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The charge on micron-sized dust grains plays a crucial role in the structure and evolution of forming aggregates within the dust population during the coagulation process. The manner in which the charge is arranged on developing irregular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-27 L. S. Matthews , T. W. Hyde

A simple multifractal coarsening model is suggested that can explain the observed dynamical behavior of the fractal dimension in a wide range of coarsening fractal systems. It is assumed that the minority phase (an ensemble of droplets) at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Avner Peleg , Baruch Meerson

We introduce a growth process which samples sections of uniform infinite causal triangulations by elementary moves in which a single triangle is added. A relation to a random walk on the integer half line is shown. This relation is used to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 V. Sisko , A. Yambartsev , S. Zohren

Estimating a fractal dimension from a finite stochastic trajectory is a finite-size scaling problem: the apparent box-counting exponent is shaped by an occupancy crossover between the resolved range of scales and the finite number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-28 Bon A. Koo , Edward Ju

A continuum growth equation in 1+1 dimensions is obtained by considering the contributions to the underlying current from kinetics of adatoms on the surface. These considerations reproduce the slope dependent term that represents a stable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Ghaisas

In the interstellar medium, as well as in the Universe, large density fluctuations are observed, that obey power-law density distributions and correlation functions. These structures are hierarchical, chaotic, turbulent, but are also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Francoise Combes

City is proved to be a scale-free phenomenon, and spatial autocorrelation is often employed to analyze spatial redundancy of cities. Unfortunately, spatial analysis results deviated practical requirement in many cases due to fractal nature…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-09 Meng Fu , Yanguang Chen

Fractal structures appear in a vast range of physical systems. A literature survey including all experimental papers on fractals which appeared in the six Physical Review journals (A-E and Letters) during the 1990's shows that experimental…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Ofer Malcai , Daniel A. Lidar , Ofer Biham , David Avnir

This study investigates city dynamics employing a nonextensive diffusion equation suited for addressing diffusion within a fractal medium, where the nonadditive parameter, $q$, plays a relevant role. The findings demonstrate the efficacy of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-19 A. Deppman , R. L. Fagundes , E. Megias , R. Pasechnik , F. L. Ribeiro , C. Tsallis

A fractal is in essence a hierarchy with cascade structure, which can be described with a set of exponential functions. From these exponential functions, a set of power laws indicative of scaling can be derived. Hierarchy structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-13 Yanguang Chen

Using demographic data of high spatial resolution for a region in the south of Europe, we study the population over fixed-size spatial cells. We find that, counterintuitively, the distribution of the number of inhabitants per cell increases…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-07 Alvaro Corral , Montserrat García del Muro

The inclusion of a fragmentation mechanism in population balance equations introduces complex interactions that make the analytical or even computational treatment much more difficult than for the pure aggregation case. This is specially…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-14 Arturo Berrones-Santos , Luis Benavides-Vázquez , Elisa Schaeffer , Javier Almaguer

By using a phase-field crystal (PFC) model, the liquid-crystal growth of the plastic triangular phase is simulated with emphasis on crystal shape and topological defect formation. The equilibrium shape of a plastic triangular crystal (PTC)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-07 Sai Tang , Simon Praetorius , Rainer Backofen , Axel Voigt , Yan-Mei Yu , Jincheng Wang

We show that when the standard techniques for calculating fractal dimensions in empirical data (such as the box counting) are applied on uniformly random structures, apparent fractal behavior is observed in a range between physically…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 D. A. Lidar , O. Malcai , O. Biham , D. Avnir

Upper bounds on the growth of free energy in gyrokinetics are derived. These bounds apply to all local gyrokinetic instabilities in the geometry of a flux tube, i.e. a slender volume of plasma aligned with the magnetic field, regardless of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 P. Helander , G. G. Plunk

In variational phase-field modeling of brittle fracture, the functional to be minimized is not convex, so that the necessary stationarity conditions of the functional may admit multiple solutions. The solution obtained in an actual…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Tymofiy Gerasimov , Ulrich Römer , Jaroslav Vondřejc , Hermann G. Matthies , Laura De Lorenzis

We study numerically the coarsening kinetics of a two-dimensional ferromagnetic system with aleatory bond dilution. We show that interfaces between domains of opposite magnetisation are fractal on every lengthscale, but with different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-30 Federico Corberi , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Ferdinando Insalata , Marco Picco

Analytic relations that describe crack growth are vital for modeling experiments and building a theoretical understanding of fracture. Upon constructing an idealized model system for the crack and applying the principles of statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-10 Michael R. Buche , Scott J. Grutzik

We introduce a new method based on cellular automata dynamics to study stochastic growth equations. The method defines an interface growth process which depends on height differences between neighbors. The growth rule assigns a probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-16 T. G. Mattos , J. G. Moreira , A. P. F. Atman

A modeling of the soil structure and surface roughness by means of the concepts of the fractal growth is presented. Two parameters are used to control the model: the fragmentation dimension, $D_f$, and the maximum mass of the deposited…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. F. Atman , J. G. Vivas Miranda , A. Paz Gonzalez , J. G. Moreira