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Nagi Khalil

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arXiv2018

The noisy voter model under the influence of contrarians

The influence of contrarians on the noisy voter model is studied at the mean-field level. The noisy voter model is a variant of the voter model where agents can adopt two opinions, optimistic or pessimistic, and can change them by means of an imitation (herding) and an intrinsic (noise) mechanisms. An ensemble of noisy voters undergoes a finite-size phase transition, upon increasing the relative importance of the noise to the herding, form a bimodal phase where most of the agents shear the same opinion to a unimodal phase where almost the same fraction of agent are in opposite states. By the inclusion of contrarians we allow for some voters to adopt the opposite opinion of other agents (anti-herding). We first consider the case of only contrarians and show that the only possible steady state is the unimodal one. More generally, when voters and contrarians are present, we show that the bimodal-unimodal transition of the noisy voter model prevails only if the number of contrarians in the system is smaller than four, and their characteristic rates are small enough. For the number of contrarians bigger or equal to four, the voters and the contrarians can be seen only in the unimodal phase. Moreover, if the number of voters and contrarians, as well as the noise and herding rates, are of the same order, then the probability functions of the steady state are very well approximated by the Gaussian distribution.

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arXiv2018

Generalized time evolution of the homogeneous cooling state of a granular gas with positive and negative coefficient of normal restitution

The homogeneous cooling state (HCS) of a granular gas described by the inelastic Boltzmann equation is reconsidered. As usual, particles are taken as inelastic hard disks or spheres, but now the coefficient of normal restitution $α$ is allowed to take negative values $α\in[-1,1]$, a simple way of modeling more complicated inelastic interactions. The distribution function of the HCS is studied at the long-time limit, as well as for intermediate times. At the long-time limit, the relevant information of the HCS is given by a scaling distribution function $ϕ_s(c)$, where the time dependence occurs through a dimensionless velocity $c$. For $α\gtrsim -0.75$, $ϕ_s$ remains close to the gaussian distribution in the thermal region, its cumulants and exponential tails being well described by the first Sonine approximation. On the contrary, for $α\lesssim -0.75$, the distribution function becomes multimodal, its maxima located at $c\ne 0$, and its observable tails algebraic. The latter is a consequence of an unbalanced relaxation-dissipation competition, and is analytically demonstrated for $α\simeq -1$ thanks to a reduction of the Boltzmann equation to a Fokker-Planck-like equation. Finally, a generalized scaling solution to the Boltzmann equation is also found $ϕ(c,β)$. Apart from the time dependence occurring through the dimensionless velocity, $ϕ(c,β)$ depends on time through a new parameter $β$ measuring the departure of the HCS from its long-time limit. It is shown that $ϕ(c,β)$ describes the time evolution of the HCS for almost all times. The relevance of the new scaling is also discussed.

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arXiv2018

Heat flux of driven granular mixtures at low density. Stability analysis of the homogeneous steady state

The Navier--Stokes order hydrodynamic equations for a low-density driven granular mixture obtained previously [Khalil and Garzó, Phys. Rev. E \textbf{88}, 052201 (2013)] from the Chapman--Enskog solution to the Boltzmann equation are considered further. The four transport coefficients associated with the heat flux are obtained in terms of the mass ratio, the size ratio, composition, coefficients of restitution, and the driven parameters of the model. Their quantitative variation on the control parameters of the system is demonstrated by considering the leading terms in a Sonine polynomial expansion to solve the exact integral equations. As an application of these results, the stability of the homogeneous steady state is studied. In contrast to the results obtained in undriven granular mixtures, the stability analysis of the linearized Navier--Stokes hydrodynamic equations shows that the transversal and longitudinal modes are (linearly) stable with respect to long enough wavelength excitations. This conclusion agrees with a previous analysis made for single granular gases.

