Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.003
S.A. Hosseini, I.V. Karlin
{"title":"Lattice Boltzmann for non-ideal fluids: Fundamentals and Practice","authors":"S.A. Hosseini, I.V. Karlin","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This contribution presents a comprehensive overview of lattice Boltzmann models for non-ideal fluids, covering both theoretical concepts at both kinetic and macroscopic levels and more practical discussion of numerical nature. In that context, elements of kinetic theory of ideal gases are presented and discussed at length. Then a detailed discussion of the lattice Boltzmann method for ideal gases from discretization to Galilean invariance issues and different collision models along with their effect on stability and consistency at the hydrodynamic level is presented. Extension to non-ideal fluids is then introduced in the context of the kinetic theory of gases along with the corresponding thermodynamics at the macroscopic level, i.e. the van der Waals fluid, followed by an overview of different lattice Boltzmann based models for non-ideal fluids. After an in-depth discussion of different well-known issues and artifacts and corresponding solutions, the article finishes with a brief discussion on most recent applications of such models and extensions proposed in the literature towards non-isothermal and multi-component flows.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1030 ","pages":"Pages 1-137"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2956039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.006
Mengmeng Sang , Li Feng , Ph.D. , Ang Dong , Claudia Gragnoli , Christopher Griffin , Rongling Wu , Ph.D.
{"title":"The genomic physics of tumor–microenvironment crosstalk","authors":"Mengmeng Sang , Li Feng , Ph.D. , Ang Dong , Claudia Gragnoli , Christopher Griffin , Rongling Wu , Ph.D.","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The recent years have witnessed the explosive application of sequencing technologies to study tumor–microenvironment interactions and their role in shaping intratumoral heterogeneity, neoplastic progression and tumor resistance to anticancer drugs. Statistical modeling is an essential tool to decipher the function of cellular interactions from massive amounts of transcriptomic data. However, most available approaches can only capture the existence of cell interconnections, failing to reveal how cells communicate with each other in (bi)directional, signed, and weighted manners. Widely used ligand–receptor signaling analysis can discern pairwise or dyadic cell–cell interactions, but it has little power to characterize the rock–paper–scissors cycle of interdependence among a large number of interacting cells. Here, we introduce an emerging statistical physics<span> theory, derived from the interdisciplinary cross-pollination of ecosystem theory, allometric scaling law, evolutionary game theory, predator–prey theory, and graph theory. This new theory, coined quasi-dynamic game-graph theory (qdGGT), is formulated as generalized Lotka–Volterra predator–prey equations, allowing cell–cell crosstalk networks across any level of organizational space to be inferred from any type of genomic data with any dimension. qdGGT can visualize and interrogate how genes reciprocally telegraph signals among cells from different biogeographical locations and how this process orchestrates tumor processes. We demonstrate the application of qdGGT to identify genes that drive intercellular cooperation or competition and chart mechanistic cell–cell interaction networks that mediate the tumor–microenvironment crosstalk.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1029 ","pages":"Pages 1-51"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3461033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.007
L. Marsot , P.-M. Zhang , M. Chernodub , P.A. Horvathy
{"title":"Hall motions in Carroll dynamics","authors":"L. Marsot , P.-M. Zhang , M. Chernodub , P.A. Horvathy","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>“Do Carroll particles move?” The answer depends on the characteristics of the particle such as its mass, spin, electric charge, and magnetic moment. A massive Carroll particle (closely related to fractons) does not move; its immobility follows from Carroll boost symmetry which implies dipole conservation, but not conversely. A massless Carroll particle may propagate by following the Hall law, consistently with the partial breaking of the Carroll boost symmetry. The framework is extended to Carroll field theory. In <span><math><mrow><mi>d</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></math></span><span> space dimensions, the Carroll group has a two-fold central extension which allows us to generalize the dynamics to massive and massless particles, including anyons. The anyonic spin and magnetic moment combine with the doubly-extended structure parametrized by two Casimir invariants interpreted as intrinsic magnetization and non-commutativity parameter. The extended Carroll particle subjected to an electromagnetic background field moves following a generalized Hall law which includes a Zeeman force. This theory is illustrated by massless, uncharged anyons with doubly-centrally extended structure we call exotic photons, which move on the horizon of a Black Hole, giving rise to an anyonic spin-Hall Effect.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1028 ","pages":"Pages 1-60"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3142592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.004
Jiang Zhang , Thi Ha Kyaw , Stefan Filipp , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Erik Sjöqvist , Dianmin Tong
