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We present mesoscale numerical simulations based on the coupling of the fluctuating lattice Boltzmann method (FLBM) for multicomponent systems with a wetted finite-size particle model. This newly coupled methodologies are used to study the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-06 Xiao Xue , Luca Biferale , Mauro Sbragaglia , Federico Toschi

Fluctuation theorems allow one to make generalised statements about the behaviour of thermodynamic quantities in systems that are driven far from thermal equilibrium. In this article we use Crooks' fluctuation theorem to understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 M. J. Kewming , S. Shrapnel

The condition of thermal equilibrium simplifies the theoretical treatment of fluctuations as found in the celebrated Einstein's relation between mobility and diffusivity for Brownian motion. Several recent theories relax the hypothesis of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-10 Andrea Gnoli , Andrea Puglisi , Alessandro Sarracino , Angelo Vulpiani

In this work, we have studied simple models that can be solved analytically to illustrate various fluctuation theorems. These fluctuation theorems provide symmetries individually to the distributions of physical quantities like the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mamata Sahoo , Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

We explore thermodynamic relations in non-equilibrium steady states with numerical experiments on a driven lattice gas. After operationally defining the pressure and chemical potential in the driven lattice gas, we confirm numerically the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kumiko Hayashi , Shin-ichi Sasa

The formulation of the First and Second Principles of thermodynamics for a particle in contact with a heat bath and submitted to an external force is analyzed, by means of the Boltzmann-Lorentz kinetic equation. The possible definitions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-14 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero , Alvaro Dominguez

We derive a general set of fluctuation relations for a nonequilibrium open quantum system described by a Lindblad master equation. In the special case of conservative Hamiltonian dynamics, these identities allow us to retrieve quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-05 Raphael Chetrite , Kirone Mallick

We extend a classical relation by Crooks to quantum systems and show that it unifies the Crooks transient fluctuation theorem and the Kawasaki non-linear response relation, which leads to the standard linear response theory. We also show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-07 Hiroshi Matsuoka

The fluctuation theorem, where the central quantity is the work distribution, is an important characterization of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In this work, based on the dissipaton-equation-of-motion theory, we develop an exact method to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-11 Hong Gong , Yao Wang , Xiao Zheng , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan

An open quantum system interacting with its environment can be modeled under suitable assumptions as a Markov process, described by a Lindblad master equation. In this work, we derive a general set of fluctuation relations for systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Raphael Chetrite , Kirone Mallick

For fluctuating currents in non-equilibrium steady states, the recently discovered thermodynamic uncertainty relation expresses a fundamental relation between their variance and the overall entropic cost associated with the driving. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-12 Patrick Pietzonka , Felix Ritort , Udo Seifert

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, which establishes a universal trade-off between nonequilibrium current fluctuations and dissipation, has been found for various Markovian systems. However, this relation has not been revealed for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-24 Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We present a dynamical description of slow relaxation processes based on the extension of Onsager's fluctuation theory to systems in local quasi-equilibrium. A non-Markovian Fokker-Planck equation for the conditional probability density is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Santamaria-Holek , A. Perez-Madrid , J. M. Rubi

We introduce a solvable stochastic model inspired by granular gases for driven dissipative systems. We characterize far from equilibrium steady states of such systems through the non-Boltzmann energy distribution and compare different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yair Srebro , Dov Levine

The thermal efficiency of the kinesin cycle at stalling is presently a matter of some debate, with published predictions ranging from 0 (A. W. C. Lau, D. Lacoste and K. Mallick, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 158102 (2007); D. Lacoste, A. W. C. Lau…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Calzetta

We consider a particle dragged through a medium at constant temperature as described by a Langevin equation with a time-dependent potential. The time-dependence is specified by an external protocol. We give conditions on potential and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-08-21 Marco Baiesi , Tim Jacobs , Christian Maes , Nikos S. Skantzos

Previously, we have derived a generalization of the canonical fluctuation relation between heat capacity and energy fluctuations $C=\beta^{2}<\delta U^{2}>$, which is able to describe the existence of macrostates with negative heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-31 L. Velazquez , S. Curilef

Maintained by environmental fluxes, biological systems are thermodynamic processes that operate far from equilibrium without detailed-balance dynamics. Yet, they often exhibit well defined nonequilibrium steady states (NESSs). More…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 P. M. Riechers , J. P. Crutchfield

20 years ago, Bovier, Kurkova, and L\"owe [5] proved a central limit theorem (CLT) for the fluctuations of the free energy in the p-spin version of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses at high temperatures. In this paper we…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Anton Bovier , Adrien Schertzer

In a recent work, Jarzynski and Wojcik (2004 Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 230602) have shown by using the properties of Hamiltonian dynamics and a statistical mechanical consideration that, through contact, heat exchange between two systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-29 Yuki Sughiyama , Sumiyoshi Abe