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We present a new approach to understanding star-to-star helium abundance variations within globular clusters. We begin with detailed radiation hydrodynamics simulations of cluster formation within giant molecular clouds, and investigate the…

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A microscopic model of adsorption in cluster forming systems with competing interaction is considered. The adsorption process is described by the master equation and modelled by a kinetic Monte Carlo method. The evolution of the particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-07 E. Bildanau , V. Vikhrenko

A well-known cluster expansion, which leads to virial expansion for the free energy of low density systems, is modified in such a way that it becomes applicable to the description of condensed state of matter. To this end, the averaging of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-21 G. S. Bokun , M. F. Holovko

Clusters formed by fluctuations of two-dimensional (2D) directed interfaces around a threshold level have been extensively studied at equilibrium and in nonequilibrium steady states, but their coarsening dynamics remain poorly understood.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 Renan A. L. Almeida , Tiago J. Oliveira , Jeferson J. Arenzon , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

Clusters are the dense inner regions of a wide-spread hierarchy of young stellar structures. They often reveal a continuation of this hierarchy inside of them, to smaller scales, when they are young, but orbital mixing eventually erases…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce G. Elmegreen

We study the evolution of star clusters in the Galactic tidal field starting from their birth in molecular clumps. Our model clusters form according to the local-density-driven cluster formation model in which the stellar density profile is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev , Genevieve Parmentier , Peter Berczik , Andreas Just

We consider the self-attention model - an interacting particle system on the unit sphere, which serves as a toy model for Transformers, the deep neural network architecture behind the recent successes of large language models. We prove the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Borjan Geshkovski , Hugo Koubbi , Yury Polyanskiy , Philippe Rigollet

Star clusters are observed to form in a highly compact state and with low star-formation efficiencies. If the residual gas is expelled on a dynamical time the clusters disrupt thereby (i) feeding a hot kinematical stellar component into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel Kroupa

Dynamical clustering represents a characteristic feature of active matter consisting of self-propelled agents that convert energy from the environment into mechanical motion. At the micron scale, typical of overdamped dynamics, particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-04 Lorenzo Caprini , Davide Breoni , Anton Ldov , Christian Scholz , Hartmut Löwen

Most stars do not form in isolation but as part of a cluster comprising anywhere between a few dozen to several million stars with stellar densities ranging from 0.01 to several 10$^5$ \Msun pc$^{-3}$. The majority of these clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Pfalzner

We explore the evolution of the aggregate size distribution in systems where aggregates grow by diffusive accretion of mass. Supersaturation is controlled in such a way that the overall aggregate volume grows linearly in time. Classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-12 J. Vollmer , A. Papke , M. Rohloff

A Markov evolution of a system of point particles in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is described at micro-and mesoscopic levels. The particles reproduce themselves at distant points (dispersal) and die, independently and under the influence of each other…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Dmitri Finkelshtein , Yuri Kondratiev , Yuri Kozitsky , Oleksandr Kutoviy

The evolution of star clusters is determined by several internal and external processes. Here we focus on two dominant internal effects, namely energy exchange between stars through close encounters (two-body relaxation) and mass-loss of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-24 Mark Gieles

Coagulation-fragmentation processes describe the stochastic association and dissociation of particles in clusters. Cluster dynamics with cluster-cluster interactions for a finite number of particles has recently attracted attention…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Nathanael Hoze , David Holcman

Individual-based models of chemical or biological dynamics usually consider individual entities diffusing in space and performing a birth-death type dynamics. In this work we study the properties of a model in this class where the birth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emilio Hernandez-Garcia , Cristobal Lopez

A young open cluster is a 2-phase system: an ensemble of stars move in a gaseous medium (the mother molecular cloud). The dynamics and thermodynamics of the system, and so its evolution and final fate (is it stable or unstable?), strongly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , F. Sori

Context: Star clusters form within giant molecular clouds that are strongly altered by the feedback action of the massive stars, but the cluster still remains embedded in a dense, highly turbulent medium and interactions with ambient…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Paolo Suin , Steven N. Shore , Václav Pavlík

We present an experimental study on the collective behavior of macroscopic self-propelled particles that are externally excited by light. This property allows testing the system response to the excitation intensity in a very versatile…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Sára Lévay , Axel Katona , Hartmut Löwen , Raúl Cruz Hidalgo , Iker Zuriguel

We study statistical properties of a one dimensional infinite system of coalescing particles. Each particle moves with constant velocity $\pm v$ towards its closest neighbor and merges with it upon collision. We propose a mean-field theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Ispolatov , P. L. Krapivsky

We analyze the cluster formation in a non-ergodic stochastic system as a result of counter-flow, with the aid of an exactly solvable model. To illustrate the clustering, a two species asymmetric simple exclusion process with impurities on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-23 Amit Kumar Chatterjee , Hisao Hayakawa