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Elastodynamic equations have been formulated with either Newton's second law of motion, Lagrange's equation, or Hamilton's principle for over 150 years. In this work, contrary to classical continuum mechanics, a novel strategic methodology…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Yinqiu Zhou , Xiumei Zhang , Lin Liu , Tingting Liu , Xiuming Wang

In purely non-dissipative systems, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian reduction have proven to be powerful tools for deriving physical models with exact conservation laws. We have discovered a hint that an analogous reduction method exists also for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Eero Hirvijoki , Joshua W. Burby

This manuscript introduces novel approaches to three phenomena. First, we extend the algebraic formulation of kinetic theory within the contact framework by making explicit the gauge freedom, thereby obtaining a formulation in which the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Begüm Ateşli , Oğul Esen , Miroslav Grmela , Michal Pavelka

A class of fast-slow Hamiltonian systems with potential $U_\varepsilon$ describing the interaction of non-ergodic fast and slow degrees of freedom is studied. The parameter $\varepsilon$ indicates the typical timescale ratio of the fast and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Matthias Klar , Karsten Matthies , Celia Reina , Johannes Zimmer

We study the ergodic properties of a two-dimensional self-gravitating system using molecular dynamics simulations. We apply three different tests for ergodicity: a direct method comparing the time average of a particle momentum and position…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 C. H. Silvestre , T. M. Rocha Filho

We give a variational formulation of classical statistical mechanics where the one-body density and the local entropy distribution constitute the trial fields. Using Levy's constrained search method it is shown that the grand potential is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthias Schmidt

The entropy of a thermally isolated system should not decrease after a quench or external driving. For a classical system following Hamiltonian dynamics, we show how this statement emerges for a large system in the sense that the extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-24 Udo Seifert

Starting with Carnot engine, the ideal efficiency of a heat engine has been associated with quasi-static transformations and vanishingly small output power. Here, we exactly calculate the thermodynamic properties of a isothermal heat…

We develop a geometric foundation of microcanonical thermodynamics in which entropy and its derivatives are determined from the geometry of phase space, rather than being introduced through an a priori ensemble postulate. Once the minimal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Loris Di Cairano

We construct a microscopic model of low-dissipation engines by driving a Brownian particle in a time-dependent harmonic potential. Shortcuts to adiabaticity and shortcuts to isothermality are introduced to realize the adiabatic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Xiu-Hua Zhao , Zheng-Nan Gong , Z. C. Tu

Nonadiabatic behavior of metastable systems modeled by anharmonic Hamiltonians is reproduced by the Fokker-Planck and imaginary time Schrodinger equation scheme with subsequent symplectic integration. Example solutions capture ergodicity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Klotins

Port-Hamiltonian systems theory provides a structured approach to modelling, optimization and control of multiphysical systems. Yet, its relationship to thermodynamics seems to be unclear. The Hamiltonian is traditionally thought of as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Markus Lohmayer , Paul Kotyczka , Sigrid Leyendecker

We consider a control problem for a heterogeneous population composed of agents able to switch at any time between different options. The controller aims to maximize an average gain per time unit, supposing that the population is of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Quentin Jacquet , Wim van Ackooij , Clémence Alasseur , Stéphane Gaubert

With subrecoil-laser-cooled atoms one may reach nano-Kelvin temperatures while the ergodic properties of these systems do not follow usual statistical laws. Instead, due to an ingenious trapping mechanism in momentum space,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Eli Barkai , Günter Radons , Takuma Akimoto

Our goal is to present the basic results on one-dimensional Gibbs and equilibrium states viewed as special invariant measures on symbolic dynamical systems, and then to describe without technicalities a sample of results they allowed to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-16 J. -R. Chazottes , G. Keller

The article presents a new perspective on the isomorphism problem for non-ergodic measure-preserving dynamical systems with discrete spectrum which is based on the connection between ergodic theory and topological dynamics constituted by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Nikolai Edeko

Semiclassical electrodynamics is an appealing approach for studying light-matter interactions, especially for realistic molecular systems. However, there is no unique semiclassical scheme. On the one hand, intermolecular interactions can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Tao E. Li , Hsing-Ta Chen , Abraham Nitzan , Joseph E. Subotnik

In a first part the scope of classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics is discussed in the broader context of formal dynamical systems, including computer programmes. In this context classical thermodynamics appears as a particular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Pfenniger

Attempts to establish microcanonical entropy as an adiabatic invariant date back to works of Gibbs and Hertz. More recently, a consistency relation based on adiabatic invariance has been used to argue for the validity of Gibbs (volume)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-04 Arash Tavassoli , Afshin Montakhab

We propose a Gaussian ensemble as a description of the long-time dynamics of isolated quantum integrable systems. Our approach extends the Generalized Gibbs Ensemble (GGE) by incorporating fluctuations of integrals of motion. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 Hyungwon Kim , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Emil A. Yuzbashyan