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Hydrodynamical simulations are the most accurate way to model structure formation in the universe, but they often involve a large number of astrophysical parameters modeling subgrid physics, in addition to cosmological parameters. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukic

A theory of quantum gravity consists of a gravitational framework which, unlike general relativity, takes into account the quantum character of matter. In spite of impressive advances, no fully satisfactory, self-consistent and empirically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 R. Muciño , E. Okon , D. Sudarsky , M. Wiedemann

We present a cluster expansion method for approximating quantum spin-bath dynamics in terms of a classical Gaussian stochastic process. The cluster expansion produces the two-point correlation function of the approximate classical bath,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Wayne M. Witzel , Kevin Young , Sankar Das Sarma

We poorly understand the macroscopic properties of complex fluids and of amorphous bodies in general. This is mainly due to the interplay between phenomena at different levels and length-scales. In particular, it is not necessarily true…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-14 Alessio Zaccone

A unified semiclassical framework is presented to describe the evaporative cooling of trapped atomic gases, accounting for both classical and quantum statistics. By combining global thermodynamics with phase-space distributions, general…

In this chapter, we discuss recent advances and new opportunities through methods of machine learning for the field of classical density functional theory, dealing with the equilibrium properties of thermal nano- and micro-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-12 Alessandro Simon , Martin Oettel

One of the most important issues in quantum gravity is to identify its semi-classical regime. First the issue is to define for we mean by a semi-classical theory of quantum gravity, then we would like to use it to extract physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Etera R. Livine

Interacting fluids, endowed with bulk viscous stresses, are discussed in a unified perspective with the aim of generalizing the treatment of cosmological perturbation theory to the case where both fluctuating decay rates and fluctuating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 Massimo Giovannini

We consider the quantum evolution of classically chaotic systems in contact with surroundings. Based on $\hbar$-scaling of an equation for time evolution of the Wigner's quasi-probability distribution function in presence of dissipation and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 B. C. Bag , S. Chaudhuri , J. Ray Chaudhuri , D. S. Ray

We investigate the impact of hydrodynamic fluctuations on correlation functions in a scale invariant fluid with a conserved $U(1)$ charge. The kinetic equations for the two-point functions of pressure, momentum and heat energy densities are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-09 M. Martinez , Thomas Schaefer

We analyze the thermal fluctuations of a free, conformally invariant, Maxwell quantum field (photon) interacting with a cosmological background spacetime, in the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and semiclassical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Markus B. Fröb , Dražen Glavan , Paolo Meda

We develop a framework for the stochastic thermodynamics of a probe coupled to a fluctuating medium with spatio-temporal correlations, described by a scalar field. For a Brownian particle dragged by a harmonic trap through a fluctuating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-02 Davide Venturelli , Sarah A. M. Loos , Benjamin Walter , Édgar Roldán , Andrea Gambassi

In this paper we further develop the fluctuating hydrodynamics proposed in arXiv:1511.03646 in a number of ways. We first work out in detail the classical limit of the hydrodynamical action, which exhibits many simplifications. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Paolo Glorioso , Michael Crossley , Hong Liu

We present an \emph{ab initio} calculation within quantum statistical field theory and linear response theory, of the dissipative correction to the momentum spectrum of scalar particles emitted at decoupling (freeze-out) from a relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Francesco Becattini , Daniele Roselli , Xin-Li Sheng

The formation of cosmic structures is an important diagnostic for both the dynamics of the cosmological model and the underlying theory of gravity. At the linear level of these structures, certain degeneracies remain between different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-02 Lavinia Heisenberg , Matthias Bartelmann

Complimenting recent work on the effective field theory of cosmological large scale structures, here we present detailed approximate analytical results and further pedagogical understanding of the method. We start from the collisionless…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-02 Mark P. Hertzberg

A two-variable stochastic model for diffusion-limited nucleation is developed using a formalism derived from fluctuating hydrodynamics. The model is a direct generalization of the standard Classical Nucleation Theory. The nucleation rate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-26 James F. Lutsko , Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia

A novel stochastic fluid model is proposed with non-ideal structure factor consistent with compressibility, and adjustable transport coefficients. This Stochastic Hard Sphere Dynamics (SHSD) algorithm is a modification of the Direct…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aleksandar Donev , Berni J. Alder , Alejandro L. Garcia

We introduce new classes of hydrodynamic theories inspired by the recently discovered fracton phases of quantum matter. Fracton phases are characterized by elementary excitations (fractons) with restricted mobility. The hydrodynamic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-29 Andrey Gromov , Andrew Lucas , Rahul M. Nandkishore

Our goal in this paper is to initiate the rigorous investigation of wave turbulence and derivation of wave kinetic equations (WKE) for water waves models. This problem has received intense attention in recent years in the context of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Yu Deng , Alexandru D. Ionescu , Fabio Pusateri