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Finite-size scaling of the random-field Ising model above the upper critical dimension: Finite-size scaling above the upper critical dimension is a long-standing puzzle in the field of Statistical Physics. Even for pure systems various scaling theories have been suggested, partially corroborated by numerical simulati...
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Phase Separation Transition in a Nonconserved Two Species Model: A one dimensional stochastic exclusion process with two species of particles, $+$ and $-$, is studied where density of each species can fluctuate but the total particle density is conserved. From the exact stationary state weights we show that, in the lim...
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Duality between random trap and barrier models: We discuss the physical consequences of a duality between two models with quenched disorder, in which particles propagate in one dimension among random traps or across random barriers. We derive an exact relation between their diffusion fronts at fixed disorder, and deduc...
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Marginal and Conditional Second Laws of Thermodynamics: We consider the entropy production of a strongly coupled bipartite system. The total entropy production can be partitioned into various components, which we use to define local versions of the Second Law that are valid without the usual idealization of weak coupli...
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Screening of an electrically charged particle in a two-dimensional two-component plasma at $Γ=2$: We consider the thermodynamic effects of an electrically charged impurity immersed in a two-dimensional two-component plasma, composed by particles with charges $\pm e$, at temperature $T$, at coupling $\Gamma=e^2/(k_B T...
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Fractional differential and integral operations and cumulative processes: In this study the general formula for differential and integral operations of fractional calculus via fractal operators by the method of cumulative diminution and cumulative growth is obtained. The under lying mechanism in the success of traditio...
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Trapping of an active Brownian particle at a partially absorbing wall: Active matter concerns the self-organization of energy consuming elements such as motile bacteria or self-propelled colloids. A canonical example is an active Brownian particle (ABP) that moves at constant speed while its direction of motion undergo...
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Dynamics of Eulerian walkers: We investigate the dynamics of Eulerian walkers as a model of self-organized criticality. The evolution of the system is subdivided into characteristic periods which can be seen as avalanches. The structure of avalanches is described and the critical exponent in the distribution of first a...
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Long-wavelength instabilities in a system of interacting active particles: Based on a microscopic model, we develop a continuum description for a suspension of microscopic self propelled particles. With this continuum description we study the role of long-range interactions in destabilizing macroscopic ordered phases...
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Robustness of a perturbed topological phase: We investigate the stability of the topological phase of the toric code model in the presence of a uniform magnetic field by means of variational and high-order series expansion approaches. We find that when this perturbation is strong enough, the system undergoes a topologi...
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Disorder Driven Roughening Transitions of Elastic Manifolds and Periodic Elastic Media: The simultaneous effect of both disorder and crystal-lattice pinning on the equilibrium behavior of oriented elastic objects is studied using scaling arguments and a functional renormalization group technique. Our analysis applies...
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The quantum (non-Abelian) Potts model and its exact solution: We generalize the classical one dimensional Potts model to the case where the symmetry group is a non-Abelian finite group. It turns out that this new model has a quantum nature in that its spectrum of energy eigenstates consists of entangled states. We dete...
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A memory-induced diffusive-superdiffusive transition: ensemble and time-averaged observables: The ensemble properties and time-averaged observables of a memory-induced diffusive-superdiffusive transition are studied. The model consists in a random walker whose transitions in a given direction depend on a weighted lin...
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Hierarchy Bloch Equations for the Reduced Statistical Density Operators in Canonical and Grand canonical Ensembles: Starting from Bloch equation for a canonical ensemble, we deduce a set of hierarchy equations for the reduced statistical density operator for an identical many-body system with two-body interaction. Th...
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String Method for Generalized Gradient Flows: Computation of Rare Events in Reversible Stochastic Processes: Rare transitions in stochastic processes can often be rigorously described via an underlying large deviation principle. Recent breakthroughs in the classification of reversible stochastic processes as gradient...
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Distribution of extremes in the fluctuations of two-dimensional equilibrium interfaces: We investigate the statistics of the maximal fluctuation of two-dimensional Gaussian interfaces. Its relation to the entropic repulsion between rigid walls and a confined interface is used to derive the average maximal fluctuation...
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Symmetry decomposition of negativity of massless free fermions: We consider the problem of symmetry decomposition of the entanglement negativity in free fermionic systems. Rather than performing the standard partial transpose, we use the partial time-reversal transformation which naturally encodes the fermionic statist...
