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Traffic flow oscillations, including traffic waves, are a common yet incompletely understood feature of congested traffic. Possible mechanisms include traffic flow instabilities, indifference regions or finite human perception thresholds…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-24 Martin Treiber , Arne Kesting

In previous papers we have introduced a natural nonequilibrium free energy by considering the functional describing the large fluctuations of stationary nonequilibrium states. While in equilibrium this functional is always convex, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

We investigate the influence of boundaries and spatial nonreciprocity on nonequilibrium driven-dissipative phase transitions. We focus on a one-dimensional lattice of nonlinear bosons described by a Lindblad master equation, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Ron Belyansky , Cheyne Weis , Ryo Hanai , Peter B. Littlewood , Aashish A. Clerk

We consider magnetic friction between two systems of $q$-state Potts spins which are moving along their boundaries with a relative constant velocity $v$. Due to the interaction between the surface spins there is a permanent energy flow and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-15 Ferenc Igloi , Michel Pleimling , Loic Turban

We study a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks, simple enough to get analytical results, but with a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid phase transitions between a free-flow phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniele De Martino , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili

We study boundary induced phase transitions in a driven lattice gas exhibiting metastability. The phase diagram for open systems, parameterized by the input and output rates, consists of two regions corresponding to the free flow and jammed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-11 Cecile Appert , Ludger Santen

Time-dependently driven stochastic systems form a vast and manifold class of non-equilibrium systems used to model important applications on small length scales such as bit erasure protocols or microscopic heat engines. One property that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-07 Julius Degünther , Timur Koyuk , Udo Seifert

Traffic congestion is usually observed at the upper streams of bottlenecks such as tunnels. Congestion appears as stop-and-go waves and high density uniform flow. We perform simulations of traffic flow with a bottleneck using the coupled…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Syohei Yamamoto , Yasuhiro Hieida , Shin-ichi Tadaki

Boundary driven diffusive systems describe a broad range of transport phenomena. We study large deviations of the density profile in these systems, using numerical and analytical methods. We find that the large deviation may be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Guy Bunin , Yariv Kafri , Daniel Podolsky

Spatiotemporal features and physics of vehicular traffic congestion occurring due to heavy freeway bottlenecks caused by bad weather conditions or accidents are found based on simulations in the framework of three-phase traffic theory. A…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-12-12 Boris S. Kerner

We investigate a model for driven exclusion processes where internal states are assigned to the particles. The latter account for diverse situations, ranging from spin states in spintronics to parallel lanes in intracellular or vehicular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 Tobias Reichenbach , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

We study the traffic flow on a highway with ramps through numerical simulations of a hydrodynamic traffic flow model. It is found that the presence of the external vehicle flux through ramps generates a new state of recurring humps (RH).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Y. Lee , H. -W. Lee , D. Kim

We study a periodic one-dimensional exclusion process composed of a driven and a diffusive part. In a mesoscopic limit where both dynamics compete we identify bulk-driven phase transitions. We employ mean-field theory complemented by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hauke Hinsch , Erwin Frey

Extending notions of phase transitions to nonequilibrium realm is a fundamental problem for statistical mechanics. While it was discovered that critical transitions occur even for transient states before relaxation as the singularity of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-02 Ryusuke Hamazaki

The balanced vehicular traffic model is a macroscopic model for vehicular traffic flow. We use this model to study the traffic dynamics at highway bottlenecks either caused by the restriction of the number of lanes or by on-ramps or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Florian Siebel , Wolfram Mauser , Salissou Moutari , Michel Rascle

Noise-induced phase transitions are common in various complex systems, from physics to biology. In this article, we investigate the emergence of crucial events in noise-induced phase transition processes and their potential significance for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-06-28 Jacob D. Baxley , David R. Lambert , Mauro Bologna , Bruce J. West , Paolo Grigolini

In the present paper which is a sequel to [N.B. Volkov and A.M. Iskoldsky The dynamics of vortex structures and states of current: 1;[1]], the dynamics of non-equilibrium phase transitions and states of current in electrophysical systems…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 N. B. Volkov , A. M. Iskoldsky

We develop a discrete Boltzmann-type model that uses dynamics in phase space to describe the behavior of traffic flows. Firstly, we model the traffic flow at mesoscopic scale using dynamics in phase space, which is considered as an…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2023-11-27 Zhizhen Zhang , Changhong Lu

Statistical mechanics of a disordered system of cars on a single-lane road is developed. Behaviour of cars is defined by conditional probability of car velocity depending on the distance and velocity of the car ahead. A system consisting of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-13 Anton Šurda

In self-gravitating stars, two dimensional or geophysical flows and in plasmas, long range interactions imply a lack of additivity for the energy; as a consequence, the usual thermodynamic limit is not appropriate. However, by contrast with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Freddy Bouchet , Julien Barré , Antoine Venaille