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The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is a cornerstone result in statistical mechanics that can be used to translate the statistics of the free natural variability of a system into information on its forced response to perturbations. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-19 Niccolò Zagli , Matthew Colbrook , Valerio Lucarini , Igor Mezić , John Moroney

Fluctuation theorem is one of the major achievements in the field of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics during the past two decades. Steady-state fluctuation theorem of sample entropy production rate in terms of large deviation principle…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-24 Yong Chen , Hao Ge , Jie Xiong , Lihu Xu

Living systems need to be highly responsive, and also to keep fluctuations low. These goals are incompatible in equilibrium systems due to the Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem (FDT). Here, we show that biological sensory systems, driven far…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Pablo Sartori , Yuhai Tu

The fluctuation-dissipation relations (FDR) are powerful relations which can capture the essence of the interplay between a system and its environment. Challenging problems of this nature which FDRs aid in our understanding include the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-02 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , B. L. Hu , Shih-Yuin Lin , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Simulation and experimental studies have demonstrated non-equilibrium ordering in driven colloidal suspensions: with increasing driving force, a uniform colloidal mixture transforms into a locally demixed state characterized by the lane…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-16 Hiroshi Frusawa

The fluctuation-dissipation theorem is a fundamental result in statistical physics that establishes a connection between the response of a system subject to a perturbation and the fluctuations associated with observables in equilibrium.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 Tanmoy Biswas , A. de Oliveira Junior , Michał Horodecki , Kamil Korzekwa

We apply the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) to study the large-scale dynamical properties of Brownian particles with arbitrary pairwise interaction. By combining it with standard results of equilibrium statistical mechanics for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Aurélien Grabsch , Davide Venturelli , Olivier Bénichou

Using the theory of large deviations, macroscopic fluctuation theory provides a framework to understand the behaviour of non-equilibrium dynamics and steady states in diffusive systems. We extend this framework to a minimal model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-02 D. R. Michiel Renger , Upanshu Sharma

For a given thermodynamic system, and a given choice of coarse-grained state variables, the knowledge of a force-flux constitutive law is the basis for any nonequilibrium modeling. In the first paper of this series we established how, by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Alberto Montefusco , Mark A. Peletier , Hans Christian Öttinger

The fluctuation theorem characterizes the distribution of the dissipation in nonequilibrium systems and proves that the average dissipation will be positive. For a large system with no external source of fluctuation, fluctuations in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-18 Guillaume Michel , Debra J. Searles

We establish the global well-posedness of overdamped dynamic density functional theory (DDFT): a nonlinear, nonlocal integro-partial differential equation used in statistical mechanical models of colloidal fluids, and other applications…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-15 B. D. Goddard , R. D. Mills-Williams , M. Ottobre , G. Pavliotis

Starting from the pioneering work of G. S. Agarwal [Zeitschrift f\"ur Physik 252, 25 (1972)], we present a unified derivation of a number of modified fluctuation-dissipation relations (MFDR) that relate response to small perturbations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-28 Debasish Chaudhuri , Abhishek Chaudhuri

Lubrication theory is broadly applicable to the flow characterization of thin fluid films and the motion of particles near surfaces. We offer an extension to lubrication theory by starting with Stokes equations and considering higher-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-30 Behrouz Tavakol , Guillaume Froehlicher , Douglas P. Holmes , Howard A. Stone

The experimental application of fluctuation theorem (FT) on nanometer to submicrometer sized systems has received thorough attention in the past several years. Nonetheless, the employment of FT on self-propelling objects has seldom been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-02 R. Suzuki , H. R. Jiang , M. Sano

The superadiabatic dynamical density functional theory (superadiabatic-DDFT) is a promising new method for the study of colloidal systems out-of-equilibrium. Within this approach the viscous forces arising from interparticle interactions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-10 S. M. Tschopp , J. M. Brader

Systems that evolve towards a state from which they cannot depart are common in nature. But the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, a fundamental result in statistical mechanics, is mainly restricted to systems near-stationarity. In processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-25 Prajwal Padmanabha , Sandro Azaele , Amos Maritan

We review generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations which are valid under general conditions even in ``non-standard systems'', e.g. out of equilibrium and/or without a Hamiltonian structure. The response functions can be expressed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-10 A. Sarracino , A. Vulpiani

We analyze the validity of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem for slow relaxation systems in the context of mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics. We demonstrate that the violation arises as a natural consequence of the elimination of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Perez-Madrid , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi

A linear response function (LRF) relates the mean-response of a nonlinear system to weak external forcings and vice versa. Even for simple models of the general circulation, such as the dry dynamical core, the LRF cannot be calculated from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-25 Pedram Hassanzadeh , Zhiming Kuang

We give a proof of transient fluctuation relations for the entropy production (dissipation function) in nonequilibrium systems, which is valid for most time reversible dynamics. We then consider the conditions under which a transient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Debra J. Searles , Lamberto Rondoni , Denis J. Evans