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Colloquium : Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics at strong coupling: Quantum and classical [PDF]
, 2019 The question of how classical systems approach thermal equilibrium is as old as the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. How quantum systems decohere and thermalize is even more puzzling. This Colloquium provides an account of how the
P. Talkner, P. Hänggi
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Statistical Mechanics of Steiner trees [PDF]
, 2008 The Minimum Weight Steiner Tree (MST) is an important combinatorial optimization problem over networks that has applications in a wide range of fields. Here we discuss a general technique to translate the imposed global connectivity constrain into many ...
A. Braunstein +10 more
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Equilibration, thermalisation, and the emergence of statistical mechanics in closed quantum systems [PDF]
Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society, 2015 We review selected advances in the theoretical understanding of complex quantum many-body systems with regard to emergent notions of quantum statistical mechanics.
C. Gogolin, J. Eisert
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Projection operators in statistical mechanics: a pedagogical approach [PDF]
European journal of physics, 2019 The Mori–Zwanzig projection operator formalism is one of the central tools of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, allowing one to derive macroscopic equations of motion from the microscopic dynamics through a systematic coarse-graining procedure. It is
M. Vrugt, R. Wittkowski
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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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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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Thermodynamics for Trajectories of a Mass Point [PDF]
, 2014 On the basis of information theory, a new formalism of classical non-relativistic mechanics of a mass point is proposed. The particle trajectories of a general dynamical system defined on an (1+n)-dimensional smooth manifold are treated geometrically as ...
Kurihara, Yoshimasa +2 more
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Statistical mechanics of the neocortex
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2009 We analyze neocortical dynamics using field theoretic methods for non-equilibrium statistical processes. Assuming the dynamics is Markovian, we introduce a model that describes both neural fluctuations and responses to stimuli. We show that at low spiking rates, neocortical activity exhibits a dynamical phase transition which is in the universality ...
Michael A, Buice, Jack D, Cowan
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, 2005 Classical statistical average values are generally generalized to average values of quantum mechanics, it is discovered that quantum mechanics is direct generalization of classical statistical mechanics, and we generally deduce both a new general ...
Anandan J. +18 more
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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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