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A Langevin equation is suggested to describe a system driven by correlated Gaussian white noise as well as with positive and negative damping demarcated by a critical velocity. The equation can be transformed into the Fokker-Planck equation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Peng Wang , Feng-Chun Pan , Jie Huo , Xu-Ming Wang

In this paper we apply the entropy principle to the relativistic version of the differential equations describing a standard fluid flow, that is, the equations for mass, momentum, and a system for the energy matrix. These are the second…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Hans Wilhelm Alt

To obtain further insight on possible power law generalizations of Boltzmann equilibrium concepts, a stochastic collision model is investigated. We consider the dynamics of a tracer particle of mass $M$, undergoing elastic collisions with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Barkai

A century ago, the foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics were laid. For a system in equilibrium with a thermal bath, much is understood through the Boltzmann factor, exp{-H[C]/kT}, for the probability of finding the system in any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. K. P. Zia , L. B. Shaw , B. Schmittmann , R. J. Astalos

We show that the relativistic energy-momentum relation can emerge as an effective ensemble-averaged structure from a multiplicative Hamiltonian when fluctuations of an auxiliary parameter are treated using maximum entropy inference. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Sikarin Yoo-Kong

We obtain a non-linear generalization of the relativistic diffusion of particles with spin. We discuss diffusion equations whose non-linearity is a consequence of quantum statistics. We show that the assumptions of the relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-20 Z. Haba

In this communication, the derivation of the Boltzmann-Gibbs and the Maxwellian distributions is presented from a geometrical point of view under the hypothesis of equiprobability. It is shown that both distributions can be obtained by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-20 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Jaime Sanudo , Xavier Calbet

In self-gravitating stars, two dimensional or geophysical flows and in plasmas, long range interactions imply a lack of additivity for the energy; as a consequence, the usual thermodynamic limit is not appropriate. However, by contrast with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Freddy Bouchet , Julien Barré , Antoine Venaille

The work concentrates on relations, which are general and model independent in chaotic system, between time averages of a few (typically {\it very few}) observables. Equilibrium thermodynamics provides a guide and here is attempted to argue…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-12 Giovanni Gallavotti

A new formulation of relativistic classical mechanics allows a revisiting of old unsolved problems in relativistic kinetic theory and in relativistic statistical mechanics. In particular a definition of the relativistic micro-canonical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 David Alba , Horace W. Crater , Luca Lusanna

We study a relativistic diffusion equation on the Riemannian phase space defined by Franchi and Le Jan. We discuss stochastic Ito (Langevin) differential equations (defining the diffusion) as a perturbation by noise of the geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Z. Haba

Equilibrium statistical mechanics provides powerful tools to understand physics at the macroscale. Yet, the question remains how this can be justified based on a microscopic quantum description. Here, we extend the ideas of pure state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Neil Dowling , Pedro Figueroa-Romero , Felix A. Pollock , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi

I present an unbiased method of mapping particles to distribution functions and vice versa. This method alone defines the canonical formulation of statistical mechanics, since it can be used to derive the principle of maximum entropy in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-06 Jun Yan Lau

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

We find a general formula for the distribution of time-averaged observables for systems modeled according to the sub-diffusive continuous time random walk. For Gaussian random walks coupled to a thermal bath we recover ergodicity and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adi Rebenshtok , Eli Barkai

A novel perspective on relativistic transformation recently-proposed provides an insight into the very meaning of the principle of relativity. With this novel perspective and Bell's theorem, we argue that special relativity, instead of…

General Physics · Physics 2013-11-28 Young-Sea Huang

We examine the question of whether the formal expressions of equilibrium statistical mechanics can be applied to time independent non-dissipative systems that are not in true thermodynamic equilibrium and are nonergodic. By assuming the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-11-09 Stephen R. Williams , Denis J. Evans

Equilibrium properties in statistical physics are obtained by computing averages with respect to Boltzmann-Gibbs measures, sampled in practice using ergodic dynamics such as the Langevin dynamics. Some quantities however cannot be computed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Gabriel Stoltz

We study sums of independent and identically distributed random velocities in special relativity. We show that the resulting one-dimensional velocity distributions are not only stable under relativistic velocity addition but define a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Lucas G. B. de Souza , M. G. E. da Luz , E. P. Raposo , Evaldo M. F. Curado , G. M. Viswanathan

We investigate the overdamped stochastic dynamics of a particle in an asymptotically flat external potential field, in contact with a thermal bath. For an infinite system size, the particles may escape the force field and diffuse freely at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Erez Aghion , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai