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The theory of mesoscopic fluctuations is applied to inhomogeneous solids consisting of chaotically distributed regions with different crystalline structure. This approach makes it possible to describe statistical properties of such mixture…

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The mass density distribution of Newtonian self-gravitating systems is studied analytically in field theoretical method. Modeling the system as a fluid in hydrostatical equilibrium, we apply Schwinger's functional derivative on the average…

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Correlation functions in concentrated ionic systems are studied within the mesoscopic theory at the level of the Gaussian approximation. The previously neglected fluctuation contribution to the inverse charge-charge correlation function is…

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We study the formation and the dynamics of correlations in the velocity field for 1D and 2D cooling granular gases with the assumption of negligible density fluctuations (``Homogeneous Velocity-correlated Cooling State'', HVCS). It is shown…

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A Self Consistent Field Theory description of equilibrium, but non uniform, configurations adopted by semi flexible liquid crystal molecules is presented. Two cases are considered, isotropic-nematic phase boundaries, and topological defects…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-03 Longyu Qing , Jorge Viñals

This study investigates the impact of molecular thermal fluctuations on compressible decaying isotropic turbulence using the unified stochastic particle (USP) method, encompassing both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-03 Qihan Ma , Chunxin Yang , Song Chen , Kaikai Feng , Ziqi Cui , Jun Zhang

We compute one-loop correlation functions for the fluctuations of an interface using a field theory model. We obtain them from Feynman diagrams drawn with a propagator which is the inverse of the Hamiltonian of a Poschl-Teller problem. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Bessa , C. A. A. de Carvalho , E. S. Fraga

We investigate hydrodynamic fluctuations in a 2D granular fluid excited by a vibrating base and in the presence of gravity, focusing on the transverse velocity modes. Since the system is inhomogeneous, we measure fluctuations in horizontal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Giulio Costantini , Andrea Puglisi

We study the contribution of advection by thermal velocity fluctuations to the effective diffusion coefficient in a mixture of two identical fluids. The steady-state diffusive flux in a finite system subject to a concentration gradient is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Donev , A. de la Fuente , J. B. Bell , A. L. Garcia

This study shows the connection between three previously observed but seemingly unrelated phenomena in hydrodynamic (HD) and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flows, involving the emergence of fluctuations occurring on very long time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 P. Dmitruk , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet , S. Servidio , W. H. Matthaeus

We apply the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) to study the large-scale dynamical properties of Brownian particles with arbitrary pairwise interaction. By combining it with standard results of equilibrium statistical mechanics for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Aurélien Grabsch , Davide Venturelli , Olivier Bénichou

We study the mass density distribution of the Newtonian self-gravitating system. Modeling the system either as a gas in thermal equilibrium, or as a fluid in hydrostatical equilibrium, we obtain the field equation of correlation function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Yang Zhang , Qing Chen

By means of hybrid multi-particle collsion--particle-in-cell (MPC-PIC) simulations we study the dynamical scaling of energy and density correlations at equilibrium in moderately coupled 2D and quasi 1D plasmas. We find that the predictions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Roberto Livi , Stefano Lepri , Guido Ciraolo

We develop a field-theoretical description of dynamical heterogeneities and fluctuations in supercooled liquids close to the (avoided) MCT singularity. Using quasi-equilibrium arguments we eliminate time from the description and we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-23 Silvio Franz , Giorgio Parisi , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Tommaso Rizzo

Electrolyte solutions play an important role in energy storage devices, whose performance highly relies on the electrokinetic processes at sub-micron scales.\ Although fluctuations and stochastic features become more critical at small…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-08 Mingge Deng , Faisal Tushar , Luis Bravo , Anindya Ghoshal , George Karniadakis , Zhen Li

The problem of calculating collective density fluctuations in quantum liquids is revisited. A fully quantum mechanical self-consistent treatment based on a quantum mode-coupling theory [E. Rabani and D.R. Reichman, J. Chem. Phys.116, 6271…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eran Rabani , David R. Reichman

Mesoscopic theory for soft-matter systems that combines density functional and statistical field theory is derived from the microscopic theory by a systematic coarse-graining procedure. Within the framework of this theory we obtain the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 A. Ciach

Understanding the nature of compressible fluctuations in a broad range of turbulent plasmas, from the intracluster medium to the solar wind, has been an active field of research in the past decades. Theoretical frameworks for weakly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Riddhi Bandyopadhyay , James R. Beattie , Amitava Bhattacharjee

For non-equilibrium systems of interacting particles and for interacting diffusions in d dimensions, a novel fluctuation relation is derived. The theorem establishes a quantitative relation between the probabilities of observing two current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-07 Carlos Pérez-Espigares , Frank Redig , Cristian Giardinà

The Macroscopic Fluctuating Theory is presented from a practical and self consistent point of view. We take as starting point the assumption that a system at a mesoscopic scale is described by a field $\phi(x,t)$ that evolves by a Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-23 Pedro L. Garrido