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We study the local relaxation of closed quantum systems through the relative entropy between the reduced density matrix and its long time limit. We show, using analytic arguments combined with numerical checks, that this relative entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-29 Filiberto Ares , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

We combine the processes of resetting and first-passage to define \emph{first-passage resetting}, where the resetting of a random walk to a fixed position is triggered by a first-passage event of the walk itself. In an infinite domain,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-22 B. De Bruyne , J. Randon-Furling , S. Redner

We consider motion of an overdamped Brownian particle subject to stochastic resetting in one dimension. In contrast to the usual setting where the particle is instantaneously reset to a preferred location (say, the origin), here we consider…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 Deepak Gupta , Arnab Pal , Anupam Kundu

Although resetting has widespread applicability, applying it to the dynamics in the presence of spatial quenched disorder, which is essential in many physical problems, is challenging. In this study, we consider a well-known one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-06 Riya Verma , Binayak Banerjee , Shamik Gupta , Saroj Kumar Nandi

We study the relaxation of a Brownian particle with long range memory under confinement in one dimension. The particle diffuses in an arbitrary confining potential and resets at random times to previously visited positions, chosen with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-15 Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

We study analytically the relaxation eigenmodes of a simple Monte Carlo algorithm, corresponding to a particle in a box which moves by uniform random jumps. Moves outside of the box are rejected. At long times, the system approaches the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-14 Alexei D. Chepelianskii , Satya N. Majumdar , Hendrik Schawe , Emmanuel Trizac

We propose a novel one-dimensional simple model without disorder exhibiting slow dynamics and aging at the zero temperature limit. This slow dynamics is due to entropic barriers. We exactly solve the statics of the model. We derive an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Desoutter , N. Destainville

We study how stochastic resetting affects first-passage processes in systems of many interacting particles. While resetting is well understood for single-particle dynamics, its consequences for collective behavior remain less clear. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-28 Juhee Lee , Seong-Gyu Yang , Ludvig Lizana

We numerically elucidate the microscopic mechanisms controlling the relaxation dynamics of a three-dimensional lattice glass model that has static properties compatible with the approach to a random first-order transition. At low…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-09 Yoshihiko Nishikawa , Ludovic Berthier

We consider a Brownian particle confined by an external potential and subject to stochastic resetting to the origin. Motivated by the repetitive nature of the dynamics, we describe the process as a thermodynamic cycle of thermal expansion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-28 Oded Farago

The limit of small entropy production is reached in relaxing systems long after preparation, and in stationary driven systems in the limit of small driving power. Surprisingly, for extended systems this limit is not in general the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Jorge Kurchan

In the dynamics of open quantum systems, the backflow of information to the reduced system under study has been suggested as the actual physical mechanism inducing memory and thus leading to non-Markovian quantum dynamics. To this aim, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nina Megier , Andrea Smirne , Bassano Vacchini

We first propose and study a quantum toy model of black hole dynamics. The model is unitary, displays quantum thermalization, and the Hamiltonian couples every oscillator with every other, a feature intended to emulate the color sector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Javier M. Magan

We use a simple hard-core gas model to study the dynamics of small exploding systems. The system is initially prepared in a thermalized state in a spherical container and then allowed to expand freely into the vacuum. We follow the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 J. P. Bondorf , I. N. Mishustin , G. Neergaard

A sticky spheres model to describe slow dynamics of a non-equilibrium system is proposed. The dynamical slowing down is due to the presence of entropy barriers. We present an exact mean field analysis of the model and demonstrate that there…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. L. Narasimhan , P. S. R. Krishna , K. P. N. Murthy

The dynamics near the top of a potential barrier is studied in the temperature region where quantum effects become important. The time evolution of the density matrix of a system that deviates initially from equilibrium in the vicinity of…

chem-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 Joachim Ankerhold , Hermann Grabert

The convergence to equilibrium for renormalised solutions to nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems is studied. The considered reaction-diffusion systems arise from chemical reaction networks with mass action kinetics and satisfy the complex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Klemens Fellner , Bao Q. Tang

Turbulent mixing and entrainment at the boundary of a cloud is studied by means of direct numerical simulations that couple the Eulerian description of the turbulent velocity and water vapor fields with a Lagrangian ensemble of cloud water…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-14 Bipin Kumar , Joerg Schumacher , Raymond A. Shaw

Generative modeling within constrained sets is essential for scientific and engineering applications involving physical, geometric, or safety requirements (e.g., molecular generation, robotics). We present a unified framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kijung Jeon , Michael Muehlebach , Molei Tao

A toy model of particles packings is presented, which consists in arranging hexagons on a triangular lattice according to local stability rules. The number of stable packings is analytically computed and found to grow exponentially with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Monasson , O. Pouliquen