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most citedThe `Friction' of Vacuum, and other Fluctuation-Induced Forces

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165 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Heat Transfer and Torque in Enclosing Cylindrical Configurations with Nonreciprocal Materials

Dhruv Shah, Kiryl Asheichyk, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky +3

Electromagnetic fluctuations can transfer not only energy but also angular momentum, leading to forces, torques, heat currents, and friction in out-of-equilibrium setups. In enclos…

cond-mat.dis-nn2026

A Spectral Route to Directed-Polymer Glasses

Sen Mu, Abbas Ali Saberi, Mehran Kardar

A finite density of mutually avoiding directed polymers in a quenched random medium is a minimal model of glassy line matter. The dilute theory, solved by replica Bethe ansatz, pre…

quant-ph2026

A Contactless Heat Engine Driven by Nonreciprocal Fluctuation-Induced Torques

Dhruv Shah, Kiryl Asheichyk, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky +3

We describe a contactless heat engine in which quantum and thermal electromagnetic fluctuations act as the working medium. The setup consists of two concentric cylinders held at di…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Generic long-range correlations in nonequilibrium mixtures

Jessica Metzger, Yariv Kafri, Mehran Kardar +1

We study correlation functions in generic non-equilibrium mixtures, including multi-temperature systems and non-reciprocal field theories. The corresponding linear theory is short-…

q-bio.PE2026

Competition at the front of expanding populations

Sergio Eraso, Mehran Kardar

When competing species grow into new territory, the population is dominated by descendants of successful ancestors at the expansion front. Successful ancestry depends on both the r…

cond-mat.soft2026

Directed Polymer Transfer Matrices as a Unified Generator of Distinct One-Point Fluctuation Laws

Sen Mu, Abbas Ali Saberi, Roderich Moessner +1

We numerically revisit the transfer-matrix formulation of directed polymers in random media and show that a common finite-dimensional framework organizes the canonical one-point fl…