Preprints and publications

Preprints

• Classical uncertainty relations and entropy production in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
  

  Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi and Luca Peliti
  arXiv:2302.02890 PDF

• Risk-utility tradeoff shapes memory strategies for evolving patterns
  

  Oskar H Schnaack, Luca Peliti, and Armita Nourmohammad
  arXiv:2110.15008 PDF

• Evolution and Probability
  

  L. Peliti
  arXiv:1901.01560 PDF

• Lectures on Non-Equilibrium Fluctuations

  Luca Peliti. Lectures given at the workshop "Theoretical Methods for Studying Nonequilibrium Fluctuations", Orsay (France), June 8-9, 2017 PDF

• Introduction to the statistical theory of Darwinian evolution

  Luca Peliti. Lectures at the Summer College on Frustrated System, Trieste, August 1997. cond-mat/9712027, PDF.

Books

• Statistical Mechanics in a Nutshell, Second Edition

  Luca Peliti
  Princeton University Press, Princeton, August 6, 2024.

• Stochastic Thermodynamics: An Introduction

  Luca Peliti and Simone Pigolotti
  Princeton University Press 2021
  ISBN: 9780691201771

• A. Einstein, Scritti di meccanica statistica

  A cura di M. Badino. Traduzione di L. Peliti.
  Book Time, Melquiades, Bologna 2018
  ISBN-10: 886218719X

• Statistical Mechanics in a Nutshell

  Luca Peliti
  Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2011.

• Appunti di Meccanica Statistica

  Luca Peliti
  Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2003. Link

Seminars

• Fluctuation relations and fitness in cell populations
  

  L. Peliti, 2nd Biology for Physics Conference, Barcelona, July 7, 2022 link

• Transient compartmentalization and the error catastrophe
  

  L. Peliti, Casa Matemática Oaxaca, August 21, 2019 link

• Selection dynamics in transient compartmentalization

  OIST (Okinawa), February 2018

• The Value of Acquired Information in Gambling, Thermodynamics and Population Dynamics

  NORDITA Stockholm, September 2017

• Einstein's early work on Statistical Mechanics

  Instituto de Física da UFRGS, Porto Alegre RS (Brazil) November 6, 2015

• Thermodynamics of Accuracy

  McGill University, Montreal, May 2016

• The fate of beneficial mutations in a range expansion

  Rutgers, February 19, 2015

• Boltzmann and the interpretation of entropy

  Naples, June 9, 2011

Chosen publications

• Termodinamica stocastica: l'ordine nelle fluttuazioni (in Italian)
  

  L. Peliti,
  Ithaca: Viaggio nella Scienza 23A 73-90 (2024) PDF

• Emergent cooperative behavior in transient compartments
  

  Jeferson J. Arenzon and Luca Peliti
  Phys. Rev. E 108 034409 (2023) PDF

• Cell lineage statistics with incomplete population trees
  

  Arthur Genthon, Takashi Nozoe, Luca Peliti, David Lacoste
  PRX Life 1 013014 (2023) PDF

• R. Fürth's 1933 paper "On certain relations between classical Statistics and Quantum Mechanics"
  ["Über einige Beziehungen zwischen klassischer Statistik und Quantenmechanik", Zeitschrift für Physik, 83 143-162]
  

  Luca Peliti, Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi
  Eur. Phys. J. H (2023) 48:4 PDF

• Fluctuations of Heat in Driven Two-State Systems: Application to Single-Electron Box with Superconducting Gap
  

  Tuomas Pyhäranta, Luca Peliti, Jukka P. Pekola
  Phys. Rev. E 107, 054113 (2023) PDF

• Adaptive strategy in Kelly's horse races model
  

  Armand Despons, David Lacoste, Luca Peliti
  J. Stat. Mech. 2022 093405 PDF

• Frequency-frequency correlations of single-trajectory spectral densities of Gaussian processes
  

  Alessio Squarcini, Enzo Marinari, Gleb Oshanin, Luca Peliti, Lamberto Rondoni
  New Journal of Physics 24 093031 (2022) PDF

• Noise-to-signal ratio of single-trajectory spectral densities in centered Gaussian processes
  

  Alessio Squarcini, Enzo Marinari, Gleb Oshanin, Luca Peliti, Lamberto Rondoni
  J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 55 405001 (2022) PDF

• Spectral fingerprints of non-equilibrium dynamics: The case of a Brownian gyrator
  

  S. Cerasoli, S. Ciliberto, E. Marinari, G. Oshanin, L. Peliti, L. Rondoni
  Phys. Rev. E 106, 014137 (2022) PDF

• Learning and organization of memory for evolving patterns
  

  Oskar H Schnaack, Luca Peliti, and Armita Nourmohammad
  Phys. Rev. X 12, 021063 (2022) PDF

