English
Related papers

Related papers: Modeling Thermal Fluctuations: Phase Mixing and Pe…

200 papers

A microscopic model of interacting oscillators, which admits two conserved quantities, volume, and energy, is investigated. We begin with a system driven by a general nonlinear potential under high-temperature regime by taking the inverse…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Patrícia Gonçalves , Kohei Hayashi

Using flow equations, equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics of a two-level system are investigated, which couples via non-commuting components to two independent oscillator baths. In equilibrium the two-level energy splitting is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Heiner Kohler , Andreas Hackl , Stefan Kehrein

The fundamental vacuum state of quantum fields, related to Minkowski space, produces divergent fluctuations that must be suppressed in order to bring reality to the description of physical systems. As a consequence, negative vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 G. H. S. Camargo , V. A. De Lorenci , A. L. Ferreira Junior , C. C. H. Ribeiro

We extend the phase field crystal model to accommodate exact atomic configurations and vacancies by requiring the order parameter to be non-negative. The resulting theory dictates the number of atoms and describes the motion of each of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-02-10 Pak Yuen Chan , Nigel Goldenfeld , Jon Dantzig

At the end of inflation, dynamical instability can rapidly deposit the energy of homogeneous cold inflaton into excitations of other fields. This process, known as preheating, is rather violent, inhomogeneous and non-linear, and has to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-27 Andrei V. Frolov

We present a non-isothermal mesoscopic model for investigation of the phase transition dynamics of thermoresponsive polymers. Since this model conserves energy in the simulations, it is able to correctly capture not only the transient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 Zhen Li , Yu-Hang Tang , Xuejin Li , George Em Karniadakis

We demonstrate that measurements of number fluctuations within finite cells provide a direct means to study fluctuation scaling in a trapped two-component condensate. This quantum system supports a second-order phase transition between…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 R. N. Bisset , R. M. Wilson , C. Ticknor

We propose and analyze a model for phase transitions in an inhomogeneous fluid membrane, that couples local composition with curvature nonlinearly. For asymmetric membranes, our model shows generic non-Ising behavior and the ensuing phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 Niladri Sarkar , Abhik Basu

We construct the finite-temperature dynamical phase diagram of the fully connected transverse-field Ising model from the vantage point of two disparate concepts of dynamical criticality. An analytical derivation of the classical dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-07 Johannes Lang , Bernhard Frank , Jad C. Halimeh

We numerically simulate a thermalization process in an energy landscape with hierarchically organized metastable states. The initial configuration is chosen to have a large energy excess, relative to the thermal equilibrium value at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andreas Fischer , Paolo Sibani , Karl Heinz Hoffmann

We investigate the role played by subcritical bubbles at the onset of the electroweak phase transition. Treating the configuration modelling the thermal fluctuations around the homogeneous zero configuration of the Higgs field as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Illuminati , A. Riotto

The dynamics of bubbles nucleated during a first-order phase transition is controlled by the non-equilibrium fluctuations generated by the traveling domain wall. An accurate modelling of the out-of-equilibrium properties of the plasma is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-10 Andrea Guiggiani

Inflaton couplings during warm inflation result in the production of a thermal bath. Thermal friction and fluctuations can dominate the standard de Sitter analogues, resulting in a modified slow-roll scenario with a new source of density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-22 Edward Broadberry , Anson Hook , Sagnik Mondal

We develop a theory for fluctuations and correlations in a gas evolving under ballistic annihilation dynamics. Starting from the hierarchy of equations governing the evolution of microscopic densities in phase space, we subsequently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Maynar , M. I. Garcia de Soria , G. Schehr , A. Barrat , E. Trizac

Nonequilibrium phenomena of the phase transitions are studied. It is shown that due to finite relaxation time of the particle distributions, the use of scalar background dependent distribution functions is inconsistent.This observation may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Riotto , I. Vilja

We have studied the grand potential and phase transitions of an inhomogeneous finite volume spherical quark system. First the finite volume effects are considered by applying the multiple reflection expansion method which is an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-27 Xiaogang Li , Song Shu , Jia-Rong Li

The nonequilibrium dynamic phase transition, in the kinetic Ising model in presence of an oscillating magnetic field, has been studied by Monte Carlo simulation. The fluctuation of dynamic order parameter has been studied as a function of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Muktish Acharyya

The reformulation of nonequilibirum thermodynamics, to include the treatment of thermodynamic fluctuations, is applied to the hydrodynamic fluctuations of a simple fluid. It is shown that the nonequilibrium thermodynamic scheme leads to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Rubi , P. Mazur

We study the structure and the dynamics in the formation of irreversible gels by means of molecular dynamics simulation of a model system where the gelation transition is due to the random percolation of permanent bonds between neighboring…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Abete , A. de Candia , E. Del Gado , A. Fierro , A. Coniglio

We study the influence of thermal fluctuations in the phase diagram of a recently introduced two-dimensional phase field crystal model with an external pinning potential. The model provides a continuum description of pinned lattice systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-10 J. A. P. Ramos , E. Granato , C. V. Achim , S. C. Ying , K. R. Elder , T. Ala-Nissila