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Quantal systems are predicted to show a change-over from exponential decay to power law decay at very long times. Although most theoretical studies predict integer power-law exponents, recent measurements by Rothe et al. of decay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Martorell , J. G. Muga , D. W. L. Sprung

Experimental data collected to provide us with information on the course of dielectric relaxation phenomena are got according to two distinct schemes: one can measure either the time decay of depolarization current or use methods of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 K. Górska , A. Horzela , K. A. Penson

Creep tests on heterogeneous materials under subcritical loading typically show a power-law decaying strain rate before failure, with the exponent often considered material-dependent but independent of applied stress. By imposing successive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-22 Chloé Braux , Antoine Bérut , Loïc Vanel

The coarsening exponents describing the growth of long-range order in systems quenched from a disordered to an ordered phase are discussed in terms of the decay rate, omega(k), for the relaxation of a distortion of wavevector k applied to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Bray

An approximate solution is presented for simple harmonic motion in the presence of damping by a force which is a general power-law function of the velocity. The approximation is shown to be quite robust, allowing for a simple way to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Jarrett L. Lancaster

The aim of the paper is to understand how the inclusion of more and more time-scales into a stochastic stationary Markovian process affects its conditional probability. To this end, we consider two Gaussian processes: (i) a short-range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-08 Salvatore Miccichè

An analytical study of the return time distribution of extreme events for stochastic processes with power-law correlation has been carried on. The calculation is based on an epsilon-expansion in the correlation exponent:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Piero Olla

We have analytically obtained the non-exponential relaxation function for disordered complex systems applying the multi-level jumping formalism to the fluctuation quantity which makes diffusive motion stochastically in the disordered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-10 Ekrem Aydiner

Membrane tension is an acknowledged regulator of a wide array of cell functions; however, whether it acts locally or globally in different contexts remains debated. Recent experiments that locally perturb tension and measure the response…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-11 Emeline Laborie , Andrew Callan-Jones

Plasticity of two-dimensional discrete dislocation systems is studied. It is shown, that at some threshold stress level the response becomes stress-rate dependent. Below this stress level the stress-plastic strain relation exhibits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-16 Péter Dusán Ispánovity

There are conflicting reports in the literature regarding the finite-size scaling of the Liouvillian gap and dynamical fluctuations at discontinuous phase transitions, with various studies reporting either exponential or power-law behavior.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-23 Krzysztof Ptaszynski , Massimiliano Esposito

Equilibrium and non-equilibrium relaxation behaviors of two-dimensional superconducting arrays are investigated via numerical simulations at low temperatures in the presence of incommensurate transverse magnetic fields, with frustration…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gun Sang Jeon , Sung Jong Lee , Bongsoo Kim , M. Y. Choi

We consider the non--equilibrium dynamics of a chain of classical rotators coupled at its edges to an external reservoir at zero temperature. We find that the energy is released in a strongly discontinuous fashion, with sudden jumps…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Maria Eleftheriou , Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Francesco Piazza

Weak measurements offer new insights into the behavior of quantum systems. Combined with post-selection, quantum mechanics predicts a range of new experimentally testable phenomena. In this paper I consider weak measurements performed on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. C. W. Davies

In this paper we give explicit examples of power-law correlated stationary Markovian processes y(t) where the stationary pdf shows tails which are gaussian or exponential. These processes are obtained by simply performing a coordinate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-08 Salvatore Miccichè

The effect of power-law aging on a contact process is studied by simulation and using a mean-field approach. We find that the system may approach its stationary state in a nontrivial, nonmonotonous way. For the particular value of the aging…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

The presence of frozen-in or quenched disorder in a system can often modify the nature of its phase transition. A particular instance of this phenomenon is the so-called rounding effect: it has been shown in many cases that the free-energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Hubert Lacoin

We show that the decay of the density of active particles in the reaction $A+B \rightarrow 0$ in one dimension, with exclusion interaction, results in logarithmic corrections to the expected power law decay, when the starting initial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-05 Rahul Dandekar

Dependence of hopping conductance on temperature and voltage for an ensemble of modestly long one-dimensional wires is studied numerically using the shortest-path algorithm. In a wide range of parameters this dependence can be approximated…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-09-20 A. S. Rodin , M. M. Fogler

We extend the static theory of disorder-induced exponential decay of the averaged Green function of a quantum charged particle in a classical one-component plasma to the dynamic regime by incorporating the temporal evolution of the ionic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yury A. Budkov