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The study of "random segments" is a classic issue in geometrical probability, whose complexity depends on how it is defined. But in apparently simple models, the random behavior is not immediate. In the present manuscript the following…

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Social networks have become an inseparable part of human life and processing them in an efficient manner is a top priority in the study of networks. These networks are highly dynamic and they are growing incessantly. Inspired by the concept…

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Using molecular dynamics simulations we examine the dynamics of a family of model polymers with varying chain length and torsional potential barriers. We focus on features of the dynamics of polymers that are seen experimentally but absent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-11 Daniel Fragiadakis , C. Michael Roland

The Hamiltonian dynamics of chains of nonlinearly coupled particles is numerically investigated in two and three dimensions. Simple, off-lattice homopolymer models are used to represent the interparticle potentials. Time averages of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Mossa , Marco Pettini , Cecilia Clementi

The freely jointed chain is often applied to model the thermodynamics of single polymer chains, but the traditional formulation of the model lacks internal energy changes due to bond stretching. For this reason, the extensible freely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-13 Michael R. Buche

A formula is derived for stiffness of a polymer chain in terms of the distribution function of end-to-end vectors. This relationship is applied to calculate the stiffness of Gaussian chains (neutral and carrying electric charges at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Drozdov

The statistical mechanics of a ribbon polymer made up of two semiflexible chains is studied using both analytical techniques and simulation. The system is found to have a crossover transition at some finite temperature, from a type of short…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ramin Golestanian , Tanniemola B. Liverpool

We study the dynamics of bond-disordered Ising spin systems on random graphs with finite connectivity, using generating functional analysis. Rather than disorder-averaged correlation and response functions (as for fully connected systems),…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. L. Hatchett , B. Wemmenhove , I. Perez Castillo , T. Nikoletopoulos , N. S. Skantzos , A. C. C. Coolen

Random matrix theory allows one to deduce the eigenvalue spectrum of a large matrix given only statistical information about its elements. Such results provide insight into what factors contribute to the stability of complex dynamical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-30 Joseph W. Baron , Thomas Jun Jewell , Christopher Ryder , Tobias Galla

Characterization of real-world complex systems increasingly involves the study of their topological structure using graph theory. Among global network properties, small-world property, consisting in existence of relatively short paths…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Jaroslav Hlinka , David Hartman , Milan Paluš

In this paper, we give out a setting of an Diaconis and Freedman's chain in a multidimensional simplex and consider its asymptotic behavior. By using techniques in random iterated functions theory and quasi-compact operators theory, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Marc Peigné , Tat Dat Tran

This article considers execution and analysis of laboratory experiments of pedestrians moving in a quasi-one-dimensional system with periodic boundary conditions. To analyze characteristics of jams in the system we aim to use the whole…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-10 Verena Ziemer , Armin Seyfried , Andreas Schadschneider

We review several competing chaining methods to estimate the supremum, the diameter of the range or the modulus of continuity of a stochastic process in terms of tail bounds of their two-dimensional distributions. Then we show how they can…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-09 Michael Scheutzow

We take on a Random Matrix theory viewpoint to study the spectrum of certain reversible Markov chains in random environment. As the number of states tends to infinity, we consider the global behavior of the spectrum, and the local behavior…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-06-15 Charles Bordenave , Pietro Caputo , Djalil Chafai

Dynamics of the one-dimensional open Ising chain under influence of $\pi$ -pulses is studied. It is shown that the application of a specific sequence of such instant kicks to selective spins stimulates arising of perfect dynamical pairwise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-18 Isabel Sainz , Gennadiy Burlak , Andrei B. Klimov

The study of the dynamics of the size of a population via mathematical modelling is a problem of interest and widely studied. Traditionally, continuous deterministic methods based on differential equations have been used to deal with this…

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We introduce a path sampling method for obtaining statistical properties of an arbitrary stochastic dynamics. The method works by decomposing a trajectory in time, estimating the probability of satisfying a progress constraint, modifying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Nicholas Guttenberg , Aaron R. Dinner , Jonathan Weare

A functional integral formalism is used to derive the extension of a stiff chain subject to an external force. The force versus extension curves are calculated using a meanfield approach in which the hard constraint $u^2(s)=1$ is replaced…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 B. -Y. Ha , D. Thirumalai

A particular class of random walks with a spin factor on a three dimensional cubic lattice is studied. This three dimensional random walk model is a simple generalization of random walk for the two dimensional Ising model. All critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Chigak Itoi

We present a path integral formulation of Darcy's equation in one dimension with random permeability described by a correlated multi-variate lognormal distribution. This path integral is evaluated with the Markov chain Monte Carlo method to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Marise J. E. Westbroek , Gil-Arnaud Coche , Peter R. King , Dimitri D. Vvedensky