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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gallavotti

This short review covers a wide selection of topics from a multidisciplinary area of dynamics of nonequilibrium systems in physics, chemistry, biology. Theoretical models of colloid particle and protein deposition and adhesion at surfaces,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Privman

Statistical physics has proven to be a very fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the realm of traditional physics. The last years have witnessed the attempt by physicists to study collective phenomena emerging from the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-05-11 Claudio Castellano , Santo Fortunato , Vittorio Loreto

This chapter seeks to outline a few basic problems in quantum statistical physics where recent experimental advances from the atomic physics community offer the hope of dramatic progress. The focus is on nonequilibrium situations where the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-06-21 Austen Lamacraft , Joel Moore

This paper is based on a series of talks given at the ESI program on 'Mathematical Perspectives of Gravitation Beyond the Vacuum Regime' in February 2022. It is meant to be an introduction to the field of relativistic elasticity for readers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-24 Robert Beig

We offer a systematic account of decomposition of quantum systems into parts. Different decompositions (structures) are mutually linked via the proper linear canonical transformations. Different kinds of structures, as well as their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Jasmina Jeknic-Dugic , Momir Arsenijevic , Miroljub Dugic

In this paper I am presenting an overview on several topics related to nonequilibrium fluctuations in small systems. I start with a general discussion about fluctuation theorems and applications to physical examples extracted from physics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Ritort

The booklet contain an overview on selected recent developments in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and chaos theory: SRB distributions, chaotic hypothesis, fluctuation theorem, proposals for tests and applications to granular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-01 Giovanni Gallavotti

Equilibrium is a rather ideal situation, the exception rather than the rule in Nature. Whenever the external or internal parameters of a physical system are varied its subsequent relaxation to equilibrium may be either impossible or take…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-04 Leticia F. Cugliandolo

The physics of systems that cannot be described by a Hermitian Hamiltonian, has been attracting a great deal of attention in recent years, motivated by their nontrivial responses and by a plethora of applications for sensing, lasing, energy…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-16 Alex Krasnok , Nikita Nefedkin , Andrea Alu

This paper describes the development of a new university physics course designed to integrate physics, education, research, and community partnerships. The coordinated system of activities links the new course to local community efforts in…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 N. D. Finkelstein

Collective phenomena in strongly nonequilibrium systems interacting with electromagnetic field are considered. Such systems are described by complicated nonlinear differential or integro-differential equations. The aim of this review is to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

Non-equilibrium steady states are subject to intense investigations but still poorly understood. For instance, the derivation of Fourier law in Hamiltonian systems is a problem that still poses several obstacles. In order to investigate…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Chiara Franceschini , Cristian Giardina

Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their traditional domains of interest, but also due to scientists from…

A lecture notes style review of the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of recurrent neural networks with discrete and continuous neurons (e.g. Ising, graded-response, coupled-oscillators). To be published in the Handbook of Biological…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. C. Coolen

The mechanics of the structured particles develops. The substantiation of applicability of such mechanics for the description of processes of evolution in open nonequilibrium systems is offered. The consequences following from the equations…

General Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 V. M. Somsikov

Three topics in dynamical systems are discussed. In the first two sections we solve some open problems concerning, respectively, Furstenberg entropy of stationary dynamical systems, and uniformly rigid actions admitting a weakly mixing…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Eli Glasner , Benjamin Weiss

The empirical laws of chemical kinetics are studied from a microscopic point of view. An analysis based on elementary probability theory and combinatorics is enough to explain the kinetics law observed in experiments. Thus, an out of…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 E. N. Miranda

With regard to the recently published article, ``Y.-Q. Wang, et al., Physical mechanism of equiprobable exclusion network with heterogeneous interactions in phase transitions: Analytical analyses of steady state evolving from initial state,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-19 Takahiro Ezaki

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