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We study the thermodynamics of galactic clustering under the higher-order corrected Newtonian dynamics. The clustering of galaxies is considered as a gravitational phase transition. In order to study the effects of higher-order correction…

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We study the transition probabilities of a two-point measurement on a quantum system, initially prepared in a thermal state. We find two independent constraints on the difference between transition probabilities when the system is prepared…

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Driven particle transport in crowded and confining environments is fundamental to diverse phenomena across physics, chemistry, and biology. A main objective in studying such systems is to identify novel emergent states and phases of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Annika Vonhusen , Sören Schweers , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

The superfluid-crystal quantum phase transition of a system of purely repulsive dipolar bosons in two dimensions is studied by Quantum Monte Carlo simulations at zero temperature. We determine freezing and melting densities, and estimate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-12 Saverio Moroni , Massimo Boninsegni

We study numerically and analytically the dynamics of a sedimenting suspension of active, reproducing particles, such as growing bacteria in a gravitational field. In steady state we find a non-equilibrium phase transition between a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Barrett-Freeman , M. R. Evans , D. Marenduzzo , W. C. K. Poon

In this note, we discuss the basic elements that should appear in a gravitational system dual to a confining gauge theory displaying color superconductivity at large baryon density. We consider a simple system with these minimal elements,…

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We examine dense self-gravitating stellar systems dominated by a central potential, such as nuclear star clusters hosting a central supermassive black hole. Different dynamical properties of these systems evolve on vastly different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-20 Zacharias Roupas , Bence Kocsis , Scott Tremaine

We describe microcanonical phase transitions and instabilities of the ideal Fermi gas in general relativity at nonzero temperature confined in the interior of a spherical shell. The thermodynamic behaviour is governed by the compactness of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Zacharias Roupas , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The most complicated phenomena of equilibrium statistics, phase separations and transitions of various order and critical phenomena, can clearly and sharply be seen even for small systems in the topology of the curvature of the…

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

A system of charged bosons at finite temperature and chemical potential is studied in a general-relativistic framework. We assume that the boson fields interact only gravitationally. At sufficiently low temperature the system exists in two…

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We present a microscopic theory of the second order phase transition in an interacting Bose gas that allows one to describe formation of an ordered condensate phase from a disordered phase across an entire critical region continuously. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-27 Vitaly V. Kocharovsky , Vladimir V. Kocharovsky

We show that two-dimensional systems of deformable particles undergo a continuous liquid-hexatic transition upon compression or cooling, but no hexatic-solid transition-even at zero temperature and high density. Numerical simulations reveal…

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Using a Ginzburg-Landau model, we study the phase transition behavior of compressible Ising systems at constant volume by varying the temperature $T$ and the applied magnetic field $h$. We show that two phases can coexist macroscopically in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Akira Onuki , Akihiko Minami

The existence of substellar cold H2 globules in planetary nebulae and the mere existence of comets suggest that the physics of cold interstellar gas might be much richer than usually envisioned. We study the case of a cold gaseous medium in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-08 Andreas Füglistaler , Daniel Pfenniger

We experimentally study the critical properties of the non-equilibrium solid-liquid-like transition that takes place in vibrated granular matter. The critical dynamics is characterized by the coupling of the density field with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Gustavo Castillo , Nicolás Mujica , Rodrigo Soto

The Thomas-Fermi model is extended at finite temperature, to describe the gravitational phase transition occurring in massive fermionic systems in a general-relativistic framework. It is shown that, when a nondegenerate fermionic gas (for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-29 Giuseppe Alberti , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Collapse, or a gravitational-like phase transition is studied in a microcanonical ensemble of particles with an attractive $1/r^{\alpha}$ potential. A mean field continuous integral equation is used to determine a saddle-point density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Ispolatov , E. G. D. Cohen

Pair potentials that are bounded at the origin provide an accurate description of the effective interaction for many systems of dissolved soft macromolecules (e.g., flexible dendrimers). Using numerical free-energy calculations, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-29 C. Speranza , S. Prestipino , G. Malescio , P. V. Giaquinta

We consider one-dimensional systems of self-gravitating sticky particles with random initial data and describe the process of aggregation in terms of the largest cluster size L_n at any fixed time prior to the critical time. The asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Lifshits , Zhan Shi

We explore gravitational wave signals arising from first-order phase transitions occurring in a secluded hidden sector, allowing for the possibility that the hidden sector may have a different temperature than the Standard Model sector. We…

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