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The pair-distribution function, which provides information about correlations in a system of interacting particles, is one of the key objects of theoretical soft matter physics. In particular, it allows for microscopic insights into the…

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In this paper, we consider queueing systems where the dynamics are non-stationary and state-dependent. For performance analysis of these systems, fluid and diffusion models have been typically used. Although they are proven to be…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Young Myoung Ko , Natarajan Gautam

A formalism for quantum many-body systems is proposed through a semiclassical treatment in phase space, allowing us to establish a stochastic thermodynamics incorporating quantum statistics. Specifically, we utilize a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Zhaoyu Fei

We show that the dynamics of interacting fermions can be exactly replaced by a quantum jump theory in the many-body density matrix space. In this theory, jumps occur between densities formed of pairs of Slater determinants, $D_{ab}=| \Phi_a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Denis Lacroix

Brownian motion occurs in a variety of fluids, from rare gases to liquids. The Langevin equation, describing friction and agitation forces in statistical balance, is one of the most successful ways to treat the phenomenon. In rare gases, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-15 Frank Munley

I present an unbiased method of mapping particles to distribution functions and vice versa. This method alone defines the canonical formulation of statistical mechanics, since it can be used to derive the principle of maximum entropy in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-06 Jun Yan Lau

Subject to reasonable conditions, in large population stochastic dynamics games, where the agents are coupled by the system's mean field (i.e. the state distribution of the generic agent) through their nonlinear dynamics and their nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Nevroz Sen , Peter E. Caines

We present a systematic theory of chemically active emulsions in the hydrodynamic limit by constructing a thermodynamically consistent framework in which the equilibrium is broken by chemo-stating of fuel molecules. For ternary solutions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-21 Efe Ilker , Kathrin Laxhuber , Jean-Francois Joanny , Frank Jülicher

We develop a microscopic approach to the kinetic theory of many-particle systems with dissipative and potential interactions in presence of active fluctuations. The approach is based on a generalization of Bogolyubov--Peletminsky reduced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-13 Yu. V. Slyusarenko , O. Yu. Sliusarenko , A. V. Chechkin

In this article, we present a concise and self-contained introduction to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics with quantum field theory by considering an ensemble of interacting identical bosons or fermions as an example. Readers are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 Takafumi Kita

The exact equations of motion for microscopic density of classical particles number with account of inter-particle interactions and external field in closed form are derived. An integral equation for equilibrium distributions of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-18 A. Yu. Zakharov

We discuss different definitions of pressure for a system of active spherical particles driven by a non-thermal coloured noise. We show that mechanical, kinetic and free-energy based approaches lead to the same result up to first order in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-18 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Claudio Maggi , Simone Melchionna

The physics of active systems of self-propelled particles, in the regime of a dense liquid state, is an open puzzle of great current interest, both for statistical physics and because such systems appear in many biological contexts. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-26 Saroj Kumar Nandi , Nir S. Gov

Active Brownian particles (ABPs), when subject to purely repulsive interactions, are known to undergo activity-induced phase separation broadly resembling an equilibrium (attraction-induced) gas-liquid coexistence. Here we present an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-04 Joakim Stenhammar , Adriano Tiribocchi , Rosalind J. Allen , Davide Marenduzzo , Michael E. Cates

In relativistic kinetic theory, the one-particle distribution function is approximated by an asymptotic perturbative power series in Knudsen number which is divergent. For the Bjorken flow, we expand the distribution function in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-09 Alireza Behtash , Syo Kamata , M. Martinez , Haosheng Shi

We consider a mixture of passive (i.e., Brownian) and active (e.g., bacterial or colloidal swimmers) particles, and analyze the stability conditions of either uniformly mixed or phase segregated steady states consisting of phases enriched…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-21 Alexander Y. Grosberg , Jean-François Joanny

We develop and present a unified multi-scale model (involving three scales of spatial organisation) to study the dynamics of rigid aggregating particles suspended in a viscous fluid medium and subject to a steady poiseuille flow. At…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-10 Sarthok Sircar , Anthony J. Roberts

An analysis shows that the ground state of the inhomogeneous system of interacting electrons in the static external field, which satisfies the thermodynamic limit, can be consistently described only using the Green function theory based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. B. Bobrov

In these Lecture Notes we aim at clarifying how soft matter physics, and herein notably statistical mechanics and fluid mechanics, can be engaged to understand and manipulate non-equilibrium systems consisting of numerous (microscopic)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Jean-François Joanny , Joseph O. Indekeu

We study a system of non-interacting active particles, propelled by colored noises, characterized by an activity time $\tau$, and confined by a double-well potential. A straightforward application of this system is the problem of barrier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-30 Lorenzo Caprini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Angelo Vulpiani