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The role of systematic errors induced by thermal fluctuations is analyzed for the SPOrt experiment with the aim at estimating their impact on the measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization (CMBP). The transfer functions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Carretti , M. Zannoni , C. Macculi , S. Cortiglioni , C. Sbarra

Thermal fluctuations in the coatings used to make high-reflectors are becoming significant noise sources in precision optical measurements and are particularly relevant to advanced gravitational wave detectors. There are two recognized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Evans , S. Ballmer , M. Fejer , P. Fritschel , G. Harry , G. Ogin

Thermodynamic parameters such as temperature and pressure can be defined from the statistical behavior of a system. Therefore, thermal fluctuation is an inseparable characteristic of these parameters which eventually finds its way into…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Alek Bedroya , Mahmud Bahmanabadi

Vortex dynamics in fermionic superfluids is carefully considered from the microscopic point of view. Finite temperatures, as well as impurities, are explicitly incorporated. To enable readers understand the physical implications,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Ao , X. -M. Zhu

Any material in thermal equilibrium exhibits fundamental thermodynamic fluctuations of its mechanical and optical properties. Such thermodynamic fluctuations of length, elastic constants, and refractive index of amorphous materials -- like…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-05 Serhii Kryhin , Evan D. Hall , Vivishek Sudhir

Standard results for the fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities are derived under the assumption of sampling identical systems that are in different, not fully equilibrated states. These results apply to fluctuations with time in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. A. Serota

In ultracold gases many experiments use atom imaging as a basic observable. The resulting image is averaged over a number of realizations and mostly only this average is used. Only recently the noise has been measured to extract physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. E. Astrakharchik , R. Combescot , L. P. Pitaevskii

The presence of convective and turbulent motions, and the evolution of magnetic fields give rise to existence of temperature fluctuations in stellar atmospheres, active galactic nuclei and other cosmic objects. We observe the time and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. A. Silant'ev , G. A. Alekseeva , V. V. Novikov

We introduce thermal fluctuations in the lattice Boltzmann method for non-ideal fluids. A fluctuation-dissipation theorem is derived within the Langevin framework and applied to a specific lattice Boltzmann model that approximates the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-01 M. Gross , R. Adhikari , M. E. Cates , F. Varnik

We optomechanically measure the vibrations of a nanomechanical system made of a graphene membrane suspended on a silicon nitride nanoresonator. When probing the thermal noise of the coupled nanomechanical device, we observe a significant…

A general theory of thermal magnetic fluctuations near conductive materials is developed; such fluctuations are the magnetic analog of Johnson noise. For realistic experiments in quantum computing and magnetic resonance force microscopy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Sidles , J. L. Garbini , W. M. Dougherty , S. H. Chao

Ambient temperature fluctuations are of importance in a wide variety of scientific and technological arenas. In a series of experiments carried out in our laboratory over an 18-month period, we discovered that these fluctuations exhibit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-14 Steven B. Lowen , Nishant Mohan , Malvin Carl Teich

Heat fluctuations of a harmonic oscillator in contact with a thermostat and driven out of equilibrium by an external deterministic force are studied experimentally and theoretically within the context of Fluctuation Theorems. We consider…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvain Joubaud , Nicolas B. Garnier , Sergio Ciliberto

Fluctuation theorems are fundamental results in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Considering the fluctuation theorem with respect to the entropy production and an observable, we derive a new thermodynamic uncertainty relation which also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-02 Gianluca Francica

Thermal fluctuations of different origin in the substrate and in the coating of optical mirrors produce phase noise in the reflected wave. This noise determines the ultimate stabilization capability of high-Q cavities used as a reference…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael L. Gorodetsky

Thermal fluctuations strongly modify the large length-scale elastic behavior of crosslinked membranes, giving rise to scale-dependent elastic moduli. While thermal effects in flat membranes are well understood, many natural and artificial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-19 Jayson Paulose , Gerard A. Vliegenthart , Gerhard Gompper , David R. Nelson

We achieved for the first time a direct measurement of the thermal fluctuation of a pendulum in an off-resonant region using a laser interferometric gravitational wave detector. These measurements have been well identified for over one…

We have investigated the validity of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) and the applicability of the concept of effective temperature in a number of non-equilibrium soft glassy materials. Using a combination of passive and active…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Jabbari-Farouji , D. Mizuno , D. Derks , G. H. Wegdam , F. C. MacKintosh , C. F. Schmidt , D. Bonn

Influence of equilibrium thermal 1/f-type mobility fluctuations on time-of-flight measurements is considered. We show that it can explain experimental time dependencies of transient photocurrents.

Materials Science · Physics 2010-08-27 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

Increasing requirements in the sensitivity of interferometric measurements is a common feature of several research fields, from gravitational wave detection to quantum optics. This motivates refined studies of high reflectivity mirrors and…