Infinite variety of thermodynamic speed limits with general activities
Abstract
Activity, which represents the kinetic property of dynamics, plays a central role in obtaining thermodynamic speed limits (TSLs). In this paper, we discuss a unified framework that provides the existing TSLs based on different activities such as dynamical activity and dynamical state mobility. This unification is based on generalized means that include standard means such as the arithmetic, logarithmic, and geometric means, the first two of which respectively correspond to the dynamical activity and the dynamical state mobility. We also derive an infinite variety of TSLs for Markov jump processes and deterministic chemical reaction networks using different activities. The lower bound on the entropy production given by each TSL provides the minimum dissipation achievable by a conservative force. We numerically and analytically discuss the tightness of the lower bounds on the EPR in the various TSLs.
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@article{arxiv.2412.20690,
title = {Infinite variety of thermodynamic speed limits with general activities},
author = {Ryuna Nagayama and Kohei Yoshimura and Sosuke Ito},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20690},
year = {2026}
}
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25 pages, 2 figures