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Equilibrium statistical mechanics provides powerful tools to understand physics at the macroscale. Yet, the question remains how this can be justified based on a microscopic quantum description. Here, we extend the ideas of pure state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Neil Dowling , Pedro Figueroa-Romero , Felix A. Pollock , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi

Small thermodynamic systems exhibit peculiar behavior different from that observed in long-scale systems. Non-equilibrium processes taking place in those systems are strongly influenced by the presence of fluctuations which can be large.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Rubi

Weakly nonlinear amplitude equations are derived for the onset of spatially extended patterns on a general class of n-component bulk-surface reaction-diffusion systems in a ball, under the assumption of linear kinetics in the bulk and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-27 Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda , Alan R. Champneys , Davide Cusseddu , Anotida Madzvamuse

For the system with inhomogeneous distribution of macroscopic parameters we obtain thermodynamic relation which depends on the spatial point (coordinate). In our approach, to obtain such a relation we use the basic ideas of the method of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 A. P. Rebesh , B. I. Lev , A. G. Zagorodny

We discuss the problem how to determine the quality of a nonlinear system with respect to a measurement task. Due to amplification, filtering, quantization and internal noise sources physical measurement equipment in general exhibits a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Manuel Stein , Josef A. Nossek , Kurt Barbé

We examine the question of whether the formal expressions of equilibrium statistical mechanics can be applied to time independent non-dissipative systems that are not in true thermodynamic equilibrium and are nonergodic. By assuming the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-09 Stephen R. Williams , Denis J. Evans

We develop a general theory dealing with stochastic models for dynamical systems that are governed by various nonlinear, ordinary or partial differential, equations. In particular, we address the problem how flows in the random medium…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Piotr Garbaczewski

We review generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations which are valid under general conditions even in ``non-standard systems'', e.g. out of equilibrium and/or without a Hamiltonian structure. The response functions can be expressed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-10 A. Sarracino , A. Vulpiani

Living systems operate far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Enzymatic activity can induce broken detailed balance at the molecular scale. This molecular scale breaking of detailed balance is crucial to achieve biological functions such as…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 F. Gnesotto , F. Mura , J. Gladrow , C. P. Broedersz

Understanding how macroscopic nonequilibrium systems respond to changes in external or internal parameters remains a fundamental challenge in physics. In this work, we report a parameter transitional symmetry valid for macroscopic dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-05 Jiming Zheng , Zhiyue Lu

The probability distribution function for an out of equilibrium system may sometimes be approximated by a physically motivated "trial" distribution. A particularly interesting case is when a driven system (e.g., active matter) is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-27 Carlos Perez-Espigares , Alejandro B. Kolton , Jorge Kurchan

Systems of reaction-diffusion equations are commonly used in biological models of food chains. The populations and their complicated interactions present numerous challenges in theory and in numerical approximation. In particular,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Matthew Beauregard , Joshua Padgett , Rana Parshad

This work is devoted to the development of a distributionally robust active fault diagnosis approach for a class of nonlinear systems, which takes into account any ambiguity in distribution information of the uncertain model parameters.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Ioannis Tzortzis , Marios M. Polycarpou

For a many-particle system with long-range interactions and evolving under stochastic dynamics, we study for the first time the out-of-equilibrium fluctuations of the work done on the system by a time-dependent external force. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-19 Shamik Gupta , Thierry Dauxois , Stefano Ruffo

We present a construction of non-equilibrium steady states in one-dimensional quantum critical systems carrying energy and charge fluxes. This construction is based on a scattering approach within a real-time hamiltonian reservoir…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Denis Bernard , Benjamin Doyon

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

The class of $\alpha$-stable distributions with a wide range of applications in economics, telecommunications, biology, applied, and theoretical physics. This is due to the fact that it possesses both the skewness and heavy tails. Since…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Mahdi Teimouri

In this paper, we consider discrete-time non-linear stochastic dynamical systems with additive process noise in which both the initial state and noise distributions are uncertain. Our goal is to quantify how the uncertainty in these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Steven Adams , Eduardo Figueiredo , Luca Laurenti

We examine deviations from Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics for partially equilibrated systems of finite size. We find that such systems are characterized by the Levy distribution whose non-extensivity parameter is related to the number of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Athanasios N. Petridis

In the context of data-driven control of nonlinear systems, many approaches lack of rigorous guarantees, call for nonconvex optimization, or require knowledge of a function basis containing the system dynamics. To tackle these drawbacks, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Tim Martin , Frank Allgöwer