1558 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.
The paper proposes that the stable ratio between EUV and radio brightness temperatures in the quiet-Sun corona is a manifestation of the divergence between two different Maxwellian projections of a non-equilibrium (kappa) electron distribution.
This paper demonstrates that in many-particle systems, a collective resetting protocol—where particles are reset to the position of the most extreme individual—induces highly heterogeneous first-passage dynamics characterized by heavy-tailed arrival time distributions and a divergence of mean arrival times as the resetting rate increases.
This paper uses the kicked-Ising model to systematically investigate how thermal effects and environmental dissipation impact the charging and energy extraction performance of open Floquet quantum batteries.
The paper proposes that the empirical constancy of cardiac cycles in warm-blooded vertebrates () is a consequence of a conserved lifetime entropy budget, providing a thermodynamic framework that explains this invariance through mass-independent scaling and predicts clade-specific variations using physiological correction factors.
This paper introduces a generalized family of boundary injection rules for collisionless systems that allows for the analytical derivation of stationary distribution functions, demonstrating that varying the boundary velocity distributions can drive the system into non-thermal states characterized by non-trivial spatial density and temperature profiles.
This paper derives exact dynamical fluctuation-response relations for time-integrated observables in any nonautonomous Markov jump process, providing a framework that generalizes steady-state theorems and sharpens existing thermodynamic and kinetic uncertainty relations.
This paper reformulates the classical solutions of the one- and two-dimensional Ising models using Clifford and conformal geometric algebras, providing a unified framework that reinterprets the transfer matrix, eigenvectors, and quasiparticle excitations as geometric entities.
This paper demonstrates that one-dimensional hard-rod gases governed by either stochastic (diffusive) or unitary (ballistic) dynamics exhibit identical non-Gaussian fluctuations in the large-scale, long-time one-time joint distribution of tracer positions, revealing an emergent universality despite their fundamentally different microscopic behaviors.
This paper reports the first experimental observation of turbulence-like dynamics in dense monolayers of *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii* algae, demonstrating that active spatiotemporal chaos can emerge in systems lacking the orientational order or topological defects typically found in other active matter.
This work derives a Kubo-Martin-Schwinger relation for energy eigenstates of SU(2)-symmetric quantum many-body systems using a non-Abelian eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and shows that finite-size corrections to this relation can, under certain conditions, scale polynomially more strongly than usual, a finding supported by numerical simulations of a Heisenberg chain.