English
Related papers

Related papers: Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of crystals

200 papers

We present a general formalism able to derive the kinetic equations of polymer dynamics. It is based on the application of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to analyze the irreversible processes taking place in the conformational space of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid

Many important properties of granular fluids can be represented by a system of hard spheres with inelastic collisions. Traditional methods of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics are effective for analysis and description of the inelastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 James W. Dufty , J. Javier Brey , James Lutsko

Complex crystal structures are composed of multiple local environments, and how this type of order emerges spontaneously during crystal growth has yet to be fully understood. We study crystal growth across various structures and along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-03 Maya M. Martirossyan , Matthew Spellings , Hillary Pan , Julia Dshemuchadse

We derive some nonequilibrium identities such as the integral fluctuation theorem and the Jarzynski equality starting from a nonequilibrium state for dissipative classical systems. Thanks to the existence of the integral fluctuation theorem…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-13 Hisao Hayakawa , Michio Otsuki

We study the phases and dynamics of a gas of monodisperse particles interacting via soft-core potentials in two spatial dimensions, which is of interest for soft-matter colloidal systems and quantum atomic gases. Using exact theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-11 Rogelio Diaz-Mendez , Fabio Mezzacapo , Fabio Cinti , Wolfgang Lechner , Guido Pupillo

We address the question of whether transport coefficients obtained from a unitary closed system setting, i.e., the standard equilibrium Green-Kubo formula, are the same as the ones obtained from a weakly driven nonequilibrium steady-state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-25 Marko Znidaric

We investigate energy transport in several two-level atom or spin-1/2 models by a direct coupling to heat baths of different temperatures. The analysis is carried out on the basis of a recently derived quantum master equation which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mathias Michel , Ortwin Hess , Hannu Wichterich , Jochen Gemmer

Starting from microscopic mechanics, we derive thermodynamic relations for heat conducting nonequilibrium steady states. The extended Clausius relation enables one to experimentally determine nonequilibrium entropy to the second order in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Teruhisa S. Komatsu , Naoko Nakagawa , Shin-ichi Sasa , Hal Tasaki

Under the hydrodynamic equilibrium Buchdahl's conditions on the behavior of the density and the pressure, for regular fluid static circularly symmetric star in (2 + 1) dimensions in the presence of a cosmological constant, is established…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-19 Alberto A. Garcia Diaz

Simulations of over $10^3$ hydrodynamically coupled solid spheres are performed to investigate collective motion of linear trains and regular square arrays of particles suspended in a fluid bounded by two parallel walls. Our novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-29 M. Baron , J. Blawzdziewicz , E. Wajnryb

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

A central aim of statistical mechanics is to establish connections between a system's microscopic fluctuations and its macroscopic response to a perturbation. For non-equilibrium transport properties, this amounts to establishing Green-Kubo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-28 Anna T. Bui , Stephen J. Cox

We study diffusion of colloids on a fluid-fluid interface using particle simulations and fluctuating hydrodynamics. Diffusion on a two-dimensional interface with three-dimensional hydrodynamics is known to be anomalous, with the collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 R. P. Peláez , F. Balboa Usabiaga , S. Panzuela , Q. Xiao , R. Delgado-Buscalioni , A. Donev

Locally broken symmetries are used across fields to transport matter, particles and information in preferential directions. Beyond local mechanisms, spatially distributed nonlinearities in crystalline media have enabled non-reciprocal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Aaron Winn , Justine Parmentier , Eleni Katifori , Martin Brandenbourger

We consider unsteady heat transfer in a one-dimensional harmonic crystal surrounded by a viscous environment and subjected to an external heat supply. The basic equations for the crystal particles are stated in the form of a system of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-31 Serge N. Gavrilov , Anton M. Krivtsov , Denis V. Tsvetkov

Within kinetic theory, we look for local equilibrium configurations of the quark-gluon plasma by maximizing the local entropy. We use the well-established transport equations in the Vlasov limit, supplemented with the Waldmann-Snider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristina Manuel , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

Critical phenomena in non-equilibrium systems have been studied by means of a wide variety of theoretical and experimental approaches. Mode-coupling, renormalization group, complex Lie algebras and diagrammatic techniques are some of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Enrique Hernandez-Lemus , Leopoldo S. Garcia-Colin

Equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation and the Green-Kubo formalism were used to calculate self-diffusion coefficient, shear viscosity, and thermal conductivity for 38 different dipolar two-center Lennard-Jones fluids along the bubble…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 G. A. Fernandez , J. Vrabec , H. Hasse

The lack of detailed balance in active colloidal suspensions allows dissipation to determine stationary states. Here we show that slow viscous flow produced by polar or apolar active colloids near plane walls mediates attractive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-24 Rajesh Singh , R. Adhikari

The linear response of an isolated, homogeneous granular fluid to small spatial perturbations is studied by methods of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The long wavelength linear hydrodynamic equations are obtained, with formally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 James Dufty , Aparna Baskaran , J. Javier Brey