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We develop a formulation of global thermodynamics for equilibrium systems under the influence of gravity. The free energy for simple fluids is extended to include a dependence on $(T, V, N, mgL)$, where $L$ represents the vertical system…

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In the study of the heat transfer in the Boltzmann theory, the basic problem is to construct solutions to the steady problem for the Boltzmann equation in a general bounded domain with diffuse reflection boundary conditions corresponding to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-14 Raffaele Esposito , Yan Guo , Chanwoo Kim , Rossana Marra

In nature, everything occurs at finite temperature and quantum phase transitions (QPTs) cannot be an exception. Nevertheless, they are still mainly discussed and formulated at zero temperature. We show that the condensation QPTs recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Massimo Ostilli , Carlo Presilla

In this paper we analyze a new temperature-dependent model for adhesive contact that encompasses nonlocal adhesive forces and damage effects, as well as nonlocal heat flux contributions on the contact surface. The related PDE system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Giovanna Bonfanti , Michele Colturato , Riccarda Rossi

The constraints on the scaling properties of conserved charge densities in the vicinity of a zero temperature ($T$), second-order quantum phase transition are studied. We introduce a generalized Wilson ratio, characterizing the non-linear…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Subir Sachdev

Several recent results on thermodynamics have been obtained using the tools of quantum information theory and resource theories. So far, the resource theories utilised to describe thermodynamics have assumed the existence of an infinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Carlo Sparaciari , Jonathan Oppenheim , Tobias Fritz

In recent prior work, the author derived interfacial mass and heat flux conditions for phase-change processes. The mass flux condition is identical to the Schrage equation, but the additional heat flux expression enables one to couple the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Gang Chen

This article is concerned with the existence of traveling wave solutions, including standing waves, to some models based on configurational forces, describing respectively the diffusionless phase transformations of solid materials, e.g.,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Shuichi Kawashima , Peicheng Zhu

In this paper, the finite volume method is developed to analyze coupled dynamic problems of nonlinear thermoelasticity. The major focus is given to the description of martensitic phase transformations essential in the modelling of shape…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Linxiang X. Wang , Roderick V. N. Melnik

A new microcanonical equilibrium state is introduced for quantum systems with finite-dimensional state spaces. Equilibrium is characterised by a uniform distribution on a level surface of the expectation value of the Hamiltonian. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-25 Dorje C. Brody , Daniel W. Hook , Lane P. Hughston

Situations where a spontaneous process of energy or matter transfer is enhanced by an external device are widespread in nature (human sweating system, enzyme catalysis, facilitated diffusion across bio-membranes, industrial heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-21 Karen Hovhannisyan , Armen E. Allahverdyan

We present a unified description of heat flow in two-terminal hybrid quantum systems. Using simple models, we analytically study nonlinear aspects of heat transfer between various reservoirs: metals, solids, and spin baths, mediated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Lian-Ao Wu , Claire X. Yu , Dvira Segal

The simulation of heat flow through heterogeneous material is important for the design of structural and electronic components. Classical analytical solutions to the heat equation PDE are not known for many such domains, even those having…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Andrew Loeb , Christopher Earls

Ordered phases of matter, such as solids, ferromagnets, superfluids, or quantum topological order, typically only exist at low temperatures. Despite this conventional wisdom, we present explicit local models in which all such phases persist…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yiqiu Han , Xiaoyang Huang , Zohar Komargodski , Andrew Lucas , Fedor K. Popov

In the present Letter we present an analytical and numerical solution of the self-consistent mode-coupling equations for the problem of heat conductivity in one-dimensional systems. Such a solution leads us to propose a different scenario…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Delfini , S. Lepri , R. Livi , A. Politi

The manuscript considers the model for conversion of mechanical energy into heat during acoustic wave propagation in the presence of temperature-dependent elastic parameters, as given by \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} u_{tt} = (\gamma(\Theta)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Felix Meyer , Michael Winkler

This paper deals with existence and uniqueness results for a transient nonlinear radiative-conductive system in three-dimensional case. This system describes the heat transfer for a grey, semi-transparent and non-scattering medium with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Mohamed Ghattassi , Jean Rodolphe Roche , Didier Schmitt

Steady-state quantum thermal machines are typically characterized by a continuous flow of heat between different reservoirs. However, at the level of discrete stochastic realizations, heat flow is unraveled as a series of abrupt quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Abhaya S. Hegde , Patrick P. Potts , Gabriel T. Landi

By considering a solvable driven-dissipative quantum model, we demonstrate that continuous second order phase transitions in dissipative systems may occur without an accompanying spontaneous symmetry breaking. As such, the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Julia Hannukainen , Jonas Larson

Classical thermodynamics treats temperature as a state variable characterizing systems in equilibrium with idealized infinite reservoirs. We argue that this framing, while computationally exact, obscures an essential physical reality: any…

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