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Main Authors: Scheel, Arnd, Stevens, Angela
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10406
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author Scheel, Arnd
Stevens, Angela
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Stevens, Angela
contents We describe a phase transition in continuum limits of interacting particle systems that exhibits a vertical bifurcation diagram. The transition is mediated by a competition short-range repulsion and long-range attraction. As a consequence of the transition, infinitesimal parameter variations allow switching between uniform distribution and clusters in single-species models, and between mixed and sorted states in multi-species contexts, without hysteresis. Our main technical contribution is a universal expansion for the size of vacuum bubbles that arise in this phase transition and a quantitative analysis of the effect of noise.
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spellingShingle Reversible switching due to attraction and repulsion: clusters, gaps, sorting, and mixing
Scheel, Arnd
Stevens, Angela
Dynamical Systems
We describe a phase transition in continuum limits of interacting particle systems that exhibits a vertical bifurcation diagram. The transition is mediated by a competition short-range repulsion and long-range attraction. As a consequence of the transition, infinitesimal parameter variations allow switching between uniform distribution and clusters in single-species models, and between mixed and sorted states in multi-species contexts, without hysteresis. Our main technical contribution is a universal expansion for the size of vacuum bubbles that arise in this phase transition and a quantitative analysis of the effect of noise.
title Reversible switching due to attraction and repulsion: clusters, gaps, sorting, and mixing
topic Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10406