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The formalism of particle number on a spatial domain for mean field wave functions with pairing is revisited to account for the case where finite dimensional basis are used. The formulas differ from the ones previously used in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 L. M. Robledo

We prove a limit theorem for the the maximal interpoint distance (also called the diameter) for a sample of n i.i.d. points in the unit ball of dimension 2 or more. The exact form of the limit distribution and the required normalisation are…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Mayer , Ilya Molchanov

This paper concerns a method of testing equality of distribution of random convex compact sets and the way how to use the test to distinguish between two realisations of general random sets. The family of metrics on the space of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Vesna Gotovac , Kateřina Helisová

The densest local packings of N identical nonoverlapping spheres within a radius Rmin(N) of a fixed central sphere of the same size are obtained using a nonlinear programming method operating in conjunction with a stochastic search of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. B. Hopkins , F. H. Stillinger , S. Torquato

Consider an unlimited homogeneous medium disturbed by points generated via Poisson process. The neighborhood of a point plays an important role in spatial statistics problems. Here, we obtain analytically the distance statistics to $k$th…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-11 Cristiano Roberto Fabri Granzotti , Alexandre Souto Martinez

The multiple scattering model of a quantum particle in a random Lorentz gas consisting of fixed point scatterers is considered in arbitrary dimension. An efficient method is developed to numerically compute the map of the density of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 David Gaspard , Jean-Marc Sparenberg

We consider $N$ circles of equal radii, $r$, having their centers randomly placed within a square domain $\mathcal{D}$ of size $L \times L$ with periodic boundary conditions ($\mathcal{D} \in \mathbb{R}^2$). When two or more circles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-23 Renat K. Akhunzhanov , Yuri Yu. Tarasevich , Irina V. Vodolazskaya

We study a random partial covering model on the $(d-1)$-dimensional unit sphere, where $N$ spherical caps are placed independently and uniformly at random, each covering a surface fraction of $1/N$. This model provides a continuous…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Steven Hoehner , Christoph Thäle

The densest amorphous packing of rigid particles is known as random close packing. It has long been appreciated that higher densities are achieved by using collections of particles with a variety of sizes. The variety of sizes is often…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-01-13 Kenneth W. Desmond , Eric R. Weeks

A formalism is presented to obtain closed evolution equations for asymptotic probability distribution functions of turbulence magnitudes. The formalism is derived for a generic evolution equation, so that the final result can be easily…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-25 F. O. Minotti , E. Speranza

A strong law of large numbers for $d$-dimensional random projections of the $n$-dimensional cube is derived. It shows that with respect to the Hausdorff distance a properly normalized random projection of $[-1,1]^n$ onto $\mathbb{R}^d$…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Zakhar Kabluchko , Joscha Prochno , Christoph Thaele

Saturated random packing of particles built of two identical, relatively shifted spheres in two and three dimensional flat and homogeneous space was studied numerically using random sequential adsorption algorithm. The shift between centers…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Michał Cieśla

How to distribute a set of points uniformly on a spherical surface is a very old problem that still lacks a definite answer. In this work, we introduce a physical measure of uniformity based on the distribution of distances between points,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-09 Luca Maria Del Bono , Flavio Nicoletti , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

We investigate the problem of density estimation on the unit circle and the unit sphere from a computational perspective. Our primary goal is to develop new density estimators that are both rate-optimal and computationally efficient for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Athanasios G. Georgiadis , Andrew P. Percival

Many real phenomena may be modelled as random closed sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$, of different Hausdorff dimensions. In many real applications, such as fiber processes and $n$-facets of random tessellations of dimension $n\leq d$ in spaces of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Luigi Ambrosio , Vincenzo Capasso , Elena Villa

Bures distance holds a special place among various distance measures due to its several distinguished features and finds applications in diverse problems in quantum information theory. It is related to fidelity and, among other things, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Aritra Laha , Agrim Aggarwal , Santosh Kumar

The geometry of unit $N$-dimensional $\ell_{p}$ balls has been intensively investigated in the past decades. A particular topic of interest has been the study of the asymptotics of their projections. Apart from their intrinsic interest,…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-22 Franck Barthe , Fabrice Gamboa , Li-Vang Lozada-Chang , Alain Rouault

The most efficient way to pack equally sized spheres isotropically in 3D is known as the random close packed state, which provides a starting point for many approximations in physics and engineering. However, the particle size distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-05 Robert S. Farr , Robert D. Groot

This report presents a new, algorithmic approach to the distributions of the distance between two points distributed uniformly at random in various polygons, based on the extended Kinematic Measure (KM) from integral geometry. We first…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-02-11 Fei Tong , Jianping Pan

We introduce a sharpness functional for probabilistic models that quantifies sharpness as an intrinsic property of the probability distribution. The measure is derived based on a rank-based concentration principle that tracks upward…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-03 Pekka Syrjänen