2392 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 establishes a unified framework for dimensional analysis by formulating self-similarity through scale invariance, demonstrating that the method's validity stems from shared scale invariance between units and physical parameters, and using this perspective to propose a universal three-way classification of self-similar solutions.
This paper establishes a stochastic thermodynamic framework for diffusion models, demonstrating that the average time-asymmetry entropy production is proportional to the score-matching objective and that its fluctuations quantify sampling diversity, thereby revealing the entropic mechanisms underlying the superior performance and generalization of diffusion-based generative AI.
This paper demonstrates that a generalized Aubry-André model exhibits a third-order phase transition between distinct inhomogeneous charge distributions, where the hyperuniformity class of the many-body system is determined by the localization properties of single-particle states near the Fermi energy.
This paper investigates the inertial Brownian gyration of a microscopic ellipsoid confined in an asymmetric trap and coupled to two thermal reservoirs, revealing how nonequilibrium steady-state dynamics depend on particle shape, orientation, and inertia beyond the previously studied overdamped spherical cases.
This paper establishes a novel dS/(c)MERA correspondence by demonstrating that a non-unitary continuous multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (cMERA) for a non-Hermitian critical fermion chain naturally gives rise to emergent de Sitter spacetime, where a timelike-to-null transition in geodesics dictates a discrete tensor-network architecture that successfully reproduces the logarithmic scaling of non-unitary entanglement entropy.
This paper presents exact finite-size expressions and a scalable combinatorial framework for characterizing equilibrium cluster statistics in cooperative and anticooperative binding on finite one-dimensional rings, providing new benchmarks for understanding spatial organization in small periodic systems relevant to biological assemblies.
This paper demonstrates that inhomogeneous polymers driven by temporally patterned active processes can achieve specific conformations and strong compaction through tension-mediated coupling of distant loci, where delayed excitations induce coherent motion and folding.
This paper employs macroscopic fluctuation theory to derive exact typical charge probability distributions for stochastic charged cellular automata, successfully capturing the anomalous fluctuations arising from the coexistence of normal and convective diffusion in these linearly degenerate systems.
This paper investigates a generalized fractional Rabi model using Caputo derivatives to demonstrate how fractional temporal nonlocality induces controllable damping and dephasing in two-level quantum systems, offering new experimental signatures and pathways for exploring memory effects in materials like graphene and topological chains.
This paper extends the framework of entanglement asymmetry to higher-form symmetries, establishing an entropic Coleman-Mermin-Wagner theorem that forbids spontaneous breaking of continuous -form symmetries in dimensions and quantifies symmetry breaking through the infrared growth of entanglement asymmetry.