1572 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 introduces a quantitative decomposition method using density-matched shuffled null models to demonstrate that most persistent homology signals in classical spin models are driven by density correlations rather than genuine topology, suggesting that H₁ statistics and null model comparisons are essential for detecting true topological phase transitions.
This paper proposes a universal geometric criterion for criticality in mean-field rotor Hamiltonians, demonstrating that phase transitions arise from the vanishing of curvature coefficients on constant-energy shells, which identifies geometrically unstable collective modes independent of specific model details.
This paper presents a general framework for estimating mean first passage times of velocity jump processes in higher dimensions, deriving universal formulas for biased motion and revealing how directional persistence leads to anomalous scaling and finite passage times in the narrow capture limit where standard diffusion fails.
This paper bridges a structural gap in scalar stochastic thermodynamics by establishing force geometry and the concept of force alignment as fundamental organizing principles that explain heterogeneous dissipation, define thermodynamic stalls, and provide a geometric lower bound on entropy production in nonequilibrium systems.
This paper generalizes the construction of fracton models to phase space by classifying systems with multipole conservation laws and analyzing a new self-dual model that exhibits quasi-periodic orbits, thereby preventing full ergodic exploration of the phase space.
This paper demonstrates that collective charging of an N-qubit quantum battery coupled to a dephased charger exhibits an "asymptotic freedom"-like behavior where the ergotropy-to-energy ratio approaches unity as in the large-N limit, driven by approximate ground-state degeneracy despite the battery remaining in a mixed state.
This paper derives a quantum extension of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation using the Terletsky-Margenau-Hill quasiprobability to demonstrate that surpassing classical output-to-dissipation limits requires basis-independent anomalous behaviors, such as negativity, rather than quantum coherence alone.
This paper proposes a thermodynamically consistent model demonstrating that driven, nonequilibrium protein complexes can function as stochastic molecular automata, thereby providing a framework for engineering error-tolerant memory, molecular stopwatches, and finite-state machines within living cells.
This paper investigates how simultaneous resetting with memory induces correlations between the components of an -dimensional diffusive walker, revealing that weak memory leads to monotonic growth toward a steady-state correlation while long-ranged memory produces non-monotonic behavior, with all regimes unified by a conditional independence framework.
This paper establishes an exact 1D-2D correspondence for 2D fermions in a rotating trap (generalizing the Lowest Landau Level problem), enabling a simplified 1D quantum mechanical description of the system's density and entanglement entropy while revealing unique noncommutative features such as the absence of logarithmic scaling in the latter.