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The relaxed motion of stars and gas in galactic discs is well approximated by a rotational velocity that is a function of radial position only, implying that individual components have lost any information about their prior states.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-11 John Herbert Marr

In this letter, we report on an experimental study which analyzes the compressive behavior of 2D bidisperse granular assemblies made of soft (hyperelastic) and hard grains in varying proportions ($\kappa$). By means of a recently developed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-17 Manuel Cárdenas-Barrantes , Jonathan Barés , Mathieu Renouf , Émilien Azéma

We derive the stationary probability distribution for a non-equilibrium system composed by an arbitrary number of degrees of freedom that are subject to Gaussian colored noise and a conservative potential. This is based on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-01 Claudio Maggi , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Nicoletta Gnan , Roberto Di Leonardo

We have studied the contact network properties of two and three dimensional polydisperse, frictionless sphere packings at the random closed packing density through simulations. We observe universal correlations between particle size and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-05 C. B. O'Donovan , E. I. Corwin , M. E. Möbius

We investigate the question of tightness of linear programming (LP) relaxation for finding a maximum weight independent set (MWIS) in sparse random weighted graphs. We show that an edge-based LP relaxation is asymptotically tight for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-04-14 Sujay Sanghavi , Devavrat Shah

In order to describe the dynamics of crowded ions (charged particles), we use an energetic variation approach to derive a modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system which includes an extra dissipation due to the effective velocity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Chia-Yu Hsieh , YunKyong Hyon , Hijin Lee , Tai-Chia Lin , Chun Liu

The freezing transition of hard spheres has been well described by various versions of density-functional theory (DFT). These theories should possess the close-packed crystal as a special limit, which represents an extreme testing ground…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Benito Groh , Bela Mulder

Using a new algorithm for estimating the actions of orbits a parametrised distribution function is automatically fitted to observational data for the solar neighbourhood. We adopt a gravitational potential that is generated by three discs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 James Binney

Analytical expressions for radial distribution function (RDF) are of critical importance for various applications, such as development of the perturbation theories for equilibrium properties. Theoretically, RDF expressions for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-20 Hongqin Liu

Although the concept of random close packing with an almost universal packing fraction of ~ 0.64 for hard spheres was introduced more than half a century ago, there are still ongoing debates. The main difficulty in searching the densest…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-28 Ran Ni , Martien A. Cohen Stuart , Marjolein Dijkstra

The random sequential adsorption of various particle shapes is studied in order to determine the influence of particle anisotropy on the saturated random packing. For all tested particles there is an optimal level of anisotropy which…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Michał Cieśla , Grzegorz Pająk , Robert M. Ziff

The predictions of the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT) for the tagged-particle density-correlation functions and the mean-squared displacement curves are compared quantitatively and in detail to results from Newtonian-…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Th. Voigtmann , A. M. Puertas , M. Fuchs

In this paper, a non-linear p-robust hub location problem is extended to a risky environment where augmented chance constraint with a min-max regret form is employed to consider network risk as one of the objectives. The model considers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Saeid Abbasi Parizi , Mahdi Bashiri , Andrew Eberhard

We study here the random diffusion model. This is a continuum model for a conserved scalar density field $\phi$ driven by diffusive dynamics. The interesting feature of the dynamics is that the {\it bare} diffusion coefficient $D$ is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gene F. Mazenko

Motivated by practical applications where stable long-term performance is critical-such as robotics, operations research, and healthcare-we study the problem of distributionally robust (DR) average-reward reinforcement learning. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zijun Chen , Shengbo Wang , Nian Si

Equilibrium sampling of the configuration space in disordered systems requires algorithms that bypass the glassy slowing down of the physical dynamics. Irreversible Monte Carlo algorithms breaking detailed balance successfully accelerate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-15 Federico Ghimenti , Ludovic Berthier , Frédéric van Wijland

Discrete particle simulations have become the standard in science and industrial applications exploring the properties of particulate systems. Most of such simulations rely on the concept of interacting spherical particles to describe the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Igor Ostanin , Vasileios Angelidakis , Timo Plath , Sahar Pourandi , Anthony Thornton , Thomas Weinhart

We present a generalization of the granocentric model proposed in [Clusel et al., Nature, 2009, 460, 611615] that is capable of describing the local fluctuations inside not only polydisperse but also monodisperse packings of spheres. This…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 Katherine A. Newhall , Ivane Jorjadze , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Jasna Brujic

We report a Monte Carlo simulation study of the properties of highly asymmetric binary hard sphere mixtures. This system is treated within an effective fluid approximation in which the large particles interact through a depletion potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julio Largo , Nigel B. Wilding

We revisit the classical hard-core model, also known as independent set and dual to vertex cover problem, where one puts particles with a first-neighbor hard-core repulsion on the vertices of a random graph. Although the case of random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-12-17 Jean Barbier , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová , Pan Zhang