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A first--order irreversible thermodynamic approach to a simple energy converter: Several authors have shown that dissipative thermal cycle models based on Finite-Time Thermodynamics exhibit loop-shaped curves of power output versus efficiency, such as it occurs with actual dissipative thermal engines. Within the cont...
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The N-steps Invasion Percolation Model: A new kind of invasion percolation is introduced in order to take into account the inertia of the invader fluid. The inertia strength is controlled by the number N of pores (or steps) invaded after the perimeter rupture. The new model belongs to a different class of universality ...
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ac-driven Brownian motors: a Fokker-Planck treatment: We consider a primary model of ac-driven Brownian motors, i.e., a classical particle placed in a spatial-time periodic potential and coupled to a heat bath. The effects of fluctuations and dissipations are studied by a time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation. The appr...
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A kinetic Ising model study of dynamical correlations in confined fluids: Emergence of both fast and slow time scales: Experiments and computer simulation studies have revealed existence of rich dynamics in the orientational relaxation of molecules in confined systems such as water in reverse micelles, cyclodextrin c...
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A Bottom-Up Model of Self-Organized Criticality on Networks: The Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld (BTW) sandpile process is an archetypal, stylized model of complex systems with a critical point as an attractor of their dynamics. This phenomenon, called self-organized criticality (SOC), appears to occur ubiquitously in both nature ...
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Specific heats of quantum double-well systems: Specific heats of quantum systems with symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials have been calculated. In numerical calculations of their specific heats, we have adopted the combined method which takes into account not only eigenvalues of $\epsilon_n$ for $0 \leq n \...
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Roughening Transition of Interfaces in Disordered Systems: The behavior of interfaces in the presence of both lattice pinning and random field (RF) or random bond (RB) disorder is studied using scaling arguments and functional renormalization techniques. For the first time we show that there is a continuous disorder dr...
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Landau thermodynamic potential for BaTiO_3: In the paper, the description of the dielectric and ferroelectric properties of BaTiO_3 single crystals using Landau thermodynamic potential is addressed. Our results suggest that when using the sixth-power free energy expansion of the thermodynamic potential, remarkably diff...
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Exact solution of the geometrically frustrated spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg model on the triangulated Kagome (triangles-in-triangles) lattice: The geometric frustration of the spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg model on the triangulated Kagome (triangles-in-triangles) lattice is investigated within the framework of an exact anal...
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Building Entanglement Entropy out of Correlation Functions for Interacting Fermions: We provide a prescription to construct R\'{e}nyi and von Neumann entropy of a system of interacting fermions from a knowledge of its correlation functions. We show that R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy of interacting fermions in arbitr...
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Physical swap dynamics, shortcuts to relaxation and entropy production in dissipative Rydberg gases: Dense Rydberg gases are out-of-equilibrium systems where strong density-density interactions give rise to effective kinetic constraints. They cause dynamic arrest associated with highly-constrained many-body configura...
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Continuity Conditions for the Radial Distribution Function of Square-Well Fluids: The continuity conditions of the radial distribution function g(r) and its close relative the cavity function y(r) are studied in the context of the Percus-Yevick (PY) integral equation for 3D square-well fluids. The cases corresponding...
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Route from discreteness to the continuum for the non-logarithmic $q$-entropy: The existence and exact form of the continuum expression of the discrete nonlogarithmic $q$-entropy is an important open problem in generalized thermostatistics, since its possible lack implies that nonlogarithmic $q$-entropy is irrelevant ...
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Extinction rates of established spatial populations: This paper deals with extinction of an isolated population caused by intrinsic noise. We model the population dynamics in a "refuge" as a Markov process which involves births and deaths on discrete lattice sites and random migrations between neighboring sites. In ext...
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Entropy and forecasting complexity of hidden Markov models, matrix product states, and observable operator models: In a series of three papers, Jurgens and Crutchfield recently proposed a supposedly novel method to compute entropies of hidden Markov models (HMMs), discussed in detail its relationship to iterated func...
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Superoperator coupled cluster method for nonequilibrium density matrix: We develop a superoperator coupled cluster method for nonequilibrium open many-body quantum systems described by the Lindblad master equation. The method is universal and applicable to systems of interacting fermions, bosons or their mixtures. We p...
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Analysis of a generalised Boltzmann equation for anomalous diffusion under time-dependent fields: The generalised Boltzmann equation which treats the combined localised and delocalised nature of transport present in certain materials is extended to accommodate time-dependent fields. In particular, AC fields are shown...
