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The rarely used Hamilton-Jacobi equation has been utilized as an elegant way to find the trajectories of mechanical systems and to derive symplectic maps. Further, the exact solution in kick approximation of Hamilton's equations of motion…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Stephan I. Tzenov

The dynamics of self-gravitating fluid bodies is described by the Euler-Einstein system of partial differential equations. The break-down of well-posedness on the fluid-vacuum interface remains a challenging open problem, which is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-17 John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider , Charalampos Markakis , Bing Jyun Tsao

We extend some aspects of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory to the category of stochastic Hamiltonian dynamical systems. More specifically, we show that the stochastic action satisfies the Hamilton-Jacobi equation when, as in the classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-06 Joan-Andreu Lázaro-Camí , Juan-Pablo Ortega

A simple analytical approach to estimate thermodynamic properties of model Yukawa systems is presented. The approach extends the traditional Debye-H\"{u}ckel theory into the regime of moderate coupling and is able to qualitatively reproduce…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 S. A. Khrapak , A. G. Khrapak , A. V. Ivlev , G. E. Morfill

We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation for general open quantum dynamics, described by a joint unitary evolution on a composite system comprising a system and an environment. By measuring the environmental state after the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-06 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The geometric formulation of Hamilton--Jacobi theory for systems with nonholonomic constraints is developed, following the ideas of the authors in previous papers. The relation between the solutions of the Hamilton--Jacobi problem with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 J. F. Cariñena , X. Gracia , G. Marmo , E. Martinez , M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Roman-Roy

We generalize the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation for higher order singular systems and obtain the equations of motion as total differential equations. To do this we first study the constraint structure present in such systems.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Pimentel , R. G. Teixeira

Information dynamics is an emerging description of information processing in complex systems which describes systems in terms of intrinsic computation, identifying computational primitives of information storage and transfer. In this paper…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-03 Richard E. Spinney , Joseph T. Lizier , Mikhail Prokopenko

We assume the validity of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, as given in terms of the horizon area of the Bardeen regular black hole, and consider it as the fundamental thermodynamic equation. We derive and investigate the behavior of the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-10 H. Quevedo , M. N. Quevedo , A. Sanchez

The statistical mechanical description of small systems staying in thermal equilibrium with an environment can be achieved by means of the Hamiltonian of mean force. In contrast to the reduced density matrix of an open quantum system, or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi

The variational method is very important in mathematical and theoretical physics because it allows us to describe the natural systems by physical quantities independently from the frame of reference used. A global and statistical approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-10 Umberto Lucia

A Hamilton-Jacobi theory for general dynamical systems, defined on fibered phase spaces, has been recently developed. In this paper we shall apply such a theory to contact Hamiltonian systems, as those appearing in thermodynamics and on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-19 S. Grillo , E. Padrón

The established thermodynamic formalism of chaotic dynamics, valid at statistical equilibrium, is here generalized to systems out of equilibrium, that have yet to relax to a steady state. A relation between information, escape rate, and the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-28 Domenico Lippolis

We model the dynamics of a closed quantum system brought out of mechanical equilibrium, undergoing a non-driven, spontaneous, thermodynamic transformation. In particular, we consider a quantum particle in a box with a moving and insulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Sofia Sgroi , Mauro Paternostro

Quantum many-body dynamics generically results in increasing entanglement that eventually leads to thermalization of local observables. This makes the exact description of the dynamics complex despite the apparent simplicity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Thomas Klein Kvorning , Loïc Herviou , Jens H. Bardarson

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation of classical mechanics is approached as a model reduction of conservative particle mechanics where the velocity degrees-of-freedom are eliminated. This viewpoint allows an extension of the association of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Amit Acharya

We derive a class of thermodynamically consistent variants of Maxwell/Oldroyd-B type models for viscoelastic fluids. In particular, we study the models that allow one to consider temperature dependent material coefficients. This naturally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-12 Jaroslav Hron , Vojtěch Miloš , Vít Průša , Ondřej Souček , Karel Tůma

We argue here that, as it happens in Classical and Quantum Mechanics, where it has been proven that alternative Hamiltonian descriptions can be compatible with a given set of equations of motion, the same holds true in the realm of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Ercolessi , G. Marmo , G. Morandi

In this work we present a formal generalization of the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, recently developed for singular systems, to include the case of Lagrangians containing variables which are elements of Berezin algebra. We derive the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. M. Pimentel , R. G. Teixeira , J. L. Tomazelli

As a continuation of Rabei et al. work [11], the Hamilton- Jacobi partial differential equation is generalized to be applicable for systems containing fractional derivatives. The Hamilton- Jacobi function in configuration space is obtained…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Eqab M. Rabei , Bashar S. Ababneh