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We study the asymptotic behavior of the $N$-clock model, a nearest neighbors ferromagnetic spin model on the $d$-dimensional cubic $\varepsilon$-lattice in which the spin field is constrained to take values in a discretization…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Marco Cicalese , Gianluca Orlando , Matthias Ruf

Four-dimensional state space geometry is worked out for the exactly solved one-dimensional spin-3/2 lattice with a Blume-Emery-Griffiths (BEG) Hamiltonian as well as a more general one with a term containing a non-zero field coupling to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-13 Riekshika Sanwari , Soumen Khatua , Anurag Sahay

We consider the thermal softening of crystals due to anharmonicity. Self-consistent methods find a maximum temperature for a stable crystal, which gives an upper bound to the melting temperature. Previous workers have shown that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. W. Dodgson , V. B. Geshkenbein , M. V. Feigel'man , G. Blatter

In this work we extend the results of [1] where, Semiclassical Selfconsistent Configurations (SSC) formalism was introduced. The scheme combines quantum field theory on a background space-time, semiclassical treatment of gravitation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Pedro Cañate , Erandy Ramirez , Daniel Sudarsky

We introduce and discuss an effective model of a self-gravitating system whose equilibrium thermodynamics can be solved in both the microcanonical and the canonical ensemble, up to a maximization with respect to a single variable. Such a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-21 Lapo Casetti , Cesare Nardini

The classical spin system consisting of three spins with Heisenberg interaction is an example of a completely integrable mechanical system. In this paper we explicitly calculate thermodynamic quantities as density of states, specific heat,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt , Christian Schröder

In past decades the scientific community has been looking for a reliable first-principles method to predict the electronic structure of solids with high accuracy. Here we present an approach which we call the quasiparticle self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. van Schilfgaarde , T. Kotani , S. Faleev

The nearest-neighbor quantum-antiferromagnetic (AF) Heisenberg model for spin 1/2 on a two-dimensional square lattice is studied in the auxiliary-fermion representation. Expressing spin operators by canonical fermionic particles requires a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Brinckmann , Peter Woelfle

We revisit early suggestions to observe spin-charge separation (SCS) in cold-atom settings {in the time domain} by studying one-dimensional repulsive Fermi gases in a harmonic potential, where pulse perturbations are initially created at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-21 Stefano Scopa , Pasquale Calabrese , Lorenzo Piroli

The purpose of this work is to generalize the frozen Gaussian approximation (FGA) theory to solve the 3-D elastic wave equation and use it as the forward modeling tool for seismic tomography with high-frequency data. FGA has been previously…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 James C. Hateley , Lihui Chai , Ping Tong , Xu Yang

It is proposed that the cooling of a thermalized SU($N$) gauge theory can be formulated in terms of a cascade involving three effective theories with successively reduced (and spontaneously broken) gauge symmetries, SU($N$) $\to$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ralf Hofmann

After a rapid increase in temperature across the deconfinement temperature $% T_{d}$, pure gauge theories exhibit unstable long wavelength fluctuations in the approach to equilibrium. This phenomenon is analogous to spinodal decomposition…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Travis R. Miller , Michael C. Ogilvie

A new kinetic self-consistent method is presented based on the proposed Gaussian Superposition Principle for computation of ensemble averaged observables of a macromolecule interacting via two-body forces. The latter leads to the derivation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-15 Edward G. Timoshenko

We have developed a theory for inhomogeneous systems that allows for incorporation of effects of mesoscopic fluctuations. A hierarchy of equations relating the correlation and direct correlation functions for the local excess $\phi({\bf…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 Alina Ciach , Wojciech T. Gozdz

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the thermodynamics and statistical physics of self-gravitating systems. Using mean field theory, here we investigate the equilibrium properties of several spherically symmetric model systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter J. Klinko , Bruce N. Miller

We apply the self-consistent harmonic approximation (SCHA) to study static and dynamic properties of the two-dimensional classical Heisenberg model with easy-axis anisotropy. The static properties obtained are magnetization and spin wave…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Gouvea , G. M. Wysin , S. A. Leonel , A. S. T. Pires , T. Kamppeter , F. G. Mertens

Inspired by path integral molecular dynamics, we build a spin model, in terms of spin coherent states, from which we can compute the quantum expectation values of a spin in a constant magnetic field, at finite temperature. This formulation…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-02 Thomas Nussle , Stam Nicolis , Joseph Barker

The self-gravitating systems are formed by particles interacting through gravity. They describe structure formation in the universe. As a consequence of the long range interaction of gravity, they are inhomogeneous even at thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Siebert

To identify emerging microscopic structures in low temperature spin glasses, we study self-sustained clusters (SSC) in spin models defined on sparse random graphs. A message-passing algorithm is developed to determine the probability of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-04 Jacopo Rocchi , David Saad , Chi Ho Yeung

The convergence property of a stochastic algorithm for the self-consistent field (SCF) calculations of electron structures is studied. The algorithm is formulated by rewriting the electron charges as a trace/diagonal of a matrix function,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li