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arXiv2018

Zealots in the mean-field noisy voter model

The influence of zealots on the noisy voter model is studied theoretically and numerically at the mean-field level. The noisy voter model is a modification of the voter model that includes a second mechanism for transitions between states: apart from the original herding processes, voters may change their states because of an intrinsic, noisy in origin source. By increasing the importance of the noise with respect to the herding, the system exhibits a finite-size phase transition from a quasi-consensus state, where most of the voters share the same opinion, to a one with coexistence. Upon introducing some zealots, or voters with fixed opinion, the latter scenario may change significantly. We unveil the new situations by carrying out a systematic numerical and analytical study of a fully connected network for voters, but allowing different voters to be directly influenced by different zealots. We show that this general system is equivalent to a system of voters without zealots, but with heterogeneous values of their parameters characterizing herding and noisy dynamics. We find excellent agreement between our analytical and numerical results. Noise and herding/zealotry acting together in the voter model yields not a trivial mixture of the scenarios with the two mechanisms acting alone: it represents a situation where the global-local (noise-herding) competitions is coupled to a symmetry breaking (zealots). In general, the zealotry enhances the effective noise of the system, which may destroy the original quasi--consensus state, and can introduce a bias towards the opinion of the majority of zealots, hence breaking the symmetry of the system and giving rise to new phases ...

physics.soc-ph↗

arXiv2017

Nonlocal birth-death competitive dynamics with volume exclusion

A stochastic birth-death competition model for particles with excluded volume is proposed. The particles move, reproduce, and die on a regular lattice. While the death rate is constant, the birth rate is spatially nonlocal and implements inter-particle competition by a dependence on the number of particles within a finite distance. The finite volume of particles is accounted for by fixing an upper value to the number of particles that can occupy a lattice node, compromising births and movements. We derive closed macroscopic equations for the density of particles and spatial correlation at two adjacent sites. Under different conditions, the description is further reduced to a single equation for the particle density that contains three terms: diffusion, a linear death, and a highly nonlinear and nonlocal birth term. Steady-state homogeneous solutions, their stability which reveals spatial pattern formation, and the dynamics of time-dependent homogeneous solutions are discussed and compared, in the one-dimensional case, with numerical simulations of the particle system.

physics.bio-ph↗

arXiv2016

Heat flux of a granular gas with homogeneous temperature

A steady state of a granular gas with homogeneous granular temperature, no mass flow, and nonzero heat flux is studied. The state is created by applying an external position--dependent force or by enclosing the grains inside a curved two--dimensional silo. At a macroscopic level, the state is identified with one solution to the inelastic Navier--Stokes equations, due to the coupling between the heat flux induced by the density gradient and the external force. On the contrary, at the mesoscopic level, by exactly solving a BGK model or the inelastic Boltzmann equation in an approximate way, a one--parametric family of solutions is found. Molecular dynamics simulations of the system in the quasi--elastic limit are in agreement with the theoretical results.

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arXiv2015

Anomalous transport of impurities in inelastic Maxwell gases

A mixture of dissipative hard grains generically exhibits a breakdown of kinetic energy equipartition. The undriven and thus freely cooling binary problem, in the tracer limit where the density of one species becomes minute, may exhibit an extreme form of this breakdown, with the minority species carrying a finite fraction of the total kinetic energy of the system. We investigate the fingerprint of this non-equilibrium phase transition, akin to an ordering process, on transport properties. The analysis, performed by solving the Boltzmann kinetic equation from a combination of analytical and Monte Carlo techniques, hints at the possible failure of hydrodynamics in the ordered region. As a relevant byproduct of the study, the behaviour of the second and fourth-degree velocity moments is also worked out.

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arXiv2014

Hydrodynamic Burnett equations for inelastic Maxwell models of granular gases

The hydrodynamic Burnett equations and the associated transport coefficients are exactly evaluated for generalized inelastic Maxwell models. In those models, the one-particle distribution function obeys the inelastic Boltzmann equation, with a velocity-independent collision rate proportional to the $γ$ power of the temperature. The pressure tensor and the heat flux are obtained to second order in the spatial gradients of the hydrodynamic fields with explicit expressions for all the Burnett transport coefficients as functions of $γ$, the coefficient of normal restitution, and the dimensionality of the system. Some transport coefficients that are related in a simple way in the elastic limit become decoupled in the inelastic case. As a byproduct, existing results in the literature for three-dimensional elastic systems are recovered, and a generalization to any dimension of the system is given. The structure of the present results is used to estimate the Burnett coefficients for inelastic hard spheres.

