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When dense granular gases are continuously excited under microgravity conditions, spatial inhomogeneities of the particle number density can emerge. A significant share of particles may collect in strongly overpopulated regions, called…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-19 Sai Preetham Sata , Ralf Stannarius , Benjamin Noack , Dmitry Puzyrev

We study a granular gas of viscoelastic particles (kinetic energy loss upon collision is a function of the particles' relative velocities at impact) subject to a stochastic thermostat. We show that the system displays anomalous cooling and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-16 E. Mompó , M. A. López-Castaño , A. Torrente , F. Vega Reyes , A. Lasanta

The Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (KDMC) method is a powerful tool for simulating neutral particles in fusion reactors. It is a hybrid fluid-kinetic method that is significantly faster than pure kinetic methods at the cost of a small bias…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Thijs Steel , Vince Maes , Giovanni Samaey

We present a method to design driving protocols that achieve fast thermal equilibration of a system of interest using techniques inspired by machine learning training algorithms. For example, consider a Brownian particle manipulated by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-25 Diego Rengifo , Gabriel Téllez

The cosmological vacuum decay scenario recently proposed by Wang and Meng \cite{wm} is rediscussed. From thermodynamic arguments it is found that the $\epsilon$ parameter quantifying the vacuum decay rate must be positive in the presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. S. Alcaniz , J. A. S. Lima

The stochastic limit approximation method for ``rapid'' decay is presented, where the damping rate \gamma is comparable to the system frequency \Omega, i.e., \gamma \sim \Omega, whereas the usual stochastic limit approximation is applied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Gen Kimura , Kazuya Yuasa , Kentaro Imafuku

We consider the one-dimensional driven ABC model under particle-conserving and particle-non-conserving processes. Two limiting cases are studied: (a) the rates of the non-conserving processes are vanishingly slow compared with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-20 Or Cohen , David Mukamel

A disordered version of the one dimensional asymmetric exclusion model where the particle hopping rates are quenched random variables is studied. The steady state is solved exactly by use of a matrix product. It is shown how the phenomenon…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. R. Evans

Experiments on the axial breathing mode in a rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensate are examined. Assuming a cold cloud without thermal component, we show that errors due to defocus of an imaging camera in addition to an inclination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gentaro Watanabe

The Rosen-Zener model for association of atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate is studied. Using a nonlinear Volterra integral equation, we obtain an analytic formula for final probability of the transition to the molecular state for weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Ishkhanyan , R. Sokhoyan , B. Joulakian , K. -A. Suominen

In the present work we develop a Monte Carlo algorithm of the carbon chains ordered into 2D hexagonal array. The chemical bond of the chained carbon is computed from 1K to 1300K. Our model confirms that the beta phase is more energetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-16 C. H. Wong , E. A. Buntov , V. N. Rychkov , M. B. Guseva , A. F. Zatsepin

We investigate the quantum dynamics of a harmonically trapped particle (e.g. an ion) that is immersed in a Bose--Einstein condensate. The ultracold environment acts as a refrigerator, and thus, the influence on the motion of the ion is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Paula Ostmann , Walter T. Strunz

We examine the relation between the recently proposed time-dependent quantum Monte Carlo (TDQMC) method and the principles of stochastic quantization. In both TDQMC and stochastic quantization particle motion obeys stochastic guidance…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan P. Christov

We investigate ocean circulation changes through the lens of data assimilation using a reduced-order model. Our primary interest lies in the Stommel box model which reveals itself to be one of the most practicable models that has the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Nathaniel Smith , Anvaya Shiney-Ajay , Emmanuel Fleurantin , Ivo Pasmans

Observation of the quantum Mpemba effect has spurred much interest in its enabling conditions and its relation to the classical counterpart. Here, we consider weakly open many-body quantum systems initialized in different thermal states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Iris Ulčakar , Rustem Sharipov , Gianluca Lagnese , Zala Lenarčič

We study the position distribution $P(\vec{R},N)$ of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in arbitrary dimension $d$, after $N$ runs. We assume that the constant speed $v>0$ of the particle during each running phase is independently drawn from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-30 Francesco Mori , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We formulate a model for a cooperative ballistic deposition (CBD) process whereby the incoming particles are correlated with the ones already adsorbed via attractive force. The strength of the correlation is controlled by a tunable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. K. Hassan , N. Wessel , J. Kurths

We study dissipation in a small quantum system coupled to an environment held in thermodynamic equilibrium. The relaxation dynamics of a system subject to an abrupt quench in the parameters of the underlying Hamiltonian is investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Oleksiy Kashuba , Dante M. Kennes , Mikhail Pletyukhov , Volker Meden , Herbert Schoeller

We introduce a global thermostat on Kac's 1D model for the velocities of particles in a space-homogeneous gas subjected to binary collisions, also interacting with a (local) Maxwellian thermostat. The global thermostat rescales the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Roberto Cortez , Hagop Tossounian

By molecular dynamics simulations and free energy calculations based on Monte Carlo method, the detailed balance between Pt cluster isomers was investigated. For clusters of n<=50, stationary equilibrium is achieved in 100 ns in the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Zheng-Zhe Lin