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Non-universal dynamics of dimer growing interfaces: A finite temperature version of body-centered solid-on-solid growth models involving attachment and detachment of dimers is discussed in 1+1 dimensions. The dynamic exponent of the growing interface is studied numerically via the spectrum gap of the underlying evoluti...
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Non Commutative Geometry of Tilings and Gap Labelling: To a given tiling a non commutative space and the corresponding C*-algebra are constructed. This includes the definition of a topology on the groupoid induced by translations of the tiling. The algebra is also the algebra of observables for discrete models of one o...
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Blind calibration for compressed sensing: State evolution and an online algorithm: Compressed sensing, allows to acquire compressible signals with a small number of measurements. In applications, a hardware implementation often requires a calibration as the sensing process is not perfectly known. Blind calibration, t...
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Ageing of complex networks: Many real-world complex networks arise as a result of a competition between growth and rewiring processes. Usually the initial part of the evolution is dominated by growth while the later one rather by rewiring. The initial growth allows the network to reach a certain size while rewiring to ...
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Anomalous scaling in statistical models of passively advected vector fields: The field theoretic renormalization group and the operator product expansion are applied to the stochastic model of passively advected vector field with the most general form of the nonlinear term allowed by the Galilean symmetry. The advect...
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Some geometric critical exponents for percolation and the random-cluster model: We introduce several infinite families of new critical exponents for the random-cluster model and present scaling arguments relating them to the k-arm exponents. We then present Monte Carlo simulations confirming these predictions. These ...
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Kinetic Ising model in an oscillating field: Avrami theory for the hysteretic response and finite-size scaling for the dynamic phase transition: Hysteresis is studied for a two-dimensional, spin-1/2, nearest-neighbor, kinetic Ising ferromagnet in an oscillating field, using Monte Carlo simulations and analytical theo...
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Finite temperature vortex dynamics in Bose Einstein condensates: We study the decay of vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates at finite temperatures by means of the Zaremba Nikuni Griffin formalism, in which the condensate is modelled by a Gross Pitaevskiiequation, which is coupled to a Boltzmann kinetic equation for th...
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On the transport of interacting particles in a chain of cavities: Description through a modified Fick-Jacobs equation: We study the transport process of interacting Brownian particles in a tube of varying cross section. To describe this process we introduce a modified Fick-Jacobs equation, considering particles that ...
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Low-rank Monte Carlo for Smoluchowski-class equations: The work discusses a new low-rank Monte Carlo technique to solve Smoluchowski-like kinetic equations. It drastically decreases the computational complexity of modeling of size-polydisperse systems. For the studied systems it can outperform the existing methods by m...
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Kinetic roughening model with opposite Kardar-Parisi-Zhang nonlinearities: We introduce a model that simulates a kinetic roughening process with two kinds of particles: one follows the ballistic deposition (BD) kinetic and, the other, the restricted solid-on-solid (KK) kinetic. Both of these kinetics are in the unive...
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Critical behavior of the planar magnet model in three dimensions: We use a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm in which a single-cluster update is combined with the over-relaxation and Metropolis spin re-orientation algorithm. Periodic boundary conditions were applied in all directions. We have calculated the fourth-order cum...
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Cooperative Transport of Brownian Particles: We consider the collective motion of finite-sized, overdamped Brownian particles (e.g., motor proteins) in a periodic potential. Simulations of our model have revealed a number of novel cooperative transport phenomena, including (i) the reversal of direction of the net curre...
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Spatial Particle Condensation for an Exclusion Process on a Ring: We study the stationary state of a simple exclusion process on a ring which was recently introduced by Arndt {\it et al} [J. Phys. A {\bf 31} (1998) L45;cond-mat/9809123]. This model exhibits spatial condensation of particles. It has been argued that the...
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Random matrices applications to soft spectra: It recently has been found that methods of the statistical theories of spectra can be a useful tool in the analysis of spectra far from levels of Hamiltonian systems. Several examples originate from areas, such as quantitative linguistics and polymers. The purpose of the pr...
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Reaction Diffusion and Ballistic Annihilation Near an Impenetrable Boundary: The behavior of the single-species reaction process $A+A\to O$ is examined near an impenetrable boundary, representing the flask containing the reactants. Two types of dynamics are considered for the reactants: diffusive and ballistic propag...
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Kinetics of Ring Formation: We study reversible polymerization of rings. In this stochastic process, two monomers bond and as a consequence, two disjoint rings may merge into a compound ring, or, a single ring may split into two fragment rings. This aggregation-fragmentation process exhibits a percolation transition wi...
