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We study the dynamics of fronts when both inertial effects and external fluctuations are taken into account. Stochastic fluctuations are introduced as multiplicative noise arising from a control parameter of the system. Contrary to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jose M. Sancho , Angel Sanchez

Understanding the physics of non-equilibrium systems remains as one of the major open questions in statistical physics. This problem can be partially handled by investigating macroscopic fluctuations of key magnitudes that characterise the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-17 A. Lasanta , Pablo I. Hurtado , A. Prados

We explore the behaviour of the inverse reduced density fluctuations and the isobaric expansion coefficient using {\alpha},{\omega}-dibromoalkanes as an example. Two different states are revealed far from the critical point: the region of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-02 Eugene B. Postnikov , Mirosław Chorążewski

We study, by means of extensive direct numerical simulations, the turbulent flow produced by a two-dimensional cellular forcing in a cubic box with periodic boundary conditions. In spite of the strong anisotropy of the forcing, we find that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-22 S. Berti , G. Boffetta , S. Musacchio

The underlying connection between the degrees of freedom of a system and its nonextensive thermodynamic behavior is addressed. The problem is handled by starting from a thermodynamical system with fractal structure and its analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-17 A. Deppman , J. A. S. Lima

We extend the criteria for $k$-particle entanglement from the spin squeezing parameter presented in [A.S. S{\o}rensen and K. M{\o}lmer, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 86}, 4431 (2001)] to systems with a fluctating number of particles. We also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 Philipp Hyllus , Luca Pezze , Augusto Smerzi , Geza Toth

Impact phenomena of small clusters subject to thermal fluctuations are numerically investigated. From the molecular dynamics simulation for colliding two identical clusters, it is found that the restitution coefficient for head-on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hiroto Kuninaka , Hisao Hayakawa

One of the most important goals in quantum thermodynamics is to demonstrate advantages of thermodynamic protocols over their classical counterparts. For that, it is necessary to (i) develop theoretical tools and experimental set-ups to deal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Elisa Bäumer , Matteo Lostaglio , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Rui Sampaio

An important yet perplexing result from work in the 90s and 00s is the near-unity value of the ratio of fluctuations in the vacuum energy density of quantum fields to the mean in a collection of generic spacetimes. This was done by way of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Hing-Tong Cho , Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

Jamming is a geometric phase transition occurring in dense particle systems in the absence of temperature. We use computer simulations to analyse the effect of thermal fluctuations on several signatures of the transition. We show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-16 Atsushi Ikeda , Ludovic Berthier

Active matter generates order or patterns through nonequilibrium dynamics. An open research challenge is to determine how efficiently a nonequilibrium self-organising system can convert consumed energy into macroscopic order. We study an…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-07 Qianyang Chen , Mikhail Prokopenko

Understanding the dynamics of material objects advected by turbulent flows is a long standing question in fluid dynamics. In this perspective article we focus on the characterization of the statistical properties of non-interacting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yaning Fan , Cheng Wang , Linfeng Jiang , Chao Sun , Enrico Calzavarini

Numerically, we study the time fluctuations of few-body observables after relaxation in isolated dynamical quantum systems of interacting particles. Our results suggest that they decay exponentially with system size in both regimes,…

Nanoscale machines are strongly influenced by thermal fluctuations, contrary to their macroscopic counterparts. As a consequence, even the efficiency of such microscopic machines becomes a fluctuating random variable. Using geometric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-16 Sreekanth K Manikandan , Lennart Dabelow , Ralf Eichhorn , Supriya Krishnamurthy

Soft particulate media include a wide range of systems involving athermal dissipative particles both in non-living and biological materials. Characterization of flows of particulate media is of great practical and theoretical importance. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-25 S. H. E. Rahbari , A. A. Saberi , H. Park , J. Vollmer

The latest generation of transistors are nanoscale devices whose performance and reliability are limited by thermal noise in low-power applications. Therefore developing efficient methods to compute the voltage and current fluctuations in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-20 Ashwin Gopal , Massimiliano Esposito , Nahuel Freitas

The general fluctuation theory is reviewed with special attention to the role played by different ensembles, and is extended to incorporate stationary metastable states obtained in the long time limit. The fluctuation in a quantity depends…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Gujrati

Emulating thermal observables on a digital quantum computer is essential for quantum simulation of many-body physics. However, thermalization typically requires a large system size due to incorporating a thermal bath, whilst limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 H. Perrin , T. Scoquart , A. I. Pavlov , N. V. Gnezdilov

Fluctuations are a key property of both classical and quantum systems. While the fluctuations are well understood for many quantum systems at zero temperature, the case of an interacting quantum system at finite temperature still poses…

We study the behavior of a moving wall in contact with a particle gas and subjected to an external force. We compare the fluctuations of the system observed in the microcanonical and canonical ensembles, at varying the number of particles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 L. Cerino , G. Gradenigo , A. Sarracino , D. Villamaina , A. Vulpiani