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For classical nonequilibrium systems, the separation of the total entropy production into the adiabatic and nonadiabatic contributions is useful for understanding irreversibility in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In this article, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jordan M. Horowitz , Juan M. R. Parrondo

The quantum fluctuations of the entropy production for fermionic systems in the Landauer-Buttiker non-equilibrium steady state are investigated. The probability distribution, governing these fluctuations, is explicitly derived by means of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mihail Mintchev , Luca Santoni , Paul Sorba

The thermodynamics of quantum phase transitions has long been a rich area of research, providing numerous insights and enhancing our understanding of this important phenomenon. This theoretical framework has been well-developed specially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Andesson B. Nascimento , Lucas C. Céleri

Certain thermal non-equilibrium situations, outside of the astrophysical realm, suggest that entropy production extrema, instead of entropy extrema, are related to stationary states. In an effort to better understand the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Eric I. Barnes , Liliya L. R. Williams

The relation between the thermodynamic entropy production and non-Markovian evolutions is matter of current research. Here, we study the behavior of the stochastic entropy production in open quantum systems undergoing unital non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Stefano Gherardini , Stefano Marcantoni , Filippo Caruso

We study irreversible processes for nonlinear oscillators networks described by complex-valued Langevin equations that account for coupling to different thermo-chemical baths. Dissipation is introduced via non-Hermitian terms in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Simone Borlenghi , Stefano Iubini , Stefano Lepri , Jonas Fransson

We analyse a non-equilibrium exclusion process in which particles are created and annihilated in pairs and hop to the the right or to the left with different transition rates, $p$ and $q$, respectively. We have studied the dynamics of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 M. O. Hase , T. Tomé , M. J. de Oliveira

Entropy production during the process of thermal phase-separation of multiphase flows is investigated by means of a discrete Boltzmann kinetic model. The entropy production rate is found to increase during the spinodal decomposition stage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-18 Yudong Zhang , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yanbiao Gan , Zhihua Chen , Sauro Succi

We study nonequilibrium thermodynamic properties of a driven one-dimensional quantum fluid by combining nonlinear Luttinger liquid theory with the quantum kinetic equation. In particular, we derive an entropy production consistent with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Edvin G. Idrisov , Thomas L. Schmidt

Entropy production in stochastic mechanical systems is examined here with strict bounds on its rate. Stochastic mechanical systems include pure diffusions in Euclidean space or on Lie groups, as well as systems evolving on phase space for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Gregory S. Chirikjian

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

We study entropy production (EP) in processes involving repeated quantum measurements of finite quantum systems. Adopting a dynamical system approach, we develop a thermodynamic formalism for the EP and study fine aspects of irreversibility…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Tristan Benoist , Vojkan Jaksic , Yan Pautrat , Claude-Alain Pillet

We consider the generic model of a finite-size quantum electron system connected to two (temperature and particle) reservoirs. The quantum open system is driven out of equilibrium by the presence of both a temperature and a chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-04 H. Ness

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

The out-of-equilibrium character of active systems is often twofold, arising from both the activity itself and from non-reciprocal couplings between constituents. A well-established measure to quantify the system's distance from equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-13 Kim L. Kreienkamp , Sabine H. L. Klapp

We analyze the entropy production of Quantum Reset Models (QRMs) corresponding to quantum dynamical semigroups driven by Lindbladians motivated by a probabilistic description of dissipation in an external environment. We investigate the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Géraldine Haack , Alain Joye

We compare several definitions of entropy production rate introduced in the literature from a large variety of situations and motivations, and then analyze their relations with memory effects. Considering a relevant experimental example of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Guillaume Théret , Dominique Sugny , Camille L. Latune

In this thesis, we considered quantum systems coupled to several baths. We supposed that the system state is governed by the quantum master equation (QME). We investigated the quantum pump and the excess entropy production. In the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Satoshi Nakajima

Understanding stochastic thermodynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) system has been an important topic in very recent years. In this article we study a general model of active Brownian particle systems by introducing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhiyu Cao , Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

The entropy production occurring in relativistic hydrodynamical systems such as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in high-energy nuclear collisions is explored. We study mechanisms which change the composition of the fluid, i.e. particle…

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