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Self-gravitating systems are expected to reach a statistical equilibrium state either through collisional relaxation or violent collisionless relaxation. However, a maximum entropy state does not always exist and the system may undergo a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. H. Chavanis , C. Rosier , C. Sire

(abbreviated) The statistical mechanics of self-gravitating systems is a long-held puzzle. In this work, we employ a phenomenological entropy form of ideal gas, first proposed by White & Narayan, to revisit this issue. By calculating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-09 Ping He , Dong-Biao Kang

The long-standing puzzle surrounding the statistical mechanics of self-gravitating systems has not yet been solved successfully. We formulate a systematic theoretical framework of entropy-based statistical mechanics for spherically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-23 Ping He

The density of states of self-gravitational system diverges when the particles are spread to infinity. Other problem based an inhomogeneous distribution of particles,which motivate the gravitational interaction. In this sense the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-15 B. I. Lev

In an effort to better understand collisionless relaxation processes in gravitational systems, we investigate one-dimensional models. Taking advantage of a Hermite-Legendre expansion of relevant distribution functions, we present analytical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-12 Eric I. Barnes , Robert J. Ragan

Certain thermal non-equilibrium situations, outside of the astrophysical realm, suggest that entropy production extrema, instead of entropy extrema, are related to stationary states. In an effort to better understand the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Eric I. Barnes , Liliya L. R. Williams

Relaxation processes in collisionless dynamics lead to peculiar behavior in systems with long-range interactions such as self-gravitating systems, non-neutral plasmas and wave-particle systems. These systems, adequately described by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 Pierre de Buyl , Pierre Gaspard

In self-gravitating stars, two dimensional or geophysical flows and in plasmas, long range interactions imply a lack of additivity for the energy; as a consequence, the usual thermodynamic limit is not appropriate. However, by contrast with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Freddy Bouchet , Julien Barré , Antoine Venaille

We present an analysis of two thermodynamic techniques for determining equilibria of self-gravitating systems. One is the Lynden-Bell entropy maximization analysis that introduced violent relaxation. Since we do not use the Stirling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Eric I. Barnes , Liliya L. R. Williams

A simplified thermodynamic approach of the incompressible 2D Euler equation is considered based on the conservation of energy, circulation and microscopic enstrophy. Statistical equilibrium states are obtained by maximizing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-12 A. Naso , P. H. Chavanis , B. Dubrulle

A relativistic self-gravitating equilibrium system with spherical symmetry as well as with steady energy flow is investigated perturbatively around the hydrostatic limit, where the radial component of the fluid velocity field $u^\mu$ is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Shuichi Yokoyama

This paper considers continuously differentiable functions of two vector variables that have (possibly a continuum of) min-max saddle points. We study the asymptotic convergence properties of the associated saddle-point dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Ashish Cherukuri , Bahman Gharesifard , Jorge Cortes

Self-gravitating system are non-equilibrium a priory. A new approach is proposed, which employs a non-equilibrium statistical operator into account inhomogeneous distribution of particles and temperature. The method involves the saddle -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-12 B. I. Lev

We study the relaxation towards thermodynamical equilibrium of a 1-D gravitational system. This OSC model shows a series of critical energies $E_{cn}$ where new equilibria appear and we focus on the homogeneous ($n=0$), one-peak ($n=\pm 1$)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Patrick Valageas

The aim of this paper is to use large deviation theory in order to compute the entropy of macrostates for the microcanonical measure of the shallow water system. The main prediction of this full statistical mechanics computation is the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-25 Antoine Renaud , Antoine Venaille , Freddy Bouchet

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

In this article, we explore properties of pseudo entropy [1] in quantum field theories and spin systems from several approaches. Pseudo entropy is a generalization of entanglement entropy such that it depends on both an initial and final…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 Ali Mollabashi , Noburo Shiba , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kotaro Tamaoka , Zixia Wei

Entropy notions for $\varepsilon$-incremental practical stability and incremental stability of deterministic nonlinear systems under disturbances are introduced. The entropy notions are constructed via a set of points in state space which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Michelle S. Chong

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

We consider the evolution of an initially cold, spherically symmetric system of self-gravitating particles. At early times the system undergoes self-similar collapse of the type described by Fillmore & Goldreich and Bertschinger. This stage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Henriksen , Lawrence M. Widrow
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