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A Multicanonical Molecular Dynamics Study on a Simple Bead-Spring Model for Protein Folding: We have performed a multicanonical molecular dynamics simulation on a simple model protein.We have studied a model protein composed of charged, hydrophobic, and neutral spherical bead monomers.Since the hydrophobic interactio...
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Simulating first-order phase transition with hierarchical autoregressive networks: We apply the Hierarchical Autoregressive Neural (HAN) network sampling algorithm to the two-dimensional $Q$-state Potts model and perform simulations around the phase transition at $Q=12$. We quantify the performance of the approach in...
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Quantum fluctuation theorem for initial near-equilibrium system: Quantum work fluctuation theorem (FT) commonly requires the system initially prepared in an equilibrium state. Whether there exists universal exact quantum work FT for initial state beyond equilibrium needs further discussions. Here, I initialize the syst...
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Kinetics of phase ordering on curved surfaces: An interface description and numerical simulations of model A kinetics are used for the first time to investigate the intra-surface kinetics of phase ordering on corrugated surfaces. Geometrical dynamical equations are derived for the domain interfaces. The dynamics is sho...
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The role of mobility in epidemics near criticality: The general epidemic process (GEP), also known as susceptible-infected-recovered model (SIR), describes how an epidemic spreads within a population of susceptible individuals who acquire permanent immunization upon recovery. This model exhibits a second-order absorbin...
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Vibrations of closed-shell Lennard-Jones icosahedral and cuboctahedral clusters and their effect on the cluster ground state energy: Vibrational spectra of closed shell Lennard-Jones icosahedral and cuboctahedral clusters are calculated for shell numbers between 2 and 9. Evolution of the vibrational density of states...
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Exclusion Processes and boundary conditions: A family of boundary conditions corresponding to exclusion processes is introduced. This family is a generalization of the boundary conditions corresponding to the simple exclusion process, the drop-push model, and the one-parameter solvable family of pushing processes with ...
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Extended Gibbs ensembles with flow: A statistical treatment of finite unbound systems in the presence of collective motions is presented and applied to a classical Lennard-Jones Hamiltonian, numerically simulated through molecular dynamics. In the ideal gas limit, the flow dynamics can be exactly re-casted into effecti...
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Microcanonical Monte Carlo Study of One Dimensional Self-Gravitating Lattice Gas Models: In this study we present a Microcanonical Monte Carlo investigation of one dimensional self-gravitating toy models. We study the effect of hard-core potentials and compare to those results obtained with softening parameters and a...
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Empirical Traffic Data and Their Implications for Traffic Modeling: From single vehicle data a number of new empirical results about the temporal evolution, correlation, and density-dependence of macroscopic traffic quantities have been determined. These have relevant implications for traffic modeling and allow to test...
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Two-dimensional scaling properties of experimental fracture surfaces: The morphology of fracture surfaces encodes the various complex damage and fracture processes occurring at the microstructure scale that have lead to the failure of a given heterogeneous material. Understanding how to decipher this morphology is ther...
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Correlated Percolation: Cluster concepts have been extremely useful in elucidating many problems in physics. Percolation theory provides a generic framework to study the behavior of the cluster distribution. In most cases the theory predicts a geometrical transition at the percolation threshold, characterized in the pe...
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Strong Correlations and Fickian Water Diffusion in Narrow Carbon Nanotubes: We have used atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the structure and dynamics of water molecules inside an open ended carbon nanotube placed in a bath of water molecules. The size of the nanotube allows only a single file of ...
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Short range order in a steady state of irradiated Cu-Pd alloys: Comparison with fluctuations at thermal equilibrium: The equilibrium short-range order (SRO) in Cu-Pd alloys is studied theoretically. The evolution of the Fermi surface-related splitting of the (110) diffuse intensity peak with changing temperature is e...
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Conservation-laws-preserving algorithms for spin dynamics simulations: We propose new algorithms for numerical integration of the equations of motion for classical spin systems with fixed spatial site positions. The algorithms are derived on the basis of a mid-point scheme in conjunction with the multiple time staging ...
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On the statistical arrow of time: What is the physical origin of the arrow of time? It is a commonly held belief in the physics community that it relates to the increase of entropy as it appears in the statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics. At the same time, the subjective information-theoretic...
