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Transport, Geometrical and Topological Properties of Stealthy Disordered Hyperuniform Two-Phase Systems
Disordered hyperuniform many-particle systems have attracted considerable
recent attention. One important class of such systems is the classical ground
states of "stealthy potentials." The degree of order of such ground states
depends on a tuning parameter. Previous studies have shown that these
ground-state point configurations can be counterintuitively disordered,
infinitely degenerate, and endowed with novel physical properties (e.g.,
negative thermal expansion behavior). In this paper, we focus on the disordered
regime in which there is no long-range order, and control the degree of
short-range order. We map these stealthy disordered hyperuniform point
configurations to two-phase media by circumscribing each point with a possibly
overlapping sphere of a common radius : the "particle" and "void" phases are
taken to be the space interior and exterior to the spheres, respectively. We
study certain transport properties of these systems, including the effective
diffusion coefficient of point particles diffusing in the void phase as well as
static and time-dependent characteristics associated with diffusion-controlled
reactions. Besides these effective transport properties, we also investigate
several related structural properties, including pore-size functions, quantizer
error, an order metric, and percolation threshold. We show that these
transport, geometrical and topological properties of our two-phase media
derived from decorated stealthy ground states are distinctly different from
those of equilibrium hard-sphere systems and spatially uncorrelated overlapping
spheres
Modeling self-organization in pedestrians and animal groups from macroscopic and microscopic viewpoints
This paper is concerned with mathematical modeling of intelligent systems,
such as human crowds and animal groups. In particular, the focus is on the
emergence of different self-organized patterns from non-locality and anisotropy
of the interactions among individuals. A mathematical technique by
time-evolving measures is introduced to deal with both macroscopic and
microscopic scales within a unified modeling framework. Then self-organization
issues are investigated and numerically reproduced at the proper scale,
according to the kind of agents under consideration.Comment: 24 pages, 13 figure
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