News
New model of ocean waves sheds fresh light on the spread of microplastic pollution
Nature is always more complicated than the models we use to describe it. Ocean waves, for example, are constantly evolving. They grow when wind transfers kinetic energy to the water’s surface. They interact with each other in highly nonlinear ways. And once the wind dies down, their internal viscosity makes them dissipate away to nothing, leaving behind a surface as flat as glass.
Perspectives
Dynamically emergent correlations
In this perspective article, we discuss the scenario of dynamically emergent correlation (DEC) arising in classical and quantum noninteracting systems when they are subjected to a common fluctuating stochastic environment. The key property of such systems is that the strong correlations between different particles emerge from the dynamics and not from built-in interactions. In many cases, these strong correlations persist even at long times in the stationary state.
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Tuning the strength of emergent correlations in a Brownian gas via batch resetting
We study a gas of N diffusing particles on the line subject to batch resetting: at rate r, a uniformly random subset of m particles is reset to the origin. Despite the absence of interactions, the dynamics generates a nonequilibrium stationary state (NESS) with long-range correlations.