{"title":"Geometric and holonomic quantum computation","authors":"Jiang Zhang , Thi Ha Kyaw , Stefan Filipp , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Erik Sjöqvist , Dianmin Tong","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Geometric and holonomic quantum computation utilizes intrinsic geometric properties of quantum-mechanical state spaces to realize quantum logic gates. Since both geometric phases and quantum holonomies are global quantities depending only on the evolution paths of quantum systems, quantum gates based on them possess built-in resilience to certain kinds of errors. This review provides an introduction to the topic as well as gives an overview of the theoretical and experimental progress for constructing geometric and holonomic quantum gates and how to combine them with other error-resistant techniques.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1027 ","pages":"Pages 1-53"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3461035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-07-02DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.005
Niclas Westerberg, Robert Bennett
{"title":"Perturbative light–matter interactions; from first principles to inverse design","authors":"Niclas Westerberg, Robert Bennett","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Our experience of the world around us is governed almost entirely by light–matter interactions. At the most fundamental level, such interactions are described by quantum electrodynamics (QED), a well-established theory that has stood up to decades of experimental testing to remarkable degrees of precision. However, the complexity of real systems almost always means that the quantum electrodynamical equations describing a given scenario are often infeasible or impractical to solve. Thus, a sequence of approximations and idealisations are made, in order to build up from the simple case of an isolated electron interacting with a gauge field leading to the deceptively simple laws governing reflection and refraction at mirrors and lenses. This review provides a pedagogical overview of this journey, concentrating on cases where external boundary conditions can be used as a control method. Beginning from the fundamental Lagrangian, topics include gauge freedom, perturbative macroscopic QED descriptions of spontaneous decay, Casimir–Polder forces, resonant energy transfer, interatomic Coulombic decay, all of which are described in terms of the dyadic Green’s tensor that solves the Helmholtz equation. We discuss in detail how to calculate this tensor in practical situations before outlining new techniques in the design and optimisation of perturbative light–matter interactions, highlighting some recent advances in free-form, unconstrained inverse design of optical devices. Finally, an outlook towards the frontiers in the interaction of quantum light with matter is given, including its interface with chemical reactivity via polaritonic chemistry and quantum chemistry via quantum electrodynamical density functional theory (QEDFT).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1026 ","pages":"Pages 1-63"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3405285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.002
Andrzej J. Buras
{"title":"Climbing NLO and NNLO summits of weak decays: 1988–2023","authors":"Andrzej J. Buras","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>I describe the history of the calculations of NLO and NNLO QCD<span> corrections to weak decays of mesons, particle–antiparticle mixing and electric dipole moments (EDMs) in the period 1988–2023. Also existing calculations of electroweak and QED corrections to these processes are included in this presentation. These efforts bear some analogies to the climbing of Himalayas and various expeditions by several teams of strongly motivated “climbers” allowed to move this field from the LO through the NLO to the NNLO level. We also summarize the most recent calculations within the </span></span>Standard Model<span> Effective Field Theory<span>. The material is meant to be an up to date review of this very advanced field in non-technical terms as much as possible and a guide to the rich literature on NLO and NNLO corrections in question. In particular we stress for which processes these calculations are crucial for the tests of the Standard Model and to be able to differentiate between numerous New Physics models. It includes also several anecdotes related to the climbs that I was involved in. I hope that some of the comments made in the course of the presentation could turn out to be not only amusing but also instructive.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1025 ","pages":"Pages 1-64"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3461036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.001
Karl Friston , Lancelot Da Costa , Noor Sajid , Conor Heins , Kai Ueltzhöffer , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Thomas Parr