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Slow Kinetics of Brownian Maxima: We study extreme-value statistics of Brownian trajectories in one dimension. We define the maximum as the largest position to date and compare maxima of two particles undergoing independent Brownian motion. We focus on the probability P(t) that the two maxima remain ordered up to time ...
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Low self-affine exponents of fracture surfaces of glass ceramics: The geometry of post mortem rough fracture surfaces of porous glass ceramics made of sintered glass beads is shown experimentally to be self-affine with an exponent zeta=0.40 (0.04) remarkably lower than the 'universal' value zeta=0.8 frequently measured...
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Non-equilibrium dynamics in the quantum Brownian oscillator and the second law of thermodynamics: We initially prepare a quantum linear oscillator weakly coupled to a bath in equilibrium at an arbitrary temperature. We disturb this system by varying a Hamiltonian parameter of the coupled oscillator, namely, either it...
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Phase transitions in Ising models on directed networks: We examine Ising models with heat-bath dynamics on directed networks. Our simulations show that Ising models on directed triangular and simple cubic lattices undergo a phase transition that most likely belongs to the Ising universality class. On the directed squar...
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Classical stochastic approach to quantum mechanics and quantum thermodynamics: We derive the equations of quantum mechanics and quantum thermodynamics from the assumption that a quantum system can be described by an underlying classical system of particles. Each component $\phi_j$ of the wave vector is understood as ...
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Pseudo-$ε$ Expansion and Renormalized Coupling Constants at Criticality: Universal values of dimensional effective coupling constants $g_{2k}$ that determine nonlinear susceptibilities $\chi_{2k}$ and enter the scaling equation of state are calculated for $n$-vector field theory within the pseudo-$\epsilon$ expansion...
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Cluster formation and anomalous fundamental diagram in an ant trail model: A recently proposed stochastic cellular automaton model ({\it J. Phys. A 35, L573 (2002)}), motivated by the motions of ants in a trail, is investigated in detail in this paper. The flux of ants in this model is sensitive to the probability of...
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Circuits in random graphs: from local trees to global loops: We compute the number of circuits and of loops with multiple crossings in random regular graphs. We discuss the importance of this issue for the validity of the cavity approach. On the one side we obtain analytic results for the infinite volume limit in agree...
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First quantum corrections for a hydrodynamics of a nonideal Bose gas: In the paper we consider a hydrodynamical description of a nonideal Bose gas in one-loop approximation. We calculate an effective action which consists of mean field contributions and first quantum correction. This provides the equations of motion fo...
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An appetizer to modern developments on the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class: The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class describes a broad range of non-equilibrium fluctuations, including those of growing interfaces, directed polymers and particle transport, to name but a few. Since the year 2000, our unde...
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Landau Theory for the Mpemba Effect Through Phase Transitions: The Mpemba effect describes the situation in which a hot system cools faster than an identical copy that is initiated at a colder temperature. In many of the experimental observations of the effect, e.g. in water and clathrate hydrates, it is defined by the...
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Isomorphic classical molecular dynamics model for an excess electron in a supercritical fluid: Ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) is used to directly simulate the dynamics of an excess electron in a supercritical fluid over a broad range of densities. The accuracy of the RPMD model is tested against numerically e...
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Arrested States formed on Quenching Spin Chains with Competing Interactions and Conserved Dynamics: We study the effects of rapidly cooling to T = 0 a spin chain with conserved dynamics and competing interactions. Depending on the degree of competition, the system is found to get arrested in different kinds of metast...
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Reply to the comment on: "Thermostatistics of Overdamped Motion of Interacting Particles" [arXiv:1104.0697] by Y. Levin and R. Pakter: We show that the comment [arXiv:1104.0697] by Levin and Pakter on our work [arXiv:1008.1421] is conceptually unfounded, contains misleading interpretations, and is based on results of...
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Determination of Nonequilibrium Temperature and Pressure using Clausius Equality in a State with Memory: A Simple Model Calculation: Use of the extended definition of heat dQ=deQ+diQ converts the Clausius inequality dS greater than or equal to deQ/T0 into an equality dS=dQ/T involving the nonequilibrium temperature T...
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Some measure theory on stacks of graphs: We apply a theorem of Wick to rewrite certain classes of exponential measures on random graphs as integrals of Feynman-Gibbs type, on the real line. The analytic properties of these measures can then be studied in terms of phase transitions; spaces of scale-free trees are a part...
