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Using Schwinger's quantum action principle, dispersion relations are obtained for neutral scalar mesons interacting with bi-local sources. These relations are used as the basis of a method for representing the effect of interactions in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark Burgess

We present a new method for studying equilibrium properties of interacting fluids in an arbitrary external field. The fluid is composed of monodisperse spherical particles with hard-core repulsion and additional interactions of arbitrary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-09 Benaoumeur Bakhti , Gerhard Müller

In this note, we show that the Local Molecular Field theory of Weeks et. al. can be re-derived as an extremum problem for an approximate Helmholtz free energy. Using the resulting free energy as a classical, fluid density functional yields…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-15 David M. Rogers

We consider the system of particles on a finite interval with pair-wise nearest neighbours interaction and external force. This model was introduced by Malyshev to study the flow of charged particles on a rigorous mathematical level. It is…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Tatyana Turova

The equilibrium properties of classical self-gravitating systems in the grand canonical ensemble are studied by using the correspondence with an euclidean field theory with infrared and ultraviolet cutoffs. It is shown that the system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Laliena

We consider a many-body system of fermionic atoms interacting via a local pair potential and subject to an external potential within the framework of BCS theory. We measure the free energy of the whole sample with respect to the free energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-03 Andreas Deuchert

A formal correspondence is established between the curvature theory of generalized implicit hypersurfaces, electromagnetism as expressed in terms of exterior differential systems, and thermodynamics. Starting with a generalized implicit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Kiehn

The possible functional forms of the effective conductivity sigma_{eff} of the randomly inhomogeneous two-phase system at arbitrary values of concentrations are discussed. A new functional equation, generalizing the duality relation, is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Bulgadaev

Limits for the applicability of the equivalence principle are considered in the context of low-energy effective field theories. In particular, we find a class of higher-derivative interactions for the gravitational and electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Rene Lafrance , Robert C. Myers

We consider density functionals for exchange and correlation energies in two-dimensional systems. The functionals are constructed by making use of exact constraints for the angular averages of the corresponding exchange and correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-25 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis

The problem of constructing global models describing isolated axially symmetric rotating bodies in equilibrium is analyzed. It is claimed that, whenever the global spacetime is constructed by giving boundary data on the limiting surface of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Mars , J. M. M. Senovilla

A density-functional theory is established for inhomogeneous superfluids at finite temperature, subject to time-dependent external fields in isothermal conditions. After outlining parallelisms between a neutral superfluid and a charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. L. Chiofalo , M. P. Tosi

The emergence of an effective field theory out of equilibrium is studied in the case in which a light field --the system-- interacts with very heavy fields in a finite temperature bath. We obtain the reduced density matrix for the light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Boyanovsky

Driven particles in presence of crowded environment, obstacles or kinetic constraints often exhibit negative differential mobility (NDM) due to their decreased dynamical activity. We propose a new mechanism for complex many-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-06 Amit Kumar Chatterjee , Urna Basu , P. K. Mohanty

By introducing the self-energy density functionals for the dissipative interactions between the reduced system and its environment, we develop a time-dependent density-functional theory formalism based on an equation of motion for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao Zheng , Fan Wang , Chi Yung Yam , Yan Mo , GuanHua Chen

The role of external forces in systems exhibiting anomalous diffusion is discussed on the basis of the describing Langevin equations. Since there exist different possibilities to include the effect of an external field the concept of {\it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Eule , R. Friedrich

A mean-field theory based on Gibbs-Bogoliubov inequality is constructed to study the interactions between two like-charged polyions. It is shown that contrary to the previously established paradigm, a properly constructed mean-field theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeferson J. Arenzon , Yan Levin , Juergen F. Stilck

Nonlinear field theories can be used to study both standard physics questions, or to study questions such as the emergence of order and complexity. These theories are generally derived from the symmetries of a given problem and the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-09-14 Joel Thorarinson , Marcelo Gleiser

This paper deals with stationary Gibbsian point processes on the plane with an interaction that depends on the tiles of the Delaunay triangulation of points via a bounded triangle potential. It is shown that the class of these Gibbs…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-16 David Dereudre , Hans-Otto Georgii

Considering two static, electrically charged, elementary particles, we demonstrate a possible way of proving that all known fundamental forces in the nature are the manifestations of the single, unique interaction. We re-define the gauging…

General Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 L. Neslusan