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These lecture notes give a short review of methods such as the matrix ansatz, the additivity principle or the macroscopic fluctuation theory, developed recently in the theory of non-equilibrium phenomena. They show how these methods allow…

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We consider a generic Hamiltonian system of nonlinear interacting waves with 3-wave interactions. In the kinetic regime of wave turbulence, which assumes weak nonlinearity and large system size, the relevant observable associated with the…

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We study a gas of point particles with hard-core repulsion in one dimension where the particles move freely in-between elastic collisions. We prepare the system with a uniform density on the infinite line. The velocities $\{v_i; i \in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-12 Aritra Kundu , Abhishek Dhar , Sanjib Sabhapandit

A broad class of systems, including ecological, epidemiological, and sociological ones, are characterized by populations of individuals assigned to specific categories, e.g., a chemical species, an opinion or an epidemic state, that are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-17 Giorgio Vittorio Visco , Johannes Nauta , Tomas Scagliarini , Oriol Artime , Manlio De Domenico

There exist methods for determining effective conservative interactions in coarse grained particle based mesoscopic simulations. The resulting models can be used to capture thermal equilibrium behavior, but in the model system we study do…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-28 Anders Eriksson , Martin Nilsson Jacobi , Johan Nyström , Kolbjørn Tunstrøm

In this work we focus on fluctuations of time-integrated observables for a particle diffusing in a one-dimensional periodic potential in the weak-noise asymptotics. Our interest goes to rare trajectories presenting an atypical value of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-05 Nicolás Tizón-Escamilla , Vivien Lecomte , Eric Bertin

We introduce a model of interacting Random Walk, whose hopping amplitude depends on the number of walkers/particles on the link. The mesoscopic counterpart of such a microscopic dynamics is a diffusing system whose diffusivity depends on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-01 E. Agliari , M. Casartelli , A. Vezzani

An approach is suggested for treating multiscale fluctuations in macromolecular systems. The emphasis is on the statistical properties of such fluctuations. The approach is illustrated by a macromolecular system with mesoscopic fluctuations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

Employing large deviation theory, we explore current fluctuations of underdamped Brownian motion for the paradigmatic example of a single particle in a one dimensional periodic potential. Two different approaches to the large deviation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-12 Lukas P. Fischer , Patrick Pietzonka , Udo Seifert

The horizontal dynamics of a bouncing ball interacting with an irregular surface is investigated and is found to demonstrate behavior analogous to a random walk. Its stochastic character is substantiated by the calculation of a permutation…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-15 Luiz Antonio Barreiro

This contribution presents a derivation of the steady-state distribution of velocities and distances of driven particles on a onedimensional periodic ring. We will compare two different situations: (i) symmetrical interaction forces…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin Treiber , Dirk Helbing

Understanding the relaxation of a system towards equilibrium is a longstanding problem in statistical mechanics. Here we address the role of long-range interactions in this process by considering a class of two-dimensional or geophysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-24 A Venaille , T Dauxois , S Ruffo

Suppose that a $d$-dimensional domain is filled with a gas of (in general, interacting) diffusive particles with density $n_0$. A particle is absorbed whenever it reaches the domain boundary. Employing macroscopic fluctuation theory, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-27 Tal Agranov , Baruch Meerson , Arkady Vilenkin

We address the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium behavior of the particle density in many-body systems undergoing quantum transitions driven by the chemical potential $\mu$. They originate from a nontrivial interplay between noncritical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-22 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

In this short survey we compare aspects of two different approaches for scaling limits of interacting particle systems, the hydrodynamic limit and the high density limit. We present some examples, comments and open problems on each approach…

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In this paper we address the problem of systems under an external feedback. This is performed using a large deviation approach and rate distortion from information theory. In particular we define a lower boundary for the maximum entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-18 Alessio Gagliardi , Alessandro Pecchia , Aldo Di Carlo

The theory of large deviations is concerned with the exponential decay of probabilities of large fluctuations in random systems. These probabilities are important in many fields of study, including statistics, finance, and engineering, as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-20 Hugo Touchette

We investigate dynamics of deformable self-propelled particles with a repulsive interaction whose magnitude depends on the relative direction of elongation of a pair of particles. A collective motion of the particles appears in two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-27 Yu Itino , Takahiro Ohkuma , Takao Ohta

We investigate diffusion of excitation in one- and two-dimensional lattices with random on-site energies and deterministic long-range couplings (hopping) inversely proportional to the distance. Three regimes of diffusion are observed in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-18 Karol Kawa , Paweł Machnikowski