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Entanglement dynamics in critical random quantum Ising chain with perturbations: We simulate the entanglement dynamics in a critical random quantum Ising chain with generic perturbations using the time-evolving block decimation algorithm. Starting from a product state, we observe super-logarithmic growth of entanglem...
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Physical insights from imaginary-time density--density correlation functions: The accurate theoretical description of the dynamic properties of correlated quantum many-body systems such as the dynamic structure factor $S(\mathbf{q},\omega)$ constitutes an important task in many fields. Unfortunately, highly accurate ...
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Statistical Mechanics of Double sinh-Gordon Kinks: We study the classical thermodynamics of the double sinh-Gordon (DSHG) theory in 1+1 dimensions. This model theory has a double well potential, thus allowing for the existence of kinks and antikinks. Though it is nonintegrable, the DSHG model is remarkably amenable to ...
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Friction effects and clogging in a cellular automaton model for pedestrian dynamics: We investigate the role of conflicts in pedestrian traffic, i.e. situations where two or more people try to enter the same space. Therefore a recently introduced cellular automaton model for pedestrian dynamics is extended by a frict...
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The Dilemma of Bose Solids: is He Supersolid?: Nearly a decade ago the old controversy about possible superfluid flow in the ground state of solid He4 was revived by the apparent experimental observation of such superflow. Although the experimentalists have recently retracted, very publicly, some of the observations on...
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Collective dynamics in systems of active Brownian particles with dissipative interactions: We use computer simulations to study the onset of collective motion in systems of interacting active particles. Our model is a swarm of active Brownian particles with internal energy depot and interactions inspired by the dissi...
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Stochastic Hard-Sphere Dynamics for Hydrodynamics of Non-Ideal Fluids: A novel stochastic fluid model is proposed with non-ideal structure factor consistent with compressibility, and adjustable transport coefficients. This Stochastic Hard Sphere Dynamics (SHSD) algorithm is a modification of the Direct Simulation Monte...
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Evolution of the System with Singular Multiplicative Noise: The governed equations for the order parameter, one-time and two-time correlators are obtained on the basis of the Langevin equation with the white multiplicative noise which amplitude $x^{a}$ is determined by an exponent $0<a<1$ ($x$ being a stochastic variab...
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Density-feedback control in traffic and transport far from equilibrium: A bottleneck situation in one-lane traffic-flow is typically modelled with a constant demand of entering cars. However, in practice this demand may depend on the density of cars in the bottleneck. The present paper studies a simple bimodal realizat...
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A Langevin canonical approach to the dynamics of chiral two level systems. Thermal averages and heat capacity: A Langevin canonical framework for a chiral two--level system coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillators is developed within a coupling scheme different to the well known spin-boson model. Thermal equilibrium...
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Generalized Tsallis Thermostatistics of Magnetic Systems: In this study, our effort is to introduce Tsallis thermostatistics in some details and to give a brief review of the magnetic systems which have been studied in the frame of this formalism.
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The ground state energy of the Edwards-Anderson spin glass model with a parallel tempering Monte Carlo algorithm: We study the efficiency of parallel tempering Monte Carlo technique for calculating true ground states of the Edwards-Anderson spin glass model. Bimodal and Gaussian bond distributions were considered in ...
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Random walks on uniform and non-uniform combs and brushes: We consider random walks on comb- and brush-like graphs consisting of a base (of fractal dimension $D$) decorated with attached side-groups. The graphs are also characterized by the fractal dimension $D_a$ of a set of anchor points where side-groups are attache...
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Decay of Metastable States: Sharp Transition from Quantum to Classical Behavior: The decay rate of metastable states is determined at high temperatures by thermal activation, whereas at temperatures close to zero quantum tunneling is relevant. At some temperature $T_{c}$ the transition from classical to quantum-domin...
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Nonlinear response and emerging nonequilibrium micro-structures for biased diffusion in confined crowding environments: We study analytically the dynamics and the micro-structural changes of a host medium caused by a driven tracer particle moving in a confined, quiescent molecular crowding environment. Imitating typi...
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Describing the ground state of quantum systems through statistical mechanics: We present a statistical mechanics description to study the ground state of quantum systems. In this approach, averages for the complete system are calculated over the non-interacting energy levels. Taking different interaction parameter, t...
