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We study the large time fluctuations of entropy production in Markov processes. In particular, we consider the effect of a coarse-graining procedure which decimates {\em fast states} with respect to a given time threshold. Our results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-21 A. Puglisi , S. Pigolotti , L. Rondoni , A. Vulpiani

Coarse-graining techniques play a central role in reducing the complexity of stochastic models, and are typically characterised by a mapping which projects the full state of the system onto a smaller set of variables which captures the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Bastian Hilder , Upanshu Sharma

One among the most intriguing results coming from the application of statistical mechanics to the study of brain is the understanding that it, as a dynamical system, is inherently out of equilibrium. In the realm of non-equilibrium…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-01 Dario Lucente , Giacomo Gradenigo , Luca Salasnich

This is a short review of the statistical mechanical definition of entropy production for systems composed of a large number of interacting components. Emphasis is on open systems driven away from equilibrium where the entropy production…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-02 Christian Maes

Structural and thermodynamic consistency of coarse-graining models across multiple length scales is essential for the predictive role of multi-scale modeling and molecular dynamic simulations that use mesoscale descriptions. Our approach is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-04 J. McCarty , A. J. Clark , J. Copperman , M. G. Guenza

The entropy production is one of the most essential features for systems operating out of equilibrium. The formulation for discrete-state systems goes back to the celebrated Schnakenberg's work and hitherto can be carried out when for each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-15 D. M. Busiello , D. Gupta , A. Maritan

Modelling the evolution of a system using stochastic dynamics typically implies a greater subjective uncertainty in the adopted system coordinates as time progresses, and stochastic entropy production has been developed as a measure of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-06 Jonathan Dexter , Ian J. Ford

In many far-from-equilibrium biological systems, energy injected by irreversible processes at microscopic scales propagates to larger scales to fulfill important biological functions. But given dissipative dynamics at the microscale, how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-03 Qiwei Yu , Matthew P. Leighton , Christopher W. Lynn

At the nanoscale, random effects govern not only the dynamics of a physical system but may also affect its observation. This work introduces a novel paradigm for coarse graining that eschews the assignment of a unique coarse-grained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-05 Jann van der Meer , Keiji Saito

Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations play a major role in modeling large systems of interacting particles with a proved effectiveness in describing real world phenomena ranging from classical fields such as fluids and plasma to social and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

The probability distribution of the total entropy production in the non-equilibrium steady state follows a symmetry relation called the fluctuation theorem. When a certain part of the system is masked or hidden, it is difficult to infer the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-29 Deepak Gupta , Sanjib Sabhapandit

Many biological systems can be described by finite Markov models. A general method for simplifying master equations is presented that is based on merging adjacent states. The approach preserves the steady-state probability distribution and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 David Seiferth , Peter Sollich , Stefan Klumpp

The selection of an equilibrium state by maximising the entropy of a system, subject to certain constraints, is often powerfully motivated as an exercise in logical inference, a procedure where conclusions are reached on the basis of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-03 Ian J. Ford

Active matter systems operate far from equilibrium due to the continuous energy injection at the scale of constituent particles. At larger scales, described by coarse-grained models, the global entropy production rate S quantifies the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-26 Cesare Nardini , Etienne Fodor , Elsen Tjhung , Frederic van Wijland , Julien Tailleur , Michael E. Cates

Starting from a coarse-grained map of a quantum many-body system, we construct the inverse map that assigns a microscopic state to a coarse-grained state based on the maximum entropy principle. Assuming unitary evolution in the microscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Adán Castillo , Carlos Pineda , Erick Sebastían Navarrete , David Davalos

We study the entropy production in a macroscopic nonequilibrium system that undergoes an order-disorder phase transition. Entropy production is a characteristic feature of nonequilibrium dynamics with broken detailed balance. It is found…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Pyoung-Seop Shim , Hyun-Myung Chun , Jae Dong Noh

On a fine grained scale the Gibbs entropy of an isolated system remains constant throughout its dynamical evolution. This is a consequence of Liouville's theorem for Hamiltonian systems and appears to contradict the second law of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-05 Renato Pakter , Yan Levin

Based on the Fokker-Planck and the entropy balance equations we have studied the relaxation of a dissipative dynamical system driven by external Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise processes in absence and presence of nonequilibrium constraint in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bidhan Chandra Bag

Entropy, its production, and its change in a dynamical system can be understood from either a fully stochastic dynamic description or from a deterministic dynamics exhibiting chaotic behavior. By taking the former approach based on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Hong Qian , Zhongwei Shen

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