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In this paper, a phase-field model is introduced to describe the evolution of a deformable, self-propelled object driven by surface-tension effects. The model couples an Allen-Cahn-type equation, which distinguishes the body from the…

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Extensive studies have investigated the transition mechanism of boundary layers initiated by a single primary instability. In a real-world scenario, however, multiple primary instabilities of different physical nature would coexist and…

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We revisit the scaling properties of a model for non-equilibrium wetting [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2710 (1997)], correcting previous estimates of the critical exponents and providing a complete scaling scheme. Moreover, we investigate a special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-09 A. C. Barato , H. Hinrichsen , M. J. de Oliveira

Using numerical simulations of a model disk system, we demonstrate that a machine learning generated order parameter can detect depinning transitions and different dynamic flow phases in systems driven far from equilibrium. We specifically…

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Dynamical symmetries are of considerable importance in elucidating the complex behaviour of strongly interacting systems with many degrees of freedom. Paradigmatic examples are cooperative phenomena as they arise in phase transitions, where…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Malte Henkel

In previous papers we have introduced a natural nonequilibrium free energy by considering the functional describing the large fluctuations of stationary nonequilibrium states. While in equilibrium this functional is always convex, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

A symmetric phase field model is used to study wavelength selection in two dimensions. We study the problem in a finite system using a two-pronged approach. First we construct an action and, minimizing this, we obtain the most probable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. N. Costa Filho , J. M. Kosterlitz , Enzo Granato

The phase transitions in the transverse field Ising model in a competing spatially modulated (periodic and oscillatory) longitudinal field are studied numerically. There is a multiphase point in absence of the transverse field where the…

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Instabilities and pattern formation is the rule in nonequilibrium systems. Selection of a persistent lengthscale, or coarsening (increase of the lengthscale with time) are the two major alternatives. When and under which conditions one…

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Depth-averaged systems of equations describing the motion of fluid-sediment mixtures have been widely adopted by scientists in pursuit of models that can predict the paths of dangerous overland flows of debris. As models have become…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jake Langham , Xiannan Meng , Jamie P. Webb , Chris G. Johnson , J. M. N. T. Gray

We investigate the stationary states of one-dimensional driven diffusive systems, coupled to boundary reservoirs with fixed particle densities. We argue that the generic phase diagram is governed by an extremal principle for the macroscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vladislav Popkov , Gunter M. Schuetz

Recently it is shown that there are three families of stochastic one-dimensional non-equilibrium lattice models for which the single-shock measures form an invariant subspace of the states of these models. Here, both the stationary states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maryam Arabsalmani , Amir Aghamohammadi

We uncover a finite-time dynamical phase transition in the thermal relaxation of a mean-field magnetic model. The phase transition manifests itself as a cusp singularity in the probability distribution of the magnetisation that forms at a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-23 Jan Meibohm , Massimiliano Esposito

We study a simple sandpile model of active-absorbing state transitions in which a particle can hop out of a site only if the number of particles at that site is above a certain threshold. We show that the active phase has product measure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kavita Jain

We derive expressions for the phase-space of a particle of momentum $p$ decaying into $N$ particles, that are valid for any number of dimensions. These are the imaginary parts of so-called `sunset' diagrams, which we also obtain. The…

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For spatially one-dimensional run-and-tumble dynamics with mass conservation we develop a coarse phase diagram, that discriminates between global decay to equidistributed constant states, existence of spatially non-trivial waves, and finite…

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An approximate equation for the effective conductivity sigma_eff of systems with a finite maximal scale of inhomogeneities is deduced. An exact solution of this equation is found and its physical meaning is discussed. A two-phase randomly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Bulgadaev

We consider a stochastic sandpile where the sand-grains of unstable sites are randomly distributed to the nearest neighbors. Increasing the value of the threshold condition the stochastic character of the distribution is lost and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Lubeck

Distribution function and current density in a one-dimensional superlattice with parabolic miniband are calculated. The current dependence on the temperature coincides with experimental data. Generalization is carried out to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 G. M. Shmelev , T. A. Gorshenina , E. M. Epshtein

We examine a model in which a nonequilibrium phase transition from an active to an extinct state is observed. The order of this phase transition has been shown to be either continuous or first-order, depending on the parameter values and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alastair Windus , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen