The classical description of nucleation of cavities in a stretched fluid relies on a one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) in the space of their sizes, with the diffusion coefficient constructed from macroscopic hydrodynamics and thermodynamics, as shown by Zeldovich. When additional variables (e.g., vapor pressure) are required to describe the state of a bubble, a similar approach to construct a diffusion tensor generally works only in the direct vicinity of the thermodynamic saddle point corresponding to the critical nucleus. We show, nevertheless, that “proper” kinetic variables to describe a cavity can be selected, allowing to introduce a diffusion tensor in the entire domain of parameters. In this way, for the first time, complete FPE’s are constructed for viscous volatile and inertial fluids.
We discuss ultracold atomic gas with attractive interactions in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We find that its excitation spectrum displays a quantum soliton band, corresponding to N-particle bound states, and a continuum band of other, mostly extended, states. For a system of a finite size, the two branches are degenerate in energy for weak interactions, while a gap opens above a threshold value for the interaction strength. We find that the interplay between degenerate extended and bound states has important consequences for both static and dynamical properties of the system.
We generalize well known properties of points of order 3 on elliptic curves to the case of torsion points of order 2g+1 on genus g hyperelliptic curves. This is a report on a joint work with Boris Bekker (StPetersburg).
In water-limited regions, competition for water resources results in the formation of vegetation patterns; on sloped terrain, one finds that the vegetation typically aligns in stripes or arcs. The dynamics of these patterns can be modeled by reaction-diffusion PDEs describing the interplay of vegetation and water resources, where sloped terrain is modeled through advection terms representing the downhill flow of water. We focus on one such model in the 'large-advection' limit, and we prove the existence of traveling planar stripe patterns using analytical and geometric techniques. We also discuss implications for the stability of the resulting patterns, as well as the appearance of curved stripe solutions.
A continuation of the previous talk on the Garg-Gentry-Halevi multilinear map. We finish our description of the scheme, and describe some attacks on it.