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Entropy production in the compression stage of heavy ion collisions is discussed within three distinct macroscopic models (i.e. generalized RHTA, geometrical overlap model and three-fluid hydrodynamics). We find that within these models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Reiter , A. Dumitru , J. Brachmann , J. A. Maruhn , H. Stöcker , W. Greiner

The entropy production rate (EPR) offers a quantitative measure of time reversal symmetry breaking in non-equilibrium systems. It can be defined either at particle level or at the level of coarse-grained fields such as density; the EPR for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yuting I. Li , Michael E. Cates

We study the entropy production rate (EPR) of aligning self-propelled particles which undergo a flocking transition towards a polarized collective motion. In our thermodynamically consistent lattice model, individual self-propulsion is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-18 Tal Agranov , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates , Étienne Fodor

The macro-to-micro transition in a heterogeneous material is envisaged as the selection of a probability distribution by the Principle of Maximum Entropy (MAXENT). The material is made of constituents, e.g. given crystal orientations. Each…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mayeul Arminjon , Didier Imbault

The maximum entropy technique (MENT) is used to determine the distribution functions of physical values. MENT naturally combines required maximum entropy, the properties of a system and connection conditions in the form of restrictions…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Z. Belashev , M. K. Suleymanov

The role of entropy production in the context of probing QCD properties at high densities and finite temperatures in ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy nuclei is inspected. It is argued that the entropy generated in these reactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Klaus Geiger

We build a comprehensive methodology for the fast computation of entropy across both solid and liquid phases. The proposed method utilizes a single trajectory of molecular dynamics (MD) to facilitate the calculation of entropy, which is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Qi-Jun Hong , Zi-Kui Liu

The maximum entropy principle (MEP) is a method for obtaining the most likely distribution functions of observables from statistical systems, by maximizing entropy under constraints. The MEP has found hundreds of applications in ergodic and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Rudolf Hanel , Stefan Thurner , Murray Gell-Mann

We develop the method of Maximum Entropy (ME) as a technique to generate approximations to probability distributions. The central results consist in (a) justifying the use of relative entropy as the uniquely natural criterion to select a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-24 Chih-Yuan Tseng , Ariel Caticha

Scattering processes often inevitably include the production of infrared states, which are highly correlated with the hard scattering event, and decohere the hard states. This can be described using the entropy of the hard reduced density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-09 Duff Neill , Wouter J. Waalewijn

This study examines a new formulation of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, which gives a conditional derivation of the ``maximum entropy production'' (MEP) principle for flow and/or chemical reaction systems at steady state. The analysis uses…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-08-25 Robert K. Niven

The maximum entropy principle from statistical mechanics states that a closed system attains an equilibrium distribution that maximizes its entropy. We first show that for graphs with fixed number of edges one can define a stochastic edge…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Jesse S. A. Bridgewater , P. Oscar Boykin , Vwani P. Roychowdhury

Maximum entropy modeling is a flexible and popular framework for formulating statistical models given partial knowledge. In this paper, rather than the traditional method of optimizing over the continuous density directly, we learn a smooth…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-01 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Yuanjun Gao , John P. Cunningham

The length-scale dependence of the dynamic entropy is studied in a molecular dynamics simulation of a binary Lennard-Jones liquid above the mode-coupling critical temperature $T_c$. A number of methods exist for estimating the entropy of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Allegrini , Jack F. Douglas , Sharon C. Glotzer

In the last few decades, some hypotheses for entropy production (EP) principles have been forwarded as possible candidates for organizational principles in non-linear non- equilibrium systems. Two important hypotheses will be studied: the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stijn Bruers

Jaynes' maximum entropy (MaxEnt) principle was recently used to give a conditional, local derivation of the ``maximum entropy production'' (MEP) principle, which states that a flow system with fixed flow(s) or gradient(s) will converge to a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Robert K. Niven

It is known that the thermal conductivity of a dilute gas can be derived by using kinetic theory. We present here a new derivation by starting with two known entropy production principles: the steepest entropy ascent (SEA) principle and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-17 Yong-Jun Zhang

This work analyzes different notions of entropy and its production in $ep$ and heavy-ion collisions, focusing on the early stages of the collision. To this end, the importance of phenomena such as quantum entanglement and decoherence in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 G. S. Ramos

In this article a classification of some proposed macroscopic entropy production (MEP) principles is given. With the help of simple electrical network models, at least six interesting and most used principles are distinguished: the least…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stijn Bruers

The entropy density is an intuitive and powerful concept to study the complicated nonlinear processes derived from physical systems. We develop the minimum entropy density method (MEDM) to detect the structure scale of a given time series,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-02 Jeong Won Lee , Joongwoo Brian Park , Hang-Hyun Jo , Jae-Suk Yang , Hie-Tae Moon