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Understanding the emergence of macroscopic irreversible hydrodynamics from the reversible unitary dynamics of isolated quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge. Conventional approaches often force spin density dynamics into…

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Stochastic modelling of complex systems plays an essential, yet often computationally intensive role across the quantitative sciences. Recent advances in quantum information processing have elucidated the potential for quantum simulators to…

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To study materials phenomena simultaneously at various length scales, descriptions in which matter can be coarse grained to arbitrary levels, are necessary. Attempts to do this in the static regime (i.e. zero temperature) have already been…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefano Curtarolo , Gerbrand Ceder

With the guidance offered by nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics, simulation techniques are elevated from brute-force computer experiments to systematic tools for extracting complete, redundancy-free and consistent coarse grained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-09 Hans Christian Öttinger

The dynamics of irreversible relaxation of non-equilibrium macroscopic systems is discussed. Arguments are developed showing that the general process is supported by two independent successive mechanisms. One is mixing and it follows pure…

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Finding coarse-grained, low-dimensional descriptions is an important task in the analysis of complex, stochastic models of gene regulatory networks. This task involves (a) identifying observables that best describe the state of these…

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The computer-assisted modeling of re-entrant production lines, and, in particular, simulation scalability, is attracting a lot of attention due to the importance of such lines in semiconductor manufacturing. Re-entrant flows lead to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Y. Zou , I. G. Kevrekidis , D. Armbruster

The combination of high-dimensionality and disparity of time scales encountered in many problems in computational physics has motivated the development of coarse-grained (CG) models. In this paper, we advocate the paradigm of data-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 L. Felsberger , P. S. Koutsourelakis

We present a new computational framework combining coarse-graining techniques with bootstrap methods to study quantum many-body systems. The method efficiently computes rigorous upper and lower bounds on both zero- and finite-temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Minjae Cho , Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Petar Tadić , Yuan Xin , Zechuan Zheng

Systems out of equilibrium exhibit a net production of entropy. We study the dynamics of a stochastic system represented by a Master Equation that can be modeled by a Fokker-Planck equation in a coarse-grained, mesoscopic description. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-05 Daniel M. Busiello , Jorge Hidalgo , Amos Maritan

Mesoscopic particle based fluid models, such as dissipative particle dynamics, are usually assumed to be coarse-grained representations of an underlying microscopic fluid. A fundamental question is whether there exists a map from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Anders Eriksson , Martin Nilsson Jacobi , Johan Nystrom , Kolbjorn Tunstrom

Although coarse-grained models have been widely used to explain exotic phenomena in complex fluids, such as droplet formation in living cells, these conventional approaches often fail to capture the intricate microscopic degrees of freedom…

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Developing physics-based models for molecular simulation requires fitting many unknown parameters to diverse experimental datasets. Traditionally, this process is piecemeal and difficult to reproduce, leading to a fragmented landscape of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ryan K. Krueger , Megan C. Engel , Ryan Hausen , Michael P. Brenner

Finite stochastic Markov models play a major role for modelling biochemical pathways. Such models are a coarse-grained description of the underlying microscopic dynamics and can be considered mesoscopic. The level of coarse-graining is to a…

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A fundamental question in nonequilibrium statistical physics is whether effective equilibrium behavior can emerge at coarse-grained scales in strongly driven systems. Here, we investigate this question in the context of human mobility by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-24 Lei Dong

We present a dynamic coarse-graining technique that allows to simulate the mechanical unfolding of biomolecules or molecular complexes on experimentally relevant time scales. It is based on Markov state models (MSM), which we construct from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-17 Fabian Knoch , Ken Schäfer , Gregor Diezemann , Thomas Speck

The coarse-graining approach to deriving the quantum Markovian master equation is revisited, with close attention given to the underlying approximations. It is further argued that the time interval over which the coarse-graining is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 J D Cresser , C Facer

Complex fluids exhibit structure on a wide range of length and time scales, and hierarchical approaches are necessary to investigate all facets of their often unusual properties. The study of idealized coarse-grained models at different…

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