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Aspects of Nosé and Nosé-Hoover Dynamics Elucidated: Some paradoxical aspects of the Nos\'e and Nos\'e-Hoover dynamics of 1984 and Dettmann's dynamics of 1996 are elucidated. Phase-space descriptions of thermostated harmonic oscillator dynamics can be simultaneously expanding, incompressible, or contracting, as is desc...
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Optimized effective potential method with exact exchange and static RPA correlation: We present a new density-functional method of the self-consistent electronic-structure calculation which does not exploit any local density approximations (LDA). We use the exchange-correlation energy which consists of the exact exch...
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On the phase transition in the sublattice TASEP with stochastic blockage: We revisit the defect-induced nonequilibrium phase transition from a largely homogeneous free-flow phase to a phase-separated congested phase in the sublattice totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) with local deterministic bulk dyna...
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Coevolution of agents and networks: Opinion spreading and community disconnection: We study a stochastic model for the coevolution of a process of opinion formation in a population of agents and the network which underlies their interaction. Interaction links can break when agents fail to reach an opinion agreement. ...
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Exact stochastic Liouville and Schrödinger equations for open systems: An universal form of kinetic equation for open systems is considered which naturally unifies classical and quantum cases and allows to extend concept of wave function to open quantum systems. Corresponding stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equation is de...
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Dynamical Heterogeneities Below the Glass Transition: We present molecular dynamics simulations of a binary Lennard-Jones mixture at temperatures below the kinetic glass transition. The ``mobility'' of a particle is characterized by the amplitude of its fluctuation around its average position. The 5% particles with the...
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Direct evaluation of large-deviation functions: We introduce a numerical procedure to evaluate directly the probabilities of large deviations of physical quantities, such as current or density, that are local in time. The large-deviation functions are given in terms of the typical properties of a modified dynamics, and...
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Quasi-phases and pseudo-transitions in one-dimensional models with nearest neighbor interactions: There are some particular one-dimensional models, such as the Ising-Heisenberg spin models with a variety of chain structures, which exhibit unexpected behaviors quite similar to the first and second order phase transiti...
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Random Networks Growing Under a Diameter Constraint: We study the growth of random networks under a constraint that the diameter, defined as the average shortest path length between all nodes, remains approximately constant. We show that if the graph maintains the form of its degree distribution then that distribution ...
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Ising and anisotropic Heisenberg magnets with mobile defects: Motivated by experiments on (Sr,Ca,La)_14 Cu_24 O_41, a two-dimensional Ising model with mobile defects and a two-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnet have been proposed and studied recently. We extend previous investigations by analysing phase...
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Mapping out of equilibrium into equilibrium in one-dimensional transport models: Systems with conserved currents driven by reservoirs at the boundaries offer an opportunity for a general analytic study that is unparalleled in more general out of equilibrium systems. The evolution of coarse-grained variables is govern...
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An Entropic Approach To Classical Density Functional Theory: The classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous fluids at thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic inference reproduces the variational principle of DFT when information about expecte...
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Model study on steady heat capacity in driven stochastic systems: We explore two- and three-state Markov models driven out of thermal equilibrium by non-potential forces to demonstrate basic properties of the steady heat capacity based on the concept of quasistatic excess heat. It is shown that large enough driving for...
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Dispersive diffusion controlled distance dependent recombination in amorphous semiconductors: The photoluminescence in amorphous semiconductors decays according to power law $t^{-delta}$ at long times. The photoluminescence is controlled by dispersive transport of electrons. The latter is usually characterized by the...
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Advantages and challenges in coupling an ideal gas to atomistic models in adaptive resolution simulations: In adaptive resolution simulations, molecular fluids are modeled employing different levels of resolution in different subregions of the system. When traveling from one region to the other, particles change thei...
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Fractional Path Integral Monte Carlo: Fractional derivatives are nonlocal differential operators of real order that often appear in models of anomalous diffusion and a variety of nonlocal phenomena. Recently, a version of the Schr\"odinger Equation containing a fractional Laplacian has been proposed. In this work, we d...
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Active Brownian Particles Escaping a Channel in Single File: Active particles may happen to be confined in channels so narrow that they cannot overtake each other (Single File conditions). This interesting situation reveals nontrivial physical features as a consequence of the strong inter-particle correlations develope...
