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Fabio Frommer

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arXiv2026

(Non-)Hyperuniformity of Second Order Statistics of Point Processes

We investigate statistical properties of certain stationary point processes, namely determinantal processes with projection kernels and Gibbs point processes with superstable pair interactions. These are examples of hyperuniform and non-hyperuniform stationary point processes, respectively. We are interested in the variance of their second order statistics within a ball around the origin, and we study the asymptotic growth of this variance as the radius of the ball goes to infinity. It is shown that, generically, for both types of processes the variance is asymptotically proportional to the volume of the ball. In other words: the second order statistics of these point processes behave non-hyperuniform. For Gibbs processes with superstable interactions these results have an interesting application to the so-called inverse Henderson problem of statistical mechanics. We also show that the structure factor (respectively the Bartlett spectral measure) of these Gibbs processes is strictly positive, while it is positive except for a simple zero at the origin for the determinantal processes.

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arXiv2025

The Kirkwood closure point process: A solution of the Kirkwood-Salsburg equations for negative activities

The Kirkwood superposition is a well-known tool in statistical physics to approximate the $n$-point correlation functions for $n\geq 3$ in terms of the density $\rho $ and the radial distribution function $g$ of the underlying system. However, it is unclear whether these approximations are themselves the correlation functions of some point process. If they are, this process is called the Kirkwood closure process. For the case that $g$ is the negative exponential of some nonnegative and regular pair potential $u$ existence of the the Kirkwood closure process was proved by Ambartzumian and Sukiasian. This result was generalized to the case that $u$ is a locally stable and regular pair potential by Kuna, Lebowitz and Speer, provided that $\rho$ is sufficiently small. In this work, it is shown that it suffices for $u$ to be stable and regular to ensure the existence of the Kirkwood closure process. Furthermore, for locally stable $u$ it is proved that the Kirkwood closure process is Gibbs and that the kernel of the GNZ-equation satisfies a Kirkwood-Salsburg type equation.

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arXiv2023

An inverse cluster expansion or the chemical potential

Interacting particle systems in a finite-volume in equilibrium are often described by a grand-canonical ensemble induced by the corresponding Hamiltonian, i.e. a finite-volume Gibbs measure. However, in practice, directly measuring this Hamiltonian is not possible, as such, methods need to be developed to calculate the Hamiltonian potentials from measurable data. In this work, we give an expansion of the chemical potential in terms of the correlation functions of such a system in the thermodynamic limit. This is a justification of a formal approach of Nettleton and Green from the 50's, that can be seen as an inverse cluster expansion.

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arXiv2022

A variational framework for the inverse Henderson problem of statistical mechanics

The inverse Henderson problem refers to the determination of the pair potential which specifies the interactions in an ensemble of classical particles in continuous space, given the density and the equilibrium pair correlation function of these particles as data. For a canonical ensemble in a bounded domain it has been observed that this pair potential minimizes a corresponding convex relative entropy functional, and that the Newton iteration for minimizing this functional coincides with the so-called inverse Monte Carlo (IMC) iterative scheme. In this paper we show that in the thermodynamic limit analogous connections exist between the specific relative entropy introduced by Georgii and Zessin and a proper formulation of the IMC iteration in the full space. This provides a rigorous variational framework for the inverse Henderson problem, valid within a large class of pair potentials, including, for example, Lennard-Jones type potentials. It is further shown that the pressure is strictly convex as a function of the pair potential and the chemical potential, and that the specific relative entropy at fixed density is a strictly convex function of the pair potential. At a given reference potential and a corresponding density in the gas phase we determine the gradient and the Hessian of the specific relative entropy, and we prove that the Hessian extends to a symmetric positive semidefinite quadratic functional in the space of square integrable perturbations of this potential.

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arXiv2019

A note on the uniqueness result for the inverse Henderson problem

The inverse Henderson problem of statistical mechanics concerns classical particles in continuous space which interact according to a pair potential depending on the distance of the particles. Roughly stated, it asks for the interaction potential given the equilibrium pair correlation function of the system. In 1974 Henderson proved that this potential is uniquely determined in a canonical ensemble and he claimed the same result for the thermodynamical limit of the physical system. Here we provide a rigorous proof of a slightly more general version of the latter statement using Georgii's version of the Gibbs variational principle.

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