• Il valore dell'informazione (in Italian)
  

  L. Peliti,
  Ithaca: Viaggio nella Scienza XIX 169-180 (2022) PDF

• Evoluzione e probabilità (in Italian)
  

  L. Peliti,
  Ithaca: Viaggio nella Scienza XVIII 73-84 (2021) PDF

• The generality of transient compartmentalization and its associated error thresholds
  

  Alex Blokhuis, Philippe Nghe, Luca Peliti and David Lacoste
  Journal of Theoretical Biology 487 110110 (2020)
  doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.110110 arXiv:1901.04753

• Survival of self-replicating molecules under transient compartmentalization with natural selection
  

  Gabin Laurent, Luca Peliti and David Lacoste
  Life 2019, 9(4), 78 DOI: 10.3390/life9040078 PDF

• A case study of thermodynamic bounds for chemical kinetics
  

  K. Proesmans, L. Peliti, and D. Lacoste
  in: Katja Lindenberg, Ralf Metzler and Gleb Oshanin (Eds.)
  Chemical Kinetics Beyond the Textbook (New Jersey: World Scientific, 2019)
  p. 435-454 arXiv:1804.00859 PDF

• Selection dynamics in transient compartmentalization
  

  A. Blokhuis, D. Lacoste, P. Nghe and L. Peliti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 158101 (2018)
  arXiv:1802.00208 PDF Suppl. Mat.

• Einstein's Approach to Statistical Mechanics,

  Luca Peliti and Raúl Rechtman, Atti del XXXVI Convegno annuale SISFA, S. Esposito (ed.), 339-346, Pavia: Pavia U. P. (2017)

• Einstein's Approach to Statistical Mechanics: The 1902-04 Papers,

  Luca Peliti and Raúl Rechtman, Journal of Statistical Physics, 167 1020-1038 (2017) DOI: 10.1007/s10955-016-1615-8, arXiv:1606.04890

• Elementary derivation of the expressions of momentum and energy in special relativity,

  Luca Peliti, Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física 38(2) June 2016. arXiv:1504.07287

• Thermodynamics of accuracy in kinetic proofreading: Dissipation and efficiency trade-offs,

  Riccardo Rao and Luca Peliti, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment/P06001 (2015). arXiv:1504.02494

• Studies in Composing Hydrogen Atom Wavefunctions,

  Lance J. Putnam, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Luca Peliti, Leonardo 48(2) 158-166, April 2015 (doi: 10.1162/LEON_a_00912). PDF

• Entropy Production in Quantum Brownian Motion,

  Lorenzo Pucci, Massimiliano Esposito, Luca Peliti. J. Stat. Mech. (2013) P4005  arXiv:cond-mat/1210.4111

• Heat release by controlled continuous-time Markov jump processes,

  Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi, Carlos Mejía-Monasterio and Luca Peliti, J. Stat. Phys. 150:181-203 (2013), cond-mat arXiv:1203.4062

• Comment on "Evolutionary dynamics of RNA-like replicator systems: A bioinformatic approach to the origin of life, by Nobuto Takeuchi and Paulien Hogeweg

  Luca Peliti, Physics of Life Reviews DOI:10.1016/j.plrev.2012.06.006

• The rate of beneficial mutations surfing on the wave of a range expansion,

  Rémi Lehe, Oskar Hallatschek and Luca Peliti, PLoS Comp. Biol. 8, e1002447 (2012), arXiv:q-bio.PE/1107.5439

• Efficiency of molecular machines with continuous phase space,

  Natalia Golubeva, Alberto Imparato and Luca Peliti, Europhysics Letters (2012) 97 60005, arXiv:cond-mat/1202.0243

• Modeling microevolution in a changing environment: The evolving quasispecies and the Diluted Champion Process,

  Ginestra Bianconi, Davide Fichera, Silvio Franz and Luca Peliti, J. Stat. Mech. (2011) P08022, arxiv:q-bio.PE/1010.3539, PDF

• Membrane stress tensor in the presence of lipid density and composition inhomogeneities,

  Anne-Florence Bitbol, Luca Peliti and Jean-Baptiste Fournier, Eur. Phys. J. E (2011) 34: 53, arxiv:cond-mat/1010.3857, PDF

• Work distribution in manipulated single biomolecules,

  A. Imparato and L. Peliti, Phys. Biol. 6, 025011 (2009). arXiv:cond-mat/0901.2666, PDF

• Comment on "Failure of the work-Hamiltonian connection for free energy calculations",

  Luca Peliti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 098903 (2008). arXiv:cond-mat/0808.2855, PDF