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking in the finite, lattice quantum sine-Gordon model: The spontaneous breaking of a global discrete translational symmetry in the finite, lattice quantum sine-Gordon model is demonstrated by a density matrix renormalization group. A phase diagram in the coupling constant - inverse system siz...
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Heat Conduction, and the Lack Thereof, in Time-Reversible Dynamical Systems: Generalized Nosé-Hoover Oscillators with a Temperature Gradient: We use nonequilibrium molecular dynamics to analyze and illustrate the qualitative differences between the one-thermostat and two-thermostat versions of equilibrium and nonequi...
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Bose-Einstein Condensation in Classical Systems: It is shown, that Bose-Einstein statistical distributions can occur not only in quantum system, but in classical systems as well. The coherent dynamics of the system, or equivalently autocatalytic dynamics in momentum space of the system is the main reason for the Bose-E...
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A Master Equation for Power Laws: We propose a new mechanism for generating power laws. Starting from a random walk, we first outline a simple derivation of the Fokker-Planck equation. By analogy, starting from a certain Markov chain, we derive a master equation for power laws that describes how the number of cascades ...
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Extended hydrodynamics from Enskog's equation: The bidimensional case: A heat conduction problem is studied using extended hydrodynamic equations obtained from Enskog's equation for a simple case of two planar systems in contact through a porous wall. One of the systems is in equilibrium and the other one in a steady c...
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Anomalous diffusion of scaled Brownian tracers: A model for anomalous transport of tracer particles diffusing in complex media in two dimensions is proposed. The model takes into account the characteristics of persistent motion that active bath transfer to the tracer, thus the model proposed in here extends active Brow...
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Dynamics of two qubits in a spin-bath of Quantum anisotropic Heisenberg XY coupling type: The dynamics of two 1/2-spin qubits under the influence of a quantum Heisenberg XY type spin-bath is studied. After the Holstein-Primakoff transformation, a novel numerical polynomial scheme is used to give the time-evolution ca...
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Dynamic critical properties of a one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automaton: Dynamic properties of a one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automaton are studied by monte-carlo simulation near a critical point which marks a second-order phase transition from a active state to a effectively unique absorbing stat...
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Non-monotonic dependence on disorder in biased diffusion on small-world networks: We report numerical simulations of a strongly biased diffusion process on a one-dimensional substrate with directed shortcuts between randomly chosen sites, i.e. with a small-world-like structure. We find that, unlike many other dynamic...
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Thermal Transport in a Noncommutative Hydrodynamics: We find the hydrodynamic equations of a system of particles constrained to be in the lowest Landau level. We interpret the hydrodynamic theory as a Hamiltonian system with the Poisson brackets between the hydrodynamic variables determined from the noncommutativity of...
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Sojourn probabilities in tubes and pathwise irreversibility for Itô processes: The sojourn probability of an It\^o diffusion process, i.e. its probability to remain in the tubular neighborhood of a smooth path, is a central quantity in the study of path probabilities. For $N$-dimensional It\^o processes with state-de...
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Critical aging of a ferromagnetic system from a completely ordered state: We adapt the non-linear $\sigma$ model to study the nonequilibrium critical dynamics of O(n) symmetric ferromagnetic system. Using the renormalization group analysis in $d=2+\epsilon$ dimensions we investigate the pure relaxation of the system st...
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Collective effects in spin-crossover chains with exchange interaction: The collective properties of spin-crossover chains are studied. Spin-crossover compounds contain ions with a low-spin ground state and low lying high-spin excited states and are of interest for molecular memory applications. Some of them naturally f...
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Pattern description of the ground state properties of the one-dimensional axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising model in a transverse field: The description and understanding of the consequences of competing interactions in various systems, both classical and quantum, are notoriously difficult due to insufficient informa...
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Large deviations for a stochastic model of heat flow: We investigate a one dimensional chain of $2N$ harmonic oscillators in which neighboring sites have their energies redistributed randomly. The sites $-N$ and $N$ are in contact with thermal reservoirs at different temperature $\tau_-$ and $\tau_+$. Kipnis, Marchioro...
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Density relaxation in conserved Manna sandpiles: We study relaxation of long-wavelength density perturbations in one dimensional conserved Manna sandpile. Far from criticality where correlation length $\xi$ is finite, relaxation of density profiles having wave numbers $k \rightarrow 0$ is diffusive, with relaxation tim...
