1593 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.
The paper introduces GG-PI, a computationally efficient framework that leverages generative modeling and Gibbs sampling on classical simulation data to accurately recover nuclear quantum effects and transfer across temperatures without retraining, significantly outperforming traditional path integral molecular dynamics.
Using the Random Phase Approximation, this study reveals that while bias-driven critical charge fluctuations in an interacting quantum dot can be described by an effective temperature, current fluctuations exhibit genuinely non-equilibrium behavior with a negative fluctuation-dissipation ratio, establishing current noise as a sensitive probe for non-equilibrium quantum phase transitions.
This paper establishes an explicit link between molecular detailed balance breaking and active fluctuations in a minimal gel model, deriving fluctuating hydrodynamic equations that predict tracer motion to complement the fluctuation-dissipation theorem with a fluctuation-activity relation for nonequilibrium biological systems.
This paper establishes a unified symmetry classification framework for many-body localized phases by demonstrating that stable MBL is compatible only with onsite Abelian symmetries and specific Altland-Zirnbauer classes, while continuous non-Abelian symmetries generically preclude it, thereby completing the systematic categorization of MBL phases through local integrals of motion.
This paper establishes a deep connection between fracton order and product codes by demonstrating how specific classical seed codes can systematically generate both Type-I and Type-II fracton models in nonlocal and local constructions, including examples on irregular graphs and planar aperiodic tilings.
This paper proposes a framework for modeling non-equilibrium and self-organizing systems using generative models and the variational free energy principle, which offers a tractable, parsimonious explanation of system dynamics as a form of variational inference without requiring the system to literally perform inference.
This paper provides a rigorous mathematical justification for the energy-independent relaxation time approximation in hard interactions, proposes a method to restore collision invariance, and elucidates how interaction types (hard versus soft) and physical parameters determine the non-analytical structures, such as hydrodynamic poles or gapless branch-cuts, in retarded correlators.
This paper revisits the fuzzy sphere regulator for the 3D Ising model by utilizing Conformal Perturbation Theory to systematically analyze finite-size corrections and develop a novel method for extracting Operator Product Expansion coefficients from energy level sensitivities, thereby refining the connection between numerical lattice results and Conformal Field Theory predictions.
This paper presents an analytical, nonperturbative method using a train of Dirac-delta switchings to exactly solve integro-differential equations with nonstationary memory kernels, successfully applying the approach to damped quantum models to recover known continuum solutions and visualize environmental memory effects.
This paper investigates the dissipative quantum North-East-Center model using a cluster mean-field approach to reveal a bistable-normal phase diagram, characterize nonergodic dynamics through the constant-velocity reabsorption of minority spin islands, and propose a linear-order equation of motion for this reabsorption velocity.