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We discuss biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium self-propelled particle models, in which the particles interact with their neighbours by choosing at each time step the local average direction of motion. We summarize some of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andras Czirok , Tamas Vicsek

I assume a universe whereby the speed of light and the planck constant are not constants but instead parameters that vary locally in time-and space. When describing motion, I am able to derive a modified path integral description at the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 Roee Amit

Wave-particle duality is certainly one of the most curious concepts of contemporary physics, which ascribes mutually exclusive behaviors to quantum systems that cannot be observed simultaneously. In the context of two-path interferometers,…

Active particles under soft confinement such as droplets or vesicles present intriguing phenomena, as collective motion emerges alongside the deformation of the environment. A model is employed to systematically investigate droplet…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-25 Javier Diaz , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

The intrinsic excitation energy of fission fragments is dynamically evaluated in terms of the time dependent pairing equations. These equations are corroborated with two conditions. One of them fixes the number of particles and the another…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-06-06 M. Mirea

Thermodynamics is independent of a description at a microscopic level consequently statistical thermodynamics must produce results independent of the coordinate system used to describe the particles and their interactions. In the path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 J. P. Badiali

A recent surge of discoveries has sparked significant interest in active systems where a particle moves autonomously in resonance with its self-generated wave field, leading to notable wave-mediated effects including new propulsion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-26 Austin M. Blitstein , Rodolfo R. Rosales , Pedro J. Sáenz

Active particles have become a subject of intense interest across several disciplines from animal behavior to granular physics. Usually the models of such particles contain an explicit internal driving. Here we propose a model with implicit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Reinaldo García-García , Pierre Collet , Lev Truskinovsky

While free and weakly interacting particles are well described by a a second-quantized nonlinear Schr\"odinger field, or relativistic versions of it, the fields of strongly interacting particles are governed by effective actions, whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Kleinert

A type of mechanics will be presented that possesses some distinctive properties. On the one hand, its physical description & rules of operation are readily comprehensible & intuitively clear. On the other, it fully satisfies all observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Eric Tesse

A method for designing variational principles for the dynamics of a possibly dissipative and non-conservatively forced chain of particles is demonstrated. Some qualitative features of the formulation are discussed.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Amit Acharya , Ambar N. Sengupta

What could metacognition look like in simple physical terms? We define metacognition as having beliefs about beliefs, which can be articulated very simply using the language of statistical physics and Bayesian mechanics. We introduce a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-13 Lancelot Da Costa , Lars Sandved-Smith

An interference experiment with entangled particles is theoretically analyzed, where one of the entangled pair (particle 1) goes through a multi-slit before being detected at a fixed detector. In addition, one introduces a mechanism for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Misba Afrin , Tabish Qureshi

Dynamics of the structured particles consisting of potentially interacting material points is considered in the framework of classical mechanics. Equations of interaction and motion of structured particles have been derived. The expression…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 V. M. Somsikov

For itinerant fermionic and bosonic systems, we study `particle entanglement', defined as the entanglement between two subsets of particles making up the system. We formulate the general structure of particle entanglement in many-fermion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-06-10 O. S. Zozulya , Masudul Haque , K. Schoutens

For a particle travelling through an interferometer, the trade-off between the available which-way information and the interference visibility provides a lucid manifestation of the quantum mechanical wave-particle duality. Here we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Konrad Banaszek , Pawel Horodecki , Michal Karpinski , Czeslaw Radzewicz

We propose a path integral formulation for scale invariant quantum field theories. We do it by modifying the functional integration measure in such a way that the partition function is always exactly scale invariant, at the cost of having…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-10 Mario Herrero-Valea

This article is an invitation. It is, first, an invitation to consider as a subject worthy of attention the wide range of situations where small discrete elements, either bubbles, droplets or solid particles, are embedded in turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-06 Jean-Pierre Minier , Christophe Henry

A path information is defined in connection with different possible paths of irregular dynamic systems moving in its phase space between two points. On the basis of the assumption that the paths are physically differentiated by their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Qiuping A. Wang

A phase space formulation of the filtering process upon an incident quantum state is developed. This formulation can explain the results of both quantum interference and delayed-choice experiments without making use of the controversial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniela Dragoman