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Open Problems within Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy
Nonextensive statistical mechanics has developed into an important framework for modeling the thermodynamics of complex systems and the information of complex signals.
Kenric P. Nelson
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Statistical Mechanics of Thin Spherical Shells

open access: yesPhysical Review X, 2017
We explore how thermal fluctuations affect the mechanics of thin amorphous spherical shells. In flat membranes with a shear modulus, thermal fluctuations increase the bending rigidity and reduce the in-plane elastic moduli in a scale-dependent fashion ...
Andrej Košmrlj, David R. Nelson
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The Smoluchowski Ensemble—Statistical Mechanics of Aggregation [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2020
We present a rigorous thermodynamic treatment of irreversible binary aggregation. We construct the Smoluchowski ensemble as the set of discrete finite distributions that are reached in fixed number of merging events and define a probability measure on ...
Themis Matsoukas
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Statistical Mechanics of Zooplankton. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Statistical mechanics provides the link between microscopic properties of many-particle systems and macroscopic properties such as pressure and temperature.
Peter Hinow   +2 more
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Statistical Mechanics of Pluripotency [PDF]

open access: yesCell, 2013
Recent reports using single-cell profiling have indicated a remarkably dynamic view of pluripotent stem cell identity. Here, we argue that the pluripotent state is not well defined at the single-cell level but rather is a statistical property of stem cell populations, amenable to analysis using the tools of statistical mechanics and information theory.
MacArthur, Ben D., Lemischka, Ihor R.
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Emergent second law for non-equilibrium steady states

open access: yesNature Communications, 2022
Contrary to states of thermal equilibrium, there is no universal characterization of non-equilibrium steady states displaying constant flows of energy and/or matter.
José Nahuel Freitas   +1 more
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Linear response in large deviations theory: a method to compute non-equilibrium distributions

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2021
We consider thermodynamically consistent autonomous Markov jump processes displaying a macroscopic limit in which the logarithm of the probability distribution is proportional to a scale-independent rate function (i.e.
Nahuel Freitas   +2 more
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Rényi statistics in equilibrium statistical mechanics [PDF]

open access: yesPhysics Letters A, 2010
The Renyi statistics in the canonical and microcanonical ensembles is examined in the general case and in particular for the ideal gas. In the microcanonical ensemble the Renyi statistics is equivalent with the Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics. By the exact analytical results for the ideal gas, it is shown that in the canonical ensemble in the thermodynamic ...
Parvan, A. S., Biró, T. S.
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Thermodynamics of non-elementary chemical reaction networks

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2020
We develop a thermodynamic framework for closed and open chemical networks applicable to non-elementary reactions that do not need to obey mass action kinetics.
Francesco Avanzini   +2 more
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Noether’s theorem in statistical mechanics

open access: yesCommunications Physics, 2021
Noether’s Theorem relates symmetries to fundamental physical laws. Rather than applying the concept to an action integral in order to obtain conservation laws, here the authors consider Statistical Mechanical objects, such as the free energy and density ...
Sophie Hermann, Matthias Schmidt
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