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The Boltzmann temperature and Lagrange multiplier: We consider the relation between the Boltzmann temperature and the Lagrange multipliers associated with energy average in the nonextensive thermostatistics. In Tsallis' canonical ensemble, the Boltzmann temperature depends on energy through the probability distribution...
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Glassy behaviour in an exactly solved spin system with a ferromagnetic transition: We show that applying simple dynamical rules to Baxter's eight-vertex model leads to a system which resembles a glass-forming liquid. There are analogies with liquid, supercooled liquid, glassy and crystalline states. The disordered ph...
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Equilibrium Microcanonical Annealing for First-Order Phase Transitions: A framework is presented for carrying out simulations of equilibrium systems in the microcanonical ensemble using annealing in an energy ceiling. The framework encompasses an equilibrium version of simulated annealing, population annealing and hybr...
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High Precision Fourier Monte Carlo Simulation of Crystalline Membranes: We report an essential improvement of the plain Fourier Monte Carlo algorithm that promises to be a powerful tool for investigating critical behavior in a large class of lattice models, in particular those containing microscopic or effective long-r...
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Boundary drive induced formation of aggregate condensates in stochastic transport with short-range interactions: We discuss the effects of particle exchange through open boundaries and the induced drive on the phase structure and condensation phenomena of a stochastic transport process with tunable short-range intera...
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Granular gas of viscoelastic particles in a homogeneous cooling state: Kinetic properties of a granular gas of viscoelastic particles in a homogeneous cooling state are studied analytically and numerically. We employ the most recent expression for the velocity-dependent restitution coefficient for colliding viscoelasti...
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Power-law distributions for the areas of the basins of attraction on a potential energy landscape: Energy landscape approaches have become increasingly popular for analysing a wide variety of chemical physics phenomena. Basic to many of these applications has been the inherent structure mapping, which divides up the ...
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Force fluctuation in a driven elastic chain: We study the dynamics of an elastic chain driven on a disordered substrate and analyze numerically the statistics of force fluctuations at the depinning transition. The probability distribution function of the amplitude of the slip events for small velocities is a power law ...
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Binary data corruption due to a Brownian agent II: two dimensions, competing agents, and generalized couplings: This work is a continuation of our previous investigation of binary data corruption due to a Brownian agent [T. J. Newman and W. Triampo, preprint cond-mat/9811237]. We extend our study in three main direct...
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Dynamics of collapsing and exploding Bose-Einstein condensates: We explored the dynamics of how a Bose-Einstein condensate collapses and subsequently explodes when the balance of forces governing the size and shape of the condensate is suddenly altered. A condensate's equilibrium size and shape is strongly affected by ...
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Consistent description of kinetics and hydrodynamics of dusty plasma: A consistent statistical description of kinetics and hydrodynamics of dusty plasma is proposed based on the Zubarev nonequilibrium statistical operator method. For the case of partial dynamics the nonequilibrium statistical operator and the generaliz...
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Metastability in the Hamiltonian Mean Field model and Kuramoto model: We briefly discuss the state of the art on the anomalous dynamics of the Hamiltonian Mean Field model. We stress the important role of the initial conditions for understanding the microscopic nature of the intriguing metastable quasi stationary state...
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Effect of Constraint Relaxation on the Minimum Vertex Cover Problem in Random Graphs: A statistical-mechanical study of the effect of constraint relaxation on the minimum vertex cover problem in Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs is presented. Using a penalty-method formulation for constraint relaxation, typical propert...
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Fermionic R-operator approach for the small-polaron model with open boundary condition: Exact integrability and algebraic Bethe ansatz of the small-polaron model with the open boundary condition are discussed in the framework of the quantum inverse scattering method (QISM). We employ a new approach where the fermioni...
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Exact relaxation in a class of non-equilibrium quantum lattice systems: A reasonable physical intuition in the study of interacting quantum systems says that, independent of the initial state, the system will tend to equilibrate. In this work we study a setting where relaxation to a steady state is exact, namely for th...
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Self-Consistent Theory of Rupture by Progressive Diffuse Damage: We analyze a self-consistent theory of crack growth controlled by a cumulative damage variable d(t) dependent on stress history. As a function of the damage exponent $m$, which controls the rate of damage dd/dt \propto sigma^m as a function of local stres...
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Accurate Estimation of Diffusion Coefficients and their Uncertainties from Computer Simulation: Self-diffusion coefficients, $D^*$, are routinely estimated from molecular dynamics simulations by fitting a linear model to the observed mean-squared displacements (MSDs) of mobile species. MSDs derived from simulation su...
