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Few equilibrium --even less so nonequilibrium-- statistical-mechanical models with continuous degrees of freedom can be solved exactly. Classical hard-spheres in infinitely many space dimensions are a notable exception. We show that even…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-01 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Gustavo S. Lozano , Frédéric van Wijland

Fluctuation dynamics of an experimentally measured observable offer a primary signal for nonequilibrium systems, along with dynamics of the mean. While universal speed limits for the mean have actively been studied recently, constraints for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-08 Ryusuke Hamazaki

We quantitatively characterize the metastability in a multi-phase lattice Boltzmann model. The structure factor of density fluctuations is theoretically obtained and numerically verified to a high precision, for all simulated wave-vectors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-20 Matteo Lulli , Luca Biferale , Giacomo Falcucci , Mauro Sbragaglia , Dong Yang , Xiaowen Shan

The short time behavior of a disturbed system is influenced by off-shell motion and best characterized by the reduced density matrix possessing high energetic tails. We present analytically the formation of correlations due to collisions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Klaus Morawetz , Václav Špička , Pavel Lipavský

Using the information current, we develop a Lorentz-covariant framework for modeling equilibrium fluctuations in relativistic kinetic theory in the grand-canonical ensemble. The resulting stochastic theory is proven to be causal and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 Gabriel Soares Rocha , Lorenzo Gavassino , Nicki Mullins

We consider a general class of nonlinear diffusive models with bulk dissipation and boundary driving, and derive its hydrodynamic description in the large size limit. Both the average macroscopic behavior and the fluctuating properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 A. Prados , A. Lasanta , Pablo I. Hurtado

The work approaches the study of the fluctuations for the thermodynamic systems in the presence of the fields. The approach is of phenomenological nature and developed in a Gaussian approximation. The study is exemplified on the cases of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Dumitru , A. Boer

The dynamics of inelastic hard spheres is described in terms of the binary collision expansion, yielding the corresponding pseudo-Liouville equation and BBGKY hierarchy for the reduced distribution functions. Based on cluster expansion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. P. C. van Noije , M. H. Ernst

In this paper, we rigorously derive a Boltzmann equation for mixtures from the many body dynamics of two types of hard sphere gases. We prove that the microscopic dynamics of two gases with different masses and diameters is well defined,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Ioakeim Ampatzoglou , Joseph K. Miller , Nataša Pavlović

We develop a theory for fluctuations and correlations in a gas evolving under ballistic annihilation dynamics. Starting from the hierarchy of equations governing the evolution of microscopic densities in phase space, we subsequently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Maynar , M. I. Garcia de Soria , G. Schehr , A. Barrat , E. Trizac

The Fluctuation Theorem describes the probability ratio of observing trajectories that satisfy or violate the second law of thermodynamics. It has been proved in a number of different ways for thermostatted deterministic nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Debra J. Searles , Denis J. Evans

Consider the linear Boltzmann equation of radiative transfer in a half-space, with constant scattering coefficient $\sigma$. Assume that, on the boundary of the half-space, the radiation intensity satisfies the Lambert (i.e. diffuse)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Claude Bardos , François Golse , Iván Moyano

Current implementations of fluctuating lattice Boltzmann equations (FLBE) describe single component fluids. In this paper, a model based on the continuum kinetic Boltzmann equation for describing multicomponent fluids is extended to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-16 D. Belardinelli , M. Sbragaglia , L. Biferale , M. Gross , F. Varnik

We obtain the large scale limit of the fluctuations around its hydrodynamic limit of the density of particles of a weakly asymmetric exclusion process in dimension up to three. The proof is based upon a sharp estimate on the relative…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Milton Jara , Otávio Menezes

Recently, a theoretical framework known as {\it ballistic macroscopic fluctuation theory} has been developed to study large-scale fluctuations and correlations in many-body systems exhibiting ballistic transport. In this paper, we review…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-01 Anupam Kundu

A new transient effective theory of the relativistic Boltzmann equation is derived for locally momentum-anisotropic systems. In the expansion of the distribution function around a local "quasi-equilibrium" state a non-hydrodynamic dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-26 Dennis Bazow , Mauricio Martinez , Ulrich W. Heinz

We analyze the microscopic evolution of a system undergoing a far-from-equilibrium thermodynamic process. Explicitly accounting for the degrees of freedom of participating heat reservoirs, we derive a hybrid result, similar in form to both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Jarzynski

We discuss research done in two important areas of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics: fluctuation dissipation relations and dynamical fluctuations. In equilibrium systems the fluctuation-dissipation theorem gives a simple relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-19 Bram Wynants

We consider the long-term evolution of an inhomogeneous long-range interacting $N$-body system. Placing ourselves in the dynamically hot limit, i.e. neglecting collective effects, we derive a large deviation principle for the system's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-17 Ouassim Feliachi , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry

In this article we discuss several aspects of the stochastic dynamics of spin models. The paper has two independent parts. Firstly, we explore a few properties of the multi-point correlations and responses of generic systems evolving in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Guilhem Semerjian , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Andrea Montanari