leads to large-scale structure formation in flocking mixtures. By combining numerical simulations of a binary Vicsek model and the analysis of coarse-grained continuum equations, we demonstrate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-16 Charlotte Myin , Benoît Mahault

We comment on some recent, yet unpublished results concerning instabilities in complex systems and their applications. In particular, we briefly describe main observations during extensive computer simulations of two lattice nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Marro , J. M. Cortes , Pablo I. Hurtado

We study the bendocapillary instability of a liquid droplet that part fills a flexible walled channel. Inspired by experiments in which a `weaving' pattern emerges as droplets of liquid are condensed slowly into deformable microchannels, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 Alexander T. Bradley , Ian J. Hewitt , Dominic Vella

We study numerically and analytically the instabilities associated with phase separation in a solid layer on which an external material ux is imposed. The first instability is localized within a boundary layer at the exposed free surface by…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-17 Esteban Meca , Andreas Münch , Barbara Wagner

The nuclear-matter liquid-gas phase transition induces instabilities against finite-size density fluctuations. This has implications for both heavy-ion-collision and compact-star physics. In this paper, we study the clusterization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Ducoin , J. Margueron , Ph. Chomaz

We study a chemically active binary mixture undergoing phase separation and show that under non-equilibrium conditions, stable liquid spherical shells can form via a spinodal instability in the droplet center. A single liquid shell tends to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-21 Jonathan Bauermann , Giacomo Bartolucci , Job Boekhoven , Christoph A. Weber , Frank Jülicher

We derive a phase diagram for amorphous solids and liquid supercooled water and explain why the amorphous solids of water exist in several different forms. Application of large-deviation theory allows us to prepare such phases in computer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 David T Limmer , David Chandler

While the realistically modeling of the thermodynamic behavior of fluids usually demands elaborated atomistic models, much have been learned from simplified ones. Here, we investigate a model where point-like particles (with activity $z_0$)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-15 Nathann T. Rodrigues , Tiago J. Oliveira

The numerical solutions of nonlocal and local Boltzmann kinetic equations for the simulation of central heavy ion reactions are parameterized in terms of time dependent thermodynamical variables in the Fermi liquid sense. This allows one to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Klaus Morawetz