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Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
Entropy, 2017 The proper definition of thermodynamics and the thermodynamic entropy is discussed in the light of recent developments. The postulates for thermodynamics are examined critically, and some modifications are suggested to allow for the inclusion of long ...
Robert H. Swendsen
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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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ComputationWe are interested in determining the physics bound for the detection of signals in modern digital radio frequency (RF) hardware. Classical signal theory (Kalman filters) requires that the signal-to-noise power ratio (SNR) >10, but this is not the physics
Peter D. Morley
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Statistical Mechanics of Voting [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 1998 Decision procedures aggregating the preferences of multiple agents can produce cycles and hence outcomes which have been described heuristically as `chaotic'. We make this description precise by constructing an explicit dynamical system from the agents' preferences and a voting rule. The dynamics form a one dimensional statistical mechanics model; this
Meyer, David A., Brown, Thad A.
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Work statistics in stochastically driven systems
New Journal of Physics, 2014 We identify the conditions under which a stochastic driving that induces energy changes into a system coupled with a thermal bath can be treated as a work source.
Gatien Verley +2 more
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Geometrization of statistical mechanics
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 1999 Classical and quantum statistical mechanics are cast here in the language of projective geometry to provide a unified geometrical framework for statistical physics. After reviewing the Hilbert space formulation of classical statistical thermodynamics, we introduce projective geometry as a basis for analysing probabilistic aspects of statistical physics.
Brody, Dorje C., Hughston, Lane P.
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Is Kaniadakis κ-generalized statistical mechanics general?
Physics Letters B, 2023 In this Letter we introduce some field-theoretic approach for computing the critical properties of systems undergoing continuous phase transitions governed by the κ-generalized statistics, namely κ-generalized statistical field theory.
T.F.A. Alves +4 more
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Typicality and the Approach to Equilibrium in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics [PDF]
, 2009 Systems prepared in a non-equilibrium state approach, and eventually reach, equilibrium. Why do they do so? An important contemporary version of the Boltzmannian approach to statistical mechanics answers this question in terms of typicality.
Frigg, Roman
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Statistical mechanics of networks [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2004 We study the family of network models derived by requiring the expected properties of a graph ensemble to match a given set of measurements of a real-world network, while maximizing the entropy of the ensemble. Models of this type play the same role in the study of networks as is played by the Boltzmann distribution in classical statistical mechanics ...
Park, JY Park, Juyong +1 more
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A Field Guide to Recent Work on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. [PDF]
, 2008 This is an extensive review of recent work on the foundations of statistical ...
Frigg, Roman, Roman Frigg
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