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Fluctuation-dissipation relation ensures thermodynamic equilibrium of a particle immersed in a heat bath. We will show that, under certain circumstances, the fluctuation-dissipation relation fails to ensure equilibrium between the immersed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-31 A Bhattacharyay

A fluctuation law of the energy in freely-decaying, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence is derived within standard closure hypotheses for 3D incompressible flow. In particular, a fluctuation-dissipation relation is derived which relates…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Gregory L. Eyink

Thermodynamics and information have intricate inter-relations. The justification of the fact that information is physical, is done by inter-linking information and thermodynamics - through Landauer's principle. This modern approach towards…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Manabendra Nath Bera , Andreas Winter , Maciej Lewenstein

Optimal transport theory, originally developed in the 18th century for civil engineering, has since become a powerful optimization framework across disciplines, from generative AI to cell biology. In physics, it has recently been shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Shingo Oikawa , Yohei Nakayama , Sosuke Ito , Takahiro Sagawa , Shoichi Toyabe

A new energy-consistent discretization of the viscous dissipation function in incompressible flows is proposed. It is implied by choosing a discretization of the diffusive terms and a discretization of the local kinetic energy equation and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-21 Benjamin Sanderse , Francesc Xavier Trias

In two recent papers, Maroney and Turgut separately and independently show generalisations of Landauer's erasure principle to indeterministic logical operations, as well as to logical states with variable energies and entropies. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-06 O. J. E. Maroney

In this paper, we study Jarzynski's equality and fluctuation theorems for diffusion processes. While some of the results considered in the current work are known in the (mainly physics) literature, we review and generalize these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Carsten Hartmann , Christof Schuette , Wei Zhang

Gravitational memory is a zero-frequency effect associated with a permanent change in the asymptotic spacetime metric induced by radiation. Although its universal manifestation is a net change in the proper distances between freely falling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Jann Zosso , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Silvia Gasparotto , Adrien Cogez , Henri Inchauspé , Milo Jacobs

The exchange fluctuation theorem for heat exchanged between two systems at different temperatures, when kept in direct contact, has been investigated by C. Jarzynski and D. K. W\'ojcik, in Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 92}, 230602 (2004). We extend…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-07 Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

The Szilard engine stands as a compelling illustration of the intricate interplay between information and thermodynamics. While at thermodynamic equilibrium, the apparent breach of the second law of thermodynamics was reconciled by Landauer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-17 Luca Cocconi , Letian Chen

Materials that are constantly driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium, such as active and living systems, typically violate the Einstein relation. This may arise from active contributions to particle fluctuations which are unrelated to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-07 Benjamin Sorkin , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel , Tomer Markovich

Jarzynski's equality [1] allows us to investigate free energy landscapes (FELs) by constructing distributions of work performed on a system from an initial ensemble of states to final states. This work is experimentally measured by…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-05-24 Van Ngo

The Brownian motion of a particle immersed in a medium of charged particles is considered when the system is placed in magnetic or electric fields. Coming from the Zwanzig-Caldeira-Legget particle-bath model, we modify it so that not only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-24 Vladimir Lisy , Jana Tothova

A theory for non-equilibrium systems is derived from a maximum entropy approach similar in spirit to the equilibrium theory given by Gibbs. Requiring Hamilton's principle of stationary action to be satisfied on average during a trajectory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-04 David M. Rogers , Susan B. Rempe

Exploiting previous results on Markovian dynamics and fluctuation theorems, we study the consequences of memory effects on single realizations of nonequilibrium processes within an open system approach. The entropy production along single…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Bruno Leggio , Anna Napoli , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Antonino Messina

We study the finite-time erasure of a one-bit memory consisting of a one-dimensional double-well potential, with each well encoding a memory macrostate. We focus on setups that provide full control over the form of the potential-energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-09 Karel Proesmans , Jannik Ehrich , John Bechhoefer

We study the fluctuations of the Gaussian model, with conservation of the order parameter, evolving in contact with a thermal bath quenched from inverse temperature $\beta _i$ to a final one $\beta _f$. At every time there exists a critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Federico Corberi , Onofrio Mazzarisi , Andrea Gambassi

This study aims to quantify and visualize the degradation of fidelity (information degradation) that inevitably accompanies the replication of information within the framework of information thermodynamics and to propose an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Tatsuaki Tsuruyama

In stochastic thermodynamics work is a random variable whose average is bounded by the change in the free energy of the system. In most treatments, however, the work reservoir that absorbs this change is either tacitly assumed or modelled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Patryk Lipka-Bartosik , Paweł Mazurek , Michał Horodecki

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) set fundamental bounds on the fluctuation and dissipation of stochastic systems. Here, we examine these bounds, in experiment and theory, by exploring the entire phase space of a cyclic information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-23 Govind Paneru , Sandipan Dutta , Tsvi Tlusty , Hyuk Kyu Pak