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We study the energy and entropies for $N$ independent harmonic oscillators in the microcanonical and the canonical ensembles in the Tsallis classical and the Tsallis quantum statistics of entropic parameter $q$, where $N$ is the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-01 Masamichi Ishihara

We introduce two kinds of quantum algorithms to explore microcanonical and canonical properties of many-body systems. The first one is a hybrid quantum algorithm that, given an efficiently preparable state, computes expectation values in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Sirui Lu , Mari Carmen Bañuls , J. Ignacio Cirac

In this paper, I investigate more closely the recently proposed Free Energy Monte Carlo algorithm that is devised in particular for calculations where conventional Monte Carlo simulations struggle with ergodicity problems. The simplest…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Thill

Equilibrium statistics of Hamiltonian systems is correctly described by the microcanonical ensemble. Classically this is the manifold of all points in the $N-$body phase space with the given total energy. Due to Boltzmann's principle,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. H. E. Gross

By considering general Markov stochastic dynamics and its coarse-graining, we study the framework of stochastic thermodynamics for the original and reduced descriptions corresponding to different scales. We are especially concerned with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-29 Yohei Nakayama , Kyogo Kawaguchi

If the N bosons that compose an ideal Bose-Einstein gas with energy E and volume V are each assumed to have the average energy of the system E/N, the entropy is easily expressed in terms of the number of bosons N and the number of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-07 Don S. Lemons

This is a review on entropy in various fields of mathematics and science. Its scope is to convey a unified vision of the classical as well as some newer entropy notions to a broad audience with an intermediate background in dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-08 José M. Amigó , Karsten Keller , Valentina Unakafova

Systems with long range interactions in general are not additive, which can lead to an inequivalence of the microcanonical and canonical ensembles. The microcanonical ensemble may show richer behavior than the canonical one, including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Freddy Bouchet , Julien Barre

Depending on the exact experimental conditions, the thermodynamic properties of physical systems can be related to one or more thermostatistical ensembles. Here, we survey the notion of thermodynamic temperature in different statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-05 Peter Hänggi , Stefan Hilbert , Jörn Dunkel

We derive a new formulation to calculate the excess chemical potential of a fraction of $N_1$ particles interacting with $N_2$ particles of a different species. The excess chemical potential is calculated numerically from first principles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christophe Winisdoerffer , Gilles Chabrier , Gilles Zérah

An expression is derived for the classical free energy difference between two configurations of a system, in terms of an ensemble of finite-time measurements of the work performed in parametrically switching from one configuration to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Jarzynski

Estimating the entropy of a discrete random variable is a fundamental problem in information theory and related fields. This problem has many applications in various domains, including machine learning, statistics and data compression. Over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yuval Shalev , Amichai Painsky , Irad Ben-Gal

The calculation of the discrete atomistic energy of a crystal near the continuum limit encounters difficulties caused by the geometric discrepancy between the continuum region occupied by the body, and the discrete collection of lattice…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Phoebus Rosakis

Two identities in statistical mechanics involving entropy differences (or ratios of density of states) at constant energy are derived. The first provides a nontrivial extension of the Jarzynski equality to the microcanonical ensemble [C.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Artur B. Adib

Characterizing the entropy of a system is a crucial, and often computationally costly, step in understanding its thermodynamics. It plays a key role in the study of phase transitions, pattern formation, protein folding and more. Current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-02 Amit Nir , Eran Sela , Roy Beck , Yohai Bar-Sinai

We show that entropy is globally concave with respect to energy for a rich class of mean field interactions, including regularizations of the the point-vortex model in the plane, plasmas and self-gravitating matter in 2D, as well as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Robert J. Berman

We present an algorithm for the simulation of the exact real-time dynamics of classical many-body systems with discrete energy levels. In the same spirit of kinetic Monte Carlo methods, a stochastic solution of the master equation is found,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-20 Alejandro Mendoza-Coto , Rogelio Díaz-Méndez , Guido Pupillo

We investigate the properties of two standard energy estimators used in path-integral Monte Carlo simulations. By disentangling the variance of the estimators and their autocorrelation times we analyse the dependence of the performance on…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Wolfhard Janke , Tilman Sauer

In the field of classical discrete systems, specifically substitutional alloys, this study introduces a stochastic thermodynamic approach to address nonlinearity within a canonical ensemble. This approach establishes a nonlinear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-15 Koretaka Yuge

A classical (non-quantum-mechanical) relativistic ideal gas in thermodynamic equilibrium in a uniformly accelerated frame of reference is studied using Gibbs's microcanonical and grand canonical formulations of statistical mechanics. Using…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Domingo J. Louis-Martinez