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- Title
Hyperforce balance via thermal Noether invariance of any observable.
- Authors
Robitschko, Silas; Sammüller, Florian; Schmidt, Matthias; Hermann, Sophie
- Abstract
Noether invariance in statistical mechanics provides fundamental connections between the symmetries of a physical system and its conservation laws and sum rules. The latter are exact identities that involve statistically averaged forces and force correlations and they are derived from statistical mechanical functionals. However, the implications for more general observables and order parameters are unclear. Here, we demonstrate that thermally averaged classical phase space functions are associated with exact hyperforce sum rules that follow from translational Noether invariance. Both global and locally resolved identities hold and they relate the mean gradient of a phase-space function to its negative mean product with the total force. Similar to Hirschfelder's hypervirial theorem, the hyperforce sum rules apply to arbitrary observables in equilibrium. Exact hierarchies of higher-order sum rules follow iteratively. As applications we investigate via computer simulations the emerging one-body force fluctuation profiles in confined liquids. These local correlators quantify spatially inhomogeneous self-organization and their measurement allows for the development of stringent convergence tests and enhanced sampling schemes in complex systems. Noether's theorem relates the symmetries of a statistical mechanical system to conservation laws and to constraints of thermal averages, but the extension to more general observables is still elusive. The authors demonstrate that any statistical observable is associated with a hierarchy of exact identities emerging from translational Noether invariance.
- Subjects
NOETHER'S theorem; FORCE &; energy; CONSERVATION laws (Physics); STATISTICAL mechanics; FUNCTION spaces; PHASE space; CONSERVATION laws (Mathematics); CORRELATORS
- Publication
Communications Physics, 2024, Vol 7, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2399-3650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s42005-024-01568-y