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We study the relation between the partition function of a non--relativistic particle, that describes the equilibrium fluctuations implicitly, and the partition function of the same system, deduced from the Langevin equation, that describes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-21 Stam Nicolis

A stochastic treatment yielding to the derivation of a general Fokker-Planck equation is presented to model the slow convergence towards equilibrium of mean-field systems due to finite-N effects. The thermalization process involves notably…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 W. Ettoumi , M. -C. Firpo

Exact solutions are obtained for the mean-field spherical model, with or without an external magnetic field, for any finite or infinite number N of degrees of freedom, both in the microcanonical and in the canonical ensemble. The canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Kastner , Oliver Schnetz

The nonrelativistic many-electron system in the forward, exchange and BCS approximation is considered. In this approximation, which is still quartic in the annihilation and creation operators, the model is explicitly solvable for arbitrary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Detlef Lehmann

We present a unified framework of combinatorial descriptions, and the analogous asymptotic growth of the coefficients of two general families of functions related to integer partitions. In particular, we resolve several conjectures and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Lida Ahmadi , Ricardo Gómez Aíza , Mark Daniel Ward

We present a systematic semiclassical procedure to compute the partition function for scalar field theories at finite temperature. The central objects in our scheme are the solutions of the classical equations of motion in imaginary time,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 A. Bessa , C. A. A. de Carvalho , E. S. Fraga , F. Gelis

We consider a bipartite mean-field model in which both the interaction constant and the external field take different values only depending on the groups particles belong to. We compute the exact value of the thermodynamic limit of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Micaela Fedele , Francesco Unguendoli

The relationship between the mean-field approximations in various interacting models of statistical physics and measures of classical and quantum correlations is explored. We present a method that allows us to bound the total amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vlatko Vedral

We review various methods to investigate the statics and the dynamics of collective composition fluctuations in dense polymer mixtures within fluctuating-field approaches. The central idea of fluctuating-field theories is to rewrite the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcus Mueller , Friederike Schmid

The partition function of a system of galaxies in gravitational interaction can be cast in an Ising Model form, and this reformulated via a Hubbard--Stratonovich transformation into a three dimensional stochastic and classical scalar field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Perez--Mercader , T. Goldman , D. Hochberg , R. Laflamme

Faussurier et al. [Phys. Rev. E 65, 016403 (2001)] proposed to use a variational principle relying on Jensen-Feynman (or Gibbs-Bogoliubov) inequality in order to optimize the accounting for two-particle interactions in the calculation of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jean-Christophe Pain , Franck Gilleron , Gerald Faussurier

We present a unified and simple method for deriving work theorems for classical and quantum Hamiltonian systems, both under equilibrium conditions and in a steady state. Throughout the paper, we adopt the partitioning of the total…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-30 M. F. Gelin , D. S. Kosov

In this work, we present a compact analytical approximation for the quantum partition function of systems composed of quantum oscillators. The proposed formula is general and applicable to an arbitrary number of oscillators described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Michel Caffarel

We perform the calculation of the partition function of the Poisson-sigma model on the world sheet with the topology of a two-dimensional disc. Considering the special case of a linear Poisson structure we recover the partition function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Allen C. Hirshfeld , Thomas Schwarzweller

The use of charge balance functions in heavy-ion collision studies was initially proposed as a probe of delayed hadronization and two-stage quark production in these collisions. It later emerged that general balance functions can also serve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-22 Claude Pruneau , Victor Gonzales , Brian Hanley , Ana Marin , Sumit Basu

Active systems, which are driven out of equilibrium by local non-conservative forces, exhibit unique behaviors and structures with potential utility for the design of novel materials. An important and difficult challenge along the path…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-09 Laura Tociu , Gregory Rassolov , Étienne Fodor , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

We compute the partition function for the $N=1$ spinning particle, including pictures and the large Hilbert space, and show that it counts the dimension of the BRST cohomology in two- and four-dimensional target space. We also construct a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-07 Eugenia Boffo , Pietro Antonio Grassi , Ondřej Hulík , Ivo Sachs

A method of solving Maxwell equations in a vicinity of a multipole particle (moving along an arbitrary trajectory) is proposed. The method is based on a geometric construction of a trajectory-adapted coordinate system, which simplifies…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-04-18 Jerzy Kijowski , Piotr Podles

The partition function for a system of non-interacting $N-$particles can be found by summing over all the states of the system. The classical partition function for an ideal gas differs from Bosonic or Fermionic partition function in the…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-04-06 Sushil K. Singh , Savinder Kaur

We present a method for evaluating the partition function in a varying external field. Specifically, we look at the case of a non-interacting, charged, massive scalar field at finite temperature with an associated chemical potential in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. J. Mckenzie-Smith , Wade Naylor