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Hauptverfasser: Heinonen, Vili, Abraham, Abel J., Słomka, Jonasz, Burns, Keaton J., Sáenz, Pedro J., Dunkel, Jörn
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Veröffentlicht: 2022
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01627
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author Heinonen, Vili
Abraham, Abel J.
Słomka, Jonasz
Burns, Keaton J.
Sáenz, Pedro J.
Dunkel, Jörn
author_facet Heinonen, Vili
Abraham, Abel J.
Słomka, Jonasz
Burns, Keaton J.
Sáenz, Pedro J.
Dunkel, Jörn
contents Pattern-forming nonequilibrium systems are ubiquitous in nature, from driven quantum matter and biological life forms to atmospheric and interstellar gases. Identifying universal aspects of their far-from-equilibrium dynamics and statistics poses major conceptual and practical challenges due to the absence of energy and momentum conservation laws. Here, we experimentally and theoretically investigate the statistics of prototypical nonequilibrium systems in which inherent length-scale selection confines the dynamics near a mean energy hypersurface. Guided by spectral analysis of the field modes and scaling arguments, we derive a universal nonequilibrium distribution for kinetic field observables. We confirm the predicted energy distributions in experimental observations of Faraday surface waves, and in random scattering and active turbulence simulations. Our results indicate that pattern dynamics and transport in driven physical and biological matter can often be described through monochromatic random fields, suggesting a path towards a unified statistical field theory of nonequilibrium systems with length-scale selection.
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spellingShingle Emergent universal statistics in nonequilibrium systems with dynamical scale selection
Heinonen, Vili
Abraham, Abel J.
Słomka, Jonasz
Burns, Keaton J.
Sáenz, Pedro J.
Dunkel, Jörn
Statistical Mechanics
Fluid Dynamics
Pattern-forming nonequilibrium systems are ubiquitous in nature, from driven quantum matter and biological life forms to atmospheric and interstellar gases. Identifying universal aspects of their far-from-equilibrium dynamics and statistics poses major conceptual and practical challenges due to the absence of energy and momentum conservation laws. Here, we experimentally and theoretically investigate the statistics of prototypical nonequilibrium systems in which inherent length-scale selection confines the dynamics near a mean energy hypersurface. Guided by spectral analysis of the field modes and scaling arguments, we derive a universal nonequilibrium distribution for kinetic field observables. We confirm the predicted energy distributions in experimental observations of Faraday surface waves, and in random scattering and active turbulence simulations. Our results indicate that pattern dynamics and transport in driven physical and biological matter can often be described through monochromatic random fields, suggesting a path towards a unified statistical field theory of nonequilibrium systems with length-scale selection.
title Emergent universal statistics in nonequilibrium systems with dynamical scale selection
topic Statistical Mechanics
Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01627