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For the calculation of the partition function $\mathcal{Z}$ of small, isolated and interacting many body systems an improvement with respect to previous formulations is presented. By including anharmonicities and employing a variational…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Rummel , Helmut Hofmann

In order to find the exact form of the electrostatic interaction between two proteins with dissociable charge groups in aqueous solution, we have studied a model system composed of two macroscopic surfaces with charge dissociation sites…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Natasa Adzic , Rudolf Podgornik

The elementary symmetric partition function is a map on the set of partitions. It sends a partition lambda to the partition whose parts are the summands in the evaluation of the elementary symmetric function on the parts of lambda. These…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Cristina Ballantine , Shaheen Nazir , Bridget Eileen Tenner , Karlee Westrem , Chenchen Zhao

The Olbertian partition function is reformulated in terms of continuous (Abelian) fields described by the Landau-Ginzburg action, respectively Hamiltonian. In order do make some progress, the Gaussian approximation to the partition function…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 R. A. Treumann , Wolfgang Baumjohann

We construct contact interactions for bosonic and fermionic point particles. We first relate the resulting theories to classical electrostatics by taking functional averages over worldlines whose endpoints are fixed to charged particles.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 James P. Edwards

We propose a mean-field method to calculate approximately the spacing distribution functions $p^{(n)}(s)$ in 1D classical many-particle systems. We compare our method with two other commonly used methods, the independent interval…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-12 Diego Luis González , Alberto Pimpinelli , T. L. Einstein

We study the problem of learning unknown parameters in stochastic interacting particle systems with polynomial drift, interaction and diffusion functions from the path of one single particle in the system. Our estimator is obtained by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Andrea Zanoni

We propose a field-theoretical approach to a polymer system immersed in an ideal mixture of clustering centers. The system contains several species of these clustering centers with different functionality, each of which connects a fixed…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Riccardo Fantoni , Kristian K. Muller-Nedebock

For algorithms based on interacting particle systems that admit a mean-field description, convergence analysis is often more accessible at the mean-field level. In order to transfer convergence results obtained at the mean-field level to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Nicolai Jurek Gerber , Franca Hoffmann , Urbain Vaes

In this paper, we obtain upper and lower bounds for the partition function $p(n)$ by using an elementary geometric inequality in Euclidean space, and we extend the method to generalizations of the partition function.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Mizuki Akeno

We derive the partition function of the one-body and two-body systems of classical noncommutative harmonic oscillator in two dimensions. Then, we employ the path integral approach to the quantum noncommutative harmonic oscillator and derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-08 I. Jabbari , A. Jahan , Z. Riazi

We present a novel approach to Bayesian inference and general Bayesian computation that is defined through a sequential decision loop. Our method defines a recursive partitioning of the sample space. It neither relies on gradients nor…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Erik Bodin , Zhenwen Dai , Neill D. F. Campbell , Carl Henrik Ek

A nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is obtained in the continuous limit of a one-dimensional lattice with an energy landscape of wells and barriers. Interaction is possible among particles in the same energy well. A parameter $\gamma$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Suárez , M. Hoyuelos , H. Mártin

We propose an approach for approximating the partition function which is based on two steps: (1) computing the partition function of a simplified model which is obtained by deleting model edges, and (2) rectifying the result by applying an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Arthur Choi , Adnan Darwiche

We consider a stochastic particle system in which a finite number of particles interact with one another via a common energy tank. Interaction rate for each particle is proportional to the square root of its kinetic energy, as is consistent…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-06 Yao Li , Lai-Sang Young

Partition function of beta-gamma systems on the orbifolds C^2/Z_N and C^3/Z_M x Z_N are obtained as the invariant part of that on the respective affine spaces, by lifting the geometric action of the orbifold group to the fields.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati , Koushik Ray

We present a detailed analysis of the broken-symmetry mean-field solutions using a four-electron rectangular quantum dot as a model system. Comparisons of the density-functional theory predictions with the exact ones show that the symmetry…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Harju , E. Rasanen , H. Saarikoski , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen , K. Niemela

In systems with long-range interactions, since energy is a non-additive quantity, ensemble inequivalence can arise: it is possible that different statistical ensembles lead to different equilibrium descriptions, even in the thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-05 Marco Baldovin

Long-range quantum systems, in which the interactions decay as $1/r^{\alpha}$, are of increasing interest due to the variety of experimental set-ups in which they naturally appear. Motivated by this, we study fundamental properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Jorge Sánchez-Segovia , Jan T. Schneider , Álvaro M. Alhambra

We consider an arbitrary quantum system coupled non perturbatively to a large arbitrary and fully quantum environment. In [G. Ithier and F. Benaych-Georges, Phys. Rev. A 96, 012108 (2017)] the typicality of the dynamics of such an embedded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Grégoire Ithier , Saeed Ascroft , Florent Benaych-Georges