Statistical Mechanics
Diffusion with multipole-moment conservation gives rise to transport laws that generalize Fick's law and has attracted growing attention following experimental advances in strongly tilted optical lattices. It was recently shown that…
We develop a geometric formulation of thermodynamic response in the classical Ising model by defining a curvature field over the control manifold spanned by inverse temperature $\beta$ and magnetic field $h$. We show that the existence of…
We investigate the emergence and detection of Hawking radiation (HR) in a 1D chiral spin chain model, where the gravitational collapse is simulated by a sudden quantum quench that triggers a horizon-inducing phase transition. While our…
Black-box optimization (BBO) is used in materials design, drug discovery, and hyperparameter tuning in machine learning. The world is experiencing several of these problems. In this review, a factorization machine with quantum annealing or…
We provide an exact formula for the mean first-passage time (MFPT) to a target at the origin for a single particle diffusing on a $d$-dimensional hypercubic {\em lattice} starting from a fixed initial position $\vec R_0$ and resetting to…
Despite the attempts to apply a quantum annealer to Boltzmann sampling, it is still impossible to perform accurate sampling at arbitrary temperatures. Conventional distribution correction methods such as importance sampling and resampling…
We present steps towards an ab initio derivation of generalised hydrodynamics in quantum integrable models, starting from the Bethe wave functions, and explained on the example of the repulsive Lieb-Liniger model. This includes an…
We study the thermodynamic phase diagram of a one-dimensional quantum spin chain subjected to both mean-field and nearest-neighbor interactions, and to a transverse magnetic field $h$. The purpose is to determine the effect of the quantum…
We theoretically and experimentally study finite-time optimal control of a colloidal particle steered through a spatially inhomogeneous environment, modeled by a position-dependent energetic cost at the final state. The competition between…
We experimentally, numerically and analytically explore the diffusive transport of active colloidal particles with sensory delay, navigating motility landscapes in which the self-propulsion speed depends on space. We show how the transport…
We investigate phase separation dynamics in a binary mixture subjected to a moving cooling source from which cold temperature fronts propagate radially outward into the mixture. The motion of the source introduces two distinct velocity…
Non-Markovian dynamics arise when a system is coupled to a bath with finite correlation time, giving rise to memory effects that allow the bath to temporarily store and return excitations. However, how memory modifies irreversibility and…
We develop the thermodynamics of non-Markovian generalized Langevin equations by embedding them in a high-dimensional Markovian representation involving auxiliary degrees of freedom. If the memory is linear and satisfies detailed balance…
Tensor network (TN) methods are well established for computing partition functions in statistical mechanics, though this use has traditionally been limited to lattice models. We extend the scope of TN methodology to interacting particle…
We present a validation of the asdf method, an information-theoretic framework for computing thermodynamic entropy from molecular configurations. The method reformulates entropy estimation as the Shannon entropy of a residual mapping…
We introduce a constructive framework for assigning thermodynamic structure to an arbitrary data system from its measured microstates. Starting from an empirical distribution over configurations, we first infer a data-driven energy function…
We propose a general approach, named by us hyperstatistics, to treat complex systems, in which Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics breaks down in domains of the system. Hyperstatistics preserves the concavity of nonadditive $q$-entropy. We obtain…
Stochastic field theories are often constructed phenomenologically, without a systematic assessment of thermodynamic consistency or local detailed balance. This may hinder a physical description of irreversibility at the field-theoretic…
We show that the long-range order (LRO) strikingly emerges in systems of locally coupled $D$-dimensional vector Kuramoto oscillators on low-dimensional lattices ($d=1,2$), but only for odd $D$. This parity-dependent effect is traced to…
We investigate the creep dynamics of a driven elastic line at finite temperature, well below the depinning threshold. We show that creep is governed by two distinct length scales. The first, $\ell_{\mathrm{opt}}$, corresponds to the optimal…