English
Related papers

Related papers: Revisiting the Contact Model with Diffusion Beyond…

200 papers

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

The systematic errors due to the practical implementation of the Contact Dynamics method for simulation of dense granular media are examined. It is shown that, using the usual iterative solver to simulate a chain of rigid particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tamas Unger , Lothar Brendel , Dietrich E. Wolf , Janos Kertesz

We analyze two alternative methods for determining the exponent $z$ of the contact process (CP) and Domany-Kinzel (DK) cellular automaton in Monte Carlo Simulations. One method employs mixed initial conditions, as proposed for magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto da Silva , Ronald Dickman , J. R. Drugowich de Felicio

Diffusion of colloidal particles in a complex environment such as polymer networks or biological cells is a topic of high complexity with significant biological and medical relevance. In such situations, the interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-10 Andreas M. Menzel

The contact model for the spread of disease may be viewed as a directed percolation model on $\ZZ \times \RR$ in which the continuum axis is oriented in the direction of increasing time. Techniques from percolation have enabled a fairly…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Geoffrey Grimmett

From footpaths to flight routes, human mobility networks facilitate the spread of communicable diseases. Control and elimination efforts depend on characterizing these networks in terms of connections and flux rates of individuals between…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-29 Kyle B Gustafson , Basil S. Bayati , Philip A. Eckhoff

In recent years research on credit risk modelling has mainly focused on default probabilities. Recovery rates are usually modelled independently, quite often they are even assumed constant. Then, however, the structural connection between…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-03-06 Alexander F. R. Koivusalo , Rudi Schäfer

Standard epidemic models based on compartmental differential equations are investigated under continuous parameter change as external forcing. We show that seasonal modulation of the contact parameter superimposed a monotonic decay needs a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-13 Tamás Kovács

Diffusion Policy has shown great performance in robotic manipulation tasks under stochastic perturbations, due to its ability to model multimodal action distributions. Nonetheless, its reliance on a computationally expensive reverse-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Gabriel Lauzier , Alexandre Girard , François Ferland

We propose a novel method for analysis of experimental data obtained at relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. The method, based on the ideas of Random Matrix Theory, is applied to detect systematic errors that occur at measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 E. I. Shahaliev , R. G. Nazmitdinov , A. A. Kuznetsov , M. K. Suleymanov , O. V. Teryaev

Recent advances in laser technology enable to follow electronic motion at its natural time-scale with ultrafast pulses, leading the way towards atto- and femtosecond spectroscopic experiments of unprecedented resolution. Understanding of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Marius Kadek , Lukas Konecny , Michal Repisky

It is known that diffusion provokes substantial changes in continuous absorbing phase transitions. Conversely, its effect on discontinuous transitions is much less understood. In order to shed light in this direction, we study the inclusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-25 Carlos E. Fiore , Gabriel T. Landi

Rolling of a small sphere on a solid support is governed by a non-linear friction that is akin to the Coulombic dry fiction. No motion occurs when the external field is weaker than the frictional resistance. However, with the intervention…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-22 P. S. Goohpattader , M. K. Chaudhury

Epidemics are emergent phenomena depending on the epidemiological characteristics of pathogens and the interaction and movement of people. Public transit systems have provided much important information about the movement of people, but…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Zhanwei Du , Chao Gao , Yuan Bai , Yongjian Yang , Petter Holme

The presence of one or more species at some spatial locations but not others is a central matter in ecology. This phenomenon is related to ecological pattern formation. Nonlocal interactions can be considered as one of the mechanisms…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-29 Ozgur Aydogmus

We study the evolution of critical fluctuations in an expanding system within a hadronic transport approach. The initialization of the system with critical fluctuations is achieved by coupling the ideal hadron resonance gas cumulants to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-11 Jan Hammelmann , Marcus Bluhm , Marlene Nahrang , Hannah Elfner

Random matrix theory, particularly using matrices akin to the Wishart ensemble, has proven successful in elucidating the thermodynamic characteristics of critical behavior in spin systems across varying interaction ranges. This paper…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-04 Eliseu Venites Filho , Roberto da Silva , José Roberto Drugowich de Felício

We present a brief overview of random matrix theory (RMT) with the objectives of highlighting the computational results and applications in financial markets as complex systems. An oft-encountered problem in computational finance is the…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-09-27 Hirdesh K. Pharasi , Kiran Sharma , Anirban Chakraborti , Thomas H. Seligman

Levy walk (LW) process has been used as a simple model for describing anomalous diffusion in which the mean squared displacement of the walker grows non-linearly with time in contrast to the diffusive motion described by simple random walks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 Santanu Das , Anupam Kundu

Decay law of a complicated unstable state formed in a high energy collision is described by the Fourier transform of the two-point correlation function of the scattering matrix. Although each constituent resonance state decays exponentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valentin V. Sokolov