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We establish that the nonequilibrium dynamics of most pure states gives rise to the same entropy production as that of the corresponding ensemble, provided the effective dimension of the ensemble is large enough. This establishes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-28 Philipp Strasberg , Joseph Schindler

By using entropy and entropy production, we calculate the steady flux of some phenomena. The method we use is a competition method, $S_S/\tau+\sigma={\it maximum}$, where $S_S$ is system entropy, $\sigma$ is entropy production and $\tau$ is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-26 Yong-Jun Zhang

The question of characterization of the degree of non-equilibrium activity in active matter systems is studied in the context of a stochastic microswimmer model driven by a chemical cycle. The resulting dynamical properties and entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-27 Michalis Chatzittofi , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian

We challenge claims that the principle of maximum entropy production produces physical phenomenological relations between conjugate currents and forces, even beyond the linear regime, and that currents in networks arrange themselves to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-26 Matteo Polettini

Active biological systems reside far from equilibrium, dissipating heat even in their steady state, thus requiring an extension of conventional equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. In this Letter, we have extended the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-22 Dibyendu Mandal , Katherine Klymko , Michael R. DeWeese

A run-and-tumble particle in a one dimensional box (infinite potential well) is studied. The steady state is analytically solved and analyzed, revealing the emergent length scale of the boundary layer where particles accumulate near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Nitzan Razin

Fluctuating entropy production is studied for a set of linearly coupled complex fields. The general result is applied to non-equilibrium fluctuating hydrodynamic equations for coarse-grained fields (density, temperature and velocity), in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-09 Giacomo Gradenigo , Andrea Puglisi , Alessandro Sarracino

Systems driven away from thermal equilibrium constantly deliver entropy to their environment. Determining this entropy production requires detailed information about the system's internal states and dynamics. However, in most practical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-03 Gili Bisker , Matteo Polettini , Todd R. Gingrich , Jordan M. Horowitz

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

The entropy production rate is a key quantity in non-equilibrium thermodynamics of both classical and quantum processes. No universal theory of entropy production is available to date, which hinders progress towards its full grasping. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Alessio Belenchia , Luca Mancino , Gabriel T. Landi , Mauro Paternostro

Nonlinear feedbacks in the Earth System provide mechanisms that can prove very useful in understanding complex dynamics with relatively simple concepts. For example, the temperature and the ice cover of the planet are linked in a positive…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Corentin Herbert , Didier Paillard , Bérengère Dubrulle

A rigorous derivation of nonequilibrium entropy production via the path-integral formalism is presented. Entropy production is defined as the entropy change piled in a heat reservoir as a result of a nonequilibrium thermodynamic process. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-28 Chulan Kwon

To describe the nonequilibrium states of a system we introduce a new thermodynamic parameter - the lifetime of a system. The statistical distributions which can be obtained out of the mesoscopic description characterizing the behaviour of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Ryazanov , S. G. Shpyrko

The Steepest Entropy Ascent approach is considered and applied to few-state systems. When the Hamiltonian of the system is time dependent, the principle of maximum entropy production can still be exploited; arguments to support this fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Benedetto Militello

Small systems in contact with a heat bath evolve by stochastic dynamics. Here we show that, when one such small system is weakly coupled to another one, it is possible to infer the presence of such weak coupling by observing the violation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-07 Deepak Gupta , Sanjib Sabhapandit

Measuring entropy production of a system directly from the experimental data is highly desirable since it gives a quantifiable measure of the time-irreversibility for non-equilibrium systems and can be used as a cost function to optimize…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-16 Prashant Singh , Karel Proesmans

After the justification of the maximum entropy principle for equilibrium mechanical system from the principle of virtual work, i.e., the virtual work of microscopic forces on the elements of a mechanical system vanishes in thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-09 Qiuping A. Wang

The past two decades have seen a revolution in statistical physics, generalizing it to apply to systems of arbitrary size, evolving while arbitrarily far from equilibrium. Many of these new results are based on analyzing the dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-08 David H. Wolpert

*First-principles derivation of the entropy production in erectric static conduction. *The second-order (symmetric) density matrix contributes to the entropy production. *New schemes of steady states formulated using a relaxation-type von…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-31 Masuo Suzuki

It is known that the equilibrium properties of open classical systems that are strongly coupled to a heat bath are described by a set of thermodynamic potentials related to the system's Hamiltonian of mean force. By adapting this framework…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-28 Harry J. D. Miller , Janet Anders