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The past twenty years have seen a resurgence of interest in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, thanks to advances in the theory of stochastic processes and in their thermodynamic interpretation. Fluctuation theorems provide fundamental…

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Master equation could be applied to model various kinds of biochemical systems. A general theory for its time-dependent nonequilibrium thermodynamics is rigorously derived. We not only introduce a concept of general internal energy, but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-16 Hao Ge

Concepts of everyday use like energy, heat, and temperature have acquired a precise meaning after the development of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics provides the basis for understanding how heat and work are related and with the general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi , J. M. G. Vilar

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation expresses a universal trade-off between precision and entropy production, which applies in its original formulation to current observables in steady-state systems. We generalize this relation to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-06 Timur Koyuk , Udo Seifert , Patrick Pietzonka

Classical gravitation is treated from the point of view of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Gravitational potential is a thermodynamic state variable in a weakly nonlocal treatment. Entropy production is calculated and the simplest solution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-28 P. Ván , S. Abe

The generalized zeroth law of thermodynamics indicates that the physical temperature in nonextensive statistical mechanics is different from the inverse of the Lagrange multiplier, beta. This leads to modifications of some of thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sumiyoshi Abe , S. Martinez , F. Pennini , A. Plastino

The unification of relativity and thermodynamics has been a subject of considerable debate over the last 100 years. The reasons for this are twofold: (i) Thermodynamic variables are nonlocal quantities and, thus, single out a preferred…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-18 Jörn Dunkel , Peter Hänggi , Stefan Hilbert

Extended irreversible thermodynamics is a theory that expands the classical framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics by going beyond the local-equilibrium assumption. A notable example of this is the Maxwell-Cattaneo heat flux model,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 François Gay-Balmaz

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations have emerged as universal bounds on current fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems. Here we derive a new bound for a particular class of run-and-tumble type processes using the mathematical framework of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-02 Mayank Shreshtha , Rosemary J. Harris

Stochastic thermodynamics as reviewed here systematically provides a framework for extending the notions of classical thermodynamics like work, heat and entropy production to the level of individual trajectories of well-defined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Udo Seifert

Weakly nonlocal thermodynamic theories are critically revisited. A relocalized, irreversible thermodynamic theory of nonlocal phenomena is given, based on a modified form of the entropy current and new kind of internal variables, the so…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Van

Correlations in fluids in nonequilibrium steady states are long ranged. Hence, finite-size effects have important consequences in the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of fluids. One consequence is that nonequilibrium temperature fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-05 T. R. Kirkpatrick , J. M. Ortiz de Zárate , J. V. Sengers

We use a recently proved fluctuation theorem for the currents to develop the response theory of nonequilibrium phenomena. In this framework, expressions for the response coefficients of the currents at arbitrary orders in the thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Andrieux , P. Gaspard

Using statistical thermodynamics, we derive a general expression of the stationary probability distribution for thermodynamic systems driven out of equilibrium by several thermodynamic forces. The local equilibrium is defined by imposing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Giorgio Sonnino , György Steinbrecher , Alessandro Cardinali , Alberto Sonnino , Mustapha Tlidi

We discuss the non-equilibrium critical phenomena in liquids, and the models for these phenomena based on local equilibrium and extended scaling assumptions. Special situations are proposed for experimental tests of the theory.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Patashinski

We generalize the Clausius (in)equality to overdamped mesoscopic and macroscopic diffusions in the presence of nonconservative forces. In contrast to previous frameworks, we use a decomposition scheme for heat which is based on an exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-07 Christian Maes , Karel Netocny

All current formulations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open chemical reaction networks rely on the assumption of non-interacting species. We develop a general theory which accounts for interactions between chemical species within a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-09 Francesco Avanzini , Emanuele Penocchio , Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

Exposing a solution to a temperature gradient can lead to the accumulation of particles on either the cold or warm side. This phenomenon, known as thermophoresis, has been discovered more than a century ago, and yet its microscopic origin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-02 Shiling Liang , Daniel Maria Busiello , Paolo De Los Rios

We extend stochastic thermodynamics by relaxing the two assumptions that the Markovian dynamics must be linear and that the equilibrium distribution must be a Boltzmann distribution. We show that if we require the second law to hold when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 Jan Korbel , David H. Wolpert

Stochastic field theories are often constructed phenomenologically, without a systematic assessment of thermodynamic consistency or local detailed balance. This may hinder a physical description of irreversibility at the field-theoretic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Héctor Vaquero del Pino , François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura , Lock Yue Chew