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While in principle, finite temperature density functional theory (ftDFT) should be a powerful tool for the study of crystallization, in practice this has not so far been the case. Progress has been hampered by technical problems which have…

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For an isolated assembly that comprises a system and its surrounding reservoirs, the total entropy ($S_{a}$) always monotonically increases as time elapses. This phenomenon is known as the second law of thermodynamics ($S_{a}\geq0$). Here…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 T. M. Shih , Z. J. Gao , H. Merlitz , L. Rondoni , P. J. Pagni , Z. Chen

We show that under quite general conditions, various multifractal spectra may be obtained as Legendre transforms of functions $T\colon \RR\to \RR$ arising in the thermodynamic formalism. We impose minimal requirements on the maps we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-02-04 Vaughn Climenhaga

Starting with the additivity condition for Lyapunov functions of master equation, we derive a one-parametric family of entropy functions which may be appropriate for a description of certain effects of finiteness of statistical systems, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander N. Gorban , Iliya V. Karlin

The theory of superstatistics, originally proposed for the study of complex nonequilibrium systems, has recently been extended to studies of small systems interacting with a finite environment, because such systems display interestingly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-19 Constanza Farías , Sergio Davis

Fractional operators play an important role in modeling nonlocal phenomena and problems involving coarse-grained and fractal spaces. The fractional calculus of variations with functionals depending on derivatives and/or integrals of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Matheus J. Lazo , Delfim F. M. Torres

We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the N-representability of the universal one-electron reduced density matrix functional. Functionals satisfying these conditions are guaranteed to yield variational upper bounds on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Jannis Erhard , Paul W. Ayers

We investigate multiscale Gibbs measures from a variational and probabilistic viewpoint, focusing on the structural asymmetry among conditional entropies that characterizes their construction. We show how this asymmetry emerges both from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Francesco Camilli , Pierluigi Contucci , Emanuele Mingione

Algorithmic entropy can be seen as a special case of entropy as studied in statistical mechanics. This viewpoint allows us to apply many techniques developed for use in thermodynamics to the subject of algorithmic information theory. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 John C. Baez , Mike Stay

Thermal behavior in subsystems of closed quantum systems is commonly attributed to dynamical chaos, quantum ergodicity, canonical typicality, or the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, suggesting a fundamentally statistical origin of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Uttam Singh , Nicolas J. Cerf

We consider systems of conservation laws endowed with a convex entropy. We show the contraction, up to a translation, to extremal entropic shocks, for a pseudo-distance based on the notion of relative entropy. The contraction holds for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Alexis Vasseur

A scheme for treating the Second Law of thermodynamics as a constraint and accounting for the approximate nature of constitutive assumptions in continuum thermomechanics is discussed. An unconstrained, concave, variational principle is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Amit Acharya

Exceedance refers to instances where a dynamic process surpasses given thresholds, e.g., the occurrence of a heat wave. We propose a novel exceedance framework for functional data, where each observed random trajectory is transformed into…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-04 Poorbita Kundu , Hang Zhou , Hans-Georg Müller

We consider the real $\beta$-ensemble (or 1D log-gas) of dimension $N$ in the high-temperature regime, \textit{i.e.} where the inverse temperature $\beta$ scales as $N\beta=2P$ with $P$ a fixed positive parameter. We establish the large-$N$…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Charlie Dworaczek Guera

We introduce the multiplicative Ising model and prove basic properties of its thermodynamic formalism such as existence of pressure and entropies. We generalize to one-dimensional "layer-unique" Gibbs measures for which the same results can…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-30 J. -R. Chazottes , F. Redig

The generalized zeroth law of thermodynamics indicates that the physical temperature in nonextensive statistical mechanics is different from the inverse of the Lagrange multiplier, beta. This leads to modifications of some of thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sumiyoshi Abe , S. Martinez , F. Pennini , A. Plastino

Finite temperature density functional theory provides, in principle, an exact description of the thermodynamical equilibrium of many-electron systems. In practical applications, however, the functionals must be approximated. Efficient and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Pittalis , C. R. Proetto , A. Floris , A. Sanna , C. Bersier , K. Burke , E. K. U. Gross

In a previous work arXiv:1811.07758 about the $T\bar{T}$ deformed CFT$_2$, from the consistency requirement of the entanglement entropy theory, we found that in addition to the usual spacelike entanglement entropy, a timelike entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-09 Xin Jiang , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

For a dynamical system far from equilibrium, one has to deal with empirical probabilities defined through time-averages, and the main problem is then how to formulate an appropriate statistical thermodynamics. The common answer is that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Carati

We investigate the entanglement temperature of a small scale subsystem in low excited states by using holographic method. Especially, we study the entanglement entropy and entanglement temperature in higher derivative gravities which are…

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