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We study anomalous transport in a one-dimensional system with two conserved quantities in presence of thermal baths. In this system we derive exact expressions of the temperature profile and the two point correlations in steady state as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-10 Priyanka , Aritra Kundu , Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu

This work investigates a quantum system described by a Hamiltonian operator in a two dimensional noncommutative space. The system consists of an electron subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$, coupled to a harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Bienvenu Gnim Adewi , Isiaka Aremua

Schmidt et al (Phys Rev Lett 86, 1191 (2001)) observe and analyze a negative specific heat in Na clusters. The analysis is done within the framework of Boltzmann-Gibbs equilibrium statistical mechanics. We argue that this is not the only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tsallis , B. J. C. Cabral , A. Rapisarda , V. Latora

The liquid-gas phase transition in finite nuclei is studied in a heated liquid-drop model where the nuclear drop is assumed to be in thermodynamic equilibrium with its own evaporated nucleonic vapor conserving the total baryon number and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 J. N. De , S. K. Samaddar , S. Shlomo , J. B. Natowitz

We report a kind of quantum phase transition which takes place in isolated quantum systems with non-thermal equilibrium states and an extra symmetry that commutes with the Hamiltonian for any values of the system parameters. A critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Ricardo Puebla , Armando Relaño

In this work we present a formalism to describe non equilibrium conditions in systems with a discretized energy spectrum, such as quantum systems. We develop a formalism based on a combination of Gibbs-Shannon entropy and information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-23 Alessio Gagliardi , Alessandro Pecchia , Aldo Di Carlo

We investigate non-equilibrium phase coexistence associated with a first-order phase transition by numerically studying a one-dimensional Hamiltonian-Potts model with fractional spatial derivatives. The fractional derivative is introduced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-04 Hitomi Endo , Michikazu Kobayashi

We show that the zeroth principle of thermodynamics applies to aging quasistationary states of long-range interacting $N$-body Hamiltonian systems. We also discuss the measurability of the temperature in these out-of-equilibrium states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis G. Moyano , Fulvio Baldovin , Constantino Tsallis

The theory of superstatistics, originally proposed for the study of complex nonequilibrium systems, has recently been extended to studies of small systems interacting with a finite environment, because such systems display interestingly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-19 Constanza Farías , Sergio Davis

The concept of effective temperatures in nonequilibrium systems is studied within an exactly solvable model of non-Markovian diffusion. The system is coupled to two heat baths which are kept at different temperatures: one ('fast') bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Patrick Ilg , J. -L. Barrat

In this work, we present a detailed thermodynamic analysis of a bound quantum system: the Morse oscillator within the framework of Tsallis nonextensive statistics. Using the property of the bound spectrum (upper bound) of the Morse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-04 Arpita Goswami

The statistical mechanics of a cloud of particles interacting via their gravitational potentials is an old problem which encounters some issues when the traditional Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics is applied. In this article, we consider the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-10 Lenin Escamilla-Herrera , Christine Gruber , Viridiana Pineda , Hernando Quevedo

We show how to extend the concept of heat capacity to nonequilibrium systems. The main idea is to consider the excess heat released by an already dissipative system when slowly changing the environment temperature. We take the framework of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-15 Eliran Boksenbojm , Christian Maes , Karel Netocny , Jiri Pesek

The nonequilibrium dynamic phase transition, in the kinetic Ising model in presence of an oscillating magnetic field, has been studied both by Monte Carlo simulation and by solving numerically the mean field dynamic equation of motion for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Muktish Acharyya

It is natural important question for us to ask what the nonextensive parameter stands for when Tsallis statistics is applied to the self-gravitating systems. In this paper, some properties of the nonextensive parameter and Tsallis…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-10 Jiulin Du

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics has shown its applicability in a wide variety of different situations pertaining to fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. As successful as it is, however, its current formulation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. G. Vilar , J. M. Rubi

Tsallis' thermostatistics is by now recognized as a new paradigm for statistical mechanical considerations. However, it is still affected by a serious hindrance: the generalization of thermodynamics' zero-th law to a nonextensive scenario…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Martinez , F. Pennini , A. Plastino

This paper is motivated by the recent paper M. Baldovin, S. Iubini, R. Livi and A. Vulpiani, Statistical mechanics of systems with negative temperature, arXiv:2103.12572. The authors suggest that negative absolute temperatures are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 G. E. Volovik

Do negative absolute temperatures matter physics and specifically Statistical Physics? We provide evidence that we can certainly answer positively to this vexata quaestio. The great majority of models investigated by statistical mechanics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-07 Marco Baldovin , Stefano Iubini , Roberto Livi , Angelo Vulpiani

We use the work done on and the heat removed from a system to maintain it in a nonequilibrium steady state for a thermodynamic-like description of such a system as well as of its fluctuations. Based on a generalized Onsager-Machlup theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-10 Tooru Taniguchi , E. G. D. Cohen