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Effects of the non-Markovianity and non-Gaussianity of active environmental noises on engine performance: An active environment is a reservoir containing \emph{active} materials, such as bacteria and Janus particles. Given the self-propelled motion of these materials, powered by chemical energy, an active environment...
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Global topological control for synchronized dynamics on networks: A general scheme is proposed and tested to control the symmetry breaking instability of a homogeneous solution of a spatially extended multispecies model, defined on a network. The inherent discreteness of the space makes it possible to act on the topolo...
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The noise intensity of a Markov chain: Stochastic transitions between discrete microscopic states play an important role in many physical and biological systems. Often, these transitions lead to fluctuations on a macroscopic scale. A classic example from neuroscience is the stochastic opening and closing of ion channel...
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Phase diagram and critical exponents of a dissipative Ising spin chain in a transverse magnetic field: We consider a one-dimensional Ising model in a transverse magnetic field coupled to a dissipative heat bath. The phase diagram and the critical exponents are determined from extensive Monte Carlo simulations. It is ...
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Palette-colouring: a belief-propagation approach: We consider a variation of the prototype combinatorial-optimisation problem known as graph-colouring. Our optimisation goal is to colour the vertices of a graph with a fixed number of colours, in a way to maximise the number of different colours present in the set of ne...
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Giant spin current rectification due to the interplay of negative differential conductance and a non-uniform magnetic field: In XXZ chains, spin transport can be significantly suppressed when the interactions in the chain and the bias of the dissipative driving are large enough. This phenomenon of negative differenti...
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Kramers-Wannier Duality of Statistical Mechanics Applied to the Boolean Satisfiability Problem of Computer Science: We present a novel application of the Kramers-Wannier duality on one of the most important problems of computer science, the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). More specifically, we focus on sharp-SA...
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Virial statistical description of non-extensive hierarchical systems: In a first part the scope of classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics is discussed in the broader context of formal dynamical systems, including computer programmes. In this context classical thermodynamics appears as a particular theory su...
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Dynamics of structural models with a long-range interaction: glassy versus non-glassy behavior: By making use of the Langevin dynamics and its generating functional (GF) formulation the influence of the long-range nature of the interaction on the tendency of the glass formation is systematically investigated. In doin...
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The influence of measurement error on Maxwell's demon: In any general cycle of measurement, feedback and erasure, the measurement will reduce the entropy of the system when information about the state is obtained, while erasure, according to Landauer's principle, is accompanied by a corresponding increase in entropy du...
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A large deviation perspective on ratio observables in reset processes: robustness of rate functions: We study large deviations of a ratio observable in discrete-time reset processes. The ratio takes the form of a current divided by the number of reset steps and as such it is not extensive in time. A large deviation r...
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Critical branching processes in digital memcomputing machines: Memcomputing is a novel computing paradigm that employs time non-locality (memory) to solve combinatorial optimization problems. It can be realized in practice by means of non-linear dynamical systems whose point attractors represent the solutions of the or...
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Correlation function structure in square-gradient models of the liquid-gas interface: Exact results and reliable approximations: In a recent article, we described how the microscopic structure of density-density correlations in the fluid interfacial region, for systems with short-ranged forces, can be understood by c...
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Euclidean operator growth and quantum chaos: We consider growth of local operators under Euclidean time evolution in lattice systems with local interactions. We derive rigorous bounds on the operator norm growth and then proceed to establish an analog of the Lieb-Robinson bound for the spatial growth. In contrast to th...
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Exit versus escape in a stochastic dynamical system of neuronal networks explains heterogenous bursting intervals: Neuronal networks can generate burst events. It remains unclear how to analyse interburst periods and their statistics. We study here the phase-space of a mean-field model, based on synaptic short-term c...
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Charged complexes at the surface of liquid helium: Charged clusters in liquid helium in an external electric field form a two-dimensional system below the helium surface. This 2D system undergoes a phase transition from a liquid to a Wigner crystal at rather high temperatures. Contrary to the electron Wigner crystal, t...
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Does a Single Eigenstate of a Hamiltonian Encode the Critical Behaviour of its Finite-Temperature Phase Transition?: Recent work on the subject of isolated quantum thermalization has suggested that an individual energy eigenstate of a non-integrable quantum system may encode a significant amount of information about ...
