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Fluctuations exist in any material object $A$. If $A$ has non-zero temperature $T$, one speaks about thermal fluctuations. If $A$ is at very low $T$, the fluctuations are of quantum origin. Interesting effects appear if two bodies $A$ and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-30 Daniel Dantchev , Nicholay Tonchev

I review recent measurements of a large set of flow observables associated with event-shape fluctuations and collective expansion in heavy ion collisions. First, these flow observables are classified and experiment methods are introduced.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Jiangyong Jia

A class of simple superposition models based on the Glauber picture of multiple collisions is compared with the data on the centrality dependence of the multiplicity distributions in a central rapidity bin. We show how the results depend on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 K. Fialkowski , R. Wit

We perform quantum calculations of fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields in $AA$ collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. The analysis is based on the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We find that in the quantum picture the field…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 B. G. Zakharov

We develop methods to deal with non-dynamical contributions to event-by-event fluctuation measurements of net-particle numbers in relativistic nuclear collisions. These contributions arise from impact parameter fluctuations and from the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-09 P. Braun-Munzinger , A. Rustamov , J. Stachel

We model effects of color fluctuations (CFs) in the light-cone photon wave function and for the first time make predictions for the distribution over the number of wounded nucleons $\nu$ in the inelastic photon-nucleus scattering. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-16 M. Alvioli , L. Frankfurt , V. Guzey , M. Strikman , M. Zhalov

By means of a simple model system, the total volume fluctuations of a tapped granular material in the steady state are studied. In the limit of a system with a large number of particles, they are found to be Gaussian distributed, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-20 J. J. Brey , A. Prados

It is demonstrated that in low multiplicity sample, the increase of the fluctuation of event-factorial-moments with the diminishing of phase space scale, called ``erraticity'', are dominated by the statistical fluctuations. The erraticity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fu Jinghua , Wu Yuanfang , Liu Lianshou

It is shown that large chemical potential leads to the significant increase of multiplicity fluctuations for bosons, and makes the fluctuations infinite in the case of Bose-Einstein condensation. It allows to distinguish between the models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Viktor Begun

We have studied the time evolution of the fluctuations in the net baryon number for different initial conditions and space time evolution scenarios. We observe that the fluctuations at the freeze-out depend crucially on the equation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Bedangadas Mohanty , Jan-e Alam , Tapan K. Nayak

We study fluctuations in diffusion-limited reaction systems driven out of their stationary state. Using a numerically exact method, we investigate fluctuation ratios in various systems which differ by their level of violation of microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven Dorosz , Michel Pleimling

We performed systematic studies on the effects of event-by-event efficiency fluctuations on efficiency correction for cumulant analysis in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. Experimentally, particle efficiencies of events…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-09-11 Shu He , Xiaofeng Luo

Taking into account the long-ranged spin interactions due to weak localization effects in disordered itinerant ferromagnets the scattering of both electrons and neutrons on critical spin fluctuations near quantum phase transition is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Y. N. Skryabin , A. V. Chukin

In nucleon-nucleon collisions, charged particle's multiplicity fluctuates. We have studied the effect of multiplicity fluctuation on flow harmonics in nucleus-nucleus collision in event-by-event hydrodynamics. Assuming that the charged…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-04-03 A. K. Chaudhuri

We show that in periodically driven systems, along with the delta-peak at the driving frequency, the spectral density of fluctuations displays extra features. These can be peaks or dips with height quadratic in the driving amplitude, for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yaxing Zhang , Yukihiro Tadokoro , M. I. Dykman

The dynamic separation into phases of high and low baryon density in a heavy ion collision can enhance fluctuations of the net rapidity density of baryons compared to model expectations. We show how these fluctuations arise and how they can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean Gavin

Diffusivity in some soft matter and biological systems changes with time, called the fluctuating diffusivity. In this work, we propose a novel origin for fluctuating diffusivity based on stochastic simulations of binary gas mixtures. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-01 Fumiaki Nakai , Yuichi Masubuchi , Yuya Doi , Takato Ishida , Takashi Uneyama

The description of nonequilibrium processes in nano-sized objects, where the typical energies involved are a few times, is increasingly becoming central to disciplines as diverse as condensed-matter physics, materials science, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Collin , F. Ritort , C. Jarzynski , S. B. Smith , I. Tinoco , C. Bustamante

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

Since their discovery, fluctuations in the initial state of heavy-ion collisions have been understood as originating mostly from the random positions of nucleons within the colliding nuclei. We consider an alternative approach where all the…