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We consider an infinite interface in $d>2$ dimensions, governed by the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation with a weak Gaussian noise which is delta-correlated in time and has short-range spatial correlations. We study the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-02 Baruch Meerson , Pavel V. Sasorov , Arkady Vilenkin

We study nonequilibrium thermodynamic properties of a driven one-dimensional quantum fluid by combining nonlinear Luttinger liquid theory with the quantum kinetic equation. In particular, we derive an entropy production consistent with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Edvin G. Idrisov , Thomas L. Schmidt

The Markovian evolution of an open quantum system is characterized by a positive entropy production, while the global entropy gets redistributed between the system and the environment degrees of freedom. Starting from these premises, we…

Fluctuation relations imply the second-law inequality $\langle\Sigma_T\rangle\ge0$, but path extrema can also constrain how large the mean entropy production can be. For steady-state processes with entropy-production martingale…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Surachate Limkumnerd

Fluctuation theorems make use of time reversal to make predictions about entropy production in many-body systems far from thermal equilibrium. Here we review the wide variety of distinct, but interconnected, relations that have been derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-08-02 R. J. Harris , G. M. Schütz

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

We investigate the problem of minimizing the entropy production for a physical process that can be described in terms of a Markov jump dynamics. We show that, without any further constraints, a given time-evolution may be realized at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-16 Andreas Dechant

Fluctuations arise universally in Nature as a reflection of the discrete microscopic world at the macroscopic level. Despite their apparent noisy origin, fluctuations encode fundamental aspects of the physics of the system at hand, crucial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-06 Pablo I. Hurtado , Carlos Perez-Espigares , Jesus J. del Pozo , Pedro L. Garrido

While the 1-point height distributions (HDs) and 2-point covariances of $(2+1)$ KPZ systems have been investigated in several recent works for flat and spherical geometries, for the cylindrical one the HD was analyzed for few models and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-29 Ismael S. S. Carrasco , Tiago J. Oliveira

We investigate a new symmetry of the large deviation function of certain time-integrated currents in non-equilibrium systems. The symmetry is similar to the well-known Gallavotti-Cohen-Evans-Morriss-symmetry for the entropy production, but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-10 Andre Cardoso Barato , Raphael Chetrite , Haye Hinrichsen , David Mukamel

Topographical and diffuse interface reconfigurations occur with a change in the solidification rate. In this article we pursue the hypothesis that the interface configuration during solidification is determined by the rate of entropy…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-14 Yaw Delali Bensah , J. A. Sekhar

We introduce the violation fraction $\upsilon$ as the cumulative fraction of time that a mesoscopic system spends consuming entropy at a single trajectory in phase space. We show that the fluctuations of this quantity are described in terms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-19 Reinaldo García-García , Daniel Domínguez

To describe the full spectrum of surface fluctuations of the interface between phase-separated colloid-polymer mixtures from low scattering vector q (classical capillary wave theory) to high q (bulk-like fluctuations), one must take account…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Edgar M. Blokhuis , Joris Kuipers , Richard Vink

The second law of thermodynamics governs that nonequilibrium systems evolve towards states of higher entropy over time. However, it does not specify the rate of this evolution and the role of fluctuations that impact the system's dynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mairembam Kelvin Singh , R. K. Brojen Singh , Moirangthem Shubhakanta Singh

We investigate the behavior of discrete interface growth models belonging to the Edwards--Wilkinson (EW) and Kardar--Parisi--Zhang (KPZ) universality classes, when defined on a complete graph, a topology commonly used to probe the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 J. M. Marcos , J. J. Meléndez , R. Cuerno , J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

Energy flow in bio-molecular motors and machines are vital to their function. Yet experimental observations are often limited to a small subset of variables that participate in energy transport and dissipation. Here we show, through a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-17 Shou-Wen Wang , Kyogo Kawaguchi , Shin-ichi Sasa , Lei-Han Tang

We study a relationship between optimal transport theory and stochastic thermodynamics for the Fokker-Planck equation. We show that the lower bound on the entropy production is the action measured by the path length of the $L^2$-Wasserstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-02 Muka Nakazato , Sosuke Ito

Using a one-dimensional macromolecule in aqueous solution as an illustration, we demonstrate that the relative entropy from information theory, $\sum_k p_k\ln(p_k/p_k^*)$, has a natural role in the energetics of equilibrium and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Qian

A run-and-tumble particle in a one dimensional box (infinite potential well) is studied. The steady state is analytically solved and analyzed, revealing the emergent length scale of the boundary layer where particles accumulate near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Nitzan Razin

We derive the expression for the entropy production for stochastic dynamics defined on a continuous space of states containing unidirectional transitions. The expression is derived by taking the continuous limit of a stochastic dynamics on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-05 Mário J. de Oliveira