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A classical particle system coupled with a thermostat driven by an external constant force reaches its steady state when the ensemble-averaged drift velocity does not vary with time. The statistical mechanics of such a system is derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jie Yao , Yanting Wang

We consider general hamiltonian systems with quadratic interaction potential and $N<\infty$ degrees of freedom, only $m$ of which have contact with external world, that is subjected to damping and random stationary external forces. We show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 A. A. Lykov , V. A. Malyshev

We investigate the behaviour of a system of particles with the different character of interaction. The approach makes it possible to describe systems of interacting particles by statistical methods taking into account a spatial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets , Bohdan Lev

We define a notion of coupling time with ambiguities for interacting particle systems, and show how this can be used to prove ergodicity and to bound the convergence time to equilibrium and the decay of correlations at equilibrium. A…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Jean Bérard , Didier Piau

We consider the dynamics of finite systems of point masses which move along the real line. We suppose the particles interact pairwise and undergo perfectly inelastic collisions when they collide. In particular, once particles collide, they…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Ryan Hynd

We consider a class of $d$-dimensional stochastic differential equations that model a non-colliding random particle system. We provide a sufficient condition, which does not depend on the dimension $d$, for the existence of negative moments…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Minh Thang Do , Hoang Long Ngo

At time zero, there are $N$ identical point particles in the line (1D) which are characterized by their positions and velocities. Both values are given randomly and independently from each other, with arbitrary probability densities. Each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-22 Daniel Fraiman

A systematic structure of particle interactions is predicted within and beyond the standard model. The proof is performed either on the basis of (A) a generalisable form of general relativity or, equivalently, (B) minimum information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-22 Pierre-André Mandrin

The theoretical cornerstone of statistical mechanics is the ergodic assumption that all accessible configurations of a physical system are equally likely. Here we show how such property arises when an open quantum system is continuously…

Consider a system of $N$ particles interacting through Newton's second law with Coulomb interaction potential in one spatial dimension or a $\mathcal{C}^2$ smooth potential in any dimension. We prove that in the mean field limit $N \to +…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Daniel Han-Kwan , Toan T. Nguyen

Normally, in mathematics and physics, only point particle systems, which are either finite or countable, are studied. We introduce new formal mathematical object called regular continuum system of point particles (with continuum number of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 V. N. Chubarikov , A. A. Lykov , V. A. Malyshev

The trend to equilibrium in large time is studied for a large particle system associated to a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in the presence of a convex external potential, without smallness restriction on the interaction. From this are…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Pierre Monmarché

The thermodynamic equilibrium conditions for compact structures composed by mass varying particles are discussed assuming that the so-called dynamical mass behaves like an additional extensive thermodynamic degree of freedom. It then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-07 Alex E. Bernardini , O. Bertolami

Heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies offer the opportunity to study the irreversibility of multiparticle processes. Together with the many-body decays of resonances, the multiparticle processes cause the system to evolve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. E. Zabrodin , L. V. Bravina , H. Stoecker , W. Greiner

In a classically chaotic system that is ergodic, any trajectory will be arbitrarily close to any point of the available phase space after a long time, filling it uniformly. Using Born's rules to connect quantum states with probabilities,…

We consider a class of particle systems which appear in various applications such as approximation theory, plasticity, potential theory and space-filling designs. The positions of the particles on the real line are described as a global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Patrick van Meurs , Ken'ichiro Tanaka

In relativistic quantum mechanics, elementary particles are described by irreducible unitary representations of the Poincare group. The same applies to the center-of-mass kinematics of a multi-particle system that is not subject to external…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-22 Walter Smilga

We consider a system of charged particles moving on the real line driven by electrostatic interactions. Since we consider charges of both signs, collisions might occur in finite time. Upon collision, some of the colliding particles are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Patrick van Meurs , Mark A. Peletier , Norbert Pozar

We prove H\"{o}lder regularity for the trajectories of an interacting particle system. The particle velocities are given by the nonlocal and singular interactions with the other particles. Particle collisions occur in finite time. Prior to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Thomas Geert de Jong , Patrick van Meurs

Consider a finite system of competing Brownian particles on the real line. Each particle moves as a Brownian motion, with drift and diffusion coefficients depending only on its current rank relative to the other particles. We find a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Cameron Bruggeman , Andrey Sarantsev