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Understanding the realization of thermal equilibrium through the thermalization process in a many-body system is a fundamental and complex scientific question, bridging thermodynamics and classical dynamics and connecting to a host of…

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In scientific inquiry of small scale energy and transition events, the effect of an observer on the measurement can be substantial. Similarly, the methods of observation can create entirely different understandings of the system behavior,…

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Within the standard perturbative approach of Peierls, a charge-density wave is usually assumed to have a cosine shape of weak amplitude. In nonlinear physics, we know that waves can be deformed. What are the effects of the nonlinearities of…

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We study the well-posedness and asymptotic behaviour of selected PDE-PDE and PDE-ODE systems on one-dimensional spatial domains, namely a boundary coupled wave-heat system and a wave equation with a dynamic boundary condition. We prove…

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This paper discusses the global $Z(N)$ symmetry of finite-temperature, $SU(N)$, pure Yang-Mills lattice gauge theory and the physics of the phase of the Wilson line expectation value. In the high $T$ phase, $\langle L \rangle$ takes one of…

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In this paper we propose a continuum variational model for a two-dimensional deformable lattice of atoms interacting with a two-dimensional rigid lattice. The two lattices have slightly different lattice parameters and there is a small…

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We use the quantum action to study the dynamics of quantum system at finite temperature. We construct the quantum action non-perturbatively and find temperature dependent action parameters. Here we apply the quantum action to study quantum…

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We investigate the relation between the phase space structure of Hamiltonian and non-Hamiltonian deterministic thermostats. We show that phase space structures governing reaction dynamics in Hamiltonian systems map to the same type of phase…

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Spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries play non-trivial role in many well-motivated particle physics models. However, it leads to a network of cosmologically unwanted domain walls (DWs) which can be made unstable by introducing a bias…

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An analysis of discrete systems is important for understanding of various physical processes, such as excitations in crystal lattices and molecular chains, the light propagation in waveguide arrays, and the dynamics of Bose-condensate…

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We deal with nonlinear systems of parabolic type satisfying component-wise structural conditions. The nonlinear terms are Carath\'eodory maps having controlled growth with respect to the solution and the gradient and the data are in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Emilia Anna Alfano , Luisa Fattorusso , Lubomira Softova

Based on the direct method of molecular dynamics, the temperature dependence of energy, partition function, entropy and free energy, describing the first-order phase transition, is calculated for the classical Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model…

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The fractional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (fDNLS) is studied on a periodic lattice from the analytic and dynamic perspective by varying the mesh size $h>0$ and the nonlocal L\'evy index $\alpha \in (0,2]$. We show that the…

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The Hamiltonian structure of the two-dimensional dispersionless Toda hierarchy is studied, this being a particular example of a system of hydrodynamic type. The polynomial conservation laws for the system turn out, after a change of…

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The 2D second-mode is a potent instability in hypersonic boundary layers (HBLs). We study its linear and nonlinear evolution, followed by its role in transition and eventual breakdown of the HBL into a fully turbulent state. Linear…

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Suitable Langevin thermostats are introduced which are able to control both the temperature and the chemical potential of a one-dimensional lattice of nonlinear Schr\"odinger oscillators. The resulting non-equilibrium stationary states are…

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The magnetization in the domain walls (DWs) formed inside the inner core of the amorphous ferromagnetic microwire is studied within a simple analytical model proposed. The influence of the ordering in the internal-stress created outer shell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Andrzej Janutka , Przemyslaw Gawronski

We show that the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking can trap a field theoretic system in a highly non-trivial state containing a lattice of domain walls. In one large compact space dimension, a lattice is inevitably formed. In two…

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