1581 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 the overlap ratio as a local observable to demonstrate the universal dynamical behavior of top rank statistics in Brownian particle systems, deriving an analytical formula that shows the average overlap ratio converges to a simple complementary error function form in the large- limit across various models.
This paper investigates the transition of a zero-temperature overdamped tracer from active, non-equilibrium dynamics to an effective equilibrium regime as bath density increases, using analytical methods to characterize the approach to equilibrium and revealing that coupling the bath particles into a lattice allows the cold tracer to drive the entire system out of equilibrium.
This paper investigates the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of a zero-temperature tracer linearly coupled to a hot bath by deriving an exact generalized Langevin equation to analyze how finite-size effects and specific bath topologies induce FDT violations, irreversibility, and long-range fluctuation suppression.
Using a novel single-seed algorithm to simulate infinite systems, this study reveals that quenched disorder in diffusion rates within the diffusive epidemic process induces unique critical behaviors, including two distinct infinite-disorder fixed points and a total suppression of the active phase, fundamentally distinguishing mobility disorder from reaction-rate disorder in reshaping epidemic dynamics.
This paper introduces a modified Vicsek model with non-reciprocal interactions to quantitatively define influence, revealing its distinct yet correlated relationship with information transfer across individual and collective scales, while identifying optimal methods for analyzing such complex systems.
This paper demonstrates that the nonperturbative functional renormalization group, when extended to the second order of the derivative expansion, successfully captures the nonuniform convergence and boundary layer effects near potential minima that allow the theory to reproduce the droplet-driven critical behavior of the Ising model as it approaches the lower critical dimension.
This paper proposes a robust quantum metrology device based on a modified fermionic Wheatstone bridge that utilizes geometric asymmetry and current circulation reversal near an additional energy degeneracy point to precisely detect unknown hopping rates, even under moderate environmental noise and varying operating conditions.
This paper presents six-loop expressions for the scaling dimensions of operators in the three-dimensional model, confirming previous semiclassical predictions for leading- corrections while providing a new subleading result and a full -dependence for the four-loop anomalous dimensions.
This paper develops an age-structured hydrodynamic theory to describe the collective behavior and non-equilibrium steady states of large ensembles of anomalously diffusing particles under stochastic renewal resetting, revealing that while independent resetting yields standard densities, protocols introducing global inter-particle correlations result in steady-state distributions with compact supports.
This paper presents a six-loop renormalization group analysis of the model near the tricritical point using the expansion in , calculating critical exponents, the required decay rate of the coupling for tricritical behavior, and the scaling dimensions of composite operators, with results compared against conformal field theory and non-perturbative renormalization group findings.