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We study a hard sphere gas at equilibrium, and prove that in the low density limit, the fluctuations converge to a Gaussian process governed by the fluctuating Boltzmann equation. This result holds for arbitrarily long times. The method of…

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The solvation of hydrophobic solutes in water is special because liquid and gas are almost at coexistence. In the common hypernetted chain approximation to integral equations, or equivalently in the homogenous reference fluid of molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Guillaume Jeanmairet , Maximilien Levesque , Volodymyr Sergiievskyi , Daniel Borgis

A convergent approximation is proposed for a mean field density-density correlation function in a system with a two-phase interface. It is based on a fourth-order expansion of the Hamiltonian in terms of fluctuations around the equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Iaroslav Ispolatov

We show by means of experiments, theory and simulations, that the slow dynamics of coarsening systems displays dynamic heterogeneity similar to that observed in glass-forming systems. We measure dynamic heterogeneity via novel multi-point…

A diagrammatic kinetic theory of density fluctuations in simple dense liquids at long times, described in the preceding paper, is applied to a high density Lennard-Jones liquid to calculate various equilibrium time correlation functions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Kevin R. Pilkiewicz , Hans C. Andersen

A framework for developing new approximate electronic structure methods is presented, in which the correlation energy of a many-electron system in the ground state is computed as in the single-reference second-order many-body perturbation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-06-15 Dimitri Laikov

There is growing evidence that the flow of driven amorphous solids is not homogeneous, even if the macroscopic stress is constant across the system. Via event driven molecular dynamics simulations of a hard sphere glass, we provide the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Suvendu Mandal , Markus Gross , Dierk Raabe , Fathollah Varnik

Using fluctuating hydrodynamics we describe the slow build-up of long range spatial correlations in a freely evolving fluid of inelastic hard spheres. In the incompressible limit, the behavior of spatial velocity correlations (including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. P. C. van Noije , M. H. Ernst , R. Brito , J. A. G. Orza

The hydrodynamic part of the velocity autocorrelation function of a granular fluid in the homogeneous cooling state has been calculated by using mode-coupling theory for a finite system with periodic boundary conditions. The existence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

In classical semi-infinite Coulomb fluids, two-point correlation functions exhibit a slow inverse-power law decay along a uniformly charged wall. In this work, we concentrate on the corresponding amplitude function which depends on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-12 Ladislav Šamaj

Starting with a formally exact diagrammatic kinetic theory for the equilibrium correlation functions of particle density and current fluctuations for a monatomic liquid, we develop a theory for high density liquids whose interatomic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kevin R. Pilkiewicz , Hans C. Andersen

An investigation of the mesoscopic dynamics of chemical systems whose mass action equation gives rise to a deterministic chaotic attractor is carried out. A reactive lattice-gas model for the three-variable autocatalator is used to provide…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Raymond Kapral , Xiao-Guang Wu

We investigate cosmological density perturbations in a covariant and gauge-invariant formalism, incorporating relativistic causal thermodynamics to give a self-consistent description. The gradient of density inhomogeneities splits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Roy Maartens , Josep Triginer

We show that a general density functional approach for calculating the force between two big particles immersed in a solvent of smaller ones can describe systems that exhibit fluid-fluid phase separation: the theory captures effects of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Archer , R. Evans , R. Roth

We investigate by Montecarlo simulation the linear response function of three dimensional structural glass models defined by short-range kinetic constraints and a trivial equilibrium Boltzmann-Gibbs measure. The breakdown of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mauro Sellitto

We point out that, due to the nonlinearity of the Einstein equations, a homogeneous approximation in cosmology leads to the appearance of an additional term in the Friedmann equation. This new term is associated with the spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gyula Bene , Viktor Czinner , Matyas Vasuth

Angular correlations in dense solutions and melts of flexible polymer chains are investigated with respect to the distance $r$ between the bonds by comparing quantitative predictions of perturbation calculations with numerical data obtained…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 J. P. Wittmer , A. Johner , S. P. Obukhov , H. Meyer , A. Cavallo , J. Baschnagel

We investigate the ground-state properties of two-component Bose gases confined in one-dimensional harmonic traps in the scheme of density-functional theory. The density-functional calculations employ a Bethe-ansatz-based local-density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-15 Yajiang Hao , Shu Chen

Large scale density modes are difficult to measure because they are sensitive to systematic observational errors in galaxy surveys, but we can study them indirectly by observing their impact on small scale perturbations. Cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Peikai Li , Scott Dodelson , Rupert A. C. Croft

The presence of long-ranged correlations in a fluid undergoing uniform shear flow is investigated. An exact relation between the density autocorrelation function and the density-mometum correlation function implies that the former must…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 James F. Lutsko , J. W. Dufty