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arXiv2014

Hydrodynamic granular segregation induced by boundary heating and shear

Segregation induced by a thermal gradient of an impurity in a driven low-density granular gas is studied. The system is enclosed between two parallel walls from which we input thermal energy to the gas. We study here steady states occurring when the inelastic cooling is exactly balanced by some external energy input (stochastic force or viscous heating), resulting in a uniform heat flux. A segregation criterion based on Navier-Stokes granular hydrodynamics is written in terms of the tracer diffusion transport coefficients, whose dependence on the parameters of the system (masses, sizes and coefficients of restitution) is explicitly determined from a solution of the inelastic Boltzmann equation. The theoretical predictions are validated by means of Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, showing that Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics produces accurate segregation criteria even under strong shearing and/or inelasticity.

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arXiv2014

Homogeneous states in driven granular mixtures: Enskog kinetic theory versus molecular dynamics simulations

The homogeneous state of a binary mixture of smooth inelastic hard disks or spheres is analyzed. The mixture is driven by a thermostat composed by two terms: a stochastic force and a drag force proportional to the particle velocity. The combined action of both forces attempts to model the interaction of the mixture with a bath or surrounding fluid. The problem is studied by means of two independent and complementary routes. First, the Enskog kinetic equation with a Fokker-Planck term describing interactions of particles with thermostat is derived. The ratio of kinetic temperatures $T_1/T_2$ and the fourth-degree velocity moments $λ_1$ and $λ_2$ (which measure non-Gaussian properties of $φ_i$) are explicitly determined as a function of the mass ratio, size ratio, composition, density and coefficients of restitution. Secondly, to assess the reliability of the theoretical results, molecular dynamics simulations of a binary granular mixture of spheres are performed for two values of the coefficient of restitution ($α=0.9$ and 0.8) and three different solid volume fractions ($ϕ=0.00785$, 0.1 and 0.2). Comparison between kinetic theory and computer simulations for the temperature ratio shows excellent agreement, even for moderate densities and strong dissipation. In the case of the cumulants $λ_1$ and $λ_2$, good agreement is found for the lower densities although significant discrepancies between theory and simulation are observed with increasing density.

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arXiv2014

Dynamical arrest: interplay of the glass and of the gel transitions

The structural arrest of a polymeric suspension might be driven by an increase of the cross--linker concentration, that drives the gel transition, as well as by an increase of the polymer density, that induces a glass transition. These dynamical continuous (gel) and discontinuous (glass) transitions might interfere, since the glass transition might occur within the gel phase, and the gel transition might be induced in a polymer suspension with glassy features. Here we study the interplay of these transitions by investigating via event--driven molecular dynamics simulation the relaxation dynamics of a polymeric suspension as a function of the cross--linker concentration and the monomer volume fraction. We show that the slow dynamics within the gel phase is characterized by a long sub-diffusive regime, which is due both to the crowding as well as to the presence of a percolating cluster. In this regime, the transition of structural arrest is found to occur either along the gel or along the glass line, depending on the length scale at which the dynamics is probed. Where the two line meet there is no apparent sign of higher order dynamical singularity. Logarithmic behavior typical of $A_{3}$ singularity appear inside the gel phase along the glass transition line. These findings seem to be related to the results of the mode coupling theory for the $F_{13}$ schematic model.

