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Experimental realizations of a 1D interface always exhibit a finite microscopic width $\xi>0$; its influence is erased by thermal fluctuations at sufficiently high temperatures, but turns out to be a crucial ingredient for the description…

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We consider a one-dimensional directed polymer in a random potential which is characterized by the Gaussian statistics with the finite size local correlations. It is shown that the well-known Kardar's solution obtained originally for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. E. Korshunov , Vik. S. Dotsenko

Using ultrasonic velocimetry we measured the vertical profile of the velocity fluctuation in high Rayleigh number thermal convection in a cell with aspect ratio of 0.5, filled with a low Prandtl number fluid, mercury. Intriguing fluctuating…

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We discuss metric perturbations of the relativistic diffusion equation around the homogeneous Juttner equilibrium of massless particles in a homogeneous expanding universe. The metric perturbation describes matter distribution and the…

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Local diffusion coefficients in disordered materials such as living cells are highly heterogeneous. Quenched disorder is utilized substantially to study such complex systems, whereas its analytical treatment is difficult to handle. We…

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We compute the probability of positive large deviations of the free energy per spin in mean-field Spin-Glass models. The probability vanishes in the thermodynamic limit as $P(\Delta f) \propto \exp[-N^2 L_2(\Delta f)]$. For the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-10-31 Giorgio Parisi , Tommaso Rizzo

The explicit expression for the two-time free energy distribution function in one-dimensional directed polymers in random potential is derived in terms of the Bethe ansatz replica technique by mapping the replicated problem to the…

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As a fundamental measure of stability in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, fluctuations provide critical insight into the performance and reliability of heat engines. In this work, we establish universal fluctuation-dissipation bounds that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-13 Ousi Pan , Zhiqiang Fan , Shunjie Zhang , Jie Li , Jincan Chen , Shanhe Su

The probability that a randomly accelerated particle in two dimensions has not yet left a simply connected domain ${\cal A}$ after a time $t$ decays as $e^{-E_0t}$ for long times. The same quantity $E_0$ also determines the confinement free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. J. Bicout , T. W. Burkhardt

We study the mechanical properties of semiflexible polymers when the contour length of the polymer is comparable to its persistence length. We compute the exact average end-to-end distance and shape of the polymer for different boundary…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-29 Yuko Hori , Ashok Prasad , Jane' Kondev

We study a one dimensional directed polymer model in an inverse-gamma random environment, known as the log-gamma polymer, in three different geometries: point-to-line, point-to-half line and when the polymer is restricted to a half space…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Elia Bisi , Nikos Zygouras

We study numerically the geometrical and free-energy fluctuations of a static one-dimensional (1D) interface with a short-range elasticity, submitted to a quenched random-bond Gaussian disorder of finite correlation length $\xi>0$, and at…

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We analyse the inverse reduced fluctuations (inverse ratio of relative volume fluctuation to its value in the hypothetical case where the substance acts an ideal gas for the same temperature-volume parameters) for simple liquids from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-28 A. L. Goncharov , V. V. Melent'ev , E. B. Postnikov

At ultralow temperatures, polymers exhibit quantum behavior, which is calculated here for the second and fourth moments of the end-to-end distribution in the large-stiffness regime. The result should be measurable for polymers in wide…

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We study the end-to-end distribution function for dilute polymers. We present a computation to order $O(\epsilon^2)$, $\epsilon = 4 - d$, and discuss in detail its asymptotic behaviour for small and large distances. The theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-17 Sergio Caracciolo , Maria Serena Causo , Andrea Pelissetto

We obtain concentration estimates for the fluctuations of Coulomb gases in any dimension and in a broad temperature regime, including very small and very large temperature regimes which may depend on the number of points. We obtain a full…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Sylvia Serfaty

It is common to study polymer physics through the use of idealized single-chain models, and the most popular of these is the freely jointed chain model. In certain thermodynamic ensembles, statistical mechanical treatment of this model is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Michael R. Buche , Alvin Chen

Diffusion properties of a self-avoiding polymer embedded in regularly distributed obstacles with spacing a=20 and confined in two dimensions is studied numerically using the extended bond fluctuation method which we have developed recently.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Ryuzo Azuma , Hajime Takayama

We calculate the fluctuations in the current and energy densities for the case of a quantized, minimally coupled, massless, complex scalar field around a straight and infinitesimally thin cosmic string carrying magnetic flux. At zero…

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