• On the work-Hamiltonian connection in manipulated systems,

  L. Peliti, JSTAT: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, P05002 (2008). PDF

• Work and heat probability distribution for an optically driven Brownian particle: Theory and experiments,

  A. Imparato, L. Peliti, G. Pesce, G. Rusciano, A. Sasso, Phys Rev. E 76, 050101(R) (2007), arXiv:cond-mat/0707.0439, PDF

• Work and heat probability distributions in out-of-equilibrium systems,

  Alberto Imparato and Luca Peliti, C. R. Physique 8 (2007) 556-566. arXiv:cond-mat/0708.0740, PDF

• Selection and population size effects in evolutionary dynamics,

  Sumedha, Olivier C Martin, Luca Peliti.
  JSTAT: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (2007), P05011 arXiv:q-bio.PE/0610034, PDF

• The distribution function of entropy flow in stochastic systems,

  Alberto Imparato and Luca Peliti.
  JSTAT: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, L02001 (2007). arXiv:cond-mat/0611078, PDF

• On the equipartition of energy in an ideal gas mixture,

  Luca Peliti, European Journal of Physics, 28 (2007) 249-254 arXiv:physics/0610189, PDF

• Fluctuation relations for a driven Brownian particle,

  A. Imparato and L. Peliti, Phys. Rev. E, 74, 026106 (2006). arXiv:cond-mat/0603506 PDF

• Direct evaluation of large-deviation functions,

  Cristian Giardinà, Jorge Kurchan, Luca Peliti. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 120603 (2006). arXiv:cond-mat/0511248, PDF

• Evaluation of free energy landscapes from manipulation experiments,

  Alberto Imparato, Luca Peliti.
  JSTAT: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment P03005 (2006). arXiv:cond-mat/0601552, PDF

• Work probability distribution in systems driven out of equilibrium,

  A. Imparato, L. Peliti. Phys. Rev. E 72, 046114 (2005). arXiv:cond-mat/0507080 PDF

• A minimal stochastic model for influenza evolution,

  Francesca Tria, Michael Lässig, Luca Peliti, Silvio Franz.
  JSTAT: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment P07008 (2005). arXiv:q-bio.PE/0505035 PDF

• Opinion dynamics in a three-choice system,

  S. Gekle, L. Peliti, S. Galam. Eur. Phys. J. B. 45, 569-575 (2005). arXiv:cond-mat/0504254 PDF

• Work distribution and path integrals in general mean-field systems,

  A. Imparato, L. Peliti. Europhysics Letters 70, 740-746 (2005). cond-mat/0501576 PDF

• Work probability distribution in single-molecule experiments,

  A. Imparato, L. Peliti. Europhysics Letters, 69, 643-650 (2005). cond-mat/0411654 PDF

• Kinetic barriers in RNA unzipping,

  A. Imparato, L. Peliti. Eur. Phys. J. B., 39, 357-363 (2004). q-bio.BM/0405017 PDF

• Kafri, Mukamel and Peliti Reply,

  Y. Kafri, D. Mukamel, L. Peliti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 159802-1 (2003).  cond-mat/0302589, PDF.

• Evolutionary games and quasispecies,

  M. Lässig, L. Peliti, F. Tria, Europhys. Lett. 62, 446-451 (2003).  cond-mat/0209086,  PDF.

• Denaturation and unzipping of DNA: Statistical mechanics of interacting loops,

  Y. Kafri, D. Mukamel, L. Peliti, Physica A, 306, 39-50 (2002). PDF.

• Melting and unzipping of DNA,

  Y. Kafri, D. Mukamel, L. Peliti, Eur. Phys. J. B, 27, 135-146 (2002).  cond-mat/0108323, PDF.

• Quasispecies evolution in general mean-field landscapes,

  L. Peliti, Europhys. Lett., 57, 745-751 (2002).  cond-mat/0105379, PDF 

• Detachment of molecular motors under tangential loading,

  A. Parmeggiani, F. Jülicher, L. Peliti, J. Prost, Europhys. Lett., 56, 603-609 (2001).  cond-mat/0109187,  PDF
  

• Effective area-elasticity and tension of micro-manipulated membranes,

  J.-B. Fournier, A. Ajdari, and L. Peliti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4970-4973 (2001).  cond-mat/0103495,  PDF.

• Why is the DNA denaturation transition first order?

  Y. Kafri, D. Mukamel, and L. Peliti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4988-4991 (2000). cond-mat/0007141, PDF.

