1537 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 presents a variational framework that leverages exact integrable structures from sinh-Gordon theory to accurately estimate physical quantities, such as ground-state energy and mass, in the non-integrable two-dimensional Landau-Ginzburg model, particularly within the weak-coupling regime.
This paper employs thermal tensor networks to numerically verify the Svetitsky-Yaffe conjecture for the deconfinement transitions of (2+1)-dimensional lattice gauge theories () by extracting universal CFT data, while also identifying an intermediate phase with emergent U(1) symmetry in the case and determining zero-temperature critical couplings.
This study reveals that in nonequilibrium hyperuniform active fluids, nucleation is governed by a quasipotential rather than reversible work, causing the nucleation probability to lose its standard surface-volume separation and exhibit a breakdown of detailed balance due to nonreciprocal capillary-wave dynamics.
This paper demonstrates that a Two-State Random Walk, which switches between a continuous-time random walk rest state and a Lévy walk motion state, exhibits a generic coexistence of Joseph, Noah, and Moses effects, revealing that stochastic coupling with a CTRW phase can fundamentally induce heavy-tailed increments and aging in systems where Lévy walks alone possess only the Joseph effect.
This paper resolves the long-standing controversy over relativistic temperature transformations by demonstrating that effective temperature increases with velocity in a manner dependent on the system's equation of state, thereby supporting the Ott-Eddington interpretation and establishing temperature as an observer-dependent quantity linked to the inverse-temperature four-vector.
This paper demonstrates that combining a two-replica cluster algorithm with population annealing effectively equilibrates the 2D ANNNI model, enabling the full resolution of specific heat peaks in the incommensurate floating phase by efficiently moving defect lines between replicas.
This paper reveals that the Longest Increasing Subsequence problem, despite being solvable in polynomial time, exhibits glassy dynamics and thermodynamic sparsity at low temperatures, where local search algorithms become trapped in metastable states due to a lack of accessible configurations rather than energetic barriers.
This paper demonstrates that the quasiperiodic Brownian diffusion coefficient of an ac-driven particle in a periodic potential at non-zero temperatures can be accurately reconstructed from the maximal Lyapunov exponent of the corresponding zero-temperature deterministic system using a proposed approximate formula.
This paper demonstrates that minimizing irreversible work in weakly driven systems under physical constraints on the protocol derivative yields a global optimal solution of constant driving speed and a linear protocol, a result derived from a shifted eigenvalue equation and confirmed by numerical genetic programming.
This paper extends the standard Fickian diffusion model to Maxwell–Cattaneo diffusion to account for finite current-relaxation time, deriving closed evolution equations that reveal how this memory effect suppresses, shifts, and reshapes the non-monotonic behavior of conserved charge cumulants in the quark-gluon plasma.