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We have performed small-angle light-scattering measurements of the static structure factor of a critical binary mixture undergoing diffusive partial remixing. An uncommon scattering geometry integrates the structure factor over the sample…

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Phase transitions occur in a wide range of physical systems and are characterized by the abrupt change of a physical observable in response to the variation of an external control parameter. Phase transitions are not restricted to…

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In this paper, we study adaptive finite element approximations in a perturbation framework, which makes use of the existing adaptive finite element analysis of a linear symmetric elliptic problem. We prove the convergence and complexity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-05 Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

Dynamical properties of two-component mass-imbalanced few-fermion systems confined in a one-dimensional harmonic trap following a sudden quench of interactions are studied. It is assumed that initially the system is prepared in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-21 Dillip K. Nandy , Tomasz Sowiński

We use computer simulations to investigate the static properties of a simple glass-forming fluid in which the positions of a finite fraction of the particles has been frozen in. By probing the equilibrium distribution of the overlap between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-12 Walter Kob , Ludovic Berthier

Thanks to its versatility, its simplicity, and its fast convergence, ADMM is among the most widely used approaches for solving a convex problem in distributed form. However, making it running efficiently is an art that requires a fine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Tomaso Erseghe

Finding equilibria of the finite size Kuramoto model amounts to solving a nonlinear system of equations, which is an important yet challenging problem. We translate this into an algebraic geometry problem and use numerical methods to find…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Dhagash Mehta , Noah Daleo , Florian Dörfler , Jonathan D. Hauenstein

Complex biological processes are usually experimented along time among a collection of individuals. Longitudinal data are then available and the statistical challenge is to better understand the underlying biological mechanisms. The…

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This paper investigates a new class of equations called measure functional differential equations with state-dependent delays. We establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions and present a discussion concerning the appropriate phase…

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Balancing a matrix is a preprocessing step while solving the nonsymmetric eigenvalue problem. Balancing a matrix reduces the norm of the matrix and hopefully this will improve the accuracy of the computation. Experiments have shown that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Rodney James , Julien Langou , Bradley R. Lowery

In applications of linear algebra including nuclear physics and structural dynamics, there is a need to deal with uncertainty in the matrices. We focus on matrices that depend on a set of parameters $\omega$ and we are interested in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Koen Ruymbeek , Karl Meerbergen , Wim Michiels

In this paper, we study an adaptive finite element method for multiple eigenvalue problems of a class of second order elliptic equations. By using some eigenspace approximation technology and its crucial property which is also presented in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-18 Xiaoying Dai , Lianhua He , Aihui Zhou

The approach of nonequilibrium evolution thermodynamics earlier offered is developed. It helps to describe the processes of defect formation within the adiabatic approximation. The basic equations system depends on the initial defects…

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We consider the numerical solution of coupled volume-surface reaction-diffusion systems having a detailed balance equilibrium. Based on the conservation of mass, an appropriate quadratic entropy functional is identified and an…

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The width of the distribution of species in a polydisperse system is employed in a small-variable expansion, to obtain a well-controlled and compact scheme by which to calculate phase equilibria in multi-phase systems. General and universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. M. L. Evans

The circumstances under which a system reaches thermal equilibrium, and how to derive this from basic dynamical laws, has been a major question from the very beginning of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Despite considerable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Noah Linden , Sandu Popescu , Anthony J. Short , Andreas Winter

Consider a system of $n$ weakly interacting particles driven by independent Brownian motions. In many instances, it is well known that the empirical measure converges to the solution of a partial differential equation, usually called…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Florian Bechtold , Fabio Coppini

The stochastic thermodynamics of a dilute, well-stirred mixture of chemically-reacting species is built on the stochastic trajectories of reaction events obtained from the Chemical Master Equation. However, when the molecular populations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 Jordan M. Horowitz

By analytically solving some simple models of phase-ordering kinetics, we suggest a mechanism for the onset of non-equilibrium behaviour in colloid-polymer mixtures. These mixtures can function as models of atomic systems; their physics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 R. M. L. Evans , W. C. K. Poon

In this paper we introduce and study the Maximum-Average Subtensor ($p$-MAS) problem, in which one wants to find a subtensor of size $k$ of a given random tensor of size $N$, both of order $p$, with maximum sum of entries. We are motivated…

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