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The concept of temperature is one of the key ideas in describing the thermodynamical properties of a physical system. In classical statistical mechanics of ideal gases, the notion of temperature can be described in two different ways, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-12 Krishna R. Narayanan , Arun R. Srinivasa

To make a statement about the nature and mechanism of fragmentation, it is necessary to probe directly any competition, or lack thereof, between the emission of various particle species as a function of excitation energy. The task is then…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Beaulieu , L. Phair , L. G. Moretto , G. J. Wozniak

We consider thermodynamic properties, e.g. specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, of alternating Heisenberg spin chains. Due to a hidden Ising symmetry these chains can be decomposed into a set of finite chain fragments. The problem of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Niggemann , G. Uimin , J. Zittartz

This work extends the results of the recently developed theory of a rather complete thermodynamic formalism for discrete-state, continuous-time Markov processes with and without detailed balance. We aim at investigating the question that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-30 Moises Santillan , Hong Qian

We present predictions for the statistical error due to finite sampling in the presence of thermal fluctuations in molecular simulation algorithms. Specifically, we establish how these errors depend on Mach number, Knudsen number, number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou , Alejandro L. Garcia , Martin Z. Bazant , Gang He

Within Tsallis statistics, a picture is elaborated to address self--similar time series as a thermodynamic system. Thermodynamic--type characteristics relevant to temperature, pressure, entropy, internal and free energies are introduced and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Olemskoi

We show by microscopic calculation that thermodynamics of the multicomponent Sutherland model is equivalent to that of a free particle system with fractional exclusion statistics at all temperatures. The parameters for exclusion statistics…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yusuke Kato , Yoshio Kuramoto

We extend the work of Tanase-Nicola and Kurchan on the structure of diffusion processes and the associated supersymmetry algebra by examining the responses of a simple statistical system to external disturbances of various kinds. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. T. Drummond , R. R. Horgan

Superstatistics are superpositions of different statistics relevant for driven nonequilibrium systems with spatiotemporal inhomogeneities of an intensive variable (e.g., the inverse temperature). They contain Tsallis statistics as a special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Touchette , Christian Beck

A nonequilibrium distribution function of microscopic thermal current is studied by a direct numerical simulation in a thermal conducting steady state of particle systems. Two characteristic temperatures of the thermal current are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-01 Satoshi Yukawa , Takashi Shimada , Fumiko Ogushi , Nobuyasu Ito

In microscopic mechanical systems interactions between elastic structures are often mediated by the hydrodynamics of a solvent fluid. At microscopic scales the elastic structures are also subject to thermal fluctuations. Stochastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-28 Paul J. Atzberger

Conversations about weather, environment, health, cuisine, and even politics, all involve the word "temperature". It was an attempt to understand the working of heat engines that gave the temperature a clear definition. In this Note we put…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-23 Miroslav Grmela

In this paper, some equations are derived to describe the out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics of colloidal suspensions. These results are obtained assuming that the properties of the colloids essentially come from their surfaces which are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-03-29 Pierre de Thier

The work approaches the study of the fluctuations for the thermodynamic systems in the presence of the fields. The approach is of phenomenological nature and developed in a Gaussian approximation. The study is exemplified on the cases of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Dumitru , A. Boer

Complex systems are often characterized by the interplay of multiple interconnected dynamical processes operating across a range of temporal scales. This phenomenon is widespread in both biological and artificial scenarios, making it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 Giorgio Nicoletti , Daniel M. Busiello

We find that the conditional statistics of temperature difference at fixed values of the locally averaged temperature dissipation rate in turbulent convection become Gaussian in the regime where the mixing dynamics is expected to be driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Emily S. C. Ching , K. L. Chau

We study the effect of mesoscopic fluctuations on a magnetic impurity coupled to a spatially confined electron gas with a temperature in the mesoscopic range (i.e. between the mean level spacing $\Delta$ and the Thouless energy $E_{\rm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ribhu K. Kaul , Denis Ullmo , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Harold U. Baranger

We compute the Bures distance between two thermal squeezed states and deduce the Statistical Distance metric. By computing the curvature of this metric we can identify regions of parameter space most sensitive to changes in these parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Twamley

An exact analytical solution of the statistical multifragmentation model is found in thermodynamic limit. Excluded volume effects are taken into account in the thermodynamically self-consistent way. The model exhibits a 1-st order phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bugaev , M. I. Gorenstein , I. N. Mishustin , W. Greiner

Temperature scaling is a simple method that allows to control the uncertainty of probabilistic models. It is mostly used in two contexts: improving the calibration of classifiers and tuning the stochasticity of large language models (LLMs).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Pierre-Alexandre Mattei , Bruno Loureiro