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In a first part the scope of classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics is discussed in the broader context of formal dynamical systems, including computer programmes. In this context classical thermodynamics appears as a particular…

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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics formalism is proposed to derive the flux of grainy (bubbles-containing) matter, emerging in a nucleation growth process. Some power and non-power limits, due to the applied potential as well as owing to basic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Rubi , A. Gadomski

Ab initio calculations and statistical mechanics are combined to elucidate the thermodynamics of H vacancies in MgH2. A general method based on a grand-canonical ensemble of defect configurations is introduced to model the exchange of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Grau-Crespo , K. C. Smith , T. S. Fisher , N. H. de Leeuw , U. V. Waghmare

Capillary energy barriers have important consequences for immiscible fluid flow in porous media. We derive time-and-space averaging theory to account for non-equilibrium behavior and understand the role of athermal capillary fluctuations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 James E. McClure , Steffen Berg , Ryan T. Armstrong

In this paper we study macroscopic thermodynamic properties of a stochastic microscopic heat conduction model that is reduced from deterministic problems. Our goal is to numerically check how the `low energy site effect' inherited from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Yao Li , Wenbo Xie

We employ the macroscopic fluctuation theory to study fluctuations of integrated current in one-dimensional lattice gases with a step-like initial density profile. We analytically determine the variance of the current fluctuations for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. L. Krapivsky , Baruch Meerson

Active matter systems exhibit rich emergent behavior due to constant injection and dissipation of energy at the level of individual agents. Since these systems are far from equilibrium, their dynamics and energetics cannot be understood…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-23 Sarah Eldeen , Ryan Muoio , Paris Blaisdell-Pijuan , Ngoc La , Mauricio Gomez , Alex Vidal , Wylie Ahmed

A microscopic model of interacting oscillators, which admits two conserved quantities, volume, and energy, is investigated. We begin with a system driven by a general nonlinear potential under high-temperature regime by taking the inverse…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Patrícia Gonçalves , Kohei Hayashi

Fluctuation theorems play a central role in nonequilibrium physics and stochastic thermodynamics. Here we derive an integral fluctuation theorem for the dissipated heat in systems governed by an underdamped Langevin dynamics. We show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-17 M. L. Rosinberg , G. Tarjus , T. Munakata

We study a granular gas heated by a stochastic thermostat in the dilute limit. Starting from the kinetic equations governing the evolution of the correlation functions, a Boltzmann-Langevin equation is constructed. The spectrum of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-11 P. Maynar , M. I. Garcia de Soria , E. Trizac

The fundamental insight into Brownian motion by Einstein is that all substances exhibit continual fluctuations due to thermal agitation balancing with the frictional resistance. However, even at thermal equilibrium, biological activity can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-02-19 Soya Shinkai , Yuichi Togashi

We compare the spectral properties of long meteorological temperature records with laboratory measurements in small convection cells. Surprisingly, the atmospheric boundary layer sampled on a daily scale shares the statistical properties of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 I. M. Jánosi , G. Vattay , A. Harnos

The concept of local pressure is pivotal to describe many important physical phenomena, such as buoyancy or atmospheric phenomena, which always require the consideration of space-varying pressure fields. These fields have precise…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 Simão M. João , J. P. Santos Pires , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes

Understanding the dynamics of material objects advected by turbulent flows is a long standing question in fluid dynamics. In this perspective article we focus on the characterization of the statistical properties of non-interacting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yaning Fan , Cheng Wang , Linfeng Jiang , Chao Sun , Enrico Calzavarini

Two interaction mechanisms of particles in a fluid are proposed on base of forces, mediated by hydrodynamic thermal fluctuations. The first one is similar to the conventional van der Waals interaction, but instead of been mediated by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 B. I. Ivlev

In incompressible and periodic statistically stationary turbulence, exchanges of turbulent energy across scales and space are characterised by very intense and intermittent spatio-temporal fluctuations around zero of the time-derivative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-28 Tatsuya Yasuda , John Christos Vassilicos

We present a general method to identify an arbitrary number of fluctuating quantities which satisfy a detailed fluctuation theorem for all times within the framework of time-inhomogeneous Markovian jump processes. In doing so we provide a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-11 Riccardo Rao , Massimiliano Esposito

The emergence of a classical spacetime from any quantum gravity model is still a subtle and only partially understood issue. If indeed spacetime is arising as some sort of large scale condensate of more fundamental objects then it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-24 Stefano Liberati , Luca Maccione

Starting from the kinetic equations for the fluctuations and correlations of a dilute gas of inelastic hard spheres or disks, a Boltzmann-Langevin equation for the one-particle distribution function of the homogeneous cooling state is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Javier Brey , P. Maynar , M. I. Garcia de Soria

We characterize statistical properties of the flow field in developed turbulence using concepts from stochastic thermodynamics. On the basis of data from a free air-jet experiment, we demonstrate how the dynamic fluctuations induced by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-23 D. Nickelsen , A. Engel