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We propose and study a one-dimensional model which consists of two cross-diffusion systems coupled via a moving interface. The motivation stems from the modelling of complex diffusion processes in the context of the vapor deposition of thin…

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Cyclic, nonhierarchical interactions among biological species represent a general mechanism by which ecosystems are able to maintain high levels of biodiversity. However, species coexistence is often possible only in spatially extended…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-17 Daniel Groselj , Frank Jenko , Erwin Frey

We prove a Large Deviations Principle (LDP) for systems of diffusions (particles) interacting through their ranks, when the number of particles tends to infinity. We show that the limiting particle density is given by the unique solution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Amir Dembo , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov , S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan , Ofer Zeitouni

Over the past few years the displacement statistics of self-propelled particles has been intensely studied, revealing their long-time diffusive behavior. Here, we demonstrate that a concerted combination of boundary conditions and switching…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-29 Andreas M. Menzel

This work is devoted to radiative transfer equations with long-range interactions. Such equations arise in the modeling of high frequency wave propagation in random media with long-range dependence. In the regime we consider, the singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-09 Christophe Gomez , Olivier Pinaud , Lenya Ryzhik

The diffusion of finite-size hard-core interacting particles in two- or three-dimensional confined domains is considered in the limit that the confinement dimensions become comparable to the particle's dimensions. The result is a nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman

This paper leads with a random polymer model in $\Z^2$ having long-range self-repulsive interactions. By comparison with a long range one-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model we shown that the polymer models we considered here undergo a…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Leandro Cioletti , Chang Dorea , Simone Vasconcelos

Integration against a probability distribution given its unnormalized density is a central task in Bayesian inference and other fields. We introduce new methods for approximating such expectations with a small set of weighted samples --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Ayoub Belhadji , Daniel Sharp , Youssef M. Marzouk

Local diffusion coefficients in disordered systems such as spin glass systems and living cells are highly heterogeneous and may change over time. Such a time-dependent and spatially heterogeneous environment results in irreproducibility of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Takuma Akimoto , Eiji Yamamoto

Aggregation-diffusion equations are foundational tools for modelling biological aggregations. Their principal use is to link the collective movement mechanisms of organisms to their emergent space use patterns in a concrete mathematical…

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Multi-vehicle interaction behavior classification and analysis offer in-depth knowledge to make an efficient decision for autonomous vehicles. This paper aims to cluster a wide range of driving encounter scenarios based only on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Wenshuo Wang , Aditya Ramesh , Ding Zhao

Quantifying animal interactions is crucial for understanding various ecological processes, including social community structures, predator-prey dynamics, spreading of pathogens and information. Despite the ubiquity of interaction processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-06 Debraj Das , V. M. Kenkre , Ran Nathan , Luca Giuggioli

Thermal contact is the archetype of non-equilibrium processes driven by constant non-equilibrium constraints when the latter are enforced by reservoirs exchanging conserved microscopic quantities. At a mesoscopic scale only the energies of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-30 Michel Bauer , Françoise Cornu

Stochastic interactions generically enhance self-diffusivity in living and biological systems, e.g. optimizing navigation strategies and controlling material properties of cellular tissues and bacterial aggregates. Despite this, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-24 Henry Alston , Thibault Bertrand

The study of diffusion in Hamiltonian systems has been a problem of interest for a number of years. In this paper we explore the influence of self-consistency on the diffusion properties of systems described by coupled symplectic maps.…

Recent progresses in single particle tracking have shown evidences of non-Gaussian distribution of displacements in living cells, both near the cellular membrane and inside the cytoskeleton. A similar behavior has also been observed in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Yann Lanoiselée , Denis S. Grebenkov

Within self-consistent field theory we study the phase behaviour of a symmetric binary AB polymer blend confined into a thin film. The film surfaces interact with the monomers via short range potentials. One surface attracts the A component…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Mueller , K. Binder , E. V. Albano

We revisit the proof of the liquid-vapor phase transition for systems with finite-range interaction by Lebowitz, Mazel and Presutti and extend it to the case where we additionally include a hard-core interaction to the Hamiltonian. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-03 Elena Pulvirenti , Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis

In order to investigate the size limit on spatial localized structures in a nonlinear system, we explore the impact of linear nonlocality on their domains of existence and stability. Our system of choice is an optical microresonator…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-02-04 L. Gelens , G. Van der Sande , P. Tassin , M. Tlidi , P. Kockaert , D. Gomila , I. Veretennicoff , J. Danckaert

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…

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