2358 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 establishes a correspondence between the fault tolerance of local stabilizer codes and mixed-state phases in one higher dimension, introducing the "spacetime Markov length"—a decoder-independent diagnostic based on conditional mutual information decay—to identify the intrinsic breakdown of fault tolerance and reveal transitions in symmetry-protected topological phases.
This review synthesizes concepts from soft condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics to explain how molecular-scale forces are generated, transmitted, and sensed in cellular processes, emphasizing the integration of non-equilibrium active matter descriptions with biological information processing.
This paper employs matrix product states to non-perturbatively analyze interacting scalar field theories in AdS, successfully extracting boundary spectra and identifying both bulk and boundary critical properties, including the symmetry-breaking transition and the ordinary Ising conformal boundary condition, which align with the 2D Ising universality class.
This study establishes that the non-Hermitian Aubry-André model with on-site gain and loss constitutes a distinct universality class for localization transitions, characterized by unique critical exponents (, , ), and demonstrates that the finite-time scaling framework successfully describes its driven dynamics across the critical point from gapless initial states.
This paper rigorously proves the absence of nontrivial local conserved quantities in a specific class of -symmetric spin-1 chains, including the periodic Motzkin chain, demonstrating that their spontaneous symmetry breaking arises from frustration-free structures rather than the existence of conserved order parameters.
This study proposes an information-theoretic framework demonstrating that interference mutual information, which quantifies the joint influence of direct and indirect regulatory pathways, accurately predicts the uneven abundance patterns of feed-forward loop motifs in transcriptional networks while revealing a trade-off between information processing efficiency and circuit robustness.
This paper investigates the near-unit-root persistence of symmetric -stable autoregressive sequences, establishing that their exponential persistence rate scales logarithmically as the coefficient approaches one, disproving a specific conjecture for stable innovations while reducing the identification of the precise limiting constant to a dense-sampling problem for a stationary stable Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process.
This paper investigates the critical behavior and crossover scaling of the Light-Heavy model, revealing a transition from multi-mode fluctuation-dominated phase ordering in the unscaled regime to single-mode dynamics with anomalous long-range correlations in the scaled regime, for which an analytical expression is derived by analogy with the sABC model.
This paper investigates a one-dimensional system of run-and-tumble particles with inverse-square repulsion in a harmonic trap, revealing a distinct activity-driven crossover from a crystal-like state with sharp density peaks to a liquid-like Wigner semi-circle profile, supported by both analytical covariance calculations and numerical simulations.
This paper proposes a general and experimentally feasible strategy to realize both quantum Mpemba and anti-Mpemba effects in open quantum systems by applying a temporary bond-dissipation quench that selectively suppresses or enhances slow relaxation modes, thereby enabling controllable acceleration of relaxation independent of the specific system or initial state.