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We investigate an $N$-particle Bose-Hubbard dimer with an additional effective decay term in one of the sites. A mean-field approximation for this non-Hermitian many-particle system is derived, based on a coherent state approximation. The…

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We use scaling results to identify the crossover to mean-field behavior of equilibrium statistical mechanics models on a variant of the small world network. The results are generalizable to a wide-range of equilibrium systems. Anomalous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. B. Hastings

We review and refine the concept of a mean-field theory for the study of sandpile models, which are of central importance in the study of self-organized criticality. By considering the simple one-dimensional random walker with an absorbing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Stapleton , Kim Christensen

We study the phase diagram and critical behavior of an interacting one dimensional two species monomer-monomer catalytic surface reaction model with a reactive phase as well as two equivalent adsorbing phase where one of the species…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kevin Scott Brown , Kevin E. Bassler , Dana A. Browne

We study the spin-1/2 Ising model on a Bethe lattice in the mean-field limit, with the interaction constants following two deterministic aperiodic sequences: Fibonacci or period-doubling ones. New algorithms of sequence generation were…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maicon S. Faria , N. S. Branco , M. H. R. Tragtenberg

Second-order phase transitions appear as a divergence in one of the linear response functions. For a system of correlated electrons, the relevant divergent response can and does involve many-particle observables, most famously the double…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-17 Erik G. C. P. van Loon

Dynamical mean-field approximations are performed to study the phase transition of a pair contact process with diffusion in different spatial dimensions. The level of approximation is extended up to 18-site clusters for the one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Attila Szolnoki

This paper studies a general class of stochastic population processes in which agents interact with one another over a network. Agents update their behaviors in a random and decentralized manner according to a policy that depends only on…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Anirudh Sridhar , Soummya Kar

We propose a mean-field (MF) approximation for the recurrence relation governing the dynamics of $m$ species of particles on a square lattice, and we simultaneously perform Monte Carlo (MC) simulations under identical initial conditions to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-23 Eduardo Velasco Stock , Roberto da Silva , Sebastian Gonçalves

Phase transitions of reaction-diffusion systems with site occupation restriction and with particle creation that requires n>1 parents and where explicit diffusion of single particles (A) exists are reviewed. Arguments based on mean-field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Geza Odor

Mean-field approximation is often used to explore the qualitative behaviour of phase transitions in classical spin models before employing computationally costly methods such as the Monte-Carlo techniques. We implement a 'lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Ondrej Hovorka , Timothy J. Sluckin

This article proposes a new way of deriving mean-field exponents for the weakly self-avoiding walk model in dimensions $d>4$. Among other results, we obtain up-to-constant estimates for the full-space and half-space two-point functions in…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Hugo Duminil-Copin , Romain Panis

The $q=2$ random cluster model is studied in the context of two mean field models: The Bethe lattice and the complete graph. For these systems, the critical exponents that are defined in terms of finite clusters have some anomalous values…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chayes , A. Coniglio , J. Machta , K. Shtengel

Bootstrap, or $k$-core, percolation displays on the Bethe lattice a mixed first/second order phase transition with both a discontinuous order parameter and diverging critical fluctuations. I apply the recently introduced $M$-layer technique…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-18 Tommaso Rizzo

We introduce a mean-field model of lattice trees based on embeddings into $\Z^d$ of abstract trees having a critical Poisson offspring distribution. This model provides a combinatorial interpretation for the self-consistent mean-field model…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Christian Borgs , Jennifer Chayes , Remco van der Hofstad , Gordon Slade

We present a unified mean-field theory, based on the single site approximation to the master-equation, for stochastic self-organized critical models. In particular, we analyze in detail the properties of sandpile and forest-fire (FF)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alessandro Vespignani , Stefano Zapperi

Mean-Field is an efficient way to approximate a posterior distribution in complex graphical models and constitutes the most popular class of Bayesian variational approximation methods. In most applications, the mean field distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Pierre Baqué , Jean-Hubert Hours , François Fleuret , Pascal Fua

This paper investigates the use of transformers to approximate the mean-field dynamics of interacting particle systems exhibiting collective behavior. Such systems are fundamental in modeling phenomena across physics, biology, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Shiba Biswal , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Rishi Sonthalia

Many complex dynamical systems in the real world, including ecological, climate, financial, and power-grid systems, often show critical transitions, or tipping points, in which the system's dynamics suddenly transit into a qualitatively…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-19 Prosenjit Kundu , Neil G. MacLaren , Hiroshi Kori , Naoki Masuda

Many non-equilibrium processes on scale-free networks present anomalous critical behavior that is not explained by standard mean-field theories. We propose a systematic method to derive stochastic equations for mean-field order parameters…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Caccioli , L. Dall'Asta