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Entropy is a central concept in physics, but can be challenging to calculate even for systems that are easily simulated. This is exacerbated out of equilibrium, where generally little is known about the distribution characterizing simulated…

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We show that macroscopic irreversible thermodynamics for viscous fluids can be derived from exact information-theoretic thermodynamic identities valid at the microscale. Entropy production, in particular, is a measure of the loss of…

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Chaos and nonlinear economic dynamics are addressed for a quantum coupled map lattice model of an artificial economy, with quantized supply and demand equilibrium conditions. The measure theoretic properties and the patterns that emerge in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-01 Carlos Pedro Gonçalves

Boltzmann's equation provides a microscopic model for the evolution of dilute classical gases. A fundamental problem in mathematical physics is to rigorously derive Boltzmann's equation starting from Newton's laws. In the 1970s, Oscar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Ryan Denlinger

We study a system of $N$ particles interacting through the Kac collision, with $m$ of them interacting, in addition, with a Maxwellian thermostat at temperature $\frac{1}{\beta}$. We use two indicators to understand the approach to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Hagop Tossounian , Ranjini Vaidyanathan

A heuristic generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs microcanonical entropy is proposed, able to describe meta-equilibrium features and evolution of macroscopic systems. Despite its simple-minded derivation, such a function of "collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piero Cipriani

We prove propagation of chaos at explicit polynomial rates in Wasserstein distance W_2 for Kac's N-particle system associated with the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Maxwell molecules, with and without cutoff. Our approach is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Roberto Cortez , Joaquin Fontbona

Entropy in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics is investigated theoretically so as to extend the well-established equilibrium framework to open nonequilibrium systems. We first derive a microscopic expression of nonequilibrium entropy for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 Takafumi Kita

We study the nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard model with thermal noise as a prototypical example of a generic class of non-Hermitian stochastic field theories, analyzed in two companion papers [Suchanek, Kroy, Loos, ArXiv:2303.16701 (2023);…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-08 Thomas Suchanek , Klaus Kroy , Sarah A. M. Loos

Entropy notions for $\varepsilon$-incremental practical stability and incremental stability of deterministic nonlinear systems under disturbances are introduced. The entropy notions are constructed via a set of points in state space which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Michelle S. Chong

We introduce a N-particle system which approaches, in the mean-field limit, the solutions of the Landau equation with Coulomb singularity. This model plays the same role as the Kac's model for the homogeneous Boltzmann equation.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Evelyne Miot , Mario Pulvirenti , Chiara Saffirio

We study the derivation of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation from the mean-field limit of a conservative $N$-particle system, obtained by passing to the grazing limit on Kac's walk in his program for the Boltzmann equation. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Xuanrui Feng , Zhenfu Wang

This study investigates the emergence of chaotic dynamics in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subjected to both alternating (AC) and constant (DC) components of the interaction strength, modeled through the scattering length. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 C. Selvaraju , S. Sabari , O. T. Lekeufack , F. Kenmogne , N. Athavan

We introduce a class of Boltzmann equations on the real line, which constitute extensions of the classical Kac caricature. The collisional gain operators are defined by smoothing transformations with quite general properties. By…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-16 Federico Bassetti , Lucia Ladelli , Daniel Matthes

Fluctuations in parameters that are typically treated as fixed play a crucial role in the behavior of complex systems. However, to date, we lack a general non-equilibrium thermodynamic treatment of such a complex system. In this Letter, to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Tuan Pham , Deepak Gupta

Modelling the evolution of a system using stochastic dynamics typically implies a greater subjective uncertainty in the adopted system coordinates as time progresses, and stochastic entropy production has been developed as a measure of this…

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Standard Quantum Mechanics, although successful in terms of calculating and predicting results, is inherently difficult to understand and can suffer from misinterpretation. Entropic Dynamics is an epistemic approach to quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Susan DiFranzo

Entropy is a very useful concept from physics that tries to explain how a system behaves from a point of view of the thermodynamics. However, there are two ways to explain entropy, and it depends on if we are studying a microsystem or a…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-02 Martin Pomares Calero

The Tsallis entropy, which is a generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy, plays a central role in nonextensive statistical mechanics of complex systems. A lot of efforts have recently been made on establishing a dynamical foundation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sumiyoshi Abe , Yutaka Nakada

In 2001, Knight constructed a stochastic process modeling the one dimensional interaction of two particles, one being Newtonian in the sense that it obeys Newton's laws of motion, and the other particle being Brownian. We construct a…

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