Learning nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and dynamical phase transitions [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsNonequilibrium statistical mechanics exhibit a variety of complex phenomena far from equilibrium. It inherits challenges of equilibrium, including accurately describing the joint distribution of a large number of configurations, and also poses new ...
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Mesoscopic virial equation for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics [PDF]
New Journal of Physics, 2016 We derive a class of mesoscopic virial equations governing energy partition between conjugate position and momentum variables of individual degrees of freedom.
G Falasco, F Baldovin, K Kroy, M Baiesi
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Robert W. Zwanzig: Formulated nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014 This article is a brief Retrospective on the life and work of Robert W. Zwanzig, who formulated nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and who passed away in May of this year.
Andersen HC, Chandler D.
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Introducing one-shot work into fluctuation relations [PDF]
New Journal of Physics, 2015 Two approaches to small-scale and quantum thermodynamics are fluctuation relations and one-shot statistical mechanics. Fluctuation relations (such as Crooks’ theorem and Jarzynski's equality) relate nonequilibrium behaviors to equilibrium quantities such
Nicole Yunger Halpern +3 more
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Extracting rates and activation free energies of martensitic transitions using nanomechanical force statistics: theory, models, and analysis [PDF]
Scientific ReportsNanomechanical responses (force-time profiles) of crystal lattices under deformation exhibit random critical jumps, reflecting the underlying structural transition processes.
Arijit Maitra, M. P. Gururajan
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Relaxation of Multitime Statistics in Quantum Systems [PDF]
Quantum, 2023 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 statistical
Neil Dowling +4 more
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Exceptional dynamical quantum phase transitions in periodically driven systems
Nature Communications, 2021 Understanding phase transitions in systems out of equilibrium is a topic of high interest. Here the author discusses the spontaneous antiunitary symmetry breaking leading to exceptional dynamical quantum phase transitions in driven many-body systems.
Ryusuke Hamazaki
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Some speculations about local thermalization of nonequilibrium extended quantum systems
Condensed Matter Physics, 2023 We discuss the possibility of defining an emergent local temperature in extended quantum many-body systems evolving out of equilibrium. For the most simple case of free-fermionic systems, we give an explicit formula for the effective temperature in the ...
M. Coppola, D. Karevski
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Foundations of Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics in Extended State Space
Foundations, 2023 The review provides a pedagogical but comprehensive introduction to the foundations of a recently proposed statistical mechanics (μNEQT) of a stable nonequilibrium thermodynamic body, which may be either isolated or interacting. It is an extension of the
Purushottam Das Gujrati
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Entropy and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Entropy, 2020 The present Special Issue, ‘Entropy and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics’, consists of seven original research papers [...]
Róbert Kovács +2 more
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