{"title":"The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple","authors":"Karl Friston , Lancelot Da Costa , Noor Sajid , Conor Heins , Kai Ueltzhöffer , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Thomas Parr","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper provides a concise description of the free energy principle, starting from a formulation of random dynamical systems in terms of a Langevin equation and ending with a Bayesian mechanics that can be read as a physics of sentience. It rehearses the key steps using standard results from statistical physics. These steps entail (i) establishing a particular partition of states based upon conditional independencies that inherit from sparsely coupled dynamics, (ii) unpacking the implications of this partition in terms of Bayesian inference and (iii) describing the paths of particular states with a variational principle of least action. Teleologically, the free energy principle offers a normative account of self-organisation in terms of optimal Bayesian design and decision-making, in the sense of maximising marginal likelihood or Bayesian model evidence. In summary, starting from a description of the world in terms of random dynamical systems, we end up with a description of self-organisation as sentient behaviour that can be interpreted as self-evidencing; namely, self-assembly, autopoiesis or active inference.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1024 ","pages":"Pages 1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3405287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-06-15DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.06.001
H. Abele , A. Alekou , A. Algora , K. Andersen , S. Baeßler , L. Barron-Pálos , J. Barrow , E. Baussan , P. Bentley , Z. Berezhiani , Y. Beßler , A.K. Bhattacharyya , A. Bianchi , J. Bijnens , C. Blanco , N. Blaskovic Kraljevic , M. Blennow , K. Bodek , M. Bogomilov , C. Bohm , Y. Zou
{"title":"Particle physics at the European Spallation Source","authors":"H. Abele , A. Alekou , A. Algora , K. Andersen , S. Baeßler , L. Barron-Pálos , J. Barrow , E. Baussan , P. Bentley , Z. Berezhiani , Y. Beßler , A.K. Bhattacharyya , A. Bianchi , J. Bijnens , C. Blanco , N. Blaskovic Kraljevic , M. Blennow , K. Bodek , M. Bogomilov , C. Bohm , Y. Zou","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Presently under construction in Lund, Sweden, the European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the world’s brightest </span>neutron source. As such, it has the potential for a </span>particle physics program with a unique reach and which is complementary to that available at other facilities. This paper describes proposed particle physics activities for the ESS. These encompass the exploitation of both the neutrons and neutrinos produced at the ESS for high precision (sensitivity) measurements (searches).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1023 ","pages":"Pages 1-84"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"2824819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-06-11DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.06.002
Jean-Luc Lehners
{"title":"Review of the no-boundary wave function","authors":"Jean-Luc Lehners","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When the universe is treated as a quantum system, it is described by a wave function. This wave function is a function not only of the matter fields, but also of spacetime. The no-boundary proposal is the idea that the wave function should be calculated by summing over geometries that have no boundary to the past, and over regular matter configurations on these geometries. Accordingly, the universe is finite, self-contained and the big bang singularity is avoided. Moreover, given a dynamical theory, the no-boundary proposal provides probabilities for various solutions of the theory. In this sense it provides a quantum theory of initial conditions.</p><p><span>This review starts with a general overview of the framework of quantum cosmology<span>, describing both the canonical and path integral approaches, and their interpretations. After recalling several heuristic motivations for the no-boundary proposal, its consequences are illustrated with simple examples, mainly in the context of cosmic inflation. We review how to include perturbations, assess the classicality of spacetime and how probabilities may be derived. A special emphasis is given to explicit implementations in minisuperspace, to observational consequences, and to the relationship of the no-boundary wave function with </span></span>string theory. At each stage, the required analytic and numerical techniques are explained in detail, including the Picard–Lefschetz approach to oscillating integrals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1022 ","pages":"Pages 1-82"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1610450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physics ReportsPub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2023.05.001
Roberto Benzi , Federico Toschi
{"title":"Lectures on turbulence","authors":"Roberto Benzi , Federico Toschi","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2023.05.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2023.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fluid dynamics turbulence refers to the chaotic and unpredictable dynamics of flows. Despite the fact that the equations governing the motion of fluids are known since more than two centuries, a comprehensive theory of turbulence is still a challenge for the scientific community. Rather recently a number of important breakthroughs have clarified many relevant, fascinating, and largely unexpected, statistical features of turbulent fluctuations. In these lectures, we discuss recent advances in the field with the aim of highlighting the physical meaning and implication of these new ideas and their role in contributing to disentangling different parts of our understanding of the turbulence problem. The lectures aim at introducing non-experts to the subject and no previous knowledge of the field is required.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1021 ","pages":"Pages 1-106"},"PeriodicalIF":30.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"1610451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}