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Statistical Mechanics of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Evolutionary Ecology
Nicholas Chia, Nigel Goldenfeld
The biological world, especially its majority microbial component, is strongly interacting and may be dominated by collective effects. In this review, we provide a brief introducti…
Dislocations Jam At Any Density
Georgios Tsekenis, Nigel Goldenfeld, Karin A. Dahmen
Crystalline materials deform in an intermittent way via dislocation-slip avalanches. Below a critical stress, the dislocations are jammed within their glide plane due to long-range…
Life is physics: evolution as a collective phenomenon far from equilibrium
Nigel Goldenfeld, Carl Woese
Evolution is the fundamental physical process that gives rise to biological phenomena. Yet it is widely treated as a subset of population genetics, and thus its scope is artificial…
Theory of cooperation in a micro-organismal snow-drift game
Zhenyu Wang, Nigel Goldenfeld
We present a mean field model for the phase diagram of a community of micro-organisms, interacting through their metabolism so that they are, in effect, engaging in a cooperative s…
Fluctuation-driven Turing patterns
Thomas Butler, Nigel Goldenfeld
Models of diffusion driven pattern formation that rely on the Turing mechanism are utilized in many areas of science. However, many such models suffer from the defect of requiring…
The effect of Coulombic friction on spatial displacement statistics
Andreas M. Menzel, Nigel Goldenfeld
The phenomenon of Coulombic friction enters the stochastic description of dry friction between two solids and the statistic characterization of vibrating granular media. Here we an…