Projects
Nonequilibrium aspects of physical cosmology KU Leuven
About 100-150 years ago, pioneers of statistical mechanics understood how to correct thermodynamics. Today, static and dynamic fluctuations can be observed in much greater detail thanks to sensational technological advances in probing and sensing. True in chemistry and for biophysics, it also matters for physical cosmology. Cosmology has become a precision science with detailed measurements of fluctuations in temperature and mass/energy ...
Nonequilibrium graph theory KU Leuven
The main question of the PhD work is to investigate how nonequilibrium gravitational degrees influence physical processes in the early epoch of the universe. The PhD research will first focus on the early universe and ask the question how gravitational degrees of freedom have formed a nonequilibrium background or medium for the matter and energy evolution of the universe. One first hypothesis that needs to be sharpened and verified concerns ...
Dynamical ensemble in constructions of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics: fluctuation and response theory in quantum systems KU Leuven
Stochastic thermodynamics is an emergent subfield of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. This formalism gives a natural way to deal with the response relation and fluctuation phenomena. One can easily get the higher order response from equilibrium state and the linear response from nonequilibrium steady state, which are beyond the linear response theory. Besides, fluctuation theorems describe the fluctuation behavior of the system. The main ...
Localization in Nonequilibrium Physics KU Leuven
Dynamical activity and time-symmetric fluctuation sector in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. KU Leuven
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of small systems. Hasselt University
Large deviations in non-equilibrium processes Hasselt University
From kinetic to magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) modeling of non-equilibrium plasmas described by Kappa distribution functions KU Leuven
In astrophysical systems the plasma is not in thermodynamic equilibrium, as evidenced by the in-situ measurements of particle distributions, and the plasma emissions whose understanding would help us diagnose these systems even when they are too far to be explored in-situ. The observations are inconsistent with the classical macroscopic theory, i.e., a moment-based MHD modeling, because the particle velocity distributions are not Maxwellian. ...