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Strongly-Coupled Coulomb Systems using finite-$T$ Density Functional Theory: A review of studies on Strongly-Coupled Coulomb Systems since the rise of DFT and SCCS-1977: The conferences on "Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems" (SCCS) arose from the "Strongly Coupled Plasmas" meetings, inaugurated in 1977. The progress...
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Simple analytical model of a thermal diode: Recently there is a lot of attention given to manipulation of heat by constructing thermal devices such as thermal diodes, transistors and logic gates. Many of the models proposed have an asymmetry which leads to the desired effect. Presence of non-linear interactions among t...
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Nonequilibrium coupled Brownian phase oscillators: A model of globally coupled phase oscillators under equilibrium (driven by Gaussian white noise) and nonequilibrium (driven by symmetric dichotomic fluctuations) is studied. For the equilibrium system, the mean-field state equation takes a simple form and the stability...
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Granular fluid thermostatted by a bath of elastic hard spheres: The homogeneous steady state of a fluid of inelastic hard spheres immersed in a bath of elastic hard spheres kept at equilibrium is analyzed by means of the first Sonine approximation to the (spatially homogeneous) Enskog--Boltzmann equation. The temperatu...
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Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions under synchronized periodic driving: We study a generic class of fermionic two-band models under synchronized periodic driving, i.e., with the different terms in a Hamiltonian subject to periodic drives with the same frequency and phase. With all modes initially in a maxima...
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Clusters in an epidemic model with long-range dispersal: In presence of long range dispersal, epidemics spread in spatially disconnected regions known as clusters. Here, we characterize exactly their statistical properties in a solvable model, in both the supercritical (outbreak) and critical regimes. We identify two d...
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Interplay among helical order, surface effects and range of interacting layers in ultrathin films: The properties of helical thin films have been thoroughly investigated by classical Monte Carlo simulations. The employed model assumes classical planar spins in a body-centered tetragonal lattice, where the helical arr...
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Extreme boundary conditions and random tilings: Standard statistical mechanical or condensed matter arguments tell us that bulk properties of a physical system do not depend too much on boundary conditions. Random tilings of large regions provide counterexamples to such intuition, as illustrated by the famous 'arctic c...
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Universality of striped morphologies: We present a method for predicting the low-temperature behavior of spherical and Ising spin models with isotropic potentials. For the spherical model the characteristic length scales of the ground states are exactly determined but the morphology is shown to be degenerate with check...
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Universal entanglement entropy in 2D conformal quantum critical points: We study the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal quantum critical systems, i.e. systems with scale invariant wave functions. They include two-dimensional generalized quantum dimer models on bipartite lattices a...
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Collective oscillations in driven coagulation: We present a novel form of collective oscillatory behavior in the kinetics of irreversible coagulation with a constant input of monomers and removal of large clusters. For a broad class of collision rates, this system reaches a non-equilibrium stationary state at large tim...
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Extrapolating the thermodynamic length with finite-time measurements: The excess work performed in a heat-engine process with given finite operation time \tau is bounded by the thermodynamic length, which measures the distance during the relaxation along a path in the space of the thermodynamic state. Unfortunately, th...
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Monomer-Dimer Mixture on a Honeycomb Lattice: We study a monomer-dimer mixture defined on a honeycomb lattice as a toy model for the spin ice system in a magnetic field. In a low-doping region of monomers, the effective description of this system is given by the dual sine-Gordon model. In intermediate- and strong-dopin...
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Will jams get worse when slow cars move over?: Motivated by an analogy with traffic, we simulate two species of particles (`vehicles'), moving stochastically in opposite directions on a two-lane ring road. Each species prefers one lane over the other, controlled by a parameter $0 \leq b \leq 1$ such that $b=0$ correspo...
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Multicomponent fluid of hard spheres near a wall: The rational function approximation method, density functional theory, and NVT Monte Carlo simulation are used to obtain the density profiles of multicomponent hard-sphere mixtures near a planar hard wall. Binary mixtures with a size ratio 1:3 in which both components o...
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Functional renormalization group approach to the dynamics of first-order phase transitions: We apply the functional renormalization group theory to the dynamics of first-order phase transitions and show that a potential with all odd-order terms can describe spinodal decomposition phenomena. We derive a momentum-depen...
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Survival of an evasive prey: We study the survival of a prey that is hunted by N predators. The predators perform independent random walks on a square lattice with V sites and start a direct chase whenever the prey appears within their sighting range. The prey is caught when a predator jumps to the site occupied by the...
