Statistical Physics of Evolving Systems [PDF]
Entropy, 2021 Evolution is customarily perceived as a biological process. However, when formulated in terms of physics, evolution is understood to entail everything.
Arto Annila
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Discussion on Electron Temperature of Gas-Discharge Plasma with Non-Maxwellian Electron Energy Distribution Function Based on Entropy and Statistical Physics [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 Electron temperature is reconsidered for weakly-ionized oxygen and nitrogen plasmas with its discharge pressure of a few hundred Pa, with its electron density of the order of 1017m−3 and in a state of non-equilibrium, based on thermodynamics and ...
Hiroshi Akatsuka, Yoshinori Tanaka
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Inferring potential landscapes from noisy trajectories of particles within an optical feedback trap
iScience, 2022 Summary: While particle trajectories encode information on their governing potentials, potentials can be challenging to robustly extract from trajectories.
J. Shepard Bryan, IV +3 more
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iScience, 2022 Summary: Quantifying uncertainty associated with our models is the only way we can express how much we know about any phenomenon. Incomplete consideration of model-based uncertainties can lead to overstated conclusions with real-world impacts in diverse ...
Emily G. Simmonds +42 more
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Capture and transport of rod-shaped cargo via programmable active particles
Scientific Reports, 2023 We study the influence of the cargo shape on the capture and transport process of colloidal rods via swarms of active particles using Brownian dynamics simulations.
Philipp Stengele +2 more
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Possible route to efficient thermoelectric applications in a driven fractal network
Scientific Reports, 2021 An essential attribute of many fractal structures is self-similarity. A Sierpinski gasket (SPG) triangle is a promising example of a fractal lattice that exhibits localized energy eigenstates.
Kallol Mondal +2 more
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Statistical physics of balance theory. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Triadic relationships are accepted to play a key role in the dynamics of social and political networks. Building on insights gleaned from balance theory in social network studies and from Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical physics, we propose a model to ...
Andres M Belaza +5 more
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Wang--Landau algorithm for entropic sampling of arch-based microstates in the volume ensemble of static granular packings [PDF]
Papers in Physics, 2015 We implement the Wang-Landau algorithm to sample with equal probabilities the static configurations of a model granular system. The "non-interacting rigid arch model" used is based on the description of static configurations by means of splitting the ...
D. Slobinsky, Luis A. Pugnaloni
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Introducing Quantum and Statistical Physics in the Footsteps of Einstein: A Proposal
Universe, 2021 Introducing some fundamental concepts of quantum physics to high school students, and to their teachers, is a timely challenge. In this paper we describe ongoing research, in which a teaching–learning sequence for teaching quantum physics, whose ...
Marco Di Mauro +2 more
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Statistical Physics of Adaptation
Physical Review X, 2016 Whether by virtue of being prepared in a slowly relaxing, high-free energy initial condition, or because they are constantly dissipating energy absorbed from a strong external drive, many systems subject to thermal fluctuations are not expected to behave
Nikolay Perunov +2 more
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