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Consider a population of organisms that harvest free energy from their environment to reproduce. This paper shows that if the organisms' reproductive rates are proportional to the amount of physical free energy that they can convert into…

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The evolution of the Universe is traditionally examined by monitoring how its material content evolves as it expands. This model of an isolated system is expressed as the equation of motion of the bulk but segmented into different epochs.…

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We study the free evolution of frictional granular gases using large scale molecular dynamics simulation in three dimensions. The system cools due to solid friction among the interacting particles. At early stages of evolution, the density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-17 Prasenjit Das , Moshe Schwartz , Sanjay Puri

Recent theoretical progress in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, linking the physical principle of Maximum Entropy Production ("MEP") to the information-theoretical "MaxEnt" principle of scientific inference, together with conjectures from…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Peter Martin

The free energy principle (FEP) states that any dynamical system can be interpreted as performing Bayesian inference upon its surrounding environment. In this work, we examine in depth the assumptions required to derive the FEP in the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-23 Miguel Aguilera , Beren Millidge , Alexander Tschantz , Christopher L. Buckley

This thesis focuses on three fundamental aspects of biological systems; namely, entropy production, Bayesian mechanics, and the free-energy principle. The contributions are threefold: 1) We compute the entropy production for a greater class…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Lancelot Da Costa

The density matrix in the Lindblad form is used to describe the behavior of the Free-Electron Laser (FEL) operating in a quantum regime. The detrimental effects of the spontaneous emission on coherent FEL operation are taken into account.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 H. Fares , G. R. M. Robb , N. Piovella

Based on a synthesis of three main ingredients: (i) the Shannon information in nonequilibrium systems, (ii) the semiclassical energy-time quantization rule, and (iii) the quasistatic information-energy correspondence, a new general rule for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-17 S. Davatolhagh , A. Sheykhi , M. H. Zarei

In physics, I noticed subjects not explained by formulas were often not studied, like how uncontrolled growth systems changed form. Weather, businesses, societies, environments, communities, cultures, groups, relationships, lives, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-18 Jessie Henshaw

We present computational and analytical results indicating that systems of driven entities with repulsive interactions tend to reach an optimal state associated with minimal interaction and minimal dissipation. Using concepts from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing , Tamas Vicsek

Recent advances in nonequilibrium statistical physics have provided unprecedented insight into the thermodynamics of dynamic processes. The author recently used these advances to extend Landauer's semi-formal reasoning concerning the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-01 David H. Wolpert

Self-organization is frequently observed in active collectives, from ant rafts to molecular motor assemblies. General principles describing self-organization away from equilibrium have been challenging to identify. We offer a unifying…

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the free, cold-dark matter density fluctuation bispectrum in the limit of small scales. From an initially Gaussian random field, we draw phase-space positions of test particles which then propagate along…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Ricardo Waibel , Sara Konrad , Matthias Bartelmann

Equilibration of highly excited baryon-rich matter is studied within the microscopic model calculations in A+A collisions at energies of BES, FAIR and NICA. It is shown that the system evolution from the very beginning of the collision can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 E. Zabrodin , L. Bravina , M. Teslyk , O. Vitiuk

We performed a numerical experiment designed for core formation in a self-gravitating, magnetically supercritical, supersonically turbulent, isothermal cloud. A density probability distribution function (PDF) averaged over a converged…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Wankee Cho , Jongsoo Kim

{\em Ab initio} techniques based on density functional theory in the projector-augmented-wave implementation are used to calculate the free energy and a range of other thermodynamic properties of liquid iron at high pressures and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Alfe` , G. D. Price , M. J. Gillan

Knowing when a physical system has reached sufficient size for its macroscopic properties to be well described by many-body theory is difficult. We investigate the crossover from few to many-body physics by studying quasi one-dimensional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-10-28 A. N. Wenz , G. Zürn , S. Murmann , I. Brouzos , T. Lompe , S. Jochim

The stochastic scenario of relaxation in the complex systems is presented. It is based on a general probabilistic formalism of limit theorems. The nonexponential relaxation is shown to result from the asymptotic self-similar properties in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky

In this work we focus on a recently introduced method [1] to construct the external potential $v$ that, for a given initial state, produces a prescribed time-dependent density in an interacting quantum many-body system. We show how this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-12 S. E. B. Nielsen , M. Ruggenthaler , R. van Leeuwen

We develop a self-consistent first-principle method based on the density functional theory. Physical quantities, such as the density of states, Fermi energy and electron density are obtained using a time-dependent random state method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Weiqing Zhou , Shengjun Yuan