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We develop a general formalism for introducing stochastic fluctuations around thermodynamic equilibrium which takes into account, for the first time, recent developments on the causality and stability properties of relativistic hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-16 Nicki Mullins , Mauricio Hippert , Jorge Noronha

We introduce a model of long-range interacting particles evolving under a stochastic Monte Carlo dynamics, in which possible increase or decrease in the values of the dynamical variables is accepted with preassigned probabilities. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , Thierry Dauxois , Stefano Ruffo

Assuming a classical statistical system of point particles the fundamental equations of continuum thermomechanics (continuity equation, equation of motion, and energy equation) shall be derived exactly. The macroscopic state functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-03 Walter Noll

In this work, our prime focus is to study the one to one correspondence between the conduction phenomena in electrical wires with impurity and the scattering events responsible for particle production during stochastic inflation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-16 Sayantan Choudhury , Arkaprava Mukherjee , Prashali Chauhan , Sandipan Bhattacherjee

We define a thermostatic system to be a convex space of states together with a concave function sending each state to its entropy, which is an extended real number. This definition applies to classical thermodynamics, classical statistical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 John C. Baez , Owen Lynch , Joe Moeller

The study of stochastic thermodynamic machines is one of the main topics in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In this study, within the framework of Fokker-Planck equation, and using the method of characteristics of partial differential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-03 Yunxin Zhang

The theory of quantum thermodynamics investigates how the concepts of heat, work, and temperature can be carried over to the quantum realm, where fluctuations and randomness are fundamentally unavoidable. These lecture notes provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Patrick P. Potts

Unlike macroscopic engines, the molecular machinery of living cells is strongly affected by fluctuations. Stochastic Thermodynamics uses Markovian jump processes to model the random transitions between the chemical and configurational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-19 Bernhard Altaner , Artur Wachtel , Jürgen Vollmer

We investigate the thermodynamics of integrable classical field theories under the effect of a random initial configuration, motivated by the nonequilibrium evolution of quantum field theories. The approach to thermal equilibrium is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 P. E. G. Assis

Thermodynamics makes definite predictions about the thermal behavior of macroscopic systems in and out of equilibrium. Statistical mechanics aims to derive this behavior from the dynamics and statistics of the atoms and molecules making up…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-28 Sheldon Goldstein , David A. Huse , Joel L. Lebowitz , Pablo Sartori

Stochastic phenomena occurring within charged particle beams can be handled using the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck generalization of the Vlasov equation. In particular, this non-deterministic approach can deal with effects due to Coulomb scattering…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Jürgen Struckmeier

By considering general Markov stochastic dynamics and its coarse-graining, we study the framework of stochastic thermodynamics for the original and reduced descriptions corresponding to different scales. We are especially concerned with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-29 Yohei Nakayama , Kyogo Kawaguchi

Classical thermodynamics treats temperature as a state variable characterizing systems in equilibrium with idealized infinite reservoirs. We argue that this framing, while computationally exact, obscures an essential physical reality: any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 David Vaknin

We formulate a thermodynamic theory applicable to both classical and quantum systems. These systems are depicted as thermodynamic system-bath models capable of handling isothermal, isentropic, thermostatic, and entropic processes. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-25 Shoki Koyanagi , Yoshitaka Tanimura

Aspects of the modern dynamical systems approach to thermodynamics of stationary states out of equilibrium with attention to the original conceptions which arose at the beginnings of Statistical Mechanics

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-28 Giovanni Gallavotti

The linear response to temperature changes is derived for systems with overdamped stochastic dynamics. Holding both in transient and steady state conditions, the results allow to compute nonequilibrium thermal susceptibilities from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-11 Gianmaria Falasco , Marco Baiesi

Systems out of equilibrium exhibit a net production of entropy. We study the dynamics of a stochastic system represented by a Master Equation that can be modeled by a Fokker-Planck equation in a coarse-grained, mesoscopic description. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-05 Daniel M. Busiello , Jorge Hidalgo , Amos Maritan

Examples of self propulsion in strongly fluctuating environment is abound in nature, e.g., molecular motors and pumps operating in living cells. Starting from Langevin equation of motion, we develop a fluctuating thermodynamic description…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-20 Chandrima Ganguly , Debasish Chaudhuri

The large-deviation method can be used to study the measurement trajectories of open quantum systems. For optical arrangements this formalism allows to describe the long time properties of the (non-equilibrium) photon counting statistics in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-06 Adrian A. Budini

A unified view on macroscopic thermodynamics and quantum transport is presented. Thermodynamic processes with an exchange of energy between two systems necessarily involve the flow of other balanceable quantities. These flows are first…

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