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The objective of statistical physics is to understand macroscopic behavior of a many-body system from the interactions of the constituents of that system. When many-body systems reach critical states, simple universal and scaling behaviors…

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The three-body problem, which describes three masses interacting through Newtonian gravity without any restrictions imposed on the initial positions and velocities of these masses, has attracted the attention of many scientists for more…

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We explore the emergence of many-body physics from quantum mechanics via spontaneous symmetry breaking. To this end, we study potentials which are functionals on the space of Hamiltonians enjoying an unstable critical point corresponding to…

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The work distribution function for a non-relativistic, non-interacting quantum many-body system interacting with classical external sources is investigated. Exact expressions for the characteristic function corresponding to the work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Fardin Kheirandish

We describe the dynamics and thermodynamics of collisionless particle disks orbiting a massive central body, in the case where the disk mass is small compared to the central mass, the self-gravity of the disk dominates the non-Keplerian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-12 Jihad Touma , Scott Tremaine

In this paper, we study thermodynamics of the cluster of galaxies under the effect of dynamical dark energy. We evaluate the configurational integral for interacting system of galaxies in an expanding universe by including the effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-21 Behnam Pourhassan , Sudhaker Upadhyay , Mir Hameeda , Mir Faizal

The most probable state of an infinite self-gravitating gas in the dynamical equilibrium is defined by `gravitational haziness', a parameter representing many-body effects and formally like the temperature in the case of thermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-12 Alexander B. Kashuba

The exact equations of motion for microscopic density of classical particles number with account of inter-particle interactions and external field in closed form are derived. An integral equation for equilibrium distributions of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-18 A. Yu. Zakharov

The main tools in cosmology for comparing theoretical models with the observations of the galaxy distribution are statistical. We will review the applications of spatial statistics to the description of the large-scale structure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vicent J. Martinez , Enn Saar

In quantum statistical mechanics, closed many-body systems that do not exhibit thermalization after an arbitrarily long time in spite of the presence of interactions are called as many-body localized systems, and recently have been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-14 Fumihiko Sugino , Pramod Padmanabhan

Statistical mechanics is one of the most comprehensive theories in physics. From a boiling pot of water to the complex dynamics of quantum many-body systems it provides a successful connection between the microscopic dynamics of atoms and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-06 B. Rauer , T. Schweigler , T. Langen , J. Schmiedmayer

We describe the astrophysical and numerical basis of N-body simulations, both of collisional stellar systems (dense star clusters and galactic centres) and collisionless stellar dynamics (galaxies and large-scale structure). We explain and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-26 Walter Dehnen , Justin Read

Thermodynamics of quantum systems out-of-equilibrium is very important for the progress of quantum technologies, however, the effects of many body interactions and their interplay with temperature, different drives and dynamical regimes is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. H. Skelt , K. Zawadzki , I. D'Amico

The thermodynamic equilibrium conditions for compact structures composed by mass varying particles are discussed assuming that the so-called dynamical mass behaves like an additional extensive thermodynamic degree of freedom. It then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-07 Alex E. Bernardini , O. Bertolami

The study of quantum mechanical few-body systems is a century old pursuit relevant to countless subfields of physics. While the two-body problem is generally considered to be well-understood theoretically and numerically, venturing to three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 N. T. Zinner

The self-gravitating systems are formed by particles interacting through gravity. They describe structure formation in the universe. As a consequence of the long range interaction of gravity, they are inhomogeneous even at thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Siebert

The classical limit of quantum mechanics is investigated, by focusing on the study of the center of mass of a many-body system where each particle is described by quantum mechanics. We study how, in the limit when the number of particles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Marco Bilardello

The observed late-time acceleration of the cosmic expansion constitutes a fundamental problem in modern theoretical physics and cosmology. In an attempt to weight the validity of a large number of dark energy models, I use the recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-21 Spyros Basilakos

Complex macroscopic behaviour can arise in many-body systems with only very simple elements as a consequence of the combination of competition and inhomogeneity. This paper attempts to illustrate how statistical physics has driven this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-01-10 David Sherrington

The famous three-body problem is investigated by means of a numerical approach with negligible numerical noises in a long enough time interval, namely the Clean Numerical Simulation (CNS). From physical viewpoints, position of any bodies…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-23 Shijun Liao