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We give details and derivations for the Noether invariance theory that characterizes the spatial equilibrium structure of inhomogeneous classical many-body systems, as recently proposed and investigated for bulk systems [F. Samm\"uller…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 Sophie Hermann , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt

Noether invariance in statistical mechanics provides fundamental connections between the symmetries of a physical system and its conservation laws and sum rules. The latter are exact identities that involve statistically averaged forces and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-04 Silas Robitschko , Florian Sammüller , Matthias Schmidt , Sophie Hermann

Liquid structure carries deep imprints of an inherent thermal invariance against a spatial transformation of the underlying classical many-body Hamiltonian. At first order in the transformation field the Noether theorem yields the local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Florian Sammüller , Sophie Hermann , Daniel de las Heras , Matthias Schmidt

The strength of fluctuations, as measured by their variance, is paramount in the quantitative description of a large class of physical systems, ranging from simple and complex liquids to active fluids and solids. Fluctuations originate from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-21 Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

Noether's calculus of invariant variations yields exact identities from functional symmetries. The standard application to an action integral allows to identify conservation laws. Here we rather consider generating functionals, such as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-16 Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

The time dependent-integrals of motion, linear in position and momentum operators, of a quantum system are extracted from Noether's theorem prescription by means of special time-dependent variations of coordinates. For the stationary case…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 O. Castaños , R. López-Peña , V. I. Man'ko

The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of interacting quantum many-body systems is investigated within the framework of thermal time-dependent density functional theory using a generalized linear-response formulation for the full quantum work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Antonio Palamara , Francesco Plastina , Antonello Sindona , Irene D'Amico

We formulate gauge invariance for the equilibrium statistical mechanics of classical multi-component systems. Species-resolved phase space shifting constitutes a gauge transformation which we analyze using Noether's theorem and shifting…

Noether's theorem in the realm of point dynamics establishes the correlation of a constant of motion of a Hamilton-Lagrange system with a particular symmetry transformation that preserves the form of the action functional. Although usually…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jürgen Struckmeier

It is shown that the structure of thermodynamics is "form invariant", when it is derived using maximum entropy principle for various choices of entropy and even beyond equilibrium. By the form invariance of thermodynamics, it is meant that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-12 Avijit Misra , Uttam Singh , Manabendra Nath Bera , A. K. Rajagopal

We address gauge invariance in the statistical mechanics of quantum many-body systems. The gauge transformation acts on the position and momentum degrees of freedom and it is represented by a quantum shifting superoperator that maps quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Johanna Müller , Matthias Schmidt

We establish a connection between macroscopic "heating or cooling" of a finite many-body quantum system and the non-adiabatic Landau-Zener-St\"{u}ckelberg transitions between its quantum states. We have considered the well-known Nilsson…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-12 Nishchal R. Dwivedi , Sudhir R. Jain

Exact solutions of time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in presence of time-dependent potential is defined by point transformation and separation of variables. Energy and Heisenberg uncertainty relation are pursued for time-independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Debraj Nath

We provide an extended acount of the recent statistical mechanical theory of gauge invariance against operator shifting in quantum many-body systems (arXiv:2509.20494). The gauge transformation is enacted by a shifting superoperator that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Johanna Müller , Matthias Schmidt

We investigate the relaxation dynamics in an isolated quantum many-body system. The stationary value of an observable after relaxation is a topic of researches in the field of quantum thermalization, since thermalization is a relaxation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 Naoto Shiraishi , Keiji Matsumoto

We study conformal properties of the quantum kinetic equations in curved spacetime. A transformation law for the covariant Wigner function under conformal transformations of a spacetime is derived by using the formalism of tangent bundles.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Oleg A. Fonarev

Intrinsic decoherence in the thermodynamic limit is shown for a large class of many-body quantum systems in the unitary evolution in NMR and cavity QED. The effect largely depends on the inability of the system to recover the phases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Frasca

Dealing with a generic time-local non-Markovian master equation, we define current and power to be process-dependent as in classical thermodynamics. Each process is characterized by a symmetry transformation, a gauge of the master equation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Fernando Nicacio , Raphael N. P. Maia

Noether's Theorem is familiar to most physicists due its fundamental role in linking the existence of conservation laws to the underlying symmetries of a physical system. Typically the systems are described in the particle-based context of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-04 Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

The Hohenberg-Kohn theorem and the Kohn-Sham equations, which are at the basis of the Density Functional Theory, are reformulated in terms of a particular many-body density, which is translational invariant and therefore is relevant for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 A. Kievsky , G. Orlandini , M. Gattobigio
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