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The Ising model, in presence of an external magnetic field, is isomorphic to a model of localized interacting particles satisfying the Fermi statistics. By using this isomorphism, we construct a general solution of the Ising model which…

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The formation of self-gravitating systems is studied by simulating the collapse of a set of N particles which are generated from several distribution functions. We first establish that the results of such simulations depend on N for small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Roy , J. Perez

Generic self-gravitating quantum solutions that are not critically dependent on the specifics of microscopic interactions are presented. The solutions incorporate curvature effects, are consistent with the universality of gravity, and have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 James Lindesay

Real physical systems are often maintained off equilibrium by energy or matter flows. If these systems are far from equilibrium then the thermodynamical branch become unstable and fluctuations can lead them to other more stable states.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Huber

We investigate the multiparameter quantum estimation and quantum thermodynamics properties of a gravitational cat state (gravcat) system composed of two interacting massive particles confined in double-well potentials. The system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Omar Bachain , Mohamed Amazioug , Rachid Ahl Laamara

We study, using both theory and molecular dynamics simulations, the relaxation dynamics of a microcanonical two dimensional self-gravitating system. After a sufficiently large time, a gravitational cluster of N particles relaxes to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-25 Tarcísio N. Teles , Yan Levin , Renato Pakter , Felipe B. Rizzato

Modeling the internal structure of self-gravitating solid and liquid bodies presents a challenge, as existing approaches are often limited to either overly simplistic constant-density approximations or more complex numerical equations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Bartosz Żbik , Andrzej Odrzywołek

A mean field spherical model with random couplings between pairs, quartets, and possibly higher multiplets of spins is considered. It has the same critical behavior as the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. It thus exhibits replica symmetry…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

The presented paper is an attempt to investigate the dynamical states of an hydrodynamical isothermal turbulent self-gravitating system using some powerful tools of the classical thermodynamics. Our main assumption, inspired by the work of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-21 Sava Donkov , Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Todor V. Veltchev

A steady self-diffusion process in a gas of hard spheres at equilibrium is analyzed. The system exhibits a constant gradient of labeled particles. Neither the concentration of these particles nor its gradient are assumed to be small. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We discuss the nature of phase transitions in self-gravitating systems both in the microcanonical and in the canonical ensemble. We avoid the divergence of the gravitational potential at short distances by considering the case of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. H. Chavanis

We study equilibrium states in relativistic galactic dynamics which are described by solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov system for collisionless matter. We recast the equations into a regular three-dimensional system of autonomous first order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-01 Mikael Fjällborg , J. Mark Heinzle , Claes Uggla

The microcanonical statistical mechanics of a set of self-gravitating particles is analyzed in mean-field approach. In order to deal with an upper bounded entropy functional, a softened gravitational potential is used. The softening is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduardo Follana , Victor Laliena

Astrophysical systems differ often in two points from classical thermodynamical systems: 1.) They are open and 2.) gravity is a dominant factor. Both modifies the homogeneous equilibrium structure, known from classical thermodynamics. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Huber

We study the Gauged Thirring Model (also known as Kondo Model) in thermodynamic equilibrium using the Matsubara-Fradkin-Nakanishi formalism. In this formulation, both the temperature and the chemical potential are kept to be nonvanishing.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-30 C. A. Bonin , B. M. Pimentel

We complete previous investigations on the thermodynamics of self-gravitating systems by studying the grand canonical, grand microcanonical and isobaric ensembles. We also discuss the stability of polytropic spheres in the light of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. H. Chavanis

A discrete quantum spin system is presented in which several modern methods of canonical quantum gravity can be tested with promising results. In particular, features of interacting dynamics are analyzed with an emphasis on homogeneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Bekir Baytaş , Martin Bojowald

According to self-similarity hypothesis, the thermodynamic limit could be defined from the scaling laws for the system self-similarity by using the microcanonical ensemble. This analysis for selfgravitating systems yields the following…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Velazquez , F. Guzman

We study a system of self-gravitating massive fermions in the framework of the general-relativistic Thomas-Fermi model. We postulate the free energy functional and show that its extremization is equivalent to solving the Einstein's field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Neven Bilic , Raoul Viollier

The use of statistical methods to model gravitational systems is crucial to physics practice, but the extent to which thermodynamics and statistical mechanics genuinely apply to these systems is a contentious issue. This paper provides new…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Lorenzo Lorenzetti