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Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 71 Issue 2 August 2008 pp 413-422
Dominance of rare events in some problems in statistical physics
Arnab Saha Sagar Chakravarty Jayanta Bhattacharjee
We show how the theory of large deviations in the coin toss experiment can give some insight into nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems and intermittency in turbulence.
Volume 90 Issue 3 March 2018 Article ID 0029 Research Article
Universal fluctuations in orbital diamagnetism
P S PAL ARNAB SAHA A M JAYANNAVAR
Bohr–van Leuween theorem has attracted the notice of physicists for more than 100 years. The theorem states about the absence of magnetisation in classical systems in thermal equilibrium. In this paper, we discuss about fluctuations of magnetic moment in classical systems. In recent years, this topic has been investigated intensivelyand it is not free from controversy.We have considered a system consisting of a single particle moving in a plane. A magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the plane. The system is in contact with a thermal bath.We have considered three cases: (a) particle moving in a homogeneous medium, (b) particle moving in a medium with space-dependent friction and (c) particle moving in a medium with space-dependent temperature. For all the three cases, the averagemagnetic moment and fluctuations in magnetic moment have been calculated. Average magnetic moment saturates to a finite value in the case of free particle but goes to zero when the particle is confined by a 2D harmonic potential. Fluctuations in magnetic moment shows universal features in the presence of arbitrary friction inhomogeneity. For this case, the system reaches equilibrium asymptotically. In the case of space-dependent temperature profile, the stationary distribution is non-Gibbsian and fluctuations deviate from universal value for the bounded system only.
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