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By means of a simple model system, the total volume fluctuations of a tapped granular material in the steady state are studied. In the limit of a system with a large number of particles, they are found to be Gaussian distributed, and…

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Quantum fluctuations of scalar fields during inflation could determine the very large-scale structure of the universe. In the case of general scalar-tensor gravity theories these fluctuations lead to the diffusion of fundamental constants…

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We analyze the dynamics of gauge theories and constrained systems in general under small perturbations around a classical solution (background) in both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms. We prove that a fluctuations theory, described by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Olivera Miskovic , Josep M. Pons

A correspondence between fluctuations of non-minimally coupled scalar fields and that of an effective fluid with heat flux and anisotropic stresses, is shown. Though the correspondence between respective stress tensors of scalar fields and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 Seema Satin

Using the recently proposed covariant framework of general relativistic stochastic mechanics and stochastic thermodynamics, we proved the detailed and integral fluctuation theorems in curved spacetime. The time-reversal transformation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Yifan Cai , Tao Wang , Liu Zhao

Fluctuation theorems have a very special place in the study of non equilibrium dynamics of physical systems. The form in which it is used most extensively is the Gallavoti-Cohen Fluctuation Theorem which is in terms of the distribution of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 G. S. Agarwal , Sushanta Dattagupta

In the framework of finite temperature conformal scalar field theory on de Sitter space-time the linearized Einstein equations for the renormalized stress tensor are exactly solved. In this theory quantum field fluctuations are concentrated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 D. V. Fursaev , G. Miele

In a previous work the authors have solved the Einstein equations of General Relativity for a class of metrics with constant spatial curvature, where it was found a non vanishing Weyl tensor in the presence of a primordial magnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-10 Grasiele B. Santos , Eduardo Bittencourt , José M. Salim

The variability of temporal (or spatial) fluctuations of any variable is represented in conventional statistical theory by the relative dispersion equal to the standard deviation divided by the mean . The Relative Dispersion decreases with…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Selvam , Suvarna Fadnavis , S. U. Athale

We study many interacting Brownian particles under a tilted periodic potential. We numerically measure the linear response coefficient of the density field by applying a slowly varying potential transversal to the tilted direction. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-02 Takenobu Nakamura , Shin-ichi Sasa

We study the classical XY model in bounded domains of $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that when the temperature goes to zero faster than a certain rate as the lattice spacing goes to zero, the fluctuation field…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Charles M. Newman , Wei Wu

We give an improved formalism for calculating the evolution of density fluctuations and temperature perturbations in flat universes. Our equations are general enough to treat the perturbations in collisionless relics like massive neutrinos.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Robert K. Schaefer , Andrew A. de Laix

Usually, the transverse momentum distribution is described by a sum of an exponential decay term plus a decreasing power like contribution representing the soft non-perturbative and hard perturbative QCD collisions, respectively. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-20 C. Pajares , J. E. Ramírez

A Gaussian fluctuation formula is proved for linear statistics of complex random matrices in the case that the statistic is rotationally invariant. For a general linear statistic without this symmetry, Coulomb gas theory is used to predict…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Forrester

We study geometric properties of a random Gaussian short-time correlated velocity field by considering statistics of a passively advected metric tensor. That describes universal properties of fluctuations of tensor objects frozen into the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Boldyrev , A. Schekochihin

We review various methods to investigate the statics and the dynamics of collective composition fluctuations in dense polymer mixtures within fluctuating-field approaches. The central idea of fluctuating-field theories is to rewrite the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcus Mueller , Friederike Schmid

We consider a generalization of the basic fuzzy torus to a fuzzy torus with non-trivial modular parameter, based on a finite matrix algebra. We discuss the modular properties of this fuzzy torus, and compute the matrix Laplacian for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-18 Paul Schreivogl , Harold Steinacker

With the decline of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the recent experiments indicating that quantum mechanics does actually embody 'objective reality', one might ask if a 'mechanical', conceptual model for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Carl Frederick

A finite quantum system evolving unitarily equilibrates in a probabilistic fashion. In the general many-body setting the time-fluctuations of an observable \mathcal{A} are typically exponentially small in the system size. We consider here…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-22 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

Quantum fields possess zero-point or vacuum fluctuations which induce mechanical effects, namely generalised Casimir forces, on any scatterer. Symmetries of vacuum therefore raise fundamental questions when confronted with the principle of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud