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We develop a formalism to discuss the properties of GENERIC systems in terms of corresponding Hamiltonians that appear in the characterization of large-deviation limits. We demonstrate how the GENERIC structure naturally arises from a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Richard C. Kraaij , Alexandre Lazarescu , Christian Maes , Mark A. Peletier

In ergodic physical systems, time-averaged quantities converge (for large times) to their ensemble-averaged values. Large deviation theory describes rare events where these time averages differ significantly from the corresponding ensemble…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-20 Robert L. Jack

We consider a general class of nonlinear diffusive models with bulk dissipation and boundary driving, and derive its hydrodynamic description in the large size limit. Both the average macroscopic behavior and the fluctuating properties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 A. Prados , A. Lasanta , Pablo I. Hurtado

We show that macroscopic irreversible thermodynamics for viscous fluids can be derived from exact information-theoretic thermodynamic identities valid at the microscale. Entropy production, in particular, is a measure of the loss of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-17 Danilo Forastiere , Francesco Avanzini , Massimiliano Esposito

We derive hydrodynamics of a prototypical one dimensional model, having variable-range hopping, which mimics passive diffusion and ballistic motion of active, or self-propelled, particles. The model has two main ingredients - the hardcore…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Subhadip Chakraborti , Arghya Das , Punyabrata Pradhan

In this review, we scrutinize historical and modern results on the linear response of dynamical systems to external perturbations with a particular emphasis on the celebrated relationship between fluctuations and dissipation expressed by…

We consider three one-dimensional continuous-time Markov processes on a lattice, each of which models the conduction of heat: the family of Brownian Energy Processes with parameter $m$, a Generalized Brownian Energy Process, and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mark A. Peletier , Frank Redig , Kiamars Vafayi

Boltzmann-Sanov and Cramer-Chernoff's theorems provide large deviation probabilities, entropy, and rate functions for the spatial distribution of systems and the total internal energy of an ensemble respectively. By the method of Lagrange's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-17 D. P. Shinde

Considering the example of interacting Brownian particles we present a linear response derivation of the boundary condition for the corresponding hydrodynamic description (the diffusion equation). This requires us to identify a non-analytic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Fuchs , K. Kroy

We study the large deviations of time-integrated observables of Markov diffusions that have perfectly reflecting boundaries. We discuss how the standard spectral approach to dynamical large deviations must be modified to account for such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Johan du Buisson , Hugo Touchette

We analyze the fluctuations of the dissipated energy in a simple and general model where dissipation, diffusion and driving are the key ingredients. The large deviation function for the dissipation follows from hydrodynamic fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-06 A. Prados , A. Lasanta , Pablo I. Hurtado

Thermal gradients lead to macroscopic fluid motion if a confining surface is present along the gradient. This fundamental nonequilibrium effect, known as thermo-osmosis, is held responsible for particle thermophoresis in colloidal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-17 Pietro Anzini , Gaia Maria Colombo , Zeno Filiberti , Alberto Parola

This article serves to concisely review the link between gradient flow systems on hypergraphs and information geometry which has been established within the last five years. Gradient flow systems describe a wealth of physical phenomena and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-03 Dimitri Loutchko , Keisuke Sugie , Tetsuya J Kobayashi

We give a new proof of the large deviation principle from the hydrodynamic limit for the Ginzberg-Landau model studied in Donsker and Varadhan (1989) using techniques from the theory of stochastic control and weak convergence methods. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Sayan Banerjee , Amarjit Budhiraja , Michael Perlmutter

Small thermodynamic systems exhibit peculiar behavior different from that observed in long-scale systems. Non-equilibrium processes taking place in those systems are strongly influenced by the presence of fluctuations which can be large.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Rubi

For diffusive systems that can be described by fluctuating hydrodynamics and by the Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory of Bertini et al., the total current fluctuations display universal features when the system is closed and in equilibrium.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-29 Vivien Lecomte , Alberto Imparato , Frédéric Van Wijland

The propagation of gradient flow structures from microscopic to macroscopic models is a topic of high current interest. In this paper we discuss this propagation in a model for the diffusion of particles interacting via hard-core exclusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Maria Bruna , Martin Burger , José Antonio Carrillo

Although an intimate relation between entropy and diffusion has been advocated for many years and even seems to have been verified in theory and experiments, a quantitatively reliable study, and any derivation of an algebraic relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-22 Subhajit Acharya , Biman Bagchi

Landscape is one of the key notions in literature on biological processes and physics of complex systems with both deterministic and stochastic dynamics. The large deviation theory (LDT) provides a possible mathematical basis for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Hao Ge , Hong Qian

In the context of a nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics, based on a nonequilibrium statistical ensemble formalism, a generalized hydrodynamics of fluids under driven flow and shear stress is derived. At the thermodynamic level, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-21 Clóves Gonçalves Rodrigues , José G. Ramos , Carlos A. B. Silva , Roberto Luzzi