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Conditional maximum-entropy method for selecting prior distributions in Bayesian statistics: The conditional maximum-entropy method (abbreviated here as C-MaxEnt) is formulated for selecting prior probability distributions in Bayesian statistics for parameter estimation. This method is inspired by a statistical-mecha...
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Energy partition for anharmonic, undamped, classical oscillators: Using stochastic methods, general formulas for average kinetic and potential energies for anharmonic, undamped (frictionless), classical oscillators are derived. It is demonstrated that for potentials of $|x|^\nu$ ($\nu>0$) type energies are equipartitio...
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On the coexistence of dipolar frustration and criticality in ferromagnets: In real magnets the tendency towards ferromagnetism, promoted by exchange coupling, is usually frustrated by dipolar interaction. As a result, the uniformly ordered phase is replaced by modulated (multi-domain) phases, characterized by differe...
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Particle escapes in an open quantum network via multiple leads: Quantum escapes of a particle from an end of a one-dimensional finite region to $N$ number of semi-infinite leads are discussed by a scattering theoretical approach. Depending on a potential barrier amplitude at the junction, the probability $P(t)$ for a p...
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Universal entanglement signatures of interface conformal field theories: An interface connecting two distinct conformal field theories hosts rich critical behaviors. In this work, we investigate the entanglement properties of such critical interface theories for probing the underlying universality. As inspired by holog...
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Exit versus escape in a stochastic dynamical system of neuronal networks explains heterogenous bursting intervals: Neuronal networks can generate burst events. It remains unclear how to analyse interburst periods and their statistics. We study here the phase-space of a mean-field model, based on synaptic short-term c...
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Weighted-ensemble Brownian dynamics simulation: Sampling of rare events in non-equilibrium systems: We provide an algorithm based on weighted-ensemble (WE) methods, to accurately sample systems at steady state. Applying our method to different one- and two-dimensional models, we succeed to calculate steady state prob...
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Boundary polarization in the six-vertex model: Vertical-arrow fluctuations near the boundaries in the six-vertex model on the two-dimensional $N \times N$ square lattice with the domain wall boundary conditions are considered. The one-point correlation function (`boundary polarization') is expressed via the partition f...
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Random sequential adsorption of straight rigid rods on a simple cubic lattice: Random sequential adsorption of straight rigid rods of length $k$ ($k$-mers) on a simple cubic lattice has been studied by numerical simulations and finite-size scaling analysis. The calculations were performed by using a new theoretical s...
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Thermal Casimir interactions for higher derivative field Lagrangians: generalized Brazovskii models: We examine the Casimir effect for free statistical field theories which have Hamiltonians with second order derivative terms. Examples of such Hamiltonians arise from models of non-local electrostatics, membranes with...
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Contact process on generalized Fibonacci chains: infinite-modulation criticality and double-log periodic oscillations: We study the nonequilibrium phase transition of the contact process with aperiodic transition rates using a real-space renormalization group as well as Monte-Carlo simulations. The transition rates a...
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Universal scaling in active single-file dynamics: We study the single-file dynamics of three classes of active particles: run-and-tumble particles, active Brownian particles and active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles. At high activity values, the particles, interacting via purely repulsive and short-ranged forces, aggrega...
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Full decoherence induced by local fields in open spin chains with strong boundary couplings: We investigate an open $XYZ$ spin $1/2$ chain driven out of equilibrium by boundary reservoirs targeting different spin orientations, aligned along the principal axes of anisotropy. We show that by tuning local magnetic field...
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Extension of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem: Lieb, Schultz and Mattis (LSM) studied the S=1/2 XXZ spin chain. Theorems of LSM's paper can be applied to broader models. In the original LSM theorem it was assumed the nonfrustrating system. However, reconsidering the LSM theorem, we can extend the LSM theorem for frustra...
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Staggered long-range order for diluted quantum spin models: We study an annealed site diluted quantum XY model with spin $S\in \frac{1}{2}\mathbb{N}$. We find regions of the parameter space where, in spite of being a priori favourable for a densely occupied state, phases with staggered occupancy occur at low temperatur...
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Diffusion of two molecular species in a crowded environment: theory and experiments: Diffusion of a two component fluid is studied in the framework of differential equations, but where these equations are systematically derived from a well-defined microscopic model. The model has a finite carrying capacity imposed up...
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Drag forces in classical fields: Inclusions, or defects, moving at constant velocity through free classical fields are shown to be subject to a drag force which depends on the field dynamics and the coupling of the inclusion to the field. The results are used to predict the drag exerted on inclusions, such as proteins,...
