Now the prominent Lee-Yang theorem (or Physical Review 87, 410, 1952) has almost become a standard ingredient of any comprehensive statistical mechanics textbook.If the volume tends to infinity, ...

From a theoretical point of view, what has been the most successful approach to understanding jamming phenomena? I understand there's still a lot of debate around this subject, namely whether a ...

According to Life under a black sun, Miller's planet from Interstellar, with a time dilation factor of 60,000, should be heated to around 890 °C by blue-shifted cosmic background radiation.How they ...

According to measurements, the gas from the Boomerang Nebula is expanding so fast that it's colder than the cosmic microwave background radiation... how does such a simple mechanic work on such a ...

Is there any way to find out the time required for a drop of given dimensions to vaporize after attaining Leidenfrost point?

I was following the book by Landau and Lifshitz, Fluid Mechanics (2nd edition) and got stuck trying to understand one of their arguments. On the chapter about Relativistic Fluid Dynamics it is stated ...

I keep bumping into order parameters in scientific papers, reviews, articles, etc, but I can never get a firm grip on them. Order parameters seem terribly subjective to me. Basically the way I ...

The Unruh effect basically states that an accelerated observer will see warm gas of particles following a blackbody distribution with some temperature T, where as an inertial observer would see none....

It is often said that, in classical thermodynamics, entropy $S$ and energy $U$ are defined only up to an additive constant proportional to the total amount of substance $N=\sum_i N_i$ (where the sum ...

In statistical mechanics renormalization is often related to coarse-graining which in turn allows to calculate some macroscopic states. The resulting macroscopic description is sometimes called ...

According to this Reddit thread, the answer is no, vapor pressure can't be zero when temperature is above absolute zero. I suspect the answer might actually be yes according to a precise definition I ...

This is somewhat related to a previous question, but is different at the core. I proposed a Relativistic Ricci flow equation that takes the form$$\frac{\partial R}{\partial t} = \alpha \Box^2 R = -...

As far as I understand it, the modern statement of Onsager reciprocity is that the linear-response transport coefficient matrix, when transposed, is equal to that of the time-reversed system (reversed ...

I've been reading some material by R. Kiehn, developing a topological approach to non-equilibrium thermodynamics through Cartan forms, where the fundamental claim is that irreversible processes are ...

Free energy is a generalization of energy when the system exchanges heat with the environment. Energy, in its turn, can be extracted from lagrangian under the symmetry of time $(\frac{\partial L}{\...