1592 papers
Statistical mechanics explores how the chaotic motion of countless tiny particles gives rise to the predictable laws governing heat, pressure, and phase transitions. This field bridges the gap between the microscopic world of atoms and the macroscopic reality we experience daily, offering deep insights into why materials behave the way they do.
On Gist.Science, we process every new preprint in this category as it appears on arXiv to make these complex findings accessible to everyone. For each paper, we provide both a plain-language explanation for the curious reader and a detailed technical summary for specialists, ensuring that groundbreaking research is never lost behind a wall of jargon.
Below are the latest papers in statistical mechanics, freshly curated and summarized to help you understand the cutting edge of this fascinating discipline.
This paper employs the random first-order transition theory and a generalized Master equation to characterize the non-Markovian, aging dynamics of thermal avalanches in driven amorphous systems, utilizing full counting statistics to derive the complete distributions of avalanche magnitudes and counts under various driving protocols.
This Letter demonstrates that the charging performance of periodically driven collective quantum batteries is fundamentally determined by many-body structural features, identifying long-range nonintegrability as a critical resource for achieving fast, scalable, and robust energy storage.
This paper demonstrates that the existing explanation for pushing-induced arrest fails in 3D and proposes a new minimal model where confinement is governed by constant-probability trapping events, enabling the prediction of time-dependent mean-squared displacement across various lattices and dimensions.
This study investigates the non-equilibrium dynamics of the disordered Power-of-Two model, revealing that while strong disorder induces localization and unique non-monotonic scrambling signatures, the system ultimately remains ergodic in the thermodynamic limit for any finite disorder strength.
This paper introduces a minimal kinetic model of dissipative hard disks with collision-induced chirality to derive nonlinear hydrodynamic equations and analytically predict odd transport coefficients, such as odd viscosity and thermal conductivity, which are validated by numerical simulations.
This paper demonstrates that the interplay between microwave shielding and dipolar interactions in polar molecular gases naturally generates a synthetic mutual gauge field that couples to the relative motion of molecule pairs, thereby breaking time-reversal symmetry in their collective spatial dynamics.
This paper proves that the fast mode dynamics in quantum operator evolution exhibit emergent random matrix universality within the Krylov space recursion method, leading to universal Green's function scaling forms in both chaotic and non-chaotic systems and enabling a new spectral bootstrap technique for approximating spectral functions.
This paper presents a mean-field study of the finite-temperature phase diagram of the disordered Extended Bose-Hubbard model, revealing how thermal fluctuations compete with quantum effects to melt Mott insulator and charge-density-wave phases into normal fluids or Bose glasses, with disorder further suppressing the stability of these insulating states.
This study reveals that Vicsek agents with mutually repelling interactions in a complex noise environment featuring a noiseless circular core exhibit emergent rotational order and a re-entrant global flocking state at high outer noise levels, while demonstrating that particle velocity governs escape dynamics and that gradual noise gradients significantly suppress collective order compared to sharp environmental transitions.
By employing statistical-mechanical mapping and large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, this study determines that the checkerboard fracton code achieves an optimal code capacity threshold of approximately 10.7%, the highest among known three-dimensional codes and nearly saturating the theoretical limit, thereby validating generalized entropy relations and confirming the high error resilience of fracton codes as quantum memories.