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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 resolves a longstanding open problem in continuous variable quantum information by proving that the entanglement of formation for all two-mode Gaussian states equals their Gaussian restriction, a result derived from a sharp affine relation between entanglement and a generalized Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen observable that holds for arbitrary pure two-mode states.
This paper investigates Bayesian inference on a planted spin glass model with a correlated Ising prior, demonstrating that signal structure can either facilitate or hinder reconstruction depending on the prior's phase, and revealing a static replica symmetry breaking transition in the posterior under Nishimori conditions that impacts algorithmic performance.
This paper introduces CoBarS, the first algorithm that efficiently and correctly samples random closed -gons with fixed edge lengths in any dimension by generating open polygons, applying an Möbius transformation to close them, and computing explicit reweighting factors to transform the resulting distribution into standard measures like symplectic volume.
This study demonstrates that topologically constrained disorder in Shakti artificial spin ice enables robust, sequence-dependent memory effects absent in conventional square spin ice, revealing how correlated disorder and cyclic driving can generate deterministic and stochastic memory in frustrated artificial materials.
This paper introduces a transformer-based model that autoregressively predicts Lanczos coefficients from short prefixes, outperforming traditional asymptotic fits in accuracy and enabling zero-shot transfer across system sizes to efficiently probe operator dynamics in Krylov space.
This paper proposes two novel nonequilibrium dynamical crossover lines in the supercritical region, defined by the peak rate of inhomogeneous structure formation and the turning point of topological defect invasion velocity, respectively, to characterize supercritical subphases by integrating both thermodynamic and dynamical information.
This paper rigorously constructs local gapped parent Hamiltonians with exponentially decaying long-range terms for strongly deformed toric code states, demonstrating that these states realize a trivial gapped phase where perimeter-law Wilson loop scaling coexists with an exact 1-form symmetry, thereby evading recent no-go theorems by relaxing standard locality assumptions.
This paper derives the second law of thermodynamics for chaotic systems by linking entropy increase to the monotonic relationship between macrostate probability and the number of microstates, while demonstrating that this law breaks down and entropy can spontaneously decrease in locally nonchaotic systems where this correlation fails.
This paper demonstrates that a two-species athermal random field Ising model with non-reciprocal interactions and greedy Glauber dynamics exhibits a disorder-induced chaotic time crystal phase with diverging autocorrelation times in three dimensions and on complete graphs, but not in two dimensions, without requiring external driving.
This paper derives exact evolution formulas and explicit density profiles for the symmetric Dyson exclusion process by leveraging its representation as a ground-state transform of the spin-1/2 XX chain, revealing a governing polynomial algebra with Catalan number coefficients and confirming previously conjectured hydrodynamic results.