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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 establishes a formal thermodynamic analogy for intracellular diffusivity fluctuations by identifying counterparts to heat, work, and internal energy, constructing a heat engine model with Carnot-like efficiency, and demonstrating that the total entropy change vanishes during a cycle.
This paper introduces partial projected ensembles to characterize quantum information distribution in tripartite systems, revealing distinct information phases defined by the scaling of Holevo information that uncover a measurement-invisible quantum-correlated phase and provide a finer probe of scrambling dynamics than conventional entanglement measures.
This paper challenges the classical friendship paradox by developing a framework that distinguishes between mean-based network averages and local majority relations, demonstrating that the fractions of nodes whose friends have more friends than they do are not constrained by the paradox and can vary independently based on the joint distribution of node degrees.
This paper investigates Anderson localisation on high-dimensional graphs with spatially structured, distance-dependent hopping, revealing that increasing the hopping range shifts the localisation transition to stronger disorder and can ultimately eliminate the localised phase entirely, while confirming a direct transition between delocalised and localised states without an intervening multifractal phase.
This paper constructs asymptotic quantum many-body scar states in one-dimensional SU() Hubbard chains () by embedding them into an auxiliary subspace governed by an SU() ferromagnetic Heisenberg parent Hamiltonian, thereby demonstrating that gapless magnons in this model yield explicit scars with vanishing energy variance and subvolume entanglement entropy in the thermodynamic limit.
This study reveals that in nonequilibrium hyperuniform active fluids, suppressed large-scale fluctuations fundamentally alter nucleation by replacing the reversible work of formation with a quasi-potential and eliminating the standard separation of surface and volume contributions, while nonreciprocal capillary-wave dynamics drive a breakdown of detailed balance.
This paper develops theoretical diagnostics for the breakdown of mean-field theory, demonstrating how spatial structure and finite interaction ranges qualitatively alter the effective description and renormalization-group flow.
This paper derives the all-order fluctuating hydrodynamics of the SYK lattice from its microscopic nonlinear action, explicitly embedding hydrodynamic degrees of freedom into the model and determining all corresponding transport coefficients to demonstrate how hydrodynamics emerges from a strongly coupled quantum many-body system.
This paper utilizes exact diagonalization and matrix product state techniques on a fuzzy sphere to extract conformal data for the -dimensional Wilson-Fisher CFT, identifying 32 primary operators and verifying their scaling dimensions against conformal bootstrap predictions and large charge expansion results.
This paper establishes that in a dissipative XX qubit chain, stable synchronization of edge qubits and constant asymptotic entanglement coexist if and only if the decoherence-free subspace supports exactly one single-excitation eigenstate, a condition determined by a number-theoretic function of the noise sites and chain length.