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We discuss recent work on the static and dynamical properties of the asymmetric exclusion process, generalized to include the effect of disorder. We study in turn: random disorder in the properties of particles; disorder in the spatial…

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Critical properties of quantum spin chains with varying degrees of disorder are studied at zero temperature by analytical and extensive density matrix renormalization methods. Generally the phase diagram is found to contain three phases.…

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We explore fundamental questions about the renormalization group through a detailed re-examination of Feigenbaum's period doubling route to chaos. In the space of one-humped maps, the renormalization group characterizes the behavior near…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-26 Archishman Raju , James P Sethna

Rydberg atom arrays promise high-fidelity quantum simulations of critical phenomena with flexible geometries. Yet experimental realizations inevitably suffer from disorder due to random displacements of atoms, leading to departures from the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-02 Xingyu Li , Shuyan Zhou , Xue Chen , Chengshu Li , Hanteng Wang

We consider the influence of quenched disorder on the relaxational critical dynamics of a system characterized by a non-conserved order parameter coupled to the diffusive dynamics of a conserved scalar density (model C). Disorder leads to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Dudka , R. Folk , Yu. Holovatch , G. Moser

This paper studies countable systems of linearly and hierarchically interacting diffusions taking values in the positive quadrant. These systems arise in population dynamics for two types of individuals migrating between and interacting…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-09 Don A. Dawson , Andreas Greven , Frank den Hollander , Rongfeng Sun , Jan M. Swart

We study the effects of time-varying environmental noise on nonequilibrium phase transitions in spreading and growth processes. Using the examples of the logistic evolution equation as well as the contact process, we show that such temporal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-25 Thomas Vojta , José A. Hoyos

We examine the influence of quenched disorder on the flocking transition of dense polar active matter. We consider incompressible systems of active particles with aligning interactions under the effect of either quenched random forces or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-09 Riccardo Ben Alì Zinati , Marc Besse , Gilles Tarjus , Matthieu Tissier

Critical behaviour of two systems, subjected to the turbulent mixing, is studied by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. The first system, described by the equilibrium model A, corresponds to relaxational dynamics of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-22 N. V. Antonov , A. S. Kapustin

We examine the dynamics and stripe formation in a system with competing short and long range interactions in the presence of both an applied dc drive and quenched disorder. Without disorder, the system forms stripes organized in a labyrinth…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , I. Martin , A. R. Bishop

Microorganisms ofter move in confined, disordered environments, where hydrodynamic couplings can modify their transport behavior. Using extensive finite-element simulations, we investigate the dynamics of microswimmers -- modeled as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-24 Mirko Residori , Sebastian Aland , Christina Kurzthaler

We explore the nature of the Bose condensation transition in driven open quantum systems, such as exciton-polariton condensates. Using a functional renormalization group approach formulated in the Keldysh framework, we characterize the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-17 L. M. Sieberer , S. D. Huber , E. Altman , S. Diehl

Universal behavior is a typical emergent feature of critical systems. A paramount model of the non-equilibrium critical behavior is the directed bond percolation process that exhibits an active- to-absorbing state phase transition in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-16 J. Honkonen , T. Lučivjanský , V. Škultéty

In a system of noisy self-propelled particles with interactions that favor directional alignment, collective motion will appear if the density of particles is beyond a critical density. Starting with a reduced model for collective motion,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-23 Chiu Fan Lee

This paper studies a stylized model of local interaction where agents choose from an ever increasing set of vertically ranked actions, e.g. technologies. The driving forces of the model are infrequent upward shifts (``updates''), followed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Arenas , A. Diaz-Guilera , C. J. Perez , F. Vega-Redondo

We consider a system of random walks in a random environment interacting via exclusion. The model is reversible with respect to a family of disordered Bernoulli measures. Assuming some weak mixing conditions, it is shown that, under…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeremy Quastel

Critical behaviour of two systems, subjected to the turbulent mixing, is studied by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. The first system, described by the equilibrium model A, corresponds to relaxational dynamics of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-15 N. V. Antonov , A. S. Kapustin , A. V. Malyshev

The general framework for the renormalization group analysis of self-organized critical sandpile models is formulated. The usual real space renormalization scheme for lattice models when applied to nonequilibrium dynamical models must be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eugene V. Ivashkevich , Alexander M. Povolotsky , Alessandro Vespignani , Stefano Zapperi

Epidemic spreading often occurs in spatially heterogeneous environments, yet how quenched heterogeneity reshapes its onset and critical dynamics remains poorly understood. The diffusive epidemic process, a minimal reaction-diffusion model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Valentin Anfray , Hong-Yan Shih

We introduce the general formulation of a renormalization method suitable to study the critical properties of non-equilibrium systems with steady-states: the Dynamically Driven Renormalization Group. We renormalize the time evolution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 Alessandro Vespignani , Stefano Zapperi , Vittorio Loreto