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We measure the energy fluctuations of a Brownian particle confined by an optical trap in an aging gelatin after a very fast quench (less than 1 ms). The strong nonequilibrium fluctuations due to the assemblage of the gel, are interpreted,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-13 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

In fluids under temperature gradients, long-range correlations (LRCs) emerge generically, leading to enhanced density fluctuations. This phenomenon, characterized by the $\boldsymbol{q}^{-4}$ divergence in the static structure factor (where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-18 Hiroyoshi Nakano , Kazuma Yokota

Disordered packings of soft grains are fragile mechanical systems that loose rigidity upon lowering the external pressure towards zero. At zero pressure, we find that any infinitesimal strain-impulse propagates initially as a non-linear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-25 N. Upadhyaya , L. R. Gomez , V. Vitelli

We study the full-counting statistics of charges transmitted through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to a local Einstein phonon which causes fluctuations in the dot energy. An analytic expression for the cumulant generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Y. Utsumi , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Ueda , A. Aharony

We revisit the Rayleigh--Riabouchinsky paradox in dimensional analysis by making explicit the bridge between thermodynamics and the mechanical interpretation of temperature. Boltzmann's constant $k_B$ acts as a dimensional unifier, leading…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Amilcare Porporato , Lamberto Rondoni

We study a class of nonequilibrium lattice models which describe local redistributions of a globally conserved energy. A particular subclass can be solved analytically, allowing to define a temperature T_{th} along the same lines as in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Bertin , Olivier Dauchot , Michel Droz

Fluctuation theorems are fundamental extensions of the second law of thermodynamics for small nonequilibrium systems. While work and heat are equally important forms of energy exchange, fluctuation relations have not been experimentally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-24 Markus Rademacher , Michael Konopik , Maxime Debiossac , David Grass , Eric Lutz , Nikolai Kiesel

Recent work has observed that one can outperform exact inference in Bayesian neural networks by tuning the "temperature" of the posterior on a validation set (the "cold posterior" effect). To help interpret this phenomenon, we argue that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-04 Ben Adlam , Jasper Snoek , Samuel L. Smith

One of the standardized features of financial data is that log-returns are uncorrelated, but absolute log-returns or their squares namely the fluctuating volatility are correlated and is characterized by heavy tailed in the sense that some…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-05-11 Geoffrey Ducournau

In Lipschitz domains, we study a Darcy-Forchheimer problem coupled with a singular heat equation by a nonlinear forcing term depending on the temperature. By singular we mean that the heat source corresponds to a Dirac measure. We establish…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Alejandro Allendes , Gilberto Campaña , Enrique Otarola

We investigate the thermal responses of a harmonic oscillator chain coupled at its boundaries to heat baths held at different temperatures. This setup sustains a steady energy flux, continuously dissipating heat into both reservoirs. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Michiel Gautama , Faezeh Khodabandehlou , Christian Maes , Ion Santra

The explicit thermodynamic functions, in particular, the specific heat of a spin system interacting with a spin bath which exerts finite dissipation on the system are determined. We show that the specific heat is a sum of the products of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Sudarson Sekhar Sinha , Arnab Ghosh , Deb Shankar Ray

Critical heat flux is a key quantity in boiling system modeling due to its impact on heat transfer and component temperature and performance. This study investigates the development and validation of an uncertainty-aware hybrid modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Aidan Furlong , Xingang Zhao , Robert Salko , Xu Wu

We investigate phase transitions in a Toy Model of Superposition (TMS) using Singular Learning Theory (SLT). We derive a closed formula for the theoretical loss and, in the case of two hidden dimensions, discover that regular $k$-gons are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Zhongtian Chen , Edmund Lau , Jake Mendel , Susan Wei , Daniel Murfet

The effect of quantum fluctuations on a nearly flat, nonrelativistic two-dimensional membrane with extrinsic curvature stiffness and tension is investigated. The renormalization group analysis is carried out in first-order perturbative…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. S. Borelli , H. Kleinert , Adriaan M. J. Schakel

We consider the problem of the definition of an effective temperature via the long-time limit of the fluctuation-dissipation ratio (FDR) after a quench from the disordered state to the critical point of an O(N) model with dissipative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-16 Pasquale Calabrese , Andrea Gambassi

We propose a method to evaluate general thermodynamic fluctuations in open quantum systems, based on performing a two-point measurement scheme on the system using dynamics-dependent thermodynamic observables. Our approach allows one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Alessandra Colla , Andrea Smirne , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

We present experimental data and their theoretical interpretation for the decay rates of temperature fluctuations in a thin layer of a fluid heated from below and confined between parallel horizontal plates. The measurements were made with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-15 Jaechul Oh , José M. Ortiz de Zárate , Jan V. Sengers , Guenter Ahlers

A bar-joint mechanism is a deformable assembly of freely rotating joints connected by stiff bars. Here we develop a formalism to study the equilibration of common bar-joint mechanisms with a thermal bath. When the constraints in a mechanism…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-24 Manu Mannattil , J. M. Schwarz , Christian D. Santangelo

We study analytically and numerically a couple of paradigmatic spin models, each described in terms of two sets of variables attached to two different thermal baths with characteristic timescales $T$ and $\tau$ and inverse temperatures $B$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-18 Giovanni Battista Carollo , Federico Corberi , Giuseppe Gonnella