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We use computer simulations to study the dynamics of a physical gel at high densities where gelation and the glass transition interfere. We report and provide detailed physical understanding of complex relaxation patterns for time…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-07 Pinaki Chaudhuri , Ludovic Berthier , Pablo I. Hurtado , Walter Kob

The gravitational action of the smooth energy-matter components filling in the universe can affect the orbit of a planetary system. Changes are related to the acceleration of the cosmological scale size R. In a universe with significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer

We have studied the approach to equilibrium of islands and pores in two dimensions. The two-regime scenario observed when islands evolve according to a set of particular rules, namely relaxation by steps at low temperature and smooth at…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose L. Iguain , Laurent J. Lewis

Possibilities emerging out of the dynamical evolutions of collapsing systems are addressed in this thesis through analytical investigations of the highly non-linear Einstein Field Equations. Studies of exact solutions and their properties,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-07 Soumya Chakrabarti

The gravitational instabilities are important to the evolution of the disks and the planet formation in the disks. We calculate the evolution of the disks which form from the collapse of the molecular cloud cores. By changing the properties…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 Ning Sui , Ping He , Min Li

The gravitational interaction among bodies orbiting in a spherical potential leads to the rapid relaxation of the orbital planes' distribution, a process called vector resonant relaxation. We examine the statistical equilibrium of this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-03 Ádám Takács , Bence Kocsis

We introduce a generalised relaxation-time-approximation form of the collision term in the Boltzmann kinetic equation that allows for using different relaxation times for elastic and inelastic collisions. The efficacy of the proposed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-15 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski

The thermodynamical evolution of gas during the collapse of the primordial star-forming cloud depends significantly on the initial degree of rotation. However, there is no clear understanding of how the initial rotation can affect the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-23 Jayanta Dutta

In this paper we study the gravitational collapse of a molecular hydrogen gas cloud composed of a core plus a gas envelope surrounding the core. We numerically simulate the collapse of four cloud models to take a glimpse to the time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-21 Guillermo Arreaga-Garcia , Julio Saucedo Morales

At a finite temperature, the stable equilibrium states of a coupled two-component superfluid with the same mass in both non-rotating and rotating cases can be obtained by studying its real time dynamics via holography, the equilibrium state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Wei-Can Yang , Chuan-Yin Xia , Hua-Bi Zeng , Hai-Qing Zhang

Relaxation and correlation times are two parameters used frequently in approximate descriptions of the time development of hadronizing system from some initial state towards distributions observed experimentally. Chosen to reproduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Maciej Rybczynski , Grzegorz Wilk , Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

We simulate the gravitational dynamics of the conifold geometries (resolved and deformed) involved in the description of certain compact spacetimes. As the cycles of the conifold collapse towards a singular geometry we find that a horizon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-02 Neil A. Butcher , Paul M. Saffin

We study the dynamics of a polymer when it is quenched from a $\theta$ solvent into a good or bad solvent by means of a Langevin equation. The variation of the radius of gyration is studied as a function of time. For the first stage of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 E. Pitard , H. Orland

It is known that radial collapse around density peaks can explain the key features of evolution of correlation function in gravitational clustering in three dimensions. The same model also makes specific predictions for two dimensions. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. S. Bagla , S. Engineer , T. Padmanabhan

Slow relaxation occurs in many physical and biological systems. `Creep' is an example from everyday life: when stretching a rubber band, for example, the recovery to its equilibrium length is not, as one might think, exponential: the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-03 Ariel Amir , Yuval Oreg , Yoseph Imry

We describe the transition of a graviationally radiating, axially and reflection symmetric dissipative fluid, to a non--radiating state. It is shown that very shortly after the end of the radiating regime, at a time scale of the order the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 L. Herrera , A. Di Prisco , J. Ospino

We have studied the dynamical evolution of rotating globular clusters with direct $N$-body models. Our initial models are rotating King models; we obtained results for both equal-mass systems and systems composed out of two mass components.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Andreas Ernst , Patrick Glaschke , Jose Fiestas , Andreas Just , Rainer Spurzem

The ground state dynamics of an entropy barrier model proposed recently for describing relaxation of glassy systems is considered. At stages of evolution the dynamics can be described by a simple variant of the Ehrenfest urn model.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. P. N. Murthy , K. W. Kehr

We initiate a study of the gravitational-wave signatures of a phase transition that occurs as the Universe's temperature increases during reheating. The gravitational-wave signatures of such a heating phase transition are different from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-04 Manuel A. Buen-Abad , Jae Hyeok Chang , Anson Hook

The junction conditions between static and non-static space-times are studied for analyzing gravitational collapse in the presence of a cosmological constant. We have discussed about the apparent horizon and their physical significance. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ujjal Debnath , Soma Nath , Subenoy Chakraborty