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We consider the driven dynamics of Wigner crystals interacting with random disorder. Using numerical simulations, we find a rich variety of transport phenomena as a function of charge density, drive, and pinning strength. For weak pinning,…

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We present a probabilistic proof of the mean field limit and propagation of chaos $N$-particle systems in three dimensions with positive (Coulomb) or negative (Newton) $1/r$ potentials scaling like $1/N$ and an $N$-dependent cut-off which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 Dustin Lazarovici , Peter Pickl

We probe the limits of nonlinear wave spreading in disordered chains which are known to localize linear waves. We particularly extend recent studies on the regimes of strong and weak chaos during subdiffusive spreading of wave packets [EPL…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-18 J. D. Bodyfelt , T. V. Laptyeva , Ch. Skokos , D. O. Krimer , S. Flach

We study a harmonic molecule confined to a one--dimensional box with impenetrable walls. We explicitly consider the symmetry of the problem for the cases of different and equal masses. We propose suitable variational functions and compare…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-04 Paolo Amore , Francisco M. Fernandez

We study the directed polymer model in a bounded environment in weak disorder but without $L^2$-boundedness, specifically the speed of homogenization for the field $(W_n^{0,x})_{x\in\mathbb Z^d}$, where $W_n^{0,x}$ denotes the associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Stefan Junk

In this article the statistical properties of symmetrical random matrices whose elements are drawn from a q-parameterized non-extensive statistics power-law distribution are investigated. In the limit as q->1 the well known Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Evans , Fredrick Michael

A general Hamiltonian wave system with quartic resonances is considered, in the standard kinetic limit of a continuum of weakly interacting dispersive waves with random phases. The evolution equation for the multimode characteristic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-04 Sergio Chibbaro , Giovanni Dematteis , Lamberto Rondoni

We study Maxwell's equations in random media with small fluctuations of the electric permittivity. We consider a setup where the waves propagate toward a preferred direction, called range. We decompose the electromagnetic wave field in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

The physical origin is investigated of Robin boundary conditions for wave functions at an infinite reflecting wall. We consider both Schr\"odinger and phase-space quantum mechanics (a.k.a. deformation quantization), for this simple example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Belchev , M. A. Walton

The Wigner time delay of slow particles in the process of their elastic scattering by complex targets formed by several zero-range potentials is investigated. It is shown that at asymptotically large distances from the target, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 M. Ya. Amusia , A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

The fractional diffusion equation is rigorously derived as a scaling limit from a deterministic Rayleigh gas, where particles interact via short range potentials with support of size $\varepsilon$ and the background is distributed in space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Karsten Matthies , Theodora Syntaka

We study the statistics of wave functions in a ballistic chaotic system. The statistical ensemble is generated by adding weak smooth disorder. The conjecture of Gaussian fluctuations of wave functions put forward by Berry and generalized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

In this paper, we develop a model to describe the generalized wave-particle instability in a quasi-neutral plasma. We analyze the quasi-linear diffusion equation for particles by expressing an arbitrary unstable and resonant wave mode as a…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Seong-Yeop Jeong , Daniel Verscharen , Robert T. Wicks , Andrew N. Fazakerley

We consider a simple model of one-dimensional magnetic crystal and examine the propagation of an electromagnetic wave through such a medium. Calculating the dispersion relation ${\bf k}(\omega)$ allows us to illustrate how the spread of the…

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We present a systematic derivation of the wave kinetic equation describing the dynamics of a statistically inhomogeneous incoherent wave field in a medium with a weak quadratic nonlinearity. The medium can be nonstationary and…

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In materials science, wedge disclinations are defects caused by angular mismatches in the crystallographic lattice. To describe such disclinations, we introduce an atomistic model in planar domains. This model is given by a…

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We investigate the long time behavior of a wavepacket initially localized at a single site $n_0$ in translationally invariant harmonic and anharmonic chains with random interactions. In the harmonic case, the energy profile $ \bar{<…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-11-10 S. Lepri , R. Schilling , S. Aubry

We prove a distributional limit theorem conjectured in [Journal of Statistical Physics 174, No. 6, 1372-1403 (2019)] for partition functions defining models of directed polymers on diamond hierarchical graphs with disorder variables placed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Jeremy Clark

We prove a formula expressing the gradient of the phase function of a function $f: \mathbb R^d \mapsto \mathbb C$ as a normalized first frequency moment of the Wigner distribution for fixed time. The formula holds when $f$ is the Fourier…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-07 Paolo Boggiatto , Alessandro Oliaro , Patrik Wahlberg

In this paper we develop a multiple scattering model for elastic waves in random anisotropic media. It relies on a kinetic approach of wave propagation phenomena pertaining to the situation whereby the wavelength is comparable to the…

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