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Active self-assembly can bypass equilibrium bottlenecks through external energy injection. However, generic driving typically distorts target structures and requires sustained energy input even after assembly is complete. Here, we…

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Revealing physical interactions in complex systems from observed collective dynamics constitutes a fundamental inverse problem in science. Current reconstruction methods require access to a system's model or dynamical data at a level of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-18 Mor Nitzan , Jose Casadiego , Marc Timme

Advances in controlling and measuring systems of ultra-cold atoms provided strong motivation to theoretical investigations of quantum dynamics in closed many-body systems. Fundamental questions on quantum dynamics and statistical mechanics…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-04 Ehud Altman

We study dissipative dynamics constructed by means of non-commutative Dirichlet forms for various lattice systems with multiparticle interactions associated to CCR algebras. We give a number of explicit examples of such models. Using an…

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Recently, several events have shockingly impacted society, carrying tough consequences. However, not all individuals are similarly affected by shock events. Among other factors, the consequences can vary depending on the income class. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-23 Marco Menale , Ana Jacinta Soares , Romina Travaglini

The cavity method is one of the cornerstones of the statistical physics of disordered systems such as spin glasses and other complex systems. It is able to analytically and asymptotically exactly describe the equilibrium properties of a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-11 Freya Behrens , Barbora Hudcová , Lenka Zdeborová

Collective phenomena in strongly nonequilibrium systems interacting with electromagnetic field are considered. Such systems are described by complicated nonlinear differential or integro-differential equations. The aim of this review is to…

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Facilitated or kinetically constrained spin models (KCSM) are a class of interacting particle systems reversible w.r.t. to a simple product measure. Each dynamical variable (spin) is re-sampled from its equilibrium distribution only if the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-04 Nicoletta Cancrini , Fabio Martinelli , Cyril Roberto , Cristina Toninelli

The selection of an equilibrium state by maximising the entropy of a system, subject to certain constraints, is often powerfully motivated as an exercise in logical inference, a procedure where conclusions are reached on the basis of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-03 Ian J. Ford

All current formulations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open chemical reaction networks rely on the assumption of non-interacting species. We develop a general theory which accounts for interactions between chemical species within a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-09 Francesco Avanzini , Emanuele Penocchio , Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

Active systems evade the rules of equilibrium thermodynamics by constantly dissipating energy at the level of their microscopic components. This energy flux stems from the conversion of a fuel, present in the environment, into sustained…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-15 Étienne Fodor , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates

We examine the properties of a quantum reflection trap when particle-interaction is included. We explore the influence of the particle-interaction on the trapping for different regimes: repulsive particle-interaction and attractive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Jurisch , Jan-Michael Rost

Cooperative systems are systems in which the forces among agents are non-repulsive. The free evolution of such systems can tend to the formation of patterns, such as consensus or clustering, depending on the properties and intensity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Benoît Bonnet , Francesco Rossi

Kinetically constrained spin systems play an important role in understanding key properties of the dynamics of slowly relaxing materials, such as glasses. So far kinetic constraints have been introduced in idealised models aiming to capture…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-09 B. Everest , M. Marcuzzi , J. P. Garrahan , I. Lesanovsky

We consider networks for isentropic gas and prove existence of weak solutions for a large class of coupling conditions. First, we construct approximate solutions by a vector-valued BGK model with a kinetic coupling function. Introducing…

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We investigate a simplified model of two fully connected magnetic systems maintained at different temperatures by virtue of being connected to two independent thermal baths while simultaneously being inter-connected with each other. Using…

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Particle dynamics and multi-agent systems provide accurate dynamical models for studying and forecasting the behavior of complex interacting systems. They often take the form of a high-dimensional system of differential equations…

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Active filaments are a workhorse for propulsion and actuation across biology, soft robotics and mechanical metamaterials. However, artificial active rods suffer from limited robustness and adaptivity because they rely on external control,…

In this paper we examine the stability of scalar perturbations in nonsingular models which emerge from an interacting vacuum component. The analysis developed in this paper relies on two phenomenological choices for the energy exchange…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Filipe Cattete Alves , Rodrigo Maier

The developing field of stochastic thermodynamics extends concepts of macroscopic thermodynamics such as entropy production and work to the microscopic level of individual trajectories taken by a system through phase space. The scheme…

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