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Geometric magnetism in classical transport theory: The effective dynamics of a slow classical system coupled to a fast chaotic environment is described by means of a Master equation. We show how this approach permits a very simple derivation of geometric magnetism.
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Anomalous scaling and large-scale anisotropy in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence: Two-loop renormalization-group analysis of the Kazantsev--Kraichnan kinematic model: The field theoretic renormalization group and operator product expansion are applied to the Kazantsev--Kraichnan kinematic model for the magnetohydrody...
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The non-Landauer Bound for the Dissipation of Bit Writing Operation: We propose a novel bound on the mimimum dissipation required in any circumstances to transfer a certain amount of charge through any resistive device. We illustrate it on the task of writing a logical 1 (encoded as a prescribed voltage) into a capacit...
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Emergent universal statistics in nonequilibrium systems with dynamical scale selection: Pattern-forming nonequilibrium systems are ubiquitous in nature, from driven quantum matter and biological life forms to atmospheric and interstellar gases. Identifying universal aspects of their far-from-equilibrium dynamics and ...
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Effects of lengthscales and attractions on the collapse of hydrophobic polymers in water: We present results from extensive molecular dynamics simulations of collapse transitions of hydrophobic polymers in explicit water focused on understanding effects of lengthscale of the hydrophobic surface and of attractive inte...
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Logarithmically slow onset of synchronization: Here we investigate specifically the transient of a synchronizing system, considering synchronization as a relaxation phenomenon. The stepwise establishment of synchronization is studied in the system of dynamically coupled maps introduced by Ito & Kaneko (Phys. Rev. Lett....
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Growth of surfaces generated by a probabilistic cellular automaton: A one-dimensional cellular automaton with a probabilistic evolution rule can generate stochastic surface growth in $(1 + 1)$ dimensions. Two such discrete models of surface growth are constructed from a probabilistic cellular automaton which is known t...
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What is liquid? Lyapunov instability reveals symmetry-breaking irreversibilities hidden within Hamilton's many-body equations of motion: Typical Hamiltonian liquids display exponential "Lyapunov instability", also called "sensitive dependence on initial conditions". Although Hamilton's equations are thoroughly time-r...
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Mechanisms of Carrier-Induced Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors: Two different approaches to the problem of carrier-induced ferromagnetism in the system of the disordered magnetic ions, one bases on self-consistent procedure for the exchange mean fields, other one bases on the RKKY interaction, used i...
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Corner transfer matrix renormalization group method for two-dimensional self-avoiding walks and other O(n) models: We present an extension of the corner transfer matrix renormalisation group (CTMRG) method to O(n) invariant models, with particular interest in the self-avoiding walk class of models (O(n=0)). The metho...
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Non-hyperuniform metastable states around a disordered hyperuniform state of densely packed spheres: stochastic density functional theory at strong coupling: Disordered and hyperuniform structures of densely packed spheres near and at jamming are characterized by vanishing of long-wavelength density fluctuations, o...
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Virtual potentials for feedback traps: The recently developed feedback trap can be used to create arbitrary virtual potentials, to explore the dynamics of small particles or large molecules in complex situations. Experimentally, feedback traps introduce several finite time scales: there is a delay between the measureme...
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Entanglement transitions as a probe of quasiparticles and quantum thermalization: We introduce a diagnostic for quantum thermalization based on mixed-state entanglement. Specifically, given a pure state on a tripartite system $ABC$, we study the scaling of entanglement negativity between $A$ and $B$. For representati...
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Stochastic Turing Patterns for systems with one diffusing species: The problem of pattern formation in a generic two species reaction--diffusion model is studied, under the hypothesis that only one species can diffuse. For such a system, the classical Turing instability cannot take place. At variance, by working in the...
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Obtaining pressure versus concentration phase diagrams in spin systems from Monte Carlo simulations: We propose an efficient procedure for determining phase diagrams of systems that are described by spin models. It consists of combining cluster algorithms with the method proposed by Sauerwein and de Oliveira where th...
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Decoupling of self-diffusion and structural relaxation during a fragile-to-strong crossover in a kinetically constrained lattice gas: We present an interpolated kinetically constrained lattice gas model which exhibits a transition from fragile to strong supercooled liquid behavior. We find non-monotonic decoupling th...
