2368 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 computes the Rényi entanglement asymmetry in the gapped, -breaking phase of the interacting XYZ spin- chain by combining a charged-moment identity linking asymmetry to static susceptibility with sine-Gordon form factor analysis and DMRG simulations to establish a master formula and universal amplitude bounds.
This paper develops a low-energy field theory for crystalline membranes with Dirac fermions, demonstrating that while the flat phase remains stable against coupling due to a dynamical mismatch, the system can undergo a hybrid electronic-structural phase transition governed by the chiral-XY Gross-Neveu-Yukawa universality class when symmetry permits a mass-type Dirac bilinear to couple with ripple modes.
This paper analytically and numerically demonstrates that non-reciprocal couplings in the spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model generically violate the fluctuation-dissipation theorem due to broken detailed balance rather than aging, leading to faster and oscillatory dynamics that can be understood through distinct solvable limits.
This paper presents a unified theoretical framework demonstrating that interacting particles under both active and passive nonequilibrium driving exhibit a universal non-monotonic dependence of effective diffusivity on driving activity, leading to both enhanced and suppressed transport.
This paper introduces "Krylov-space memory cores" as stationary, depth-resolved structures within the Krylov space of thermalizing nonintegrable systems that reveal how anomalous initial states retain structured quantum memory through compact regions characterized by residual fluctuations, Gibbs mismatch, and persistent current activity, distinguishing them from generic reference states and integrable dynamics.
This paper demonstrates that Gibbs factorials, typically associated with equilibrium counting, can directly govern measurable kinetic observables in history-dependent reactions by arising from the statistical distinction of products formed at different stages within a history ensemble.
This paper demonstrates that in a finite domain, deploying multiple independent walkers with power-law distributed jumps drastically reduces search times through rare long jumps, revealing a crossover in extreme-value statistics and deriving a scaling law that links the number of searchers to the search region size, as exemplified by mammalian fertilization.
This paper reviews the foundations of paraparticle statistics established in prior work, extends the theoretical framework, and derives a specific expression for the heat capacity of paraparticles to facilitate their experimental detection.
This paper analytically and numerically demonstrates that a one-dimensional cold gas of point particles with mass ratio exhibits a breakdown of hydrodynamics into ballistic splatter for most mass ratios, while identifying a specific discrete set of mass ratios where the system remains hydrodynamic-free with at most three moving particles, a distinction that vanishes when initial positions are randomized.
This paper demonstrates that, contrary to the prevailing view of noise as a hindrance, strategically harnessing it can significantly accelerate the preparation of Gibbs states in both integrable and non-integrable quantum systems, offering a practical solution for near-term quantum devices.