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We study experimentally the thermal fluctuations of energy input and dissipation in a harmonic oscillator driven out of equilibrium, and search for Fluctuation Relations. We study transient evolution from the equilibrium state, together…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-28 Sylvain Joubaud , Nicolas Garnier , Sergio Ciliberto

We consider four dimensional heterotic string backgrounds for which supersymmetry is spontaneously broken via the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism on an internal spatial cycle and by finite temperature effects. We concentrate on initially flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-19 Tristan Catelin-Jullien , Costas Kounnas , Herve Partouche , Nicolaos Toumbas

Following the discovery of the CMB, the hot big-bang model has become the standard cosmological model. In this theory, small primordial fluctuations are subsequently amplified by gravity to form the large-scale structure seen today.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Licia Verde

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

A semiclassical description of quantum systems is applied to probe the dynamics of the cosmological model of an inflationary universe with quadratic inflaton potential, described in a quantum framework of geometrodynamics. The systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-27 David Brizuela , Tomasz Pawlowski

Many stars, active galactic nuclei, accretion discs etc. are affected by the stochastic variations of temperature, turbulent gas motions, magnetic fields, number densities of atoms and dust grains. These stochastic variations influence on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 N. A. Silant'ev , G. A. Alekseeva , V. V. Novikov

The large scale distribution of galaxies in the universe displays a complex pattern of clusters, super-clusters, filaments and voids with sizes limited only by the boundaries of the available samples. A quantitative statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Francesco Sylos Labini , Luciano Pietronero

This paper deals with gravitational thermodynamics on the dynamical apparent horizon of an FLRW universe with dissipation. The dissipation is assumed to arise due to adiabatic gravitational particle creation. For the thermodynamic study, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-24 Somnath Saha , Subhajit Saha , Nilanjana Mahata

A large number of multifaceted quantum transport processes in molecular systems and physical nanosystems can be treated in terms of quantum relaxation processes which couple to one or several fluctuating environments. A thermal equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Goychuk , Peter Hanggi

The statistics of heat exchange between two classical or quantum finite systems initially prepared at different temperatures are shown to obey a fluctuation theorem.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christopher Jarzynski , Daniel K. Wojcik

The possibility of thermally induced initial density perturbations in inflationary cosmology is examined. The fluctuation dynamics of a scalar field plus thermal bath system during slow roll is described by a Langevin-like equation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arjun Berera , Li-Zhi Fang

Our Universe is nearly spatially flat, but this does not mean that it is exactly spatially flat. In this paper we derive general quadratic actions for cosmological perturbations in non-flat models from the Horndeski theory. This allows us…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Shingo Akama , Tsutomu Kobayashi

Our aim is to investigate the thermodynamic properties of the universe bounded by the cosmological event horizon and dominated by the tachyon fluid. We give two different laws of evolution of our universe. Further, we show the first law and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-29 Fei-Quan Tu , Yi-Xin Chen

We review a cosmology in which particles are fluctuationally created from a background Zero Point Field. This cosmology is consistent with recent observations of an ever expanding and accelerating universe, as also the recently confirmed…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 B. G. Sidharth

Using numerical simulations, we investigate the large-scale gravitational clustering in a flat universe dominated by cold plus hot dark matter (i.e., $\Omega_0=\ocdm+\ohdm+\obaryon=1$). Primordial density fluctuation spectrum is taken to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Y. P. Jing , H. J. Mo , G. Boerner , L. Z. Fang

We discuss Einstein-Klein-Gordon system in an environment of an infinite number of scalar fields leading to an external thermal noise. In the lowest order of metric and field perturbations the quadratic fluctuations consist of a sum of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Z. Haba

Fluctuations arising in nonlinear dissipative systems (diode, transistors, chemical reaction, etc.) subject to an external drive (voltage, chemical potential, etc.) are well known to elude any simple characterization such as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-10 Jean-Charles Delvenne , Léopold Van Brandt

We derive the matching conditions for cosmological perturbations in a Friedmann Universe where the equation of state undergoes a sharp jump, for instance as a result of a phase transition. The physics of the transition which is needed to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-09 Nathalie Deruelle , V. F. Mukhanov

Almost a century ago, Johnson and Nyquist presented evidence of fluctuating electrical current and the governing fluctuation dissipation theorem (FDT). Whether, likewise, temperature T can fluctuate is a controversial topic and has led to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Bayan Karimi , Fredrik Brange , Peter Samuelsson , Jukka P. Pekola

We study the thermodynamics of galactic clustering under the higher-order corrected Newtonian dynamics. The clustering of galaxies is considered as a gravitational phase transition. In order to study the effects of higher-order correction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-23 Sudhaker Upadhyay , Behnam Pourhassan , Salvatore Capozziello