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We consider the Hamiltonian system consisting of scalar wave field and a single particle coupled in a translation invariant manner. The point particle is subject to an external potential. The stationary solutions of the system are a Coulomb…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 E. Kopylova , A. Komech

We establish the criterion for the phase coexistence in a mixture of nonreciprocally interacting scalar densities. For an arbitrary number of components the active pressure exists for a specific class of interactions, and when the free…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-16 Suropriya Saha

The existence problem for {C}ahn--{H}illiard system with dynamic boundary conditions and time periodic conditions is discussed. We apply the abstract theory of evolution equations by using viscosity approach and the Schauder fixed point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Taishi Motoda

We study a quasi-incompressible Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard coupled system which describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible incompressible viscous fluids with partial mixing in a small interfacial region and long-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Daozhi Han , Yadong Liu

A boundary control problem for the pure Cahn-Hilliard equations with possibly singular potentials and dynamic boundary conditions is studied and first-order necessary conditions for optimality are proved. Key words: Cahn-Hilliard equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

A binary mixture of oppositely charged components confined to a plane such as cationic and anionic lipid bilayers may exhibit local segregation. The relative strength of the net short range interactions, which favors macroscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sharon M. Loverde , Yury S. Velichko , Monica Olvera de la Cruz

A common paradigm in phase-field models with singular potentials is that global-in-time weak solutions converge to a single equilibrium only after undergoing asymptotic regularization. However, in arXiv:2510.17296 we introduced a novel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Maurizio Grasselli , Andrea Poiatti

This paper would focus on the subject of the 2-D incompressible Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard (NS-CH) system with a singular free energy density. Due to lack of the maximum principle for the convective Cahn-Hilliard equation (as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Guilong Gui , Zhenbang Li

This article examines the dynamic phase transitions and pattern formations attributed to binary systems modeled by the Cahn-Hilliard equation. In particular, we consider a two-dimensional lattice structure and determine how different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Jared Grossman , Evan Halloran , Shouhong Wang

We present a phase-field model based on the Cahn-Hilliard equation to investigate the properties of phase separation in DNA nanostar systems. Leveraging a realistic free-energy functional derived from Wertheim theory, our model captures the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-23 Marco Cappa , Francesco Sciortino , Lorenzo Rovigatti

In this paper we propose an extension of the Cahn method to binary mixtures and study the problem of wetting near a two-phase critical point without any assumption on the form of intermolecular potentials. A comparison between Cahn's method…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Henri Gouin , Sergey Gavrilyuk

A simple effective model of charge ordered insulators is studied. The tight binding Hamiltonian consists of the effective on-site interaction U and the intersite density-density interactions Wij (both: nearest-neighbour and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-01 Konrad Kapcia , Waldemar Klobus , Stanislaw Robaszkiewicz

In this paper we propose a solution strategy for the Cahn-Larch\'e equations, which is a model for linearized elasticity in a medium with two elastic phases that evolve subject to a Ginzburg-Landau type energy functional. The system can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Erlend Storvik , Jakub Wiktor Both , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

In this paper we present a procedure to integrate, up to quadratures, the matching conditions of the energy shaping method. We do that in the context of underactuated Hamiltonian systems defined by simple Hamiltonian functions. For such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Sergio D. Grillo , Leandro M. Salomone , Marcela Zuccalli

We consider a relaxation of the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation induced by the second-order inertial term~$u_{tt}$. The equation also contains a semilinear term $f(u)$ of "singular" type. Namely, the function $f$ is defined only on a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Riccardo Scala , Giulio Schimperna

This paper presents a new mixed finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The well-posedness of the mixed formulation is established and the error estimates for its linearized fully discrete scheme are provided. The new mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Zhen Liu , Rui Ma , Min Zhang

This paper is concerned with a distributed optimal control problem for a nonlocal phase field model of Cahn-Hilliard type, which is a nonlocal version of a model for two-species phase segregation on an atomic lattice under the presence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

The paper arXiv:1804.11290 contains well-posedness and regularity results for a system of evolutionary operator equations having the structure of a Cahn-Hilliard system. The operators appearing in the system equations were fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Jürgen Sprekels

Efficient and unconditionally stable high order time marching schemes are very important but not easy to construct for nonlinear phase dynamics. In this paper, we propose and analysis an efficient stabilized linear Crank-Nicolson scheme for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Lin Wang , Haijun Yu

We apply the computational methodology of phase retrieval to the problem of folding heteropolymers. The ground state fold of the polymer is defined by the intersection of two sets in the configuration space of its constituent monomers: a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-29 Veit Elser , Ivan Rankenburg