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From a new perspective, this paper rederives Lagrange's equations. By applying the chain rule of differentiation, the intrinsic relationship between the momentum theorem and the kinetic energy theorem is first established. Subsequently,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Peng Shi

Experiments on bird flocks and midge swarms reveal that these natural systems are well described by an active theory in which conservation laws play a crucial role. By building a symplectic structure that couples the particles' velocities…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-10 Andrea Cavagna , Javier Cristín , Irene Giardina , Tomas S. Grigera , Mario Veca

The nonequilibrium steady state of a granular fluid, driven by a random external force, is demonstrated to exhibit long range correlations, which behave as $\sim 1/r$ in three and $\sim \ln(L/r)$ in two dimensions. We calculate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. C. van Noije , M. H. Ernst , E. Trizac , I. Pagonabarraga

In the works by the author it has been shown that the conservation laws for material media (the conservation laws for energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, and mass, that establish a balance between the variation of a physical quantity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. I. Petrova

We construct relativistic-invariant spinning-particle Lagrangian without auxiliary variables. Spin is considered as a composed quantity constructed on the base of non-Grassmann vector-like variable. The variational problem guarantees both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-29 Alexei A. Deriglazov , Andrey M. Pupasov-Maksimov

A microscopic model of interacting oscillators, which admits two conserved quantities, volume, and energy, is investigated. We begin with a system driven by a general nonlinear potential under high-temperature regime by taking the inverse…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Patrícia Gonçalves , Kohei Hayashi

The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation which is a key ingredient in many models in physics. This paper aims to obtain a quantum counterpart of Fokker-Planck dynamics, as a means to describing quantum Fokker-Planck…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Louis Labuschagne , W. Adam Majewski

We investigate nonlinear effects on the dynamics of entanglement and other quantum observables in a system of two harmonic modes coupled through angular momentum. The nonlinearity arises from a quartic anharmonic term in each mode. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 N. Canosa , R. Rossignoli , Javier Garcia , Swapan Mandal , Kartick Chandra Saha

Dynamical frictional phenomena are studied theoretically in a two-chain model with incommensurate structure. A perturbation theory with respect to the interchain interaction reveals the contributions from phonons excited in each chain to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takaaki Kawaguchi , Hiroshi Matsukawa

We discuss the fluctuation properties of equilibrium chaotic systems with constraints such as iso-kinetic and Nos\'e-Hoover thermostats. Although the dynamics of these systems does not typically preserve phase-space volumes, the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-29 T. Gilbert , J. R. Dorfman

The present work pursues the investigation of the role of spatial asymmetry and irreversibility on the dynamical properties of spin systems. We consider the ferromagnetic spherical model with asymmetric linear Langevin dynamics. Such an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 C Godreche , J M Luck

We examine n component spin systems with arbitrary two spin interactions (of unspecified range) within a general framework to highlight some new subtleties present in incommensurate systems. We determine the ground states of all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zohar Nussinov

Conservation principles are essential to describe and quantify dynamical processes in all areas of physics. Classically, a conservation law holds because the description of reality can be considered independent of an observation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Stanisław Sołtan , Mateusz Frączak , Wolfgang Belzig , Adam Bednorz

We study the contraction properties (up to shift) for admissible Rankine-Hugoniot discontinuities of $n\times n$ systems of conservation laws endowed with a convex entropy. We first generalize the criterion developed in [47], using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Moon-Jin Kang , Alexis F. Vasseur

In this work, we formulate a generalized uncertainty principle with both position and momentum operators modified from their canonical forms. We study whether Lorentz symmetry is violated and whether it can be saved with these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-16 Michael Bishop , Daniel Hooker , Peter Martin , Douglas Singleton

Conservation laws are discussed in conjunction with quantum-mechanical indeterminacies of the corresponding observables. The considered examples show that the connections between energy and its indeterminacy may be quite intricate. The…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Moses Fayngold

In this contribution, we introduce a general class of car-following models with an input-state-output port-Hamiltonian structure. We derive stability conditions and long-term behavior of the finite system with periodic boundaries and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Julia Ackermann , Matthias Ehrhardt , Thomas Kruse , Antoine Tordeux

Non-equilibrium stationary fluctuations may exhibit a special symmetry called fluctuation relations (FR). Here, we show that this property is always satisfied by the subtraction of two random and independent variables related by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-13 Adrian A. Budini

We present a comprehensive theory of the dynamics and fluctuations of a two-dimensional suspension of polar active particles in an incompressible fluid confined to a substrate. We show that, depending on the sign of a single parameter, a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-22 Ananyo Maitra , Pragya Srivastava , M. Cristina Marchetti , Sriram Ramaswamy , Martin Lenz

We demonstrate that hyperuniformity, the suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales, emerges generically from the interplay between conservation laws and non-equilibrium driving. The underlying mechanism for this emergence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Raphaël Maire , Ludivine Chaix