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The piston system (particles in a box) is the simplest and paradigmatic model in traditional thermodynamics. However, the recently established framework of stochastic thermodynamics (ST) fails to apply to this model system due to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-28 Zongping Gong , Yueheng Lan , H. T. Quan

Phase separation accompanied by further domain growth and coarsening is a phenomenon common to a broad variety of dynamical systems. In this connection, controlling such processes represents a relevant interdisciplinary problem. Using…

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We consider the problem of coordinating a collection of switched subsystems under both local and global constraints for safe operation of the system. Although an invariant set can be leveraged to construct a safety-guaranteed controller for…

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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Miransky

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Monte Carlo sampling for Bayesian posterior inference is a common approach used in machine learning. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo procedures that are used are often discrete-time analogues of associated stochastic differential equations…

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We introduce a thermodynamically consistent, minimal stochastic model for complementary logic gates built with field-effect transistors. We characterize the performance of such gates with tools from information theory and study the…

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To be useful, steady state thermodynamics (SST) must be self-consistent and have predictive value. Although consistency of SST was recently verified for driven lattice gases under global weak exchange, I show here that it does not predict…

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We present a new temporal discretization paradigm for developing energy-production-rate preserving numerical approximations to thermodynamically consistent partial differential equation systems, called the supplementary variable method. The…

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We propose a novel type of ergostats and thermostats for molecular dynamics simulations. A general class of active particle swarm models is considered, where any specific total energy (alternatively any specific temperature) can be provided…

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