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We introduce a one-dimensional sandpile model with $N$ different particle types and an infinitesimal driving rate. The parameters for the model are the N^2 critical slopes for one type of particle on top of another. The model is trivial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. A. Head , G. J. Rodgers

We characterize the dynamic non-equilibrium steady state behavior of active particles using density fluctuations in the system. We analyze the effective local density around a particle in the steady state and numerically calculate its mean,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-22 Jayam Joshi , Pawan Kumar Mishra , Shradha Mishra

The path probability of stochastic motion of non dissipative or quasi-Hamiltonian systems is investigated by numerical experiment. The simulation model generates ideal one-dimensional motion of particles subject only to conservative forces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Tongling Lin , Ru Wang , W. P. Bi , A. El Kaabouchi , C. Pujos , F. Calvayrac , Q. A. Wang

In the context of two illustrative examples from supersymmetric quantum mechanics we show that the semi-classical analysis of the path integral requires complexification of the configuration space and action, and the inclusion of complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-13 Alireza Behtash , Gerald V. Dunne , Thomas Schaefer , Tin Sulejmanpasic , Mithat Unsal

In this article we show in details the derivation of an integration scheme for the dissipative particle dynamic model (DPD) using the stochastic Trotter formula [De Fabritiis et al., Physica A, 361, 429 (2006)]. We explain some subtleties…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 M. Serrano , G. De Fabritiis , P. Español , P. V. Coveney

We present the systematic formalism to derive the path-integral formulation for the hard-core particle systems far from equilibrium. Writing the master equation for a stochastic process of the system in terms of the annihilation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Su-Chan Park , Doochul Kim , Jeong-Man Park

We present the path integral representation of the generating function for classical exclusive particle systems. By introducing hard-core bosonic creation and annihilation operators and appropriate commutation relations, we construct the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Su-Chan Park , Jeong-Man Park

We use a phenomenological field theory, reflecting the symmetries and conservation laws of sandpiles, to compare the driven dissipative sandpile, widely studied in the context of self-organized criticality, with the corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alessandro Vespignani , Ronald Dickman , Miguel A. Munoz , Stefano Zapperi

We analyze in detail a one-dimensional stochastically driven running sandpile. The dynamics shows three different phases, depending on the on-site relaxation rate and stochastic driving rate. Two phases are characterized by the presence of…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Becker , H. de Vries , B. Eckhardt

A discrete model of traffic on a multilane road is considered. The traffic is presented as particles movement with a deterministic component and a stochastic one. Formulas for the traffic characteristics have been found. The model can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Buslaev , V. M. Prikhodko , A. G. Tatashev , M. V. Yashina

We derive a stochastic path integral representation of counting statistics in semi-classical systems. The formalism is introduced on the simple case of a single chaotic cavity with two quantum point contacts, and then further generalized to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Pilgram , A. N. Jordan , E. V. Sukhorukov , M. Buttiker

We present an approach to the dynamics of interacting particle systems, which allows to derive path integral formulas from purely stochastic considerations. We show that the resulting field theory is a dual version of the standard theory of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexandre lefevre , Giulio Biroli

We derive an integration by parts formula for functionals of determinantal processes on compact sets, completing the arguments of [4]. This is used to show the existence of a configuration-valued diffusion process which is non-colliding and…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Laurent Decreusefond , Ian Flint , Nicolas Privault , Giovanni Luca Torrisi

Sand pile formation is often used to describe stratified chaos in dynamic systems due to self-emergent and scale invariant behaviour. Cellular automata (Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model) are often used to describe chaotic behaviour, as simulating…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-05 Ate Poortinga , Jan G. Wesseling , Coen J. Ritsema

Many complex systems are characterized by intriguing spatio-temporal structures. Their mathematical description relies on the analysis of appropriate correlation functions. Functional integral techniques provide a unifying formalism that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-12 Uwe C. Tauber

The goal of this paper is to set up a framework designed to take into account the characteristics of sediment particles when transported by water. Our protocol consists in describing the characteristics of sediment particles via an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-03-04 Emmanuel Frenod

We develop an information-theoretic formulation of stochastic dynamics in which the fundamental stochastic variable is the total action connecting spacetime points, rather than individual paths. By maximizing Shannon entropy over a joint…

This review provides a pedagogic and self-contained introduction to master equations and to their representation by path integrals. We discuss analytical and numerical methods for the solution of master equations, keeping our focus on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-04 Markus F. Weber , Erwin Frey

The recent interest in human dynamics has led researchers to investigate the stochastic processes that explain human behaviour in different contexts. Here we propose a generative model to capture the essential dynamics of survival analysis,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Trevor Fenner , Mark Levene , George Loizou

The calculation of the decay rate of a metastable state in the path-integral formulation of stochastic processes is revisited. Previous derivations of this rate were achieved at the cost of a step that is difficult to justify…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 D. A. Baldwin , A. J. McKane , S. P. Fitzgerald