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20192026
most citedFrom interacting agents to density-based modeling with stochastic PDEs

30 citations · 127 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.soc-ph2026

Collective variables for homophily-driven network rewiring dynamics

Sören Nagel, Stefanie Winkelmann, Péter Koltai +2

Stochastic network rewiring processes, in which edges dynamically rewire based on fixed node attributes, are widely used in applications ranging from social dynamics to neuroscienc…

physics.soc-ph2026

Opinion Dynamics over Migration Networks

Lőrinc Márton, Stefanie Winkelmann, Mauricio J. del Razo +1

Opinions play a crucial role in shaping collective phenomena such as political polarization, cultural integration and demographic change. By continuously changing social environmen…

math.DS2026

Energetic characterisation of transient clustering dynamics in aggregation-diffusion systems

Nathalie Wehlitz, Richard Scherzer, Carsten Hartmann +1

We investigate transient clustering dynamics in nonlocal aggregation-diffusion systems from an energetic perspective. Starting from a stochastic interacting particle system, we stu…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Data-driven Reduction of Transfer Operators for Particle Clustering Dynamics

Nathalie Wehlitz, Grigorios A. Pavliotis, Christof Schütte +1

We develop an operator-based framework to coarse-grain interacting particle systems that exhibit clustering dynamics. Starting from the particle-based transfer operator, we first c…

physics.soc-ph2025

Accurate mean-field equation for voter model dynamics on scale-free networks

Marvin Lücke, Stefanie Winkelmann, Péter Koltai

Understanding the emergent macroscopic behavior of dynamical systems on networks is a crucial but challenging task. One of the simplest and most effective methods to construct a re…

math.DS2025

Unfolding the geometric structure and multiple timescales of the urea-urease pH oscillator

Arthur V. Straube, Guillermo Olicón Méndez, Stefanie Winkelmann +2

We study a two-variable dynamical system modeling pH oscillations in the urea-urease reaction within giant lipid vesicles -- a problem that intrinsically contains multiple, well-se…

q-bio.QM2024

Approximating particle-based clustering dynamics by stochastic PDEs

Nathalie Wehlitz, Mohsen Sadeghi, Alberto Montefusco +3

This work proposes stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) as a practical tool to replicate clustering effects of more detailed particle-based dynamics. Inspired by membr…

q-bio.QM2024

Multi-grid reaction-diffusion master equation: applications to morphogen gradient modelling

Radek Erban, Stefanie Winkelmann

The multi-grid reaction-diffusion master equation (mgRDME) provides a generalization of stochastic compartment-based reaction-diffusion modelling described by the standard reaction…

physics.bio-ph2023

Partial mean-field model for neurotransmission dynamics

Alberto Montefusco, Luzie Helfmann, Toluwani Okunola +2

This article addresses reaction networks in which spatial and stochastic effects are of crucial importance. For such systems, particle-based models allow us to describe all microsc…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 4 cited

Learning Interpretable Collective Variables for Spreading Processes on Networks

Marvin Lücke, Stefanie Winkelmann, Jobst Heitzig +2

Collective variables (CVs) are low-dimensional projections of high-dimensional system states. They are used to gain insights into complex emergent dynamical behaviors of processes…

math.DS2023★ 2 cited

Rate-limiting recovery processes in neurotransmission under sustained stimulation

Ariane Ernst, Nathalie Unger, Christof Schütte +2

At chemical synapses, an arriving electric signal induces the fusion of vesicles with the presynaptic membrane, thereby releasing neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. After a…

physics.chem-ph2022★ 4 cited

Accurate reduced models for the pH oscillations in the urea-urease reaction confined to giant lipid vesicles

Arthur V. Straube, Stefanie Winkelmann, Felix Höfling

This theoretical study concerns a pH oscillator based on the urea-urease reaction confined to giant lipid vesicles. Under suitable conditions, differential transport of urea and hy…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 18 cited

Chemical diffusion master equation: formulations of reaction--diffusion processes on the molecular level

Mauricio J. del Razo, Stefanie Winkelmann, Rupert Klein +1

The chemical diffusion master equation (CDME) describes the probabilistic dynamics of reaction--diffusion systems at the molecular level [del Razo et al., Lett. Math. Phys. 112:49,…

math.PR2022★ 3 cited

Large population limits of Markov processes on random networks

Marvin Lücke, Jobst Heitzig, Péter Koltai +2

We consider time-continuous Markovian discrete-state dynamics on random networks of interacting agents and study the large population limit. The dynamics are projected onto low-dim…

math.DS2022

Synchronization and random attractors for reaction jump processes

Maximilian Engel, Guillermo Olicón-Méndez, Nathalie Unger +1

This work explores a synchronization-like phenomenon induced by common noise for continuous-time Markov jump processes given by chemical reaction networks. A corresponding random d…

math.DS2022★ 28 cited

Mathematical modeling of spatio-temporal population dynamics and application to epidemic spreading

Stefanie Winkelmann, Johannes Zonker, Christof Schütte +1

Agent based models (ABMs) are a useful tool for modeling spatio-temporal population dynamics, where many details can be included in the model description. Their computational cost…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

A route to the hydrodynamic limit of a reaction-diffusion master equation using gradient structures

Alberto Montefusco, Christof Schütte, Stefanie Winkelmann

The reaction-diffusion master equation (RDME) is a lattice-based stochastic model for spatially resolved cellular processes. It is often interpreted as an approximation to spatiall…

physics.chem-ph2021★ 13 cited

Stochastic pH oscillations in a model of the urea-urease reaction confined to lipid vesicles

Arthur V. Straube, Stefanie Winkelmann, Christof Schütte +1

The urea-urease clock reaction is a pH switch from acid to basic that can turn into a pH oscillator if it occurs inside a suitable open reactor. We study the confinement of the rea…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 25 cited

A probabilistic framework for particle-based reaction-diffusion dynamics using classical Fock space representations

Mauricio J. del Razo, Daniela Frömberg, Arthur V. Straube +3

The modeling and simulation of stochastic reaction-diffusion processes is a topic of steady interest that is approached with a wide range of methods. \rev{At the level of particle-…

math.DS2019★ 30 cited

From interacting agents to density-based modeling with stochastic PDEs

Luzie Helfmann, Natasa Djurdjevac Conrad, Ana Djurdjevac +2

Many real-world processes can naturally be modeled as systems of interacting agents. However, the long-term simulation of such agent-based models is often intractable when the syst…