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The interplay of nonlinearity and topology results in many novel and emergent properties across a number of physical systems such as chiral magnets, nematic liquid crystals, Bose-Einstein condensates, photonics, high energy physics, etc. It…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-08-25 A. Saxena , P. G. Kevrekidis , J. Cuevas-Maraver

The quasi-coherent effects in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence are analyzed starting from the test particle trajectories. They can acquire coherent aspects when the stochastic potential has slow time variation and the motion is not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Vlad , F. Spineanu

We study the two-dimensional XY model with quenched random phases by Monte Carlo simulation and finite-size scaling analysis. We determine the phase diagram of the model and study its critical behavior as a function of disorder and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Maucourt , D. R. Grempel

"Sticky" motion in mixed phase space of conservative systems is difficult to detect and to characterize, in particular for high dimensional phase spaces. Its effect on quasi-regular motion is quantified here with four different measures,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-13 C. Manchein , M. W. Beims , J. M. Rost

We numerically study the density of topological defects for a two-dimensional assembly of particles driven over quenched disorder as a function of quench rate through the nonequilibrium phase transition from a plastic disordered flowing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-23 C. J. O. Reichhardt , A. del Campo , C. Reichhardt

The two-component cold atom systems with anisotropic hopping amplitudes can be phenomenologically described by a two-dimensional Ising-XY coupled model with spatial anisotropy. At low temperatures, theoretical predictions [Phys. Rev. A 72,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-21 Heyang Ma , Wanzhou Zhang , Yanting Tian , Chengxiang Ding , Youjin Deng

Non-reciprocity and geometric frustration enable many-body systems to avoid crystalline order and instead exhibit complex, liquid-like behavior. Here we show that their interplay is richer than the sum of its parts, leading to surprising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Nilotpal Chakraborty , Anton Souslov , Claudio Castelnovo

The influence of topological defects on phase synchronization and phase coherence in two-dimensional arrays of locally-coupled, nonidentical, chaotic oscillators is investigated. The motion of topological defects leads to a breakdown of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Davidsen , R. Kapral

Disordered hyperuniform systems are exotic states of matter that completely suppress large-scale density fluctuations like crystals, and yet possess no Bragg peaks similar to liquids or glasses. Such systems have been discovered in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-10 Duyu Chen , Yu Zheng , Yang Jiao

We introduce and study in two dimensions a new class of dry, aligning, active matter that exhibits a direct transition to orientational order, without the phase-separation phenomenology usually observed in this context. Characterized by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-27 B. Mahault , X. -c. Jiang , E. Bertin , Y. -q. Ma , A. Patelli , X. -q. Shi , H. Chaté

We consider two-dimensional (2d) quantum many-body systems with long-range orders, where the only gapless excitations in the spectrum are Goldstone modes of spontaneously broken continuous symmetries. To understand the interplay between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-30 Yan-Qi Wang , Chunxiao Liu , Yuan-Ming Lu

A complete bifurcation analysis of explicit dynamical equations for the periodically forced Kuramoto model was performed in [L. M. Childs and S. H. Strogatz. Chaos 18 , 043128 (2008)], identifying all bifurcations within the model. We show…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-28 E. A. P. Wright , S. Yoon , J. F. F. Mendes , A. V. Goltsev

We study the critical behavior and the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a two-dimensional Ising model with non-static interactions. In our model, bonds are dynamically changing according to a majority rule depending on the set of closest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-10 Oscar A. Pinto , Federico Romá , Sebastian Bustingorry

We consider the rotational dynamics in an ensemble of globally coupled identical pendulums. This model is essentially a generalization of the standard Kuramoto model, which takes into account the inertia and the intrinsic nonlinearity of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-10 M. I. Bolotov , V. O. Munyaev , L. A. Smirnov , A. E. Hramov

Topological phases support edge states that can be robust to material deformations and other perturbations. While well-studied in quantum systems, topological phases have also been observed in stochastic and biochemical systems, yet it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-06 Ziyin Xiong , Aleksandra Nelson , Evelyn Tang

Using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, we present a general description of topological defects dynamics in $p$-atic materials on curved surfaces, and simplify it in the case of active nematics. We find that activity induces a geometric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-02 Farzan Vafa , David R. Nelson , Amin Doostmohammadi

We study the full out-of-thermal-equilibrium dynamics of a relativistic classical scalar field through a symmetry breaking phase transition. In these circumstances we determine the evolution of the ensemble averages of the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 N. D. Antunes , L. M. A. Bettencourt

The two-dimensional (2D) XY model plays a crucial role in statistical and condensed matter physics. With the introduction of long-range interactions, the system exhibits a richer set of physical phenomena and a crossover between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 Dingyun Yao , Tianning Xiao , Chao Zhang , Youjin Deng , Zhijie Fan

Topological defects in active polar fluids exhibit complex dynamics driven by internally generated stresses, reflecting the deep interplay between topology, flow, and non-equilibrium hydrodynamics. Feedback control offers a powerful means…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-28 Abhinav Singh , Petros Koumoutsakos

Coupled oscillators have been used to study synchronization in a wide range of social, biological, and physical systems, including pedestrian-induced bridge resonances, coordinated lighting up of firefly swarms, and enhanced output peak…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-01 Can Xu , Xiaohuan Tang , Huaping Lü , Karin Alfaro-Bittner , Stefano Boccaletti , Matjaz Perc , Shuguang Guan