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The nonextensive thermodynamic relations are expressed under the assumption of temperature duality, endowing the "physical temperature" and the "Lagrange temperature" in different physical sense. Based on this assumption, two sets of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-18 Yahui Zheng , Jiulin Du

In a thermodynamic process with measurement and feedback, the second law of thermodynamics is no longer valid. In its place, various second-law-like inequalities have been advanced that each incorporate a distinct additional term accounting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Jordan M. Horowitz , Henrik Sandberg

Gathering information about a system enables greater control over it. This principle lies at the core of information engines, which use measurement-based feedback to rectify thermal noise and convert information into work. Originating from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-24 Rémi Goerlich , Laura Hoek , Omer Chor , Saar Rahav , Yael Roichman

We have formulated a family of machine learning problems as the time evolution of Parametric Probabilistic Models (PPMs), inherently rendering a thermodynamic process. Our primary motivation is to leverage the rich toolbox of thermodynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Shervin Sadat Parsi

We establish three partial differential equation models describing the thermodynamics of the fluid, by combining the energetic variational approach, appropriate constitutive relations, and classical thermodynamics laws. What is more, by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Ning-An Lai , Chun Liu , Andrei Tarfulea

Energy transfer and information transmission are two fundamental aspects of nature. They are seemingly unrelated, while recent findings suggest that a deep connection between them is to be discovered. This amounts to asking: Can we phrase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Chung-Yun Hsieh

The thermodynamics with medium effects expressed by the dispersion relation of the temperature and density dependent particle mass is studied. Many previous treatments have been reviewed. A new thermodynamical treatment based on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shaoyu Yin , Ru-Keng Su

The generalized Gibbs free energy and enthalpy is derived in the framework of nonextensive thermodynamics by using the so-called physical temperature and the physical pressure. Some thermodynamical relations are studied by considering the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-10 Lina Gu , Jiulin Du

In the present work we are studying a bosonic quantum field system at finite temperature, and at zero and non-zero chemical potential. For a simple spatial partition we derive the corresponding mutual information, a quantity that measures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-12 C. N. Gagatsos , A. I. Karanikas , G. I. Kordas

The second law of classical thermodynamics, based on the positivity of the entropy production, only holds for deterministic processes. Therefore the Second Law in stochastic quantum thermodynamics may not hold. By making a fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 B. Ahmadi , S. Salimi , A. S. Khorashad

On the basis of Bethe ansatz solution of bosons with delta-function interaction in a one-dimensional potential well, the thermodynamics equilibrium of the system in finite temperature is studied by using the strategy of Yang and Yang. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Shi-Jian Gu , You-Quan Li , Zu-Jian Ying

In a previous paper [1] we considered the question, "What underlying property of nature is responsible for the second law?" A simple answer can be stated in terms of information: The fundamental loss of information gives rise to the second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-21 T. L. Duncan , J. S. Semura

Thermodynamics is accepted as a universal truth, encompassing all macroscopic objects. Therefore, it is surprising to find that, within our current understanding, the photovoltaic effect has so far eluded the first and second laws of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-22 Ido Frenkel , Avi Niv

Using a mechanical cantilever submitted to electrostatic feedback control, we investigate the thermodynamic properties of an information engine that extracts work from thermal fluctuations. The cantilever position is rapidly sampled and the…

In this paper I apply newly-proposed information-theoretic principles to thermodynamic work extraction. I show that if it is possible to extract work deterministically from a physical system prepared in any one of a set of states, then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Chiara Marletto

The second law of thermodynamics dictates the fundamental limits to the amount of energy and information that can be exchanged between physical systems. In this work, we extend a thermodynamic formalism describing this flow of energy and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-24 Jordan M. Horowitz

Thermodynamics is based on the notions of energy and entropy. While energy is the elementary quantity governing physical dynamics, entropy is the fundamental concept in information theory. In this work, starting from first principles, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Bernhard Altaner

We extend the theory of stochastic thermodynamics in three directions: (i) instead of a continuously monitored system we consider measurements only at an arbitrary set of discrete times, (ii) we allow for imperfect measurements and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-27 Philipp Strasberg , Andreas Winter

A conceptually simple physical interpretation of a conserved Hamiltonian $\mathcal{H}$ for a mechanical system with a time-dependent constraint is given. For the case of a bead on a vertical hoop forced to rotate with constant angular…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Víctor F. Correa

Relativistic thermodynamics is constructed from the point of view of special relativistic hydrodynamics. A relativistic four-current for heat and a general treatment of thermal equilibrium between moving bodies is presented. The different…

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