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In his seminal work on turbulence, Kolmogorov made use of the stationary hypothesis to determine the Power Density Spectrum of the velocity field in turbulent flows. However to our knowledge, the constraints that stationary processes impose…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-06 Sébastien Aumaître , Stéphan Fauve

We study the dynamics of the fluctuations of the variance $s$ of the order parameter of the Gaussian model, following a temperature quench of the thermal bath. At each time $t$, there is a critical value $s_c(t)$ of $s$ such that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-11 Federico Corberi , Onofrio Mazzarisi , Andrea Gambassi

Collisional Brownian engines have attracted significant attention due to their simplicity, experimental accessibility, and amenability to exact analytical solutions. While previous research has predominantly focused on optimizing mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-11 Gustavo A. L. Forão , Fernando S. Filho , Pedro V. Paraguassú

We present an analysis and discuss consequences of the strong correlations of the configurational parts of pressure and energy in their equilibrium fluctuations at fixed volume reported for simulations of several liquids in the companion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicholas P. Bailey , Ulf R. Pedersen , Nicoletta Gnan , Thomas B. Schrøder , Jeppe C. Dyre

We look into the fluctuations caused by disturbances in power systems. In the linearized system of the power systems, the disturbance is modeled by a Brownian motion process, and the fluctuations are described by the covariance matrix of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Xian Wu , Kaihua Xi , Aijie Cheng , Hai Xiang Lin , Jan H van Schuppen , Chenghui Zhang

We study the behavior of a moving wall in contact with a particle gas and subjected to an external force. We compare the fluctuations of the system observed in the microcanonical and canonical ensembles, at varying the number of particles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 L. Cerino , G. Gradenigo , A. Sarracino , D. Villamaina , A. Vulpiani

Fluctuations of the electromagnetic field produced by quantized matter in external electric field are investigated. A general expression for the power spectrum of fluctuations is derived within the long-range expansion. It is found that in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kirill A. Kazakov

We present an insightful ``derivation'' of the Langevin equation and the fluctuation dissipation theorem in the specific context of a heavier particle moving through an ideal gas of much lighter particles. The Newton's Law of motion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rangan Lahiri , Arvind , Anirban Sain

The article provides a unitary and complete solution to the fluctuation-dissipation relations for particle hydromechanics in a generic fluid, accounting for the hydrodynamic fluid-particle interactions (including arbitrary memory kernels in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-30 Massimiliano Giona , Giuseppe Procopio , Chiara Pezzotti

The statistics of power fluctuations are studied in simulations of two-dimensional turbulence in both inverse (energy) and direct (enstrophy) cascade regimes from both Lagrangian and Eulerian perspectives. The probability density function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-01 M. M. Bandi , C. Connaughton

Vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field induce current fluctuations in resistively shunted Josephson junctions that are measurable in terms of a physical power spectrum. In this paper we investigate under which conditions vacuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Beck , Michael C. Mackey

We consider lattice gas diffusive dynamics with creation-annihilation in the bulk and maintained out of equilibrium by two reservoirs at the boundaries. This stochastic particle system can be viewed as a toy model for granular gases where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. Bodineau , M. Lagouge

Multiplicity fluctuations and correlations are calculated within thermalized relativistic ideal quantum gases. These are shown to be sensitive to the choice of statistical ensemble as well as to the choice of acceptance window in momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-20 Michael Hauer , Giorgio Torrieri , Spencer Wheaton

We discuss the microscopic definition of entropy production rate in a model of a dissipative system: a sheared fluid in which the kinetic energy is kept constant via a Gaussian thermostat. The total phase space contraction rate is the sum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Zamponi , G. Ruocco , L. Angelani

The atmosphere gains available potential energy by solar radiation and dissipates kinetic energy mainly in the atmospheric boundary layer. We analyze the fluctuations of the global mean energy cycle defined by Lorenz (1955) in a simulation…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Richard Blender , Denny Gohlke , Frank Lunkeit

Systems that are driven out of thermal equilibrium typically dissipate random quantities of energy on microscopic scales. Crooks fluctuation theorem relates the distribution of these random work costs with the corresponding distribution for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Johan Aberg

This paper presents a new, non-Gaussian formulation of stochastic gravity by incorporating the higher moments of the fluctuations of the quantum stress energy tensor for a free quantum scalar field in a consistent way. A scheme is developed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-17 Jason D. Bates

Expressions for the quantum fluctuations of energy density have been derived for the subsystems consisting of hot relativistic gas of particles with spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ and mass $m$. Our expressions for the fluctuation depend on the form of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Rajeev Singh

We present numerical evidence supporting the validity of the Gallavotti-Cohen Fluctuation Theorem applied to the driven Lorentz gas with Nos\'e-Hoover thermostating. It is moreover argued that the asymptotic form of the fluctuation formula…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-29 Thomas Gilbert

Small-scale fluctuations of different tracers of the interstellar the medium can be used to study the nature of turbulence in astrophysical scales. Of these, the `continuum' emission traces the fluctuations integrated along the line of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy