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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 demonstrates that a non-interacting gas of Brownian particles subject to batch resetting develops long-range correlations in its nonequilibrium stationary state, where the correlation strength can be tuned by the batch size and undergoes a transition at a critical particle number of six, a phenomenon predicted to be observable in optical-trap experiments.
The paper proposes that soft nonunitary fluctuations in a two-dimensional Rashba superconductor near easy-plane ferromagnetic order act as an emergent gauge field that suppresses phase coherence into a "smectic" state with vanishing stiffness in one direction, destroying quasi-long-range order at any finite temperature unless pinned by weak lattice anisotropy.
This paper establishes a connection between nonlocal magic and entanglement capacity to analytically and numerically demonstrate that nonlocal magic exhibits transient logarithmic growth in chaotic systems but saturates at a size-dependent logarithmic value in integrable systems, leading to distinct operational consequences for entanglement embezzlement.
This paper investigates the imaginary-time evolution of a domain-wall state in a staggered free-fermion chain, revealing a novel frozen-liquid-gas phase structure with two distinct arctic curves and deriving exact results for correlations and the return amplitude through a matrix Wiener-Hopf factorization on an elliptic spectral curve.
This paper analytically investigates how stochastic resetting and active persistence jointly influence the first-passage time statistics of an active Ornstein--Uhlenbeck particle on a finite interval, deriving conditions under which these mechanisms synergistically reduce the mean first-passage time compared to passive diffusion.
This paper addresses the limitations of conventional thermostats in dissipative granular systems by introducing two novel pairwise hybrid formulations that effectively control granular temperature while preserving essential dynamic correlations, thereby enabling the study of temperature-dependent rheological properties in Discrete Element Method simulations.
This paper introduces a thermodynamically consistent modification of the Lorenz system that satisfies local detailed balance, revealing a dynamics where entropy production is concentrated in brief, violent "frenetic" bursts that alternate with long, nearly reversible recharge phases, analogous to El Niño oscillators.
This paper employs -convergence to demonstrate that rigid polycrystalline structures in charge-dependent hard-sphere ionic systems emerge as low-energy configurations, yielding a continuum theory where anisotropic interfacial energy concentrates at grain boundaries determined by misorientation, translation misfit, and interface normal.
This paper utilizes non-equilibrium Green's functions to demonstrate that electrons tunneling through a square lattice in a magnetic field exhibit robust, unity transmission plateaus via topologically protected boundary modes, offering promising applications for current standards, clocks, and thermoelectric devices.
This paper resolves the exponential divergence of the standard continuum-based quantum-thermal escape rate at low temperatures by incorporating the discrete nature of the quasibound spectrum, yielding a uniform semiclassical Arrhenius law that accurately reproduces exact rates across eleven orders of magnitude from zero temperature to the crossover regime.