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The question of the shape of the density PDF for supersonic turbulence is addressed, using both analytical and numerical methods. For isothermal supersonic turbulence, the PDF is Log-Normal, with a width that scales approximately linearly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 AAke Nordlund , Paolo Padoan

Statistical properties of a local fluctuational fluxes measured at the plasma edge are investigated in the work. It's shown that the amplitudes increments of the local fluctuational fluxes decrease by power law. For approximation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Viacheslav Saenko

This article is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the perturbation method for extended Kohn-Sham models, in which fractional occupation numbers are allowed. All our results are established in the framework of the reduced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Eric Cancès , Nahia Mourad

Mathematical models based on probability density functions (PDF) have been extensively used in hydrology and subsurface flow problems, to describe the uncertainty in porous media properties (e.g., permeability modelled as random field).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-01 Matteo Icardi , Marco Dentz

We use the physics of ellipsoidal collapse to model the probability distribution function of the smoothed dark matter density field in real and redshift space. We provide a simple approximation to the exact collapse model which shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-05 Tsz Yan Lam , Ravi K. Sheth

The gradient flow in non-abelian gauge theories on R^4 is defined by a local diffusion equation that evolves the gauge field as a function of the flow time in a gauge-covariant manner. Similarly to the case of the Langevin equation, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 Martin Lüscher , Peter Weisz

Cosmological Perturbation Theory (PT) is a useful tool to study the cumulants of the density and velocity fields in the large scale structure of the Universe. In Papers I & II of this series we saw that the Spherical Collapse (SC) model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga

A higher-order analysis of the evolution of cosmological perturbations in a Friedman universe is given by using the PMF method. The essence of the PMF approach is to choose a gauge where all fluctuations of the density, the pressure, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Martin Schoen

Modern analysis on parton distribution functions (PDFs) requires calculations of the log-likelihood functions from thousands of experimental data points, and scans of multi-dimensional parameter space with tens of degrees of freedom. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 DianYu Liu , ChuanLe Sun , Jun Gao

We derive an analytical theory of the PDF of density fluctuations in supersonic turbulence in the presence of gravity in star-forming clouds. The theory is based on a rigorous derivation of a combination of the Navier-Stokes continuity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 Etienne Jaupart , Gilles Chabrier

We use SDSS imaging data in $ugriz$ passbands to study the shape of the point spread function (PSF) profile and the variation of its width with wavelength and time. We find that the PSF profile is well described by theoretical predictions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Bo Xin , Željko Ivezić , Robert H. Lupton , John R. Peterson , Peter Yoachim , R. Lynne Jones , Charles F. Claver , George Angeli

We investigate the form of the one-point probability distribution function (pdf) for the density field of the interstellar medium using numerical simulations that successively reduce the number of physical processes included.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. Scalo , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , D. Chappell , T. Passot

We present a public code to generate random fields with an arbitrary probability distribution function (PDF) and an arbitrary correlation function. The algorithm is cosmology-independent, applicable to any stationary stochastic process over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Federico Tosone , Mark C. Neyrinck , Benjamin R. Granett , Luigi Guzzo , Nicola Vittorio

We study the energy level spacing of perturbed conformal minimal models in finite volume, considering perturbations of such models that are massive but not necessarily integrable. We compute their spectrum using a renormalization group…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. P. Brandino , R. M. Konik , G. Mussardo

We present a series of N-body experiments which confirm the reality of the previrialization effect. We also use weakly nonlinear perturbative approach to study the phenomenon. These two approaches agree when the rms density contrast,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ewa L. Lokas , Roman Juszkiewicz , Francois R. Bouchet , Eric Hivon

The previously developed renormalizable perturbative 1/N-expansion in higher dimensional scalar field theories is extended to gauge theories with fermions. It is based on the $1/N_f$-expansion and results in a logarithmically divergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. I. Kazakov , G. S. Vartanov

We use the Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator (DTFE) to study the one-point density distribution functions of the Millennium (MS) and Millennium-II (MS-II) simulations. The DTFE technique is based directly on the particle positions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Biswajit Pandey , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Raul Angulo

The propagation of an initially localized excitation in one dimensional incommensurate, quasiperiodic and random systems is investigated numerically. It is discovered that the time evolution of variances $\sigma^2(t)$ of atom displacements…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bambi Hu , Baowen Li , Peiqing Tong

Perturbation theory for the random-field Ising model (RFIM) has the infamous attribute that it predicts at all orders a dimensional-reduction property for the critical behavior that turns out to be wrong in low dimension. Guided by our…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-10-07 Gilles Tarjus , Matthieu Tissier

By introducing the self-energy density functionals for the dissipative interactions between the reduced system and its environment, we develop a time-dependent density-functional theory formalism based on an equation of motion for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , Chi Yung Yam , Yan Mo , GuanHua Chen