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Christian Maes

Christian Maes

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Mathematics

D-Index
48
Citations
8576
World Ranking
1213
National Ranking
17

Overview

Christian Maes is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, with a significant body of work in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans over 110 publications primarily focused on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and related disciplines.

Their main topics of investigation cover advanced areas including:

  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
  • Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications

Maes has contributed to various leading scientific journals and venues, with frequent publications in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Statistical Physics
  • Physical Review E
  • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
  • SciPost Physics

Selected recent papers authored by Maes include:

  • Local detailed balance, 2021, SciPost Physics Lecture Notes
  • Fluctuating Motion in an Active Environment, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Response Theory: A Trajectory-Based Approach, 2020, Frontiers in Physics

Other recent papers connected to their research network include:

  • Calorimetry for active systems, 2023, SciPost Physics
  • A Nernst heat theorem for nonequilibrium jump processes, 2023, The Journal of Chemical Physics

The researcher has collaborated extensively with multiple co-authors, notably:

  • Faezeh Khodabandehlou
  • Karel Netočný
  • Kasper Meerts
  • Aaron Beyen
  • Pritha Dolai

This collaboration network reflects a diverse set of expertise and cross-disciplinary work within their fields of study. The overall publication record and involvement in leading physics subfields highlight an active engagement in current scientific discourse on thermodynamics, stochastic dynamics, and advanced statistical mechanics.

Best Publications

  • The Fluctuation Theorem as a Gibbs Property

    Christian Maes

  • Fluctuations and Response of Nonequilibrium States

    Marco Baiesi;Christian Maes;Bram Wynants

  • Time-Reversal and Entropy

    Christian Maes;Karel Netocny

  • Long-range correlations for conservative dynamics.

    Pedro L. Garrido;Joel L. Lebowitz;Christian Maes;Herbert Spohn

  • The random geometry of equilibrium phases

    Hans-Otto Georgii;Olle Häggström;Christian Maes

  • Statistical mechanics of probabilistic cellular automata

    Joel L. Lebowitz;Christian Maes;Eugene R. Speer

  • Frenesy: Time-symmetric dynamical activity in nonequilibria

    Christian Maes

  • Canonical structure of dynamical fluctuations in mesoscopic nonequilibrium steady states

    C. Maes;K. Netočný

  • An update on the nonequilibrium linear response

    Marco Baiesi;Christian Maes

  • On the definition of entropy production, via examples

    Christian Maes;Frank Redig;Annelies Van Moffaert

  • Steady state statistics of driven diffusions

    Christian Maes;Karel Netočný;Bram Wynants

  • Disagreement percolation in the study of Markov fields

    van den Rob Berg;C. Maes

  • On the origin and the use of fluctuation relations for the entropy

    Christian Maes

  • Nonequilibrium Linear Response for Markov Dynamics, I: Jump Processes and Overdamped Diffusions

    Marco Baiesi;Marco Baiesi;Christian Maes;Bram Wynants

  • Criticality in creep experiments on cellular glass

    Christian Maes;A Van Moffaert;H Frederix;H Strauven

  • An update on nonequilibrium linear response

    Marco Baiesi;Christian Maes

  • Quantum version of free-energy--irreversible-work relations.

    Wojciech De Roeck;Christian Maes

  • Percolation in Strongly Correlated Systems: The Massless Gaussian Field

    Jean Bricmont;Joel L. Lebowitz;Christian Maes

  • On and beyond entropy production: the case of Markov jump processes

    Christian Maes;Karel Netocny;Bram Wynants

  • On the Second Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for Nonequilibrium Baths

    Christian Maes

  • Active processes in one dimension

    Thibaut Demaerel;Christian Maes

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel L. Lebowitz
Joel L. Lebowitz Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Pablo A. Ferrari
Pablo A. Ferrari University of Buenos Aires
Roberto H. Schonmann
Roberto H. Schonmann University of California, Los Angeles
Herman Ramon
Herman Ramon KU Leuven
Gérard Ben Arous
Gérard Ben Arous Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Sheldon Goldstein
Sheldon Goldstein Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Reinhard Bürger
Reinhard Bürger University of Vienna
Herbert Spohn
Herbert Spohn Technical University of Munich
Giorgio Parisi
Giorgio Parisi Sapienza University of Rome
Mikhail R. Baklanov
Mikhail R. Baklanov North China University of Technology

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