• Measuring effective temperatures in out-of-equilibrium driven systems,

  R. Exartier, L. Peliti, Eur. Phys. J. B 16, 119-126 (2000). cond-mat/9910412, PDF

• Universal and nonuniversal properties of a lattice gas model with kinetic constraints,

  A. Imparato, L. Peliti, Physics Letters A 269, 154-157 (2000). PDF

• The response of glassy systems to random perturbations: A bridge between equilibrium and off-equilibrium,

  Silvio Franz, Marc Mézard, Giorgio Parisi, Luca Peliti, J. Stat. Phys.,  97, 459-488 (1999).  cond-mat/9903370,  PDF.

• A simple system with two temperatures, 

  Raphaël Exartier, Luca Peliti, Physics Letters,  A 261 94-97 (1999). cond-mat/9911077,  PDF.

• Effective field approach to the Ising film in a transverse field, 

  Luca Peliti, Mohammed Saber, Physica A,  262 505-517 (1999). cond-mat/9809313,  PDF.

• A solvable model of the evolutionary loop,

  Luca Peliti, Europhys. Lett., 44 546-551 (1998). cond-mat/9806240,  PDF.

• Paired defects of Nematic Surfactant Bilayers,

  J.-B. Fournier, L. Peliti, Phys. Rev. E (Rapid Comm.), 58 R6919-R6922 (1998). cond-mat/9806212,  PDF.

• Aging in a simple model of a structural glass,

  Luca Peliti, Mauro Sellitto, Contribution to the International Conference on "Disorder and Chaos"
  in honor of Giovanni Paladin, Rome, September 1997, J. Phys. IV France 8 Pr6-49-56 (1998). cond-mat/9712221,  PDF.

• Measuring equilibrium properties in aging systems,

  Silvio Franz, Marc Mézard, Giorgio Parisi, Luca Peliti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 1758-1761 (1998). cond-mat/9803108,  PDF.

• Aging in Lattice-Gas Models with Constrained Dynamics,

  J. Kurchan, L. Peliti, M. Sellitto, Europhys. Lett.39 365-370 (1997). cond-mat/9704140,  PDF.

• Error Threshold in Simple Landscapes,

  S. Franz, L. Peliti, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 30 4481-4487 (1997). cond-mat/9610028,  PDF.

• Dynamics of Particles and Manifolds in Random Force Fields,

  P. Le Doussal, L. F. Cugliandolo, L. Peliti, Europhys. Lett. 39 111-116 (1997). cond-mat/9612079, PDF.

• Energy Flow, Partial Equilibration, and Effective Temperatures in Systems with Slow Dynamics,

  L. F. Cugliandolo, J. Kurchan, L. Peliti, Phys. Rev. E55 3898-3914 (1997). cond-mat/9611044, PDF.

• Shapes and Fluctuations in Membranes,

  L. Peliti, in: Physics of Biological Systems, From Molecules to Species,
  H. Flyvbjerg, J. Hertz, M. H. Jensen, O. G. Mouritsen, K. Sneppen (Eds.) (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1997) 171-188.

• Glassy Behavior in Disordered Systems with Non-Relaxational Dynamics,

  L. F. Cugliandolo, J. Kurchan, P. Le Doussal, L. Peliti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 350-354 (1997). cond-mat/9606060, PDF.

• Fitness Landscapes and Evolution,

  L. Peliti, in: Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Self-Assembly and Evolution,
  T. Riste and D. Sherrington, (Eds.) (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996) 287-308. cond-mat/9505003, PDF.

• Amphiphilic Membranes,

  L. Peliti, in: Fluctuating Geometries in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory,
  F. David, P. Ginsparg, J. Zinn-Justin, (Eds.) Les Houches, Session LXII, 1994 (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1996) 195-285. cond-mat/9501076,  PDF

• Evolution in a flat fitness landscape,

  B. Derrida and L. Peliti, Bull. Math. Biol. 53, 355-382 (1991). PDF.

• Population dynamics in a spin-glass model of chemical evolution,

  C. Amitrano, L. Peliti, M. Saber, J. Mol. Evol. 29, 513-525 (1989). PDF.

• Path integral approach to birth-death processes on a lattice,

  L. Peliti, J. Physique 46, 1469-1483 (1985). PDF.

• Field-theory renormalixation and critical dynamics above Tc: Helium, antiferromagnets, and liquid-gas systems,

  C. De Dominicis and L. Peliti, Phys. Rev. B 18, 353-376 (1978). PDF.

• Variational principles, renormalization group, and Kadanoff's universality,

  C. Di Castro, G. Jona-Lasinio, and L. Peliti, Ann. Phys. (NY) 87, 327-353 (1974). PDF.

• Calculation of critical indices,

  G. Parisi and L. Peliti, Lett. N. Cim. 2, 627-628 (1971). PDF.