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Nonexistence of the non-Gaussian fixed point predicted by the RG field theory in 4-epsilon dimensions: The Ginzburg-Landau phase transition model is considered in d=4-epsilon dimensions within the renormalization group (RG) approach. The problem of existence of the non-Gaussian fixed point is discussed. An equation i...
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Interface growth in two dimensions: A Loewner-equation approach: The problem of Laplacian growth in two dimensions is considered within the Loewner-equation framework. Initially the problem of fingered growth recently discussed by Gubiec and Szymczak [T. Gubiec and P. Szymczak, Phys. Rev. E 77, 041602 (2008)] is revisi...
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Bogolyubov approximation for diagonal model of an interacting Bose gas: We study, using the Bogolyubov approximation, the thermodynamic behaviour of a superstable Bose system whose energy operator in the second-quantized form contains a nonlinear expression in the occupation numbers operators. We prove that for all val...
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Phase Transitions in the Multicomponent Widom-Rowlinson Model and in Hard Cubes on the BCC--Lattice: We use Monte Carlo techniques and analytical methods to study the phase diagram of the M--component Widom-Rowlinson model on the bcc-lattice: there are M species all with the same fugacity z and a nearest neighbor har...
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Mass distribution exponents for growing trees: We investigate the statistics of trees grown from some initial tree by attaching links to preexisting vertices, with attachment probabilities depending only on the valence of these vertices. We consider the asymptotic mass distribution that measures the repartition of the ...
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Monte Carlo Chord Length Sampling for $d$-dimensional Markov binary mixtures: The Chord Length Sampling (CLS) algorithm is a powerful Monte Carlo method that models the effects of stochastic media on particle transport by generating on-the-fly the material interfaces seen by the random walkers during their trajectori...
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Single-ion anisotropy in Haldane chains and form factor of the O(3) nonlinear sigma model: We consider spin-1 Haldane chains with single-ion anisotropy, which exists in known Haldane chain materials. We develop a perturbation theory in terms of anisotropy, where magnon-magnon interaction is important even in the low ...
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Singularities of the renormalization group flow for random elastic manifolds: We consider the singularities of the zero temperature renormalization group flow for random elastic manifolds. When starting from small scales, this flow goes through two particular points $l^{*}$ and $l_{c}$, where the average value of the...
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Deterministic particle flows for constraining stochastic nonlinear systems: Devising optimal interventions for constraining stochastic systems is a challenging endeavour that has to confront the interplay between randomness and nonlinearity. Existing methods for identifying the necessary dynamical adjustments resort ...
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Dimensional crossover in dipolar magnetic layers: We investigate the static critical behaviour of a uniaxial magnetic layer, with finite thickness L in one direction, yet infinitely extended in the remaining d dimensions. The magnetic dipole-dipole interaction is taken into account. We apply a variant of Wilson's momen...
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On the apparent failure of the topological theory of phase transitions: The topological theory of phase transitions has its strong point in two theorems proving that, for a wide class of physical systems, phase transitions necessarily stem from topological changes of some submanifolds of configuration space. It has bee...
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Tracer dispersion in two-dimensional rough fractures: Tracer diffusion and hydrodynamic dispersion in two-dimensional fractures with self-affine roughness is studied by analytic and numerical methods. Numerical simulations were performed via the lattice-Boltzmann approach, using a new boundary condition for tracer part...
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On Conservation Laws, Relaxation and Pre-relaxation after a Quantum Quench: We consider the time evolution following a quantum quench in spin-1/2 chains. It is well known that local conservation laws constrain the dynamics and, eventually, the stationary behavior of local observables. We show that some widely studied...
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Metastable and Unstable Dynamics in multi-phase lattice Boltzmann: We quantitatively characterize the metastability in a multi-phase lattice Boltzmann model. The structure factor of density fluctuations is theoretically obtained and numerically verified to a high precision, for all simulated wave-vectors and reduced te...
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Counting edge modes via dynamics of boundary spin impurities: We study dynamics of the one-dimensional Ising model in the presence of static symmetry-breaking boundary field via the two-time autocorrelation function of the boundary spin. We find that the correlations decay as a power law. We uncover a dynamical phase d...
