2392 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 investigates diffusion with stochastic resetting on a ring, demonstrating that the optimal resetting rate for minimizing mean first-passage time to an absorbing target can undergo abrupt or continuous transitions exhibiting mirror symmetry, depending on the configuration of multiple resetting sites.
This paper establishes the mathematical conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions when optimizing the nonadditive entropy under a generalized energy constraint, proving that only specific constraint forms yield -exponential distributions while demonstrating that the linear constraint case () preserves thermodynamic laws and effectively models complex systems ranging from many-body Hamiltonians to edge-of-chaos dynamics.
This paper introduces CFT Design, a general framework based on Caliber Force Theory that optimizes nonequilibrium flow networks in biomolecular machines by addressing cost-benefit tradeoffs and misflows to improve performance in applications such as molecular motors, kinetic proofreaders, and enzyme inhibitors.
This paper establishes an exact mapping between finite-temperature homological quantum codes and a -dimensional spacetime polymer gas with topological charges, utilizing this reformulation to derive rigorous low-temperature stability criteria, exact higher-form dualities, and connections to the plaquette random-cluster model.
This paper demonstrates that a shallow restricted Boltzmann machine, when used as a variational ansatz in variational Monte Carlo simulations, successfully reproduces the main adiabatic phase structure and captures symmetry-broken insulating configurations of the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard chain in the hard-core limit at half filling.
This paper introduces Clifford ergotropy as the energy extractable via Clifford operations, establishing universal upper bounds that decrease with magic resources and demonstrating their significance for both small-scale control landscapes and many-body thermodynamic laws.
This paper constructs families of periodic planar lattices, specifically Apollonian lattices, that achieve arbitrarily high critical temperatures for the ferromagnetic Ising model by demonstrating that scales logarithmically with the maximal coordination number and conjecturing this family to be optimal for such systems.
This paper demonstrates that apparent double-transition temperatures observed in transport experiments on anisotropic two-dimensional superconductors can arise as artifacts of finite-size and finite-current effects in a single BKT transition, implying that robust splittings observed in real materials like KTaO interfaces must stem from physics beyond this minimal anisotropic baseline.
This paper introduces a general framework for constructing real-space order parameters from dominant Fock-state patterns that reveal hidden sub-structures within topological phases, offering a more refined classification and robust diagnostic tool for both ordered and disordered quantum many-body systems.
This paper extends the renormalization group framework to nonunitary quantum dynamics by demonstrating that the competition between decoherence and coherent evolution drives the flow toward chaotic behavior without fixed points, exemplified by a measurement-induced parity-time transition belonging to the one-dimensional Yang-Lee edge singularity universality class.