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A simple model of the driven motion of interacting particles in a two dimensional random medium is analyzed, focusing on the critical behavior near to the threshold that separates a static phase from a flowing phase with a steady-state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Joe Watson , Daniel S. Fisher

Critical phase transitions have proven to be a powerful concept to capture the phenomenology of many systems, including deeply non-equilibrium ones like living systems. The study of these phase transitions has overwhelmingly relied on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-12 Leone V. Luzzatto , Mathias Casiulis , Stefano Martiniani , István A. Kovács

We introduce an interacting particle system that models the spread of an epidemic in terms of heterogeneous diffusive dynamics, rather than exogenous contact and transmission rates at the population level as in classical compartmental…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Eliana Fausti , Andreas Sojmark

Under special conditions bacteria excrete an attractant and aggregate. The high density regions initially collapse into cylindrical structures, which subsequently destabilize and break up into spherical aggregates. This paper presents a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. D. Betterton , Michael P. Brenner

Topological defects are fundamental to the collective dynamics of non-equilibrium systems and in active matter, mediating spontaneous flows, dynamic self-organization, and emergent pattern formation. Here, we reveal critical states in…

Diffusion-coagulation can be simply described by a dynamic where particles perform a random walk on a lattice and coalesce with probability unity when meeting on the same site. Such processes display non-equilibrium properties with strong…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-13 L. Turban , J. -Y. Fortin

A new method, dual-space cluster expansion, is proposed to study classical phases transitions in the continuum. It relies on replacing the particle positions as integration variables by the momenta of the relative displacements of particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Andras Suto

Nonequilibrium kinetic Ising models evolving under the competing effect of spin flips at zero temperature and Kawasaki-type spin-exchange kinetics at infinite temperature T are investigated here in one dimension from the point of view of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Nora Menyhard , Geza Odor

A simple example of a non-equilibrium system for which fluctuations are important is a system of particles which diffuse and may annihilate in pairs on contact. The renormalization group can be used to calculate the time dependence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel C. Vernon

Recently an exact solution has been found (M.Henkel and H.Hinrichsen, cond-mat/0010062) for the 1d coagulation production process: 2A ->A, A0A->3A with equal diffusion and coagulation rates. This model evolves into the inactive phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Geza Odor

We present a thermo-kinetic description of anomalous diffusion of single-particles and clusters in a viscoelastic medium in terms of a non-Markovian diffusion equation involving memory functions. The scaling behaviour of these functions is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Santamaria-Holek , J. M. Rubi , A. Gadomski

In this paper, we focus on annihilation dynamics for the head-on collision of traveling patterns. A representative and well-known example of annihilation is the one observed for 1-dimensional traveling pulses of the FitzHugh-Nagumo…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Yasumasa Nishiura , Takashi Teramoto , Kei-Ichi Ueda

Clusters in the three-dimensional Ising model rigorously obey reducibility and thermal scaling up to the critical temperature. The barriers extracted from Arrhenius plots depend on the cluster size as $B \propto A^{\sigma}$ where $\sigma$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 C. M. Mader , A. Chappars , J. B. Elliott , L. G. Moretto , L. Phair , G. J. Wozniak

We consider the problem of diffusion-controlled evolution of the system $A$-particle island - $B$-particle island at propagation of the sharp annihilation front $A+B\to 0$. We show that this general problem, which includes as particular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Boris M. Shipilevsky

Brownian particles that are replicated and annihilated at equal rate have strongly correlated positions, forming a few compact clusters separated by large gaps. We characterize the distribution of the particles at a given time, using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-23 Benoît Ferté , Pierre Le Doussal , Alberto Rosso , Xiangyu Cao

Binary mixtures prepared in an homogeneous phase and quenched into a two-phase region phase-separate via a coarsening process whereby domains of the two phases grow in time. With a numerical study of a spin-exchange model we show that this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-28 Alessandro Tartaglia , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Marco Picco

One possible framework to interpret the irreversibility transition observed in periodically driven colloidal suspensions is that of a non-equilibrium phase transition towards an absorbing reversible state at low amplitude of the driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-30 Elsen Tjhung , Ludovic Berthier

The one-dimensional contact process is analyzed by a cluster approximation. In this approach, the hierarchy of rate equations for the densities of finite length empty intervals are truncated under the assumption that adjacent intervals are…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

We consider critical branching Brownian motion with absorption, in which there is initially a single particle at $x > 0$, particles move according to independent one-dimensional Brownian motions with the critical drift of $-\sqrt{2}$, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Julien Berestycki , Nathanael Berestycki , Jason Schweinsberg

We describe a phase transition in continuum limits of interacting particle systems that exhibits a vertical bifurcation diagram. The transition is mediated by a competition short-range repulsion and long-range attraction. As a consequence…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Arnd Scheel , Angela Stevens