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In this work, the sharp interface limit of the degenerate Cahn-Hilliard equation (in two space dimensions) with a polynomial double well free energy and a quadratic mobility is derived via a matched asymptotic analysis involving…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Alpha Albert Lee , Andreas Münch , Endre Süli

In this paper, we study numerical methods for solving the coupled Allen-Cahn/Cahn-Hilliard system associated with a free energy functional of logarithmic type. To tackle the challenge posed by the special free energy functional, we propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Jizu Huang , Chao Yang , Ying Wei

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximations for the fourth order Cahn-Hilliard equation with concentration dependent mobility, and the logarithmic Flory-Huggins potential. One challenge in solving such a diffusive system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Xiaofeng Yang , Jia Zhao

Random walk in random environment (RWRE) is a fundamental model of statistical mechanics, describing the movement of a particle in a highly disordered and inhomogeneous medium as a random walk with random jump probabilities. It has been…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-11 Alexander Drewitz , Alejandro F. Ramírez

We establish a central limit theorem, a local limit theorem, and a law of large numbers for a natural random walk on a symmetric space $M$ of non-compact type and rank one. This class of spaces, which includes the complex and quaternionic…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Fedor Gnetov , Valentin Konakov

We study the existence and uniqueness of mild and strong solutions of nonlocal nonlinear diffusion problems of $p$-Laplacian type with nonlinear boundary conditions posed in metric random walk spaces. These spaces include, among others,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Marcos Solera , Julián Toledo

This paper presents an existence result for the anisotropic Cahn--Hilliard equation characterized by a potentially concentration-dependent degenerate mobility taking into account an anisotropic energy. The model allows for the degeneracy of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Harald Garcke , Patrik Knopf , Andrea Signori

We extend our study of random walks and induced Dirichlet forms on self-similar sets [arXiv:1604.05440, 1612.01708] to compact spaces of homogeneous type $(K, \rho ,\mu)$. A successive partition on $K$ brings a natural augmented tree…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Shi-Lei Kong , Ka-Sing Lau , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

The appearance of topological effects in systems exhibiting a non-trivial topological band structure strongly relies on the coherent wave nature of the equations of motion. Here, we reveal topological dynamics in a classical stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 G. Engelhardt , M. Benito , G. Platero , G. Schaller , T. Brandes

We investigate the Cahn-Hilliard equation with nonlinear diffusion and non-degenerate mobility modeling phase separation phenomena in complex systems (e.g., crystals and polymers). Previous results in the literature on this model relied on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Monica Conti , Stefania Gatti , Andrea Giorgini , Giulio Schimperna

We show short-time well-posedness of a diffuse interface model describing the flow of a fluid through a deformable porous medium consisting of two phases. The system non-linearly couples Biot's equations for poroelasticity, including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Helmut Abels , Jonas Haselböck

In this paper the study of a non-local Cahn-Hilliard-type singularly perturbed family of functionals is undertaken, generalizing known results by Alberti & Bellettini. The kernels considered include those leading to Gagliardo seminorms for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Wes Caldwell

Graph-limit theory focuses on the convergence of sequences of graphs when the number of nodes becomes arbitrarily large. This framework defines a continuous version of graphs allowing for the study of dynamical systems on very large graphs,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Julien Petit , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

We prove convergence of suitable subsequences of weak solutions of a diffuse interface model for the two-phase flow of incompressible fluids with different densities with a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation to weak solutions of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Helmut Abels , Yutaka Terasawa

We consider inhomogeneous lattice walk models in a half-space and in the quarter plane. For the models in a half-space, we show by a generalization of the kernel method to linear systems of functional equations that their generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Manfred Buchacher , Manuel Kauers

We address the problem of the construction of quantum walks on Cayley graphs. Our main motivation is the relationship between quantum algorithms and quantum walks. In particular, we discuss the choice of the dimension of the local Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 O. Lopez Acevedo , T. Gobron

In this work, we explore a link between an unbounded spin system given by a system of stochastic differential equations and a random walk. This allows us to study the decay of the (co)variance of functions with respect to time. We extend…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Paul de Buyer

Motivated by the immense success of random walk and Markov chain methods in the design of classical algorithms, we consider_quantum_ walks on graphs. We analyse in detail the behaviour of unbiased quantum walk on the line, with the example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashwin Nayak , Ashvin Vishwanath

In this paper, we establish a novel approach to proving existence of non-negative weak solutions for degenerate parabolic equations of fourth order, like the Cahn-Hilliard and certain thin film equations. The considered evolution equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Stefano Lisini , Daniel Matthes , Giuseppe Savaré

We study a continuous-time random walk on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ in an environment of random conductances taking values in $(0,\infty)$. For a static environment, we extend the quenched local limit theorem to the case of a general speed measure,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Sebastian Andres , Peter A. Taylor