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We present a new method for analyzing directed and elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions. Unlike standard methods, it separates the contribution of flow to azimuthal correlations from contributions due to other effects. The separation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Borghini , Phuong Mai Dinh , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

We apply the Yang-Lee theory of phase transitions to an urn model of separation of sand. The effective partition function of this nonequilibrium system can be expressed as a polynomial of the size-dependent effective fugacity $z$. Numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioana Bena , Francois Coppex , Michel Droz , Adam Lipowski

Lee-Yang and Fisher zeros are crucial for the study of phase transitions in the grand canonical and the canonical ensembles, respectively. However, these powerful methods do not cover the isothermal-isobaric ensemble (NPT ensemble), which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-27 Timur Aslyamov , Iskander Akhatov

Phase-field methods have long been used to model the flow of immiscible fluids. Their ability to naturally capture interface topological changes is widely recognized, but their accuracy in simulating flows of real fluids in practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-10 Baofang Song , Carlos Plana , Jose M. Lopez , Marc Avila

Predicting the phase diagram of interacting quantum many-body systems is a challenging problem in condensed matter physics. Strong interactions and correlation effects may lead to exotic states of matter, such as quantum spin liquids and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-18 Pascal M. Vecsei , Jose L. Lado , Christian Flindt

A new point of view about the deep origin of thermodynamic phase transitions is sketched. The main idea is to link the appearance of phase transitions to some major topology change of suitable submanifolds of phase space instead of linking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Marco Pettini , Roberto Franzosi , Lionel Spinelli

The vapor-liquid critical behavior of intrinsically asymmetric fluids is studied in finite systems of linear dimensions, $L$, focusing on periodic boundary conditions, as appropriate for simulations. The recently propounded ``complete''…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Young C. Kim , Michael E. Fisher

We show that flow anisotropies in relativistic heavy-ion collisions can be analyzed using a certain technique of shape analysis of excursion sets recently proposed by us for CMBR fluctuations to investigate anisotropic expansion history of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Ranjita K. Mohapatra , P. S. Saumia , Ajit M. Srivastava

Collective anisotropic flow, where particles are correlated over the entire event, is a prominent phenomenon in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and is sensitive to the properties of the matter created in those collisions. It is often…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-12-19 Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang

Mainstream flow matching methods typically focus on learning the local velocity field, which inherently requires multiple integration steps during generation. In contrast, Mean Velocity Flow models establish a relationship between the local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chenrui Ma

The phase diagram of the two- and three-state Potts model with infinite-range interactions, in the external field is analyzed by studying the partition function zeros in the complex field plane. The tricritical point of the three-state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-01 Zvonko Glumac , Katarina Uzelac

Nonequilibrium phase transitions are discussed with emphasis on general features such as the role of detailed balance violation in generating effective (long-range) interactions, the importance of dynamical anisotropies, the connection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zoltan Racz

We have used the density-functional theory to locate the freezing transitions and calculate the values of freezing parameters for a system of long elongated molecules which interact via the Gay-Berne pair potential. The pair correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pankaj Mishra , Jokhan Ram , Yashwant Singh

Anisotropic flow measurements in heavy-ion collisions provide important information on the properties of hot and dense matter. These measurements are based on analysis of azimuthal correlations and might be biased by contributions from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-10-18 Ante Bilandzic , Raimond Snellings , Sergei Voloshin

We establish a new tool for studying strongly coupled matter: an effective theory of black holes in gravity, which maps to a hydrodynamic description of field theories via the gauge-gravity duality. Our approach is inspired by previously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-29 Matti Jarvinen , Dorin Weissman

A generalized zero-range process with a limited number of long-range interactions is studied as an example of a transport process in which particles at a T-junction make a choice of which branch to take based on traffic levels on each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Angel , B. Schmittmann , R. K. P. Zia

Lee-Yang phase transition theory is a milestone in statistical physics. Its applications in realistic systems, however, had been substantially hindered by availability of practical schemes to calculate the Lee-Yang zeros. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-17 Ling Liu , Yihua Dong , Qijun Ye , Xin-Zheng Li

A very intuitive description of nucleus-nucleus collision phenomena is provided by the relativistic fluid dynamics. We consider a 1+1 dimensional relativistic imperfect fluid flow to approximate the high energy heavy ion collision. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C Alexa , D Vrinceanu

An experimental overview of anisotropic flow measurements and their ability to probe the properties and the nature of the system created in ultra-relativistic hadron collisions is given in these proceedings. The aim is to discuss the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Katarína Krízková Gajdosová

We present a theoretical description for the equilibrium states of a large class of models of two-dimensional and geophysical flows, in arbitrary domains. We account for the existence of ensemble inequivalence and negative specific heat in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Antoine Venaille , Freddy Bouchet