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We discuss details of our thermal model applied to extract chemical freeze-out conditions from fluctuations in the net-electric charge and net-proton number measured at RHIC. A parametrization for these conditions as a function of the beam…

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We report on measurements of event-by-event charge fluctuations in $\pi^{+}\rp$ and $\rK^{+}\rp$ collisions at 250 GeV/$c$. The dependence of these fluctuations on the size of the rapidity windows are presented for the first time in the…

As a fundamental measure of stability in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, fluctuations provide critical insight into the performance and reliability of heat engines. In this work, we establish universal fluctuation-dissipation bounds that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-13 Ousi Pan , Zhiqiang Fan , Shunjie Zhang , Jie Li , Jincan Chen , Shanhe Su

Within the framework of thermo-field-dynamics (TFD), the information-entropies associated with the measurements of position and momentum for one-dimensional Rindler oscillator are derived, and the connection between its information-entropy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Yu , Y. -X. Gui , X. Ye

Event-by-event fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum of charged particles produced in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV, and Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV are studied as a function of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-12-23 ALICE Collaboration

Fluctuation Theorems are statements about the entropy of systems far from thermal equilibrium. In this Letter relativistic Fluctuation Theorems for Brownian motion are presented and proven. Though there is a known discretization dilemma…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Fingerle

We have analyzed the spectral density of fluctuations of the energy flux through a mesoscopic constriction between two equilibrium reservoirs. It is shown that at finite frequencies, the fluctuating energy flux is not related to the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dmitri V. Averin , Jukka P. Pekola

Non-statistical event-by-event fluctuations of the mean transverse momentum of charged particles in pp and Pb-Pb collisions are studied using the ALICE experiment at the LHC. Little collision energy dependence is observed in pp. The data…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 S. T. Heckel

Studies of <p_{T}>, transverse momentum spectra and anisotropy flow from nuclear collisions at RHIC indicate early thermalization and strong collective expansion. We propose a systematic study of the anisotropy parameter $v_2$ and the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Nu Xu , Zhangbu Xu

The preliminary NA49 results on the energy dependence of transverse momentum fluctuations over the whole SPS energy range exhibit an unexpected effect. The $\Phi_{p_{T}}$ fluctuation measure - used by the NA49 experiment - manifests a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Katarzyna Grebieszkow

Radiative energy and momentum transfer due to fluctuations of electromagnetic fields arising due to temperature difference between objects is described in terms of the cross-spectral densities of the electromagnetic fields. We derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Arvind Narayanaswamy , Yi Zheng

We report an experimental and theoretical analysis of the energy exchanged between two conductors kept at different temperature and coupled by the electric thermal noise. Experimentally we determine, as functions of the temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sergio Ciliberto , Alberto Imparato , Antoine Naert , Marius Tanase

Transverse momentum spectra of identified $\pi^{+}$, $\pi^{-}$, $K^{+}$, $K^{-}$, p and $\overline{p}$ were measured by the PHENIX experiment at mid-rapidity in Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=130$ GeV over a broad momentum range.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-05-28 J. Velkovska

Nucleon correlations in the target and projectile nuclei are shown to reduce significantly the fluctuations in multiple nucleon-nucleon collisions, total multiplicity and transverse energy in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in particular…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Gordon Baym , B. Blättel , L. L. Frankfurt , H. Heiselberg , M. Strikman

Hydrodynamic fluctuations have been studied in a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena in the past decade. In high energy heavy ion collisions, there will be intrinsic fluctuations even if the initial conditions are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-18 Joseph I. Kapusta , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

Measurements of di-hadron azimuthal correlations at different centralities for Au+Au collisions at 200 AGeV were reported by the PHENIX Collaboration. The data were presented for different ranges of transverse momentum. In particular, it…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-21 Wagner M. Castilho , Wei-Liang Qian , Fernando G. Gardim , Yogiro Hama , Takeshi Kodama

Fluctuation theorems impose constraints on the probability of observing negative entropy production in small systems driven out of equilibrium. The range of validity of fluctuation theorems has been extensively tested for transitions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-21 Léo Granger , Jumna Mehlis , Édgar Roldán , Sergio Ciliberto , Holger Kantz

Transverse momentum spectra of different particles produced in mid-rapidity interval in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions with different centrality intervals, measured by the ALICE Collaboration at center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-28 Hai-Ling Lao , Hua-Rong Wei , Fu-Hu Liu , Roy A. Lacey

We calculate the radiation noise level associated with the spontaneous emission of a coherently driven medium. The significant field-induced modification of relation between the noise power and damping constant in a thermal reservoir is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Maria Erukhimova , Mikhail Tokman

We consider electron transport in ferromagnets or antiferromagnets sandwiched between metals. When spins in the magnetic materials precess, they emit currents into the surrounding conductors. Generally, adiabatic pumping in mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-17 Arne Brataas