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Universality Class of Discrete Solid-on-Solid Limited Mobility Nonequilibrium Growth Models for Kinetic Surface Roughening: We investigate, using the noise reduction technique, the asymptotic universality class of the well-studied nonequilibrium limited mobility atomistic solid-on-solid surface growth models introduc...
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Hurst Exponents, Markov Processes, and Fractional Brownian motion: There is much confusion in the literature over Hurst exponents. Recently, we took a step in the direction of eliminating some of the confusion. One purpose of this paper is to illustrate the difference between fBm on the one hand and Gaussian Markov pro...
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Decision Making in the Arrow of Time: We show that the steady-state entropy production rate of a stochastic process is inversely proportional to the minimal time needed to decide on the direction of the arrow of time. Here we apply Wald's sequential probability ratio test to optimally decide on the direction of time's ...
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Stretch diffusion and heat conduction in 1D nonlinear lattices: In the study of 1D nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices, the conserved quantities play an important role in determining the actual behavior of heat conduction. Besides the total energy, total momentum and total stretch could also be conserved quantities. In micr...
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Kinetic theory of discontinuous shear thickening for a dilute gas-solid suspension: A kinetic theory for a dilute gas-solid suspension under a simple shear is developed. With the aid of the corresponding Boltzmann equation, it is found that the flow curve (stress-strain rate relation) has a S-shape as a crossover fro...
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Low temperature thermodynamics of inverse square spin models in one dimension: We present a field-theoretic renormalization group calculation in two loop order for classical O(N)-models with an inverse square interaction in the vicinity of their lower critical dimensionality one. The magnetic susceptibility at low te...
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Geometric magnetism in open quantum systems: An isolated classical chaotic system, when driven by the slow change of several parameters, responds with two reaction forces: geometric friction and geometric magnetism. By using the theory of quantum fluctuation relations we show that this holds true also for open quantum ...
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Critical curves in conformally invariant statistical systems: We consider critical curves -- conformally invariant curves that appear at critical points of two-dimensional statistical mechanical systems. We show how to describe these curves in terms of the Coulomb gas formalism of conformal field theory (CFT). We also ...
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Phase Transitions and Scaling in Systems Far From Equilibrium: Scaling ideas and renormalization group approaches proved crucial for a deep understanding and classification of critical phenomena in thermal equilibrium. Over the past decades, these powerful conceptual and mathematical tools were extended to continuous p...
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Metastability in Markov processes: We present a formalism to describe slowly decaying systems in the context of finite Markov chains obeying detailed balance. We show that phase space can be partitioned into approximately decoupled regions, in which one may introduce restricted Markov chains which are close to the orig...
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Exact Large Deviations of the Current in the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process with Open Boundaries: In this thesis, we consider one of the most popular models of non-equilibrium statistical physics: the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process, in which particles jump stochastically on a one-dimensional lattice, betwee...
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Critical Casimir Forces for Films with Bulk Ordering Fields: The confinement of long-ranged critical fluctuations in the vicinity of second-order phase transitions in fluids generates critical Casimir forces acting on confining surfaces or among particles immersed in a critical solvent. This is realized in binary liqui...
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Point processes in arbitrary dimension from fermionic gases, random matrix theory, and number theory: It is well known that one can map certain properties of random matrices, fermionic gases, and zeros of the Riemann zeta function to a unique point process on the real line. Here we analytically provide exact generali...
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Generalized thermodynamic uncertainty relations: We analyze ensemble in which energy (E), temperature (T) and multiplicity (N) can all fluctuate and with the help of nonextensive statistics we propose a relation connecting all fluctuating variables. It generalizes Lindhard's thermodynamic uncertainty relations known in...
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Critical Phenomena and Renormalization-Group Theory: We review results concerning the critical behavior of spin systems at equilibrium. We consider the Ising and the general O($N$)-symmetric universality classes, including the $N\to 0$ limit that describes the critical behavior of self-avoiding walks. For each of them,...
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Harnessing symmetry to control quantum transport: Controlling transport in quantum systems holds the key to many promising quantum technologies. Here we review the power of symmetry as a resource to manipulate quantum transport, and apply these ideas to engineer novel quantum devices. Using tools from open quantum syst...
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Two dimensional XXZ-Ising model on square-hexagon lattice: We study a two dimensional XXZ-Ising on square-hexagon (4-6) lattice with spin-1/2. The phase diagram of the ground state energy is discussed, shown two different ferrimagnetic states and two type of antiferromagnetic states, beside of a ferromagnetic state. To...
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