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arXiv2013

Transport coefficients for driven granular mixtures at low-density

The transport coefficients of a granular binary mixture driven by a stochastic bath with friction are determined from the inelastic Boltzmann kinetic equation. A normal solution is obtained via the Chapman-Enskog method for states near homogeneous steady states. The mass, momentum, and heat fluxes are determined to first order in the spatial gradients of the hydrodynamic fields, and the associated transport coefficients are identified. They are given in terms of the solutions of a set of coupled linear integral equations. As in the monocomponent case, since the collisional cooling cannot be compensated locally for by the heat produced by the external driving, the reference distributions (zeroth-order approximations) $f_i^{(0)}$ ($i=1,2$) for each species depend on time through their dependence on the pressure and the temperature. Explicit forms for the diffusion transport coefficients and the shear viscosity coefficient are obtained by assuming the steady state conditions and by considering the leading terms in a Sonine polynomial expansion. A comparison with previous results obtained for granular Brownian motion and by using a (local) stochastic thermostat is also carried out. The present work extends previous theoretical results derived for monocomponent dense gases [V. Garzó, M. G. Chamorro, and F. Vega Reyes, Phys. Rev. E \textbf{87}, 032201 (2013)] to granular mixtures at low density.

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arXiv2012

Adiabatic piston in a temperature gradient

The steady states of two gases of hard spheres or disks separated by an adiabatic piston in presence of a temperature gradient are discussed. The temperature field is generated by two thermal walls at different temperatures, each of them in contact with one of the gases. The presence of the piston strongly affects the hydrodynamic fields, inducing a jump in its vicinity. A simple kinetic theory model is formulated. Its predictions are shown to be in good agreement with molecular dynamics simulation results. The applicability of the minimum entropy production principle is analyzed, and it is found that it only provides an accurate description of the system in the limit of a small temperature gradient.

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arXiv2011

Thermal segregation of intruders in the Fourier state of a granular gas

A low density binary mixture of granular gases is considered within the Boltzmann kinetic theory. One component, the intruders, is taken to be dilute with respect to the other, and thermal segregation of the two species is described for a special exact solution to the Boltzmann equation. This solution has a macroscopic hydrodynamic representation with a constant temperature gradient and is referred to as the Fourier state. The thermal diffusion factor characterizing conditions for segregation is calculated without the usual restriction to Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics. Molecular dynamics simulations are reported for comparison with the results for this idealized Fourier state.

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arXiv2011

Equilibration and symmetry breaking in vibrated granular systems

The steady states of two vibrated granular gases separated by an adiabatic piston are investigated. The system exhibits a non-equilibrium phase transition with an spontaneous symmetry breaking. Even if the gases at both sides of the piston have the same number of particles and are mechanically identical, their steady volumes and temperatures can be rather different. The transition can be explained by a simple kinetic theory model expressing mechanical equilibrium and the energy balance occurring in the system. The model predictions are in good agreement with molecular dynamics simulation results. The macroscopic description of the steady states is discussed, as well as some physical implications of the symmetry breaking.

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arXiv2011

Thermal Segregation Beyond Navier-Stokes

A dilute suspension of impurities in a low density gas is described by the Boltzmann and Boltzman-Lorentz kinetic theory. Scaling forms for the species distribution functions allow an exact determination of the hydrodynamic fields, without restriction to small thermal gradients or Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics. The thermal diffusion factor characterizing sedimentation is identified in terms of collision integrals as functions of the mechanical properties of the particles and the temperature gradient. An evaluation of the collision integrals using Sonine polynomial approximations is discussed. Conditions for segregation both along and opposite the temperature gradient are found, in contrast to the Navier-Stokes description for which no segregation occurs.

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arXiv2010

Critical behavior of two freely evolving granular gases separated by an adiabatic piston

Two granular gases separated by an adiabatic piston and initially in the same macroscopic state are considered. It is found that a phase transition with an spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs. When the mass of the piston is increased beyond a critical value, the piston moves to a stationary position different from the middle of the system. The transition is accurately described by a simple kinetic model that takes into account the velocity fluctuations of the piston. Interestingly, the final state is not characterized by the equality of the temperatures of the subsystems but by the cooling rates being the same. Some relevant consequences of this feature are discussed.

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