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Irreversible information processing cannot be carried out without some inevitable thermodynamical work cost. This fundamental restriction, known as Landauer's principle, is increasingly relevant today, as the energy dissipation of computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Philippe Faist , Frédéric Dupuis , Jonathan Oppenheim , Renato Renner

In the last few decades, some hypotheses for entropy production (EP) principles have been forwarded as possible candidates for organizational principles in non-linear non- equilibrium systems. Two important hypotheses will be studied: the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stijn Bruers

For a plasma with fixed total energy, number of particles, and momentum, the distribution function that maximizes entropy is a Boltzmann distribution. If, in addition, the rearrangement of charge is constrained, as happens on ion-ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 E. J. Kolmes , I. E. Ochs , M. E. Mlodik , N. J. Fisch

The first-order relativistic fluid theories of dissipation proposed by Eckart and Landau-Lifshitz have been proved to be unstable. They admit solutions which start in proximity of equilibrium and depart exponentially from it. We show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Lorenzo Gavassino , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell

We investigate the link between information and thermodynamics embodied by Landauer's principle in the open dynamics of a multipartite quantum system. Such irreversible dynamics is described in terms of a collisional model with a finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 S. Lorenzo , R. McCloskey , F. Ciccarello , M. Paternostro , G. M. Palma

There are three ways to conceptualize entropy: entropy as an extensive thermodynamic quantity of physical systems (Clausius, Boltzmann, Gibbs), entropy as a measure for information production of ergodic sources (Shannon), and entropy as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-05 Stefan Thurner , Bernat Corominas-Murtra , Rudolf Hanel

Thermodynamics teaches that if a system initially off-equilibrium is coupled to work sources, the maximum work that it may yield is governed by its energy and entropy. For finite systems this bound is usually not reachable. The maximum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Allahverdyan , R. Balian , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

Many complex systems in mathematical biology and other areas can be described by the replicator equation. We show that solutions of a wide class of replicator equations minimize the production of information under time-dependent…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-01-19 Georgiy P. Karev

A principle of maximum entropy is proposed in the context of viscous incompressible flow in Eulerian coordinates. The relative entropy functional, defined over the space of $L^2$ divergence-free velocity fields, is maximized relative to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-23 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , James Glimm , Hamid Said

For a system moving away from equilibrium, we express the entropy production via a two-point correlation function for any time and any distance from equilibrium. The long-time limit gives the sum of the Lyapunov exponents for a general…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory Falkovich , Alexander Fouxon

Starting from the entropy production being invariant under time reversal, one can (i) easily proof, and understand, many aspects of the linear Onsager relations and (ii) deduce the result that all quadratic Onsager coefficients for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Liu

We present a method of estimating the rate of entropy production in underdamped dynamics by decomposing it into contributions originating in different non-equilibrium effects. Specifically, a non-zero average velocity, a non-thermal width…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-01 Mario A. Ciampini , Jakob Rieser , Nikolai Kiesel , Andreas Dechant

Linear irreversible thermodynamics asserts that the instantaneous local spontaneous entropy production is always nonnegative. However for a viscoelastic fluid this is not always the case. Given the fundamental status of the Second Law, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-03 Stephen R. Williams , Denis J. Evans , Emil Mittag

The well known maximum-entropy principle due to Jaynes, which states that given mean parameters, the maximum entropy distribution matching them is in an exponential family, has been very popular in machine learning due to its "Occam's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Yuanzhi Li , Andrej Risteski

Optimal transport theory, originally developed in the 18th century for civil engineering, has since become a powerful optimization framework across disciplines, from generative AI to cell biology. In physics, it has recently been shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Shingo Oikawa , Yohei Nakayama , Sosuke Ito , Takahiro Sagawa , Shoichi Toyabe

In quantum systems, entropy production is typically defined as the quantum relative entropy between two states. This definition provides an upper bound for any flux (of particles, energy, entropy, etc.) of bounded observables, which proves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Domingos S. P. Salazar

The master equation and, more generally, Markov processes are routinely used as models for stochastic processes. They are often justified on the basis of randomization and coarse-graining assumptions. Here instead, we derive n-th order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-27 Julian Lee , Steve Pressé

Starting from the most general formulation of stochastic thermodynamics---i.e. a thermodynamically consistent nonautonomous stochastic dynamics describing systems in contact with several reservoirs---, we define a procedure to identify the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-07 Riccardo Rao , Massimiliano Esposito

We consider a one-dimensional persisent random walk viewed as a deterministic process with a form of time reversal symmetry. Particle reservoirs placed at both ends of the system induce a density current which drives the system out of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Gilbert , J. R. Dorfman

We study hydrodynamics coupled to order parameter based on linear sigma model. We obtain numerical solutions for both boost invariant and non-boost invariant solutions. Both solutions show the order parameter rises with oscillations, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-24 Shu Lin , Gezheng Zhou