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Coarse-grained molecular dynamics often sacrifices accuracy and transferability for computational efficiency, but the use of machine learned potentials is helping coarse-grained models attain performance on par with atomistic molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Abigail Park , Shriram Chennakesavalu , Grant M. Rotskoff

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

We review a few representative examples of granular experiments or models where phase separation, accompanied by domain coarsening, is a relevant phenomenon. We first elucidate the intrinsic non-equilibrium, or athermal, nature of granular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-29 Andrea Baldassarri , Andrea Puglisi , Alessandro Sarracino

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 introduce a closure model for coarse-grained kinetic theories of polar active fluids. Based on a quasi-equilibrium approximation of the particle distribution function, the model closely captures important analytical properties of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-17 Scott Weady , David B. Stein , Michael J. Shelley

We provide a stochastic thermodynamic description across scales for $N$ identical units with all-to-all interactions that are driven away from equilibrium by different reservoirs and external forces. We start at the microscopic level with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-07 Tim Herpich , Tommaso Cossetto , Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

We present a coarse-graining method applicable to dry scalar active matter with motility regulation. Our approach, based on a multiscale perturbative expansion of the backward Kolmogorov equation, does not rely on any specific microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Alberto Dinelli , Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu

Molecular dynamics simulations provide theoretical insight into the microscopic behavior of materials in condensed phase and, as a predictive tool, enable computational design of new compounds. However, because of the large temporal and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Wujie Wang , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

We study the coarse-graining approach to derive a generator for the evolution of an open quantum system over a finite time interval. The approach does not require a secular approximation but nevertheless generally leads to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-08 Gernot Schaller , Julian Ablaßmayer

The large deviation principle is proved for a class of $L^2$-valued processes that arise from the coarse-graining of a random field. Coarse-grained processes of this kind form the basis of the analysis of local mean-field models in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Ellis , K. Haven , B. Turkington

Inspired by holographic Wilsonian renormalization, we consider coarse graining a quantum system divided between short distance and long distance degrees of freedom, coupled via the Hamiltonian. Observations using purely long distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Cesar Agon , Vijay Balasubramanian , Skyler Kasko , Albion Lawrence

Results are presented from numerical experiments aiming at the computation of stochastic phase-field models for phase transformations by coarse-graining molecular dynamics. The studied phase transformations occur between a solid crystal and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-08-11 Erik von Schwerin

Aligning self-propelled particles undergo a nonequilibrium flocking transition from apolar to polar phases as their interactions become stronger. We propose a thermodynamically consistent lattice model, in which the internal state of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 Karel Proesmans , Gianmaria Falasco , Atul Tanaji Mohite , Massimiliano Esposito , Étienne Fodor

Coarse graining techniques offer a promising alternative to large-scale simulations of complex dynamical systems, as long as the coarse-grained system is truly representative of the initial one. Here, we investigate how the dynamical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 David Gfeller , Paolo De Los Rios

Atomistic or ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations are widely used to predict thermodynamics and kinetics and relate them to molecular structure. A common approach to go beyond the time- and length-scales accessible with such…

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

Interacting particle systems provide a fundamental framework for modeling collective behavior in biological, social, and physical systems. In many applications, stochastic perturbations are essential for capturing environmental variability…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-04 Su Yang , Weiqi Chu , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Fluctuating hydrodynamics provides a quantitative, large-scale description of many-body systems in terms of smooth variables, with microscopic details entering only through a small set of transport coefficients. Although this framework has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Soumyabrata Saha , Sandeep Jangid , Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Juliane U. Klamser , Tridib Sadhu

We report on a molecular dynamics investigation of the wetting properties of graphitic surfaces by various solutions at concentrations 1-8 wt% of commercially available non-ionic surfactants with long hydrophilic chains, linear or T-shaped.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Danilo Sergi , Giulio Scocchi , Alberto Ortona

Volume conserving surface (VCS) models without deposition and evaporation, as well as ideal molecular-beam epitaxy models, are prototypes to study the symmetries of conserved dynamics. In this work we study two similar VCS models with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-30 David Hansmann , Rubén C. Buceta