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Nonequilibrium current fluctuations represent one of the central topics in nonequilibrium physics. The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) is widely acclaimed for rigorously establishing a lower bound on current fluctuations, expressed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Van Tuan Vo , Andreas Dechant , Keiji Saito

Entropy production characterizes irreversibility. This viewpoint allows us to consider the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, which states that a higher precision can be achieved at the cost of higher entropy production, as a relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-09 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation expresses a universal trade-off between precision and entropy production, which applies in its original formulation to current observables in steady-state systems. We generalize this relation to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-06 Timur Koyuk , Udo Seifert , Patrick Pietzonka

We connect two recent advances in the stochastic analysis of nonequilibrium systems: the (loose) uncertainty principle for the currents, which states that statistical errors are bounded by thermodynamic dissipation; and the analysis of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-04 M. Polettini , A. Lazarescu , M. Esposito

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) are the inequalities which give lower bounds on the entropy production rate using only the mean and the variance of fluctuating currents. Since the TURs do not refer to the full details of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-25 Shun Otsubo , Sosuke Ito , Andreas Dechant , Takahiro Sagawa

The fluctuation theorem is the fundamental equality in nonequilibrium thermodynamics that is used to derive many important thermodynamic relations, such as the second law of thermodynamics and the Jarzynski equality. Recently, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-16 Yoshihiko Hasegawa , Tan Van Vu

Stochastic thermodynamics is the field of study relating fluctuations in stochastic systems to thermodynamic quantities. The total entropy production (EP), is central to the thermodynamic classification of systems. Non-equilibrium systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-05 Lars Torbjørn Stutzer

Universal relations that characterize the fluctuations of nonequilibrium systems are of fundamental importance. The thermodynamic and kinetic uncertainty relations impose upper bounds on the precision of currents solely by total entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-30 Tomohiro Nishiyama

We generalize the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, providing an entropic upper bound for average fluxes in time-continuous steady-state systems (Gingrich et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 120601 (2016)), to time-discrete Markov chains and to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Karel Proesmans , Christian Van den Broeck

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations elucidate the intricate balance between the precision of current and the thermodynamic costs or dissipation, marking a recent and enthralling advancement at the confluence of statistical mechanics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Ryohei Yuno , Katsuaki Tanabe

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations have emerged as universal bounds on current fluctuations in non-equilibrium systems. Here we derive a new bound for a particular class of run-and-tumble type processes using the mathematical framework of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-02 Mayank Shreshtha , Rosemary J. Harris

The total entropy production quantifies the extent of irreversibility in thermodynamic systems, which is nonnegative for any feasible dynamics. When additional information such as the initial and final states or moments of an observable is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-29 Van Tuan Vo , Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We introduce a new technique to bound the fluctuations exhibited by a physical system, based on the Euclidean geometry of the space of observables. Through a simple unifying argument, we derive a sweeping generalization of so-called…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito , Jean-Charles Delvenne

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) for underdamped dynamics has intriguing problems while its counterpart for overdamped dynamics has recently been derived. Even for the case of steady states, a proper way to match underdamped and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-02 Chulan Kwon , Youngchae Kwon , Hyun Keun Lee

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation, originally derived for classical Markov-jump processes, provides a trade-off relation between precision and dissipation, deepening our understanding of the performance of quantum thermal machines.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Junjie Liu , Dvira Segal

Fluctuation theorems allow one to make generalised statements about the behaviour of thermodynamic quantities in systems that are driven far from thermal equilibrium. In this article we use Crooks' fluctuation theorem to understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 M. J. Kewming , S. Shrapnel

Entropy production characterizes the thermodynamic irreversibility and reflects the amount of heat dissipated into the environment and free energy lost in nonequilibrium systems. According to the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-01 Tan Van Vu , Van Tuan Vo , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) under quantum continuous measurement and feedback control. By incorporating the quantum-classical-transfer entropy, which quantifies the information gained by continuous measurement, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-20 Kaito Tojo , Takahiro Sagawa , Ken Funo

Fluctuations are intrinsic to microscopic systems and impose fundamental limits on nonequilibrium precision, as captured by the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR), which links current fluctuations to entropy production. While feedback…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ryotaro Honma , Tan Van Vu

We generalize the link between fluctuation theorems and thermodynamic uncertainty relations by deriving a bound on the variance of fluxes that satisfy an isometric fluctuation theorem. The resulting bound, which depends on the system's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-11 Hadrien Vroylandt , Karel Proesmans , Todd R. Gingrich