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Fluctuations are significant in mesoscopic systems and of particular importance in understanding quantum transport. Here, we show that fluctuations can be considered as a resource for the operations of open quantum systems as functional…

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We proved when random-variable fluctuations obey the central limit theorem the equality of the uncertainty relation corresponds to the thermodynamic equilibrium state. The inequality corresponds to the thermodynamic non-equilibrium state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 You-gang Feng

Stimulated by experimental progress in high energy physics and astrophysics, the unification of relativistic and stochastic concepts has re-attracted considerable interest during the past decade. Focusing on the framework of special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-13 Jörn Dunkel , Peter Hänggi

Even though the second law of thermodynamics holds the supreme position among the laws of nature, as stated by many distinguished scientists, notably Eddington and Einstein, its position appears to be also quite peculiar. Given the atomic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Germano D'Abramo

It is argued the the idea of a single temperature-like variable, introduced in [1], which enters a generalized second law for Markovian open system in non-equilibrium environment is not sufficient for a consistent and useful thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-28 Robert Alicki

The properties of the thermal force driving micron particles in incompressible fluids are studied within the hydrodynamic theory of the Brownian motion. It is shown that the assumption used for the hydrodynamic Langevin equation in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-16 Vladimir Lisy , Jana Tothova , Lukas Glod

A Langevin canonical framework for a chiral two-level system coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillators is used within a coupling scheme different from the well-known spin-boson model. From this stochastic dynamics, within the Markovian…

The dynamics of molecular collisions in a macroscopic body are encoded by the parameter Thermodynamic entropy - a statistical measure of the number of molecular configurations that correspond to a given macrostate. Directionality in the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-22 Lloyd Demetrius , Christian Wolf

The origins of thermodynamics from the microscopic properties of matter have not been satisfactorily accounted for. This work presents a formulation that connects Lagrangian mechanics to thermodynamics. By using such a formulation and…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2021-04-05 Eduardo Hernández-Huerta , Ruben Santamaria , Tomás Rocha Rinza

The Mellin transform is usually applied in probability theory to the product of independent random variables. In recent times the machinery of the Mellin transform has been adopted to describe the L\'evy stable distributions, and more…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Francesco Mainardi , Gianni Pagnini , Rudolf Gorenflo

Information flow between subsystems is a central concept in information thermodynamics, which provides the second-law-like inequalities for subsystems. This paper discusses the geometric decomposition of information flow, which was…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Sosuke Ito , Yoh Maekawa , Ryuna Nagayama , Andreas Dechant , Kohei Yoshimura

The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy satisfies the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics for arbitrary thermodynamic evolution within Einstein-Maxwell theory. In contrast, the black hole entropy that satisfies the second law in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Xin-Yang Wang , Jie Jiang

We prove the second law of thermodynamics and the nonequilibirum fluctuation theorem for pure quantum states.The entire system obeys reversible unitary dynamics, where the initial state of the heat bath is not the canonical distribution but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Eiki Iyoda , Kazuya Kaneko , Takahiro Sagawa

In this paper we address the problem of consistently construct Langevin equations to describe fluctuations in non-linear systems. Detailed balance severely restricts the choice of the random force, but we prove that this property together…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bonet Avalos , I. Pagonabarraga

In this paper, we generalize the theory of Brownian motion and the Onsager-Machlup theory of fluctuations for spatially symmetric systems to equilibrium and nonequilibrium steady-state systems with a preferred spatial direction, due to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-28 Roman Belousov , E. G. D. Cohen , Lamberto Rondoni

Numerical simulations of fast remagnetization processes using the stochastic dynamics are widely used to study various magnetic systems. In this paper we first address several crucial methodological problems of such simulations: (i) the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Dmitri V. Berkov , Natalia L. Gorn

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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Zon , E. G. D. Cohen

The aforementioned celebrated model, though a breakthrough in Stochastic processes and a great step toward the construction of the Brownian motion leads to a paradox: infinite propagation speed and violation of the 2nd law of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Isanka Garli Hevage , Akif Ibragimov , Zeev Sobol

We discuss how to derive a Langevin equation (LE) in non standard systems, i.e. when the kinetic part of the Hamiltonian is not the usual quadratic function. This generalization allows to consider also cases with negative absolute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-12 M. Baldovin , A. Puglisi , A. Vulpiani

The second law of thermodynamics requires the overall thermal current to flow from hot to cold. However, it does not forbid a local thermal current from flowing from cold to hot. By coupling a harmonic system of three masses connected by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Palak Dugar , Chih-Chun Chien