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A general formula for the grand canonical partition function for a para Fermi system of any order and of any number of levels is derived.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Chaturvedi , V. Srinivasan

We give a new representation of Euclidean quantum fields as scaling limits of systems of interacting, continuous, classical particles in the grand canonical ensemble.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Albeverio , H. Gottschalk , M. -w. Yoshida

We present a generalized dynamical mean-field approach for the nonequilibrium physics of a strongly correlated system in the presence of a time-dependent external field. The Keldysh Green's function formalism is used to study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Schmidt , H. Monien

Probabilistic graphical models have emerged as a powerful modeling tool for several real-world scenarios where one needs to reason under uncertainty. A graphical model's partition function is a central quantity of interest, and its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Durgesh Agrawal , Yash Pote , Kuldeep S Meel

In this paper we relate the partition function to the max-statistics of random variables. In particular, we provide a novel framework for approximating and bounding the partition function using MAP inference on randomly perturbed models. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Tamir Hazan , Tommi Jaakkola

Self-gravitating system are non-equilibrium a priory. A new approach is proposed, which employs a non-equilibrium statistical operator into account inhomogeneous distribution of particles and temperature. The method involves the saddle -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-12 B. I. Lev

A system of interacting Brownian particles subject to short-range repulsive potentials is considered. A continuum description in the form of a nonlinear diffusion equation is derived systematically in the dilute limit using the method of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-12 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman , Martin Robinson

The lattice field theory approach to the statistical mechanics of a classical Coulomb gas [R. Coalson and A. Duncan, J. Chem. Phys. 97,5653(1992)] is generalized to include charged polymer chains. Saddle-point analysis is done on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. D. Coalson , A. Duncan , S. Tsonchev

A great many observables seen in intermediate energy heavy ion collisions can be explained on the basis of statistical equilibrium. Calculations based on statistical equilibrium can be implemented in microcanonical ensemble (energy and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. B. Das , S. Das Gupta , W. G. Lynch , A. Z. Mekjian , M. B. Tsang

The present study regards the zeroth order mean field approximation of a dipole-type interaction model, which is analytically solved in the canonical and microcanonical ensembles. After writing the canonical partition function, the free and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-16 Atenas Boris , Curilef Sergio

We describe a method to compute thermodynamic quantities in the harmonic approximation for identical bosons and fermions in an external confining field. We use the canonical partition function where only energies and their degeneracies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-16 J. R. Armstrong , N. T. Zinner , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

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

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Rummel , Helmut Hofmann

The main difficulty that arises in the analysis of most machine learning algorithms is to handle, analytically and numerically, a large number of interacting random variables. In this Ph.D manuscript, we revisit an approach based on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-11 Benjamin Aubin

We consider a system consisting of $n$ particles, moving forward in jumps on the real line. System state is the empirical distribution of particle locations. Each particle ``jumps forward'' at some time points, with the instantaneous rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Alexander Stolyar

It is shown that the atomic inversion in the Jaynes-Cummings model has an exact representation as an integral over the Hankel contour. For a field in a coherent state, the integral is evaluated using the saddle point method. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 S. I. Pavlik

Using the Funtional Integrals Formulation is developes a self-consistent mean field expansion to evolution operators of a system composed by two subsystems. This is a general expansion and can be generalized for more of two subsystems,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Cruz-Barrios

Integration against a probability distribution given its unnormalized density is a central task in Bayesian inference and other fields. We introduce new methods for approximating such expectations with a small set of weighted samples --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Ayoub Belhadji , Daniel Sharp , Youssef M. Marzouk

We consider a system of particles experiencing diffusion and mean field interaction, and study its behaviour when the number of particles goes to infinity. We derive non-asymptotic large deviation bounds measuring the concentration of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-19 François Bolley

We consider a system of stochastic interacting particles with general diffusion coefficient and drift functions and we study the types of collisions that arise in them. In particular, interactions between particles are inversely…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Sergio Andraus , Nicole Hufnagel , Jacek Małecki

The cross section of heavy-ion collisions is represented as a double functional integral with the saddle point being the classical solution of the Yang-Mills equations with boundary conditions/sources in the form of two shock waves…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ian Balitsky