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The dynamics of complex systems in nature often occurs in terms of punctuations, or avalanches, rather than following a smooth, gradual path. A comprehensive theory of avalanche dynamics in models of growth, interface depinning, and…

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In the first paper of this series [S. Torquato, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 136}, 054106 (2012)], analytical results concerning the continuum percolation of overlapping hyperparticles in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ were obtained,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-21 Salvatore Torquato , Yang Jiao

We study the question of periodic homogenization of a variably scaled reaction-diffusion problem with non-linear drift posed for a domain crossed by a flat composite thin layer. The structure of the non-linearity in the drift was obtained…

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We introduce a versatile and spatially resolved morphological characterisation of binary fields, rooted in the opening transform of mathematical morphology. We subsequently apply it to the thresholded ionization field in simulations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Philipp Busch , Marius B. Eide , B. Ciardi , Koki Kakiichi

Constrained diffusions in convex polyhedral domains with a general oblique reflection field, and with a diffusion coefficient scaled by a small parameter, are considered. Using an interior Dirichlet heat kernel lower bound estimate for…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Amarjit Budhiraja , Zhen-Qing Chen

A microscopic model of the effect of unbinding in diffusion limited aggregation based on a cellular automata approach is presented. The geometry resembles electrochemical deposition - ``ions'' diffuse at random from the top of a container…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 G. J. Ackland , E. S. Tweedie

We establish the sharpness of the percolation phase transition for a class of infinite-range weighted random connection models. The vertex set is given by a marked Poisson point process on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with intensity $\lambda>0$, where…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Alejandro Caicedo , Leonid Kolesnikov

The development of percolation theory was historically shaped by its numerous applications in various branches of science, in particular in statistical physics, and was mainly constrained to the case of Euclidean spaces. One of its central…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Shohei Watabe , Michael Zach Serikow , Shiro Kawabata , Alexandre Zagoskin

Reaction--diffusion mechanism are a robust paradigm that can be used to represent many biological and physical phenomena over multiple spatial scales. Applications include intracellular dynamics, the migration of cells and the patterns…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-01 Cameron A. Smith , Christian A. Yates

We study the nearest-neighbor spin-ice model subjected to a magnetic field applied along the global [111] and [110] directions, focusing on the role of sample geometry in stabilizing topological phase transitions. While no Kasteleyn…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 R. A. Borzi , E. S. Loscar , S. A. Grigera

In string percolation model, the study of colliding systems at high energies is based on a continuum percolation theory in two dimensions where the number of strings distributed in the surface of interest is strongly determined by the size…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 J. E. Ramírez , C. Pajares

We study the formation and the evolution of galaxy groups in a critical universe, showing the importance of secondary infall for their dynamical evolution. Merging is only slightly accelerated if galaxies have massive halos, because the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Fabio Governato , Paolo Tozzi , Alfonso Cavaliere

Generalization of the one-dimensional totally asymmetric exclusion process (TASEP) with open boundary conditions in which particles are allowed to jump $l$ sites ahead with the probability $p_l\sim 1/l^{\sigma+1}$ is studied by Monte Carlo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Szavits-Nossan , K. Uzelac

Gradient descent dynamics in complex energy landscapes, i.e. featuring multiple minima, finds application in many different problems, from soft matter to machine learning. Here, we analyze one of the simplest examples, namely that of soft…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-23 Alessandro Manacorda , Francesco Zamponi

This paper is concerned with data-driven unsupervised domain adaptation, where it is unknown in advance how the joint distribution changes across domains, i.e., what factors or modules of the data distribution remain invariant or change…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Kun Zhang , Mingming Gong , Petar Stojanov , Biwei Huang , Qingsong Liu , Clark Glymour

Kinetics of phase separation in a three dimensional single-component Lennard-Jones fluid, that exhibits vapor-liquid transition, is studied via molecular dynamics simulations after quenching homogeneous systems, of different overall…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-09 Sutapa Roy , Subir K. Das

We study diffusive dynamics of phase separation in a binary mixture, following critical quench, both in spatial dimensions $d=2$ and $d=3$. Particular focus in this work is to obtain information about effects of system size and correction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Suman Majumder , Subir K. Das

A approach of finite size scaling theory for discontinous percolation with multiple giant clusters is developed in this paper. The percolation in generalized Bohman-Frieze-Wormald (BFW) model has already been proved to be discontinuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-10 Yong Zhu , Xiaosong Chen

Within the framework of hierarchical clustering we show that a simple Press-Schechter-like approximation, based on spherical dynamics, provides a good estimate of the evolution of the density field in the quasi-linear regime up to $\Sigma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Valageas

Using numerical simulations, we study the dynamical evolution of particles interacting via competing long-range repulsion and short-range attraction in two dimensions. The particles are compressed using a time-dependent quasi-one…

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