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We consider the standard thermodynamic processes with constraints, but with additional uncertainty about the control parameters. Motivated by inductive reasoning, we assign prior distribution that provides a rational guess about likely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 Preety Aneja , Ramandeep S. Johal

Recent years have witnessed a surge of discoveries in the studies of thermodynamic inequalities: the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) and the entropic bound (EB) provide a lower bound on the entropy production (EP) in terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-06 Euijoon Kwon , Jong-Min Park , Jae Sung Lee , Yongjoo Baek

In nonequilibrium steady states of Markov jump processes, we derive exact Fluctuation-Response Relations (FRRs) that express the covariance between any pair of currents in terms of static responses in a notably simple form, thus…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Timur Aslyamov , Krzysztof Ptaszyński , Massimiliano Esposito

In view of the recent quest for well-behaved nonlinear extensions of the traditional Schroedinger-von Neumann unitary dynamics that could provide fundamental explanations of recent experimental evidence of loss of quantum coherence at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-13 Gian-Paolo Beretta

We derive a Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation bounding the mean squared displacement of a Gaussian process with memory, driven out of equilibrium by unbalanced thermal baths and/or by external forces. Our bound is tighter with respect to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-23 Andrea Plati , Andrea Puglisi , Alessandro Sarracino

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation sets the minimal bound of the cost-precision trade-off relation for dissipative processes. Examining the dynamics of an internally coupled system that is driven by a constant thermodynamic force, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-19 Sangwon Lee , Changbong Hyeon , Junghyo Jo

We propose an $f$-divergence extension of the Hasegawa-Nishiyama thermodynamic uncertainty relation. More precisely, we introduce the stochastic thermodynamic entropy production based on generalised $f$-divergences and derive corresponding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Yi C. Huang , Xinhang Tong

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

We consider a Brownian particle in harmonic confinement of stiffness $k$, in one dimension in the underdamped regime. The whole setup is immersed in a heat bath at temperature $T$. The center of harmonic trap is dragged under any arbitrary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-18 Deepak Gupta , Amos Maritan

Using Brownian motion in periodic potentials $V(x)$ tilted by a force $f$, we provide physical insight into the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, a recently conjectured principle for statistical errors and irreversible heat dissipation in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-09 Changbong Hyeon , Wonseok Hwang

The past twenty years have seen a resurgence of interest in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, thanks to advances in the theory of stochastic processes and in their thermodynamic interpretation. Fluctuation theorems provide fundamental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-16 Robert Marsland , Jeremy England

A deeper understanding of the differences between quantum and classical dynamics promises great potential for emerging technologies. Nevertheless, some aspects remain poorly understood, particularly concerning the role of quantum coherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kacper Prech , Philip Johansson , Elias Nyholm , Gabriel T. Landi , Claudio Verdozzi , Peter Samuelsson , Patrick P. Potts

The fluctuation relations have received considerable attention since their emergence and development in the 1990s. We present a summary of the main results and suggest ways to interpret this material. Starting with a consideration of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-01 Richard E. Spinney , Ian J. Ford

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations unveil useful connections between fluctuations in thermal systems and entropy production. This work extends these ideas to the disparate field of \textit{zero temperature} quantum mesoscopic physics where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Ariane Soret , Ohad Shpielberg , Eric Akkermans

Reciprocal relations correlate fairly accurately a great variety of experimental results. Nevertheless, the concepts of statistical fluctuations, and microscopic reversibility - the bases of the accepted proof of the relations by Onsager -…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elias P. Gyftopoulos

In a recent perspective article, Horowitz and Gingrich discuss thermodynamic uncertainty relations that have been derived using "stochastic thermodynamics", a theory based on a hypothesis known as local detailed balance. The authors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-25 R. Dean Astumian

Temperature uncertainty of a quantum system in canonical ensemble is inversely determined by its energy fluctuation, which is known as the temperature-energy uncertainty relation. No such uncertainty relation was discovered for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Ning Zhang , Si-Yuan Bai , Chong Chen

We introduce occupation uncertainty relations (OURs) for dynamics of a Markov process over discrete configurations. Those are lower bounds on uncertainties of system observables that are time-integrated along stochastic trajectories. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-25 Katarzyna Macieszczak

Entropy production is a universal measure of irreversibility and energy dissipation in physical, chemical, and biological systems operating far from equilibrium. However, quantifying and spatiotemporally localising it in complex processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Biswajit Das , Sreekanth K Manikandan

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation quantifies a trade-off between the relative fluctuations of trajectory currents and the thermodynamic cost, indicating that the current precision is fundamentally constrained by entropy production. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Ryotaro Honma , Tan Van Vu