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Non-sinusoidal current and current reversals in a gating ratchet: In this work, the ratchet dynamics of Brownian particles driven by an external sinusoidal (harmonic) force is investigated. The gating ratchet effect is observed when another harmonic is used to modulate the spatially symmetric potential in which the par...
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Avalanche dynamics in hierarchical fiber bundles: Heterogeneous materials are often organized in a hierarchical manner, where a basic unit is repeated over multiple scales.The structure then acquires a self-similar pattern. Examples of such structure are found in various biological and synthetic materials. The hierarch...
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Diffusion in Curved Spacetimes: Using simple kinematical arguments, we derive the Fokker-Planck equation for diffusion processes in curved spacetimes. In the case of Brownian motion, it coincides with Eckart's relativistic heat equation (albeit in a simpler form), and therefore provides a microscopic justification for ...
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Fluctuation Relations For Adiabatic Pumping: We derive an extended fluctuation relation for an open system coupled with two reservoirs under adiabatic one-cycle modulation. We confirm that the geometric phase caused by the Berry-Sintisyn-Nemenman curvature in the parameter space generates non-Gaussian fluctuations. Thi...
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Extracting Work from a single heat bath using velocity dependent feedback: Thermodynamics of nanoscale devices is an active area of research. Despite their noisy surround- ing they often produce mechanical work (e.g. micro-heat engines) or display rectified Brownian motion (e.g. molecular motors). This invokes the re...
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Sensitivity to the initial conditions of the Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory: Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory is mathematically formulated through non-linear coupled time-dependent 3-dimensional partial differential equations and it is natural to expect a strong sensitivity of its solutions to varia...
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On the entanglement entropy for a XY spin chain: The entanglement entropy for the ground state of a XY spin chain is related to the corner transfer matrices of the triangular Ising model and expressed in closed form.
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Connection Between Minimum of Solubility and Temperature of Maximum Density in an Associating Lattice Gas Model: In this paper we investigate the solubility of a hard - sphere gas in a solvent modeled as an associating lattice gas (ALG). The solution phase diagram for solute at 5% is compared with the phase diagram o...
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Dynamics and thermodynamics of a topological transition in spin ice materials under strain: We study single crystals of Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and Ho$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ under magnetic field and stress applied along their [001] direction. We find that many of the features that the emergent gauge field of spin ice confers to th...
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Realization of Levy flights as continuous processes: On the basis of multivariate Langevin processes we present a realization of Levy flights as a continuous process. For the simple case of a particle moving under the influence of friction and a velocity dependent stochastic force we explicitly derive the generalized L...
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Some Finite Size Effects in Simulations of Glass Dynamics: We present the results of a molecular dynamics computer simulation in which we investigate the dynamics of silica. By considering different system sizes, we show that in simulations of the dynamics of this strong glass former surprisingly large finite size effe...
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On the Conversion of Work into Heat: Microscopic Models and Macroscopic Equations: We summarize and extend some of the results obtained recently for the microscopic and macroscopic behavior of a pinned harmonic chain, with random velocity flips at Poissonian times, acted on by a periodic force {at one end} and in con...
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Phonon Thermodynamics versus Electron-Phonon Models: Applying the path integral formalism we study the equilibrium thermodynamics of the phonon field both in the Holstein and in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger models. The anharmonic cumulant series, dependent on the peculiar source currents of the {\it e-ph} models, have been...
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Counting metastable states in a kinetically constrained model using a patch repetition analysis: We analyse metastable states in the East model, using a recently-proposed patch-repetition analysis based on time-averaged density profiles. The results reveal a hierarchy of states of varying lifetimes, consistent with p...
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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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Criticality and self-organization in branching processes: application to natural hazards: The statistics of natural catastrophes contains very counter-intuitive results. Using earthquakes as a working example, we show that the energy radiated by such events follows a power-law or Pareto distribution. This means, in t...
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Mechanisms of Granular Spontaneous Stratification and Segregation in Two-Dimensional Silos: Spontaneous stratification of granular mixtures has been reported by Makse et al. [Nature 386, 379 (1997)] when a mixture of grains differing in size and shape is poured in a quasi-two-dimensional heap. We study this phenomeno...
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Classical no-cloning theorem under Liouville dynamics by non-Csiszár f-divergence: The Csisz\'ar f-divergence, which is a class of information distances, is known to offer a useful tool for analysing the classical counterpart of the cloning operations that are quantum mechanically impossible for the factorized and ma...
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