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Statistical mechanics of biomolecular condensates via cavity methods [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Summary: Physical mechanisms of phase separation in living systems play key physiological roles and have recently been the focus of intensive studies. The strongly heterogeneous nature of such phenomena poses difficult modeling challenges that require ...
Nino Lauber +7 more
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Open Problems within Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics [PDF]
EntropyNonextensive 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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The Smoluchowski Ensemble—Statistical Mechanics of Aggregation [PDF]
Entropy, 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 Pluripotency [PDF]
Cell, 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
Nature 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
New 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]
Physics 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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The statistical mechanics of membranes [PDF]
Physics Reports, 2001 The fluctuations of two-dimensional extended objects membranes is a rich and exciting field with many solid results and a wide range of open issues. We review the distinct universality classes of membranes, determined by the local order, and the associated phase diagrams.
Bowick, Mark, Travesset, Alex
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Thermodynamics of non-elementary chemical reaction networks
New 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
Communications 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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