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We explore a systematic approach to studying the dynamics of evolving networks at a coarse-grained, system level. We emphasize the importance of finding good observables (network properties) in terms of which coarse grained models can be…

We investigate the effect of coarse-graining on the energetics properties of a system, focusing on entropy production. As a case of study, we consider a one-dimensional colloidal particle in contact with a thermal bath, moving in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-08 Pierpaolo Bilotto , Lorenzo Caprini , Angelo Vulpiani

Coarse-grained (CG) models facilitate an efficient exploration of complex systems by reducing the unnecessary degrees of freedom of the fine-grained (FG) system while recapitulating major structural correlations. Unlike structural…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jaehyeok Jin , Kenneth S. Schweizer , Gregory A. Voth

Continuum models of dislocation plasticity require constitutive closure assumptions, e.g., by relating details of the dislocation microstructure to energy densities. Currently, there is no systematic way for deriving or extracting such…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-26 Hengxu Song , Nina Gunkelmann , Giacomo Po , Stefan Sandfeld

In molecular dynamics and sampling of high dimensional Gibbs measures coarse-graining is an important technique to reduce the dimensionality of the problem. We will study and quantify the coarse-graining error between the coarse-grained…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-04 M. H. Duong , A. Lamacz , M. A. Peletier , A. Schlichting , U. Sharma

High-dimensional recordings of dynamical processes are often characterized by a much smaller set of effective variables, evolving on low-dimensional manifolds. Identifying these latent dynamics requires solving two intertwined problems:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Manuel Hinz , Maximilian Mauel , Patrick Seifner , David Berghaus , Kostadin Cvejoski , Ramses J. Sanchez

Transient bonds between fast linkers and slower particles are widespread in physical and biological systems. In spite of their diverse structure and function, a commonality is that the linkers diffuse on timescales much faster compared to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-06 Sophie Marbach , Christopher E. Miles

We present a computer-assisted approach to coarse-graining the evolutionary dynamics of a system of nonidentical oscillators coupled through a (fixed) network structure. The existence of a spectral gap for the coupling network graph…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Karthikeyan Rajendran , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Structure-based coarse graining of molecular systems offers a systematic route to reproduce the many-body potential of mean force. Unfortunately, common strategies are inherently limited by the molecular mechanics force field employed.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-27 Tristan Bereau , Joseph F. Rudzinski

A major current challenge poses the systematic construction of coarse-grained models that are dynamically consistent, and, moreover, might be used for systems driven out of thermal equilibrium. Here we present a novel prescription that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-05 Fabian Knoch , Thomas Speck

Structural and thermodynamic consistency of coarse-graining models across multiple length scales is essential for the predictive role of multi-scale modeling and molecular dynamic simulations that use mesoscale descriptions. Our approach is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-04 J. McCarty , A. J. Clark , J. Copperman , M. G. Guenza

We present the conceptual and technical background required to describe and understand the correlations and fluctuations of the empirical density and current of steady-state diffusion processes on all time scales -- observables central to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-06 Cai Dieball , Aljaž Godec

We present general results on fluctuations and spatial correlations of the coarse-grained empirical density and current of Markovian diffusion in equilibrium or non-equilibrium steady states on all time scales. We unravel a deep connection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-06 Cai Dieball , Aljaž Godec

In recent years, it has become increasingly popular to construct coarse-grained models with non-Markovian dynamics to account for an incomplete separation of time scales. One challenge of a systematic coarse-graining procedure is the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-25 Gerhard Jung , Martin Hanke , Friederike Schmid

Mathematical modelling of biological population dynamics often involves proposing high fidelity discrete agent-based models that capture stochasticity and individual-level processes. These models are often considered in conjunction with an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Daniel J. VandenHeuvel , Pascal R. Buenzli , Matthew J. Simpson

Complex physical dynamics can often be modeled as a Markov jump process between mesoscopic configurations. When jumps between mesoscopic states are mediated by thermodynamic reservoirs, the time-irreversibility of the jump process is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-12 Todd R. Gingrich , Grant M. Rotskoff , Jordan M. Horowitz

We present a data-driven machine-learning approach for modeling space-time socioeconomic dynamics. Through coarse-graining fine-scale observations, our modeling framework simplifies these complex systems to a set of tractable mechanistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 James Koch , Pranab Roy Chowdhury , Heng Wan , Parin Bhaduri , Jim Yoon , Vivek Srikrishnan , W. Brent Daniel

This work explores the manner in which classical phase space distribution functions converge to the microcanonical distribution. We first prove a theorem about the lack of convergence, then define a generalization of the coarse-graining…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-26 Casey O. Barkan

Coarse-grained (CG) models provide an effective route to reducing the complexity of molecular simulations (MD), but conventional approaches depend heavily on long all-atom MD trajectories to adequately sample configurational space. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Maximilian Stupp , P. S. Koutsourelakis

We present an equation-free computational approach to the study of the coarse-grained dynamics of {\it finite} assemblies of {\it non-identical} coupled oscillators at and near full synchronization. We use coarse-grained observables which…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Sung Joon Moon , R. Ghanem , I. G. Kevrekidis