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We study a paradigmatic system with long-range interactions: the Hamiltonian Mean-Field Model (HMF). It is shown that in the thermodynamic limit this model does not relax to the usual equilibrium Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Instead, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-08 Renato Pakter , Yan Levin

Mean-field theories have proven to be efficient tools for exploring diverse phases of matter, complementing alternative methods that are more precise but also more computationally demanding. Conventional mean-field theories often fall short…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-04 Junyi Zhang , Zhengqian Cheng

We present a non-perturbative, mean-field theory for the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou model with quartic interaction, capturing the quasiperiodic features shown by the system at all energies in the thermodynamic limit. Starting from the true…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Antonio Ponno , Giacomo Gradenigo , Marco Baldovin , Angelo Vulpiani

We analyze a class of mean-field (MF) lattice-fermion Hamiltonians and construct the corresponding grand-canonical density operator for such system. New terms are introduced, which may be interpreted as local fugacities, molecular fields,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-01 Jakub Jȩdrak , Jozef Spałek

We study energy transport in the paradigmatic Hamiltonian mean-field (HMF) model and other related long-range interacting models using molecular dynamics simulations. We show that energy diffusion in the HMF model is subdiffusive in nature,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-13 Debarshee Bagchi

We study chaos in the Hamiltonian Mean Field model (HMF), a system with many degrees of freedom in which $N$ classical rotators are fully coupled. We review the most important results on the dynamics and the thermodynamics of the HMF, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Latora , A. Rapisarda , S. Ruffo

The Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model of coupled inertial, Hamiltonian rotors is a prototype for conservative dynamics in systems with long-range interactions. We consider the case where the interactions between the rotors are governed by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-09 Yogesh S. Virkar , Juan G. Restrepo , James D. Meiss

We introduce a numerical method to determine the Hamiltonian of Mean Force (HMF) Gibbs state for a quantum system strongly coupled to a reservoir. The method adapts the Time Evolving Matrix Product Operator (TEMPO) algorithm to imaginary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Yiu-Fung Chiu , Aidan Strathearn , Jonathan Keeling

A framework for statistical-mechanical analysis of quantum Hamiltonians is introduced. The approach is based upon a gradient flow equation in the space of Hamiltonians such that the eigenvectors of the initial Hamiltonian evolve toward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Dorje C. Brody , David C. P. Ellis , Darryl D. Holm

In a recent paper [P. Strasberg and M. Esposito, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 101}, 050101(R) (2020)] an attempt is presented to formulate the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of an open system in terms of the Hamiltonian of mean force. The purpose of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi

We show that the Hamiltonian mean field (HMF) model describes the equilibrium behavior of a system of long pendula with flat bobs that are coupled through long-range interactions (charged or self gravitating). We solve for the canonical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-06 Owen Myers , Adrian Del Maestro , Junru Wu , Jeffrey S. Marshall

We discuss the dynamics and thermodynamics of systems with long-range interactions. We contrast the microcanonical description of an isolated Hamiltonian system to the canonical description of a stochastically forced Brownian system. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We describe a procedure for mapping a self-consistent mean-field theory (also known as density functional theory) into a shell model Hamiltonian that includes quadrupole-quadrupole and monopole pairing interactions in a truncated space. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Rodriguez-Guzman , Y. Alhassid , G. F. Bertsch

Long-lived quasistationary states, associated with stationary stable solutions of the Vlasov equation, are found in systems with long-range interactions. Studies of the relaxation time in a model of $N$ globally coupled particles moving on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-09 Pierre de Buyl , David Mukamel , Stefano Ruffo

The fabrication, utilisation, and efficiency of quantum technologies rely on a good understanding of quantum thermodynamic properties. Many-body systems are often used as hardware for these quantum devices, but interactions between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-26 Krissia Zawadzki , Amy Skelt , Irene D'Amico

We study the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model of coupled Hamiltonian rotors with a heterogeneous distribution of moments of inertia and coupling strengths. We show that when the parameters of the rotors are heterogeneous, finite size…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-10 Juan G. Restrepo , James D. Meiss

We develop a fluctuation framework to quantify the free energy difference between two equilibrium states connected by nonequilibrium processes under arbitrary dynamics and system-environment coupling. For an open system described by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-15 Mohammad Rahbar , Christopher J. Stein

A classical long-range-interacting $N$-particle system relaxes to thermal equilibrium on time scales growing with $N$; in the limit $N\to \infty$ such a relaxation time diverges. However, a completely non-collisional relaxation process,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-09 Alessandro Santini , Guido Giachetti , Lapo Casetti

Wavefunction structure is analyzed for dense interacting many-boson systems using Hamiltonian $H$, which is a sum of one-body $h(1)$ and an embedded GOE of $k$-body interaction $V(k)$ with strength $\lambda$. In the first analysis, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-07 Priyanka Rao , N. D. Chavda

An explicit expression is derived for the statistical description of small quantum systems, which are relatively-weakly and directly coupled to only small parts of their environments. The derived expression has a canonical form, but is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Wen-ge Wang