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A recently proposed renormalization group approach to dimensional crossover in quasi-one-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets is improved and then shown to give identical results, in some cases, to those obtained earlier.

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 Ian Affleck , Bertrand I. Halperin

In this paper, we propose a quantum field theoretical renormalization group approach to the vortex dynamics of magnetically coupled layered superconductors, to supplement our earlier investigations on the Josephson-coupled case. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Nandori , K. Vad , S. Meszaros , U. D. Jentschura , S. Nagy , K. Sailer

The real-space renormalization group technique is introduced to evaluate the effective diffusion constant for diffusion in inhomogeneous media, which has been obtained by singular perturbation methods. Our method is formulated on a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Mitsuhiro Kawasaki

Renormalization group calculations are used to give exact solutions for rigidity percolation on hierarchical lattices. Algebraic scaling transformations for a simple example in two dimensions produce a transition of second order, with an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-26 R. B. Stinchcombe , M. F Thorpe

Conserved surface roughening represents a special case of interface dynamics where the total height of the interface is conserved. Recently, it was suggested [F. Caballero et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 020601 (2018)] that the original…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-11 V. Skultety , J. Honkonen

The aim of this paper is to present the application of an approach to study contraction theory recently developed for piecewise smooth and switched systems. The approach that can be used to analyze incremental stability properties of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Davide Fiore , Marco Coraggio , Mario di Bernardo

The dynamically triangulated random surface (DTRS) approach to Euclidean quantum gravity in two dimensions is considered for the case of the elemental building blocks being quadrangles instead of the usually used triangles. The well-known…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Weigel , Wolfhard Janke

The Kadanoff-Wilson renormalization group approach for a scalar self-interacting field theor generally coupled with gravity is presented. An average potential that monitors the fluctuations of the blocked field in different scaling regimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Alfio Bonanno

The dynamical behavior of a harmonic chain in a spatially periodic potential (Frenkel-Kontorova model, discrete sine-Gordon equation) under the influence of an external force and a velocity proportional damping is investigated. We do this…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Torsten Strunz , Franz-Josef Elmer

Functional renormalization group equations are analytically continued from imaginary Matsubara frequencies to the real frequency axis. On the example of a scalar field with O(N) symmetry we discuss the analytic structure of the flowing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-20 Stefan Floerchinger

We develop renormalization group methods for solving partial and stochastic differential equations on coarse meshes. Renormalization group transformations are used to calculate the precise effect of small scale dynamics on the dynamics at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Qing Hou , Nigel Goldenfeld , Alan McKane

In the first part of this paper, we apply a well known discrete-to-continuum approach to a Frenkel-Kontorova-type model of an infinitely long one-dimensional chain of atoms weakly interacting with a line of fixed atoms. The rescaled model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Dmitry Golovaty , J. Patrick Wilber

Three novel applications of computational topology in the field of fusion science are developed. A procedure for the automatic classification of the orbits of magnetic field lines into topologically distinct classes using Vietoris-Rips…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Nicholas Bohlsen

We study the statistics of the vertical motion of inertial particles in strongly stratified turbulence. We use Kinematic Simulation (KS) and Rapid Distortion Theory (RDT) to study the mean position and the root mean square (rms) of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-28 F. C. G. A. Nicolleau , K. -S. Sung , J. C. Vassilicos

Simulating percolation and critical phenomena of labelled species inside films composed of single-component linear homogeneous macromolecules using molecular Monte Carlo method in 3 dimensions, we study dependence of these conducting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-05 Yuki Norizoe , Hiroshi Morita

Direct numerical simulation is used to investigate effects of turbulent flow in the confined geometry of a face-centered cubic porous unit cell on the transport, clustering, and deposition of fine particles at different Stokes numbers ($St…

We apply Monte Carlo Renormalization group to the crumpling transition in random surface models of fixed connectivity. This transition is notoriously difficult to treat numerically. We employ here a Fourier accelerated Langevin algorithm in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Espriu , A. Travesset

Dynamical reweighting methods permit to estimate kinetic observables of a stochastic process governed by a target potential $\tilde{V}(x)$ from trajectories that have been generated at a different potential $V(x)$. In this article, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Luca Donati , Marcus Weber , Bettina G. Keller

With the aid of a Fermi-Walker chart associated with an orthonormal frame attached to a time-like curve in spacetime, a discussion is given of relativistic balance laws that may be used to construct models of massive particles with spin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Robin W. Tucker

We propose and analyze a class of vectorial crystallization problems, with applications to crystallization of anisotropic molecules and collective behavior such as birds flocking and fish schooling. We focus on two-dimensional systems of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Lucia De Luca , Angelo Ninno , Marcello Ponsiglione