Condensation phenomena in statistical mechanics refer to the abrupt accumulation of a significant fraction of a system’s degrees of freedom into a dominant, macroscopically occupied state. This ...

Statistical mechanics and probability theory form a cornerstone of modern physics and applied mathematics by linking microscopic interactions with macroscopic phenomena. This interdisciplinary field ...

Heinz, S. 2003 Statistical Mechanics of Turbulent Flows. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo (ISBN: 3-540-40103-2). The simulation of turbulent reacting flows, connected with ...

In this new work, statistical mechanics is used to understand how different mathematical models "compete" when trying to explain a system. This matters because many scientific fields rely on ...

Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars of modern physics. Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) were its primary formulators. They both worked to establish a bridge ...

The Monist, Vol. 102, No. 4, General Topic: Philosophy of Probability (October, 2019), pp. 424-438 (15 pages) There are two theoretical approaches in statistical mechanics, one associated with ...

If I roll a pair of dice and you get to bet on one number, what do you choose? The smart choice is 7 because there are more ways for 2 dice to come up 7 than any other number. Well, it turns out that ...

This paper applies some reasoning from statistical mechanics to Lewis's analysis. It turns out that in many cases that involve thermodynamically irreversible processes, Lewis's analysis fails.

A research team led by Prof. PAN Ding, Associate Professor from the Departments of Physics and Chemistry, and Dr. LI Shuo-Hui, Research Assistant Professor from the Department of Physics at the Hong ...

Mathematicians have applied statistical mechanics to climate change detection and attribution for first time. They have shown how to separate the 'signal' of human-made climate change from the 'noise' ...

I RECENTLY walked by a physics department office that had a sticker on it saying something like “Heisenberg may or may not have been here”. This is in part a nod to the quantum cat, which, while it is ...

Advanced science textbooks are not generally known for their jocularity, but a purported image showing the introductory sentences from one such work is downright gloomy: This chapter on ...