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The generalized stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE) driven by reversible Langevin dynamics was theoretically investigated in the context of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. The recent study of the authors revealed that the Loewner…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-26 Yusuke Shibasaki , Minoru Saito

The first-order relativistic fluid theories of dissipation proposed by Eckart and Landau-Lifshitz have been proved to be unstable. They admit solutions which start in proximity of equilibrium and depart exponentially from it. We show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Lorenzo Gavassino , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell

According to statistical mechanics, micro-states of an isolated physical system (say, a gas in a box) at time $t_0$ in a given macro-state of less-than-maximal entropy typically evolve in such a way that the entropy at time $t$ increases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Sheldon Goldstein , Roderich Tumulka , Nino Zanghi

In this paper we present an $L^p$-theory for the stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs in abbreciation) driven by L\'e{}vy processes. Existence and uniqueness of solutions in Sobolev spaces are obtained. The coefficients of SPDEs…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-21 Zhen-Qing Chen , Kyeong-Hun Kim

A comparative study of entropy dynamics as an indicator of physical behavior in an open two-state system with balanced gain and loss is presented. We distinguish the perspective taken in utilizing the conventional framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Alexander Felski , Alireza Beygi , Christos Karapoulitidis , S. P. Klevansky

We continue our study of the linear response of a nonequilibrium system. This Part II concentrates on models of open and driven inertial dynamics but the structure and the interpretation of the result remain unchanged: the response can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-02 Marco Baiesi , Eliran Boksenbojm , Christian Maes , Bram Wynants

Entropy is useful in statistical problems as a measure of irreversibility, randomness, mixing, dispersion, and number of microstates. However, there remains ambiguity over the precise mathematical formulation of entropy, generalized beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-21 Vladimir Zhdankin

Conventional Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics is mainly concerned with systems in local equilibrium and their entropy production, due to the irreversible processes which take place in these systems. In this paper fluids will be considered in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 E. G. D. Cohen , R. L. Merlino

Irreversibility is commonly quantified by entropy production. An external observer can estimate it through measuring an observable that is antisymmetric under time-reversal like a current. We introduce a general framework that, inter alia,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-05 Jann van der Meer , Julius Degünther , Udo Seifert

We show via counterexamples that relative entropy between the solution of a Markovian master equation and the steady state is not a convex function of time. We thus let down a curtain on a possible formulation of a principle of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-06 Matteo Polettini , Massimiliano Esposito

We consider several low--dimensional chaotic maps started in far-from-equilibrium initial conditions and we study the process of relaxation to equilibrium. In the case of conservative maps the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy S(t) increases linearly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Baranger , V. Latora , A. Rapisarda

By using the dimension-free Harnack inequality and the integration by parts formula for the associated diffusion semigroup, we prove the central limit theorem, the moderate deviation principle, and the logarithmic iteration law for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Feng-Yu Wang , Jie Xiong , Lihu Xu

In this paper, we extend the concept of generalized entropy to uniform spaces, allowing computations beyond metrizable settings. We apply this to parabolic dynamics - systems with a unique fixed point uniformly attracting all compact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Frederico A. C. L. Marinho , Hellen de Paula , Lucas H. R. de Souza

Unlike equilibrium statistical mechanics, with its well-established foundations, a similar widely-accepted framework for non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM) remains elusive. Here, we review some of the many recent activities on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Chou , K. Mallick , R. K. P. Zia

We introduce a new generalization of relative entropy to non-negative vectors with sums $\gt 1$. We show in a purely combinatorial setting, with no probabilistic considerations, that in the presence of linear constraints defining a convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Kostas N. Oikonomou

We study the problem of parameter estimation for discretely observed stochastic processes driven by additive small L\'{e}vy noises. We do not impose any moment condition on the driving L\'{e}vy process. Under certain regularity conditions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-23 Hongwei Long , Yasutaka Shimizu , Wei Sun

Through the consideration of spherically symmetric gravitating systems consisting of perfect fluids with linear equation of state constrained to be in a finite volume, an account is given of the properties of entropy at conditions in which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandro Pesci

The spatial logistic branching process is a population dynamics model in which particles move on a lattice according to independent simple symmetric random walks, each particle splits into a random number of individuals at rate one, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Thomas Tendron

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

Understanding nonequilibrium systems and the consequences of irreversibility for the system's behavior as compared to the equilibrium case, is a fundamental question in statistical physics. Here, we investigate two types of nonequilbrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-26 Thomas Martynec , Sabine H. L. Klapp , Sarah A. M. Loos