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Derivation of the percolation threshold for the network model of Barabasi and Albert: The percolation threshold of the network model by Barabasi and Albert (BA-model) [Science 286, 509 (1999)] has thus far only been 'guessed' based on simulations and comparison with other models. Due to the still uncertain influence ...
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Towards entanglement negativity of two disjoint intervals for a one dimensional free fermion: We study the moments of the partial transpose of the reduced density matrix of two intervals for the free massless Dirac fermion. By means of a direct calculation based on coherent state path integral, we find an analytic fo...
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Percolation approach to glassy dynamics with continuously broken ergodicity: We show that the relaxation dynamics near a glass transition with continuous ergodicity breaking can be endowed with a geometric interpretation based on percolation theory. At mean-field level this approach is consistent with the mode-coupli...
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Brownian motion under annihilation dynamics: The behavior of a heavy tagged intruder immersed in a bath of particles evolving under ballistic annihilation dynamics is investigated. The Fokker-Planck equation for this system is derived and the peculiarities of the corresponding diffusive behavior are worked out. In the ...
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An exact solution to asymptotic Bethe equation: We present an exact solution to the asymptotic Bethe equation of weakly anisotropic Heisenberg spin chain, which is a set of non-linear algebraic equations. The solution describes the low-energy excitations above ferromagnetic ground state with fixed magnetisation, and it...
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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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Entanglement Spectra and Entanglement Thermodynamics of Hofstadter Bilayers: We study Hofstadter bilayers, i.e. coupled hopping models on two-dimensional square lattices in a perpendicular magnetic field. Upon tracing out one of the layers, we find an explicit expression for the resulting entanglement spectrum in ter...
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Numerical exploration of the Aging effects in spin systems: An interesting concept that has been underexplored in the context of time-dependent simulations is the correlation of total magnetization, $C(t)$%. One of its main advantages over directly studying magnetization is that we do not need to meticulously prepare i...
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Universal Order and Gap Statistics of Critical Branching Brownian Motion: We study the order statistics of one dimensional branching Brownian motion in which particles either diffuse (with diffusion constant $D$), die (with rate $d$) or split into two particles (with rate $b$). At the critical point $b=d$ which we focu...
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Effective Floquet-Gibbs states for dissipative quantum systems: A periodically driven quantum system, when coupled to a heat bath, relaxes to a non-equilibrium asymptotic state. In the general situation, the retrieval of this asymptotic state presents a rather non-trivial task. It was recently shown that in the limit o...
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Prediction, Retrodiction, and The Amount of Information Stored in the Present: We introduce an ambidextrous view of stochastic dynamical systems, comparing their forward-time and reverse-time representations and then integrating them into a single time-symmetric representation. The perspective is useful theoretically...
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Optimal Work Extraction and the Minimum Description Length Principle: We discuss work extraction from classical information engines (e.g., Szil\'ard) with $N$-particles, $q$ partitions, and initial arbitrary non-equilibrium states. In particular, we focus on their {\em optimal} behaviour, which includes the measurement...
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Non-KPZ modes in two-species driven diffusive systems: Using mode coupling theory and dynamical Monte-Carlo simulations we investigate the scaling behaviour of the dynamical structure function of a two-species asymmetric simple exclusion process, consisting of two coupled single-lane asymmetric simple exclusion process...
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A fluctuation relation for weakly ergodic aging systems: A fluctuation relation for aging systems is introduced, and verified by extensive numerical simulations. It is based on the hypothesis of partial equilibration over phase space regions in a scenario of entropy-driven relaxation. The relation provides a simple alt...
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Stationary behaviour of observables after a quantum quench in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg XXZ chain: We consider a quantum quench in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg XXZ chain. At late times after the quench it is believed that the expectation values of local operators approach time-independent values, that are described by a gen...
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Magnetic Properties of the Metamagnet Ising Model in a three-dimensional Lattice in a Random and Uniform Field: By employing the Monte Carlo technique we study the behavior of Metamagnet Ising Model in a random field. The phase diagram is obtained by using the algorithm of Glaubr in a cubic lattice of linear size $L$...
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Prethermalization in periodically-driven nonreciprocal many-body spin systems: We analyze a new class of time-periodic nonreciprocal dynamics in interacting chaotic classical spin systems, whose equations of motion are conservative (phase-space-volume-preserving) yet possess no symplectic structure. As a result, the ...
