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In the context of the dynamical evolution in a non-stationary thermal bath, we construct a family of fluctuation relations for the entropy production that are not verified by the work performed on the system. We exhibit fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Raphael Chetrite

We have recently shown that in non-equilibrium spin systems at criticality the limit $\Xin$ of the fluctuation-dissipation ratio X(t,tw) for t >> tw >> 1 can be measured using observables such as magnetization or energy [Phys. Rev.\ E {\bf…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Mayer , Ludovic Berthier , Juan P. Garrahan , Peter Sollich

Fluctuation theorems are fundamental extensions of the second law of thermodynamics for small nonequilibrium systems. While work and heat are equally important forms of energy exchange, fluctuation relations have not been experimentally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-24 Markus Rademacher , Michael Konopik , Maxime Debiossac , David Grass , Eric Lutz , Nikolai Kiesel

The Fluctuation Theorem (FT) gives an analytic expression for the probability, in a nonequilibrium system of finite size observed for a finite time, that the dissipative flux will flow in the reverse direction to that required by the Second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-10 Gary Ayton , Denis J. Evans , Debra J. Searles

Large deviation theory (LDT) provides a mathematical framework to quantify the probabilities of rare events in stochastic systems. In this study, we applied LDT to model a chemical reaction system and demonstrated that the fluctuation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Tatsuaki Tsuruyama

We develop a unified fluctuation-response theory in the frequency domain for nonequilibrium steady states governed by overdamped Langevin dynamics and Markov jump processes. The relation expresses the power spectrum of general observables…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Euijoon Kwon , Hyun-Myung Chun , Hyunggyu Park , Jae Sung Lee

We study a large deviation functional of density fluctuation by analyzing stochastic non-linear diffusion equations driven by the difference between the densities fixed at the boundaries. By using a fundamental equality that yields the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shin-ichi Sasa

The generating functional is derived for the fluctuation-dissipation relations which result from the unitarity and reversibility of microscopic dynamics and connect various statistical characteristics of many consecutive (continuous)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

We present a detailed analysis of the fluctuation dissipation theorem (FDT) close to the glass transition in colloidal suspensions under steady shear using mode coupling approximations. Starting point is the many-particle Smoluchowski…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-27 Matthias Krüger , Matthias Fuchs

The fluctuation dissipation theorem (FDT) is studied close to the glass transition in colloidal suspensions under steady shear. Shear breaks detailed balance in the many-particle Smoluchowski equation, and gives response functions in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthias Krüger , Matthias Fuchs

The use of linear response theory for forced dissipative stochastic dynamical systems through the fluctuation dissipation theorem is an attractive way to study climate change systematically among other applications. Here, a mathematically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Martin Hairer , Andrew J Majda

We formulate the non-linear field theory for a fluctuating counter-ion distribution in the presence of a fixed, arbitrary charge distribution. The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is obtained as the saddle-point, and the effects of fluctuations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Roland R. Netz , Henri Orland

We extend the framework of forward and reverse processes commonly utilized in the derivation and analysis of the nonequilibrium work relations to thermodynamic processes with repeated discrete feedback. Within this framework, we derive a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-16 Jordan M. Horowitz , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Fluctuation Theorem(FT) has been studied as far from equilibrium theorem, which relates the symmetry of entropy production. To investigate the application of this theorem, especially to biological physics, we consider the FT for tilted…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Monnai

We develop a mathematical and interpretative foundation for the enterprise of decision-theoretic statistical causality (DT), which is a straightforward way of representing and addressing causal questions. DT reframes causal inference as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-28 A. Philip Dawid

The Fluctuation Theorem describes the probability ratio of observing trajectories that satisfy or violate the second law of thermodynamics. It has been proved in a number of different ways for thermostatted deterministic nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Debra J. Searles , Denis J. Evans

We analytically describe the decay to equilibrium of generic observables of a non-integrable system after a perturbation in the form of a random matrix. We further obtain an analytic form for the time-averaged fluctuations of an observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Charlie Nation , Diego Porras

We introduce a framework to identify Fluctuation Relations for vector-valued observables in physical systems evolving through a stochastic dynamics. These relations arise from the particular structure of a suitable entropic functional and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Raphael Chetrite , Stefano Marcantoni

Fluctuation theorems (FTs) quantify the thermodynamic reversibility of a system, and for deterministic systems they are defined in terms of the dissipation function. However, in a nonequilibrium steady state of deterministic dynamics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Sanderson , Charlotte F. Petersen , Debra J. Searles

First-passage processes are pervasive across numerous scientific fields, yet a general framework for understanding their response to external perturbations remains elusive. While the fluctuation-dissipation theorem offers a complete linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-05 Tommer D. Keidar , Shlomi Reuveni