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Giant leaps and long excursions: fluctuation mechanisms in systems with long-range memory: We analyse large deviations of time-averaged quantities in stochastic processes with long-range memory, where the dynamics at time t depends itself on the value q_t of the time-averaged quantity. First we consider the elephant ...
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Minimal Model of Stochastic Athermal Systems: Origin of Non-Gaussian Noise: For a wide class of stochastic athermal systems, we derive Langevin-like equations driven by non-Gaussian noise, starting from master equations and developing a new asymptotic expansion. We found an explicit condition whereby the non-Gaussian...
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Magnetization Transfer by a Quantum Ring Device: We show that a tight-binding model device consisting of a laterally connected ring at half filling in a tangent time-dependent magnetic field can in principle be designed to pump a purely spin current. The process exploits the spin-orbit interaction in the ring. This beh...
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Noise influence on solid-liquid transition of ultrathin lubricant film: The melting of ultrathin lubricant film by friction between atomically flat surfaces is studied. The additive noises of the elastic shear stress and strain, and the temperature are introduced for building a phase diagram with the domains of sliding...
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Strong-coupling critical behavior in three-dimensional lattice Abelian gauge models with charged $N$-component scalar fields and $SO(N)$ symmetry: We consider a three-dimensional lattice Abelian Higgs gauge model for a charged $N$-component scalar field ${\phi}$, which is invariant under $SO(N)$ global transformation...
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Thermodynamic Geometry, Phase Transitions, and the Widom Line: We construct a novel approach, based on thermodynamic geometry, to characterize first-order phase transitions from a microscopic perspective, through the scalar curvature in the equilibrium thermodynamic state space. Our method resolves key theoretical issu...
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Local pressure of confined fluids inside nanoslit pores -- A density functional theory prediction: In this work, the local pressure of fluids confined inside nanoslit pores is predicted within the framework of the density functional theory. The Euler-Lagrange equation in the density functional theory of statistical m...
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Nonextensive Entropy, Prior PDFs and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: We show that using nonextensive entropy can lead to spontaneous symmetry breaking when a parameter changes its value from that applicable for a symmetric domain, as in field theory. We give the physical reasons and also show that even for symmetric Dir...
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Cardy's Formula for some Dependent Percolation Models: We prove Cardy's formula for rectangular crossing probabilities in dependent site percolation models that arise from a deterministic cellular automaton with a random initial state. The cellular automaton corresponds to the zero-temperature case of Domany's stochast...
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The delayed uncoupled continuous-time random walks do not provide a model for the telegraph equation: It has been alleged in several papers that the so called delayed continuous-time random walks (DCTRWs) provide a model for the one-dimensional telegraph equation at microscopic level. This conclusion, being widesprea...
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Understanding the phenomenon of viscous slowing down of glass-forming liquids from the static pair correlation function: A theory which uses data of the static pair-correlation function is developed to calculate quantities associated with the viscous slowing down of supercooled liquids. We calculate value of the ener...
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Finite-temperature quantum discordant criticality: In quantum statistical mechanics, finite-temperature phase transitions are typically governed by classical field theories. In this context, the role of quantum correlations is unclear: recent contributions have shown how entanglement is typically very short-ranged, and...
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Computing phase diagrams for a quasicrystal-forming patchy-particle system: We introduce an approach to computing the free energy of quasicrystals, which we use to calculate phase diagrams for systems of two-dimensional patchy particles with five regularly arranged patches that have previously been shown to form dode...
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Heaps' law, statistics of shared components and temporal patterns from a sample-space-reducing process: Zipf's law is a hallmark of several complex systems with a modular structure, such as books composed by words or genomes composed by genes. In these component systems, Zipf's law describes the empirical power law d...
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Differences between regular and random order of updates in damage spreading simulations: We investigate the spreading of damage in the three-dimensional Ising model by means of large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations. Within the Glauber dynamics we use different rules for the order in which the sites are updated. We find...
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Power-law behaviors from the two-variable Langevin equation: Ito's and Stratonovich's Fokker-Planck equations: We study power-law behaviors produced from the stochastically dynamical system governed by the well-known two-variable Langevin equations. The stationary solutions of the corresponding Ito's, Stratonovich's ...
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Critical Properties of the Models of Small Magnetic Particles of the Antiferromagnet MnF2: The static critical behavior of the models of small magnetic particles of the real two sublattice antiferromagnet MnF2 is investigated by the Monte Carlo method taking into account the interaction of the second nearest neighbor...
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