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We develop a theory for inferring equilibrium transition rates from trajectories driven by a time dependent force using results from stochastic thermodynamics. Applying the Kawasaki relation to approximate the nonequilibrium distribution…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Benjamin Kuznets-Speck , David T Limmer

We present a method to design driving protocols that achieve fast thermal equilibration of a system of interest using techniques inspired by machine learning training algorithms. For example, consider a Brownian particle manipulated by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-25 Diego Rengifo , Gabriel Téllez

Physical systems driven away from equilibrium by an external controller dissipate heat to the environment; the excess entropy production in the thermal reservoir can be interpreted as a "cost" to transform the system in a finite time. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-31 Jérémie Klinger , Grant M. Rotskoff

In this paper we develop a generalized formalism for equilibrium thermodynamic systems when an information is shared between the system and the reservoir. The information results in a correction to the entropy of the system. This extension…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-10 Alessio Gagliardi , Aldo Di Carlo

Closely related to the laws of thermodynamics, the detection and quantification of disequilibria are crucial in unraveling the complexities of nature, particularly those beneath observable layers. Theoretical developments in nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-23 Pedro E. Harunari

Many biological functions require the dynamics to be necessarily driven out-of-equilibrium. In contrast, in various contexts, a nonequilibrium dynamics at fast timescales can be described by an effective equilibrium dynamics at a slower…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-18 Amit Singh Vishen

For systems in an externally controllable time-dependent potential, the optimal protocol minimizes the mean work spent in a finite-time transition between two given equilibrium states. For overdamped dynamics which ignores inertia effects,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-23 Alex Gomez-Marin , Tim Schmiedl , Udo Seifert

When a thermally isolated system performs a driving process in the quasistatic regime, its variation of average energy is equal to its quasistatic work. Even though presenting this simple definition, few attempts have been made to describe…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-17 Pierre Nazé

Non-equilibrium states of a thermodynamic statistical system are investigated using the thermodynamic parameter of the system lifetime, first-passage time, the time before degeneration of the system under influence of fluctuations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-19 V. V. Ryazanov

We consider a single Josephson junction in the presence of time varying gate charge, and examine the nonequilibrium work done by the charge control in the framework of fluctuation theorems. We obtain the probability distribution functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-07 Su Do Yi , Beom Jun Kim , Juyeon Yi

For a 2-dimensional freely jointed chain with 3 particles and a related model, the average and variance of the kinetic energies of each particle in thermal equilibrium are exactly obtained. The same is done for a related model. The excess…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-01 Tetsuro Konishi , Tatsuo Yanagita

Near equilibrium, thermodynamic intuition suggests that fast, irreversible processes will dissipate more energy and entropy than slow, quasistatic processes connecting the same initial and final states. Here, we test the hypothesis that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-07 Rebecca A. Bone , Daniel J. Sharpe , David J. Wales , Jason R. Green

Considering the paradigmatic driven Brownian motion, we perform extensive numerical analysis on the performance of optimal linear-response processes far from equilibrium. We focus on the overdamped regime where exact optimal processes are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-28 Lucas P. Kamizaki , Marcus V. S. Bonança , Sérgio R. muniz

The free cooling process in the inelastic hard sphere system is studied by analysing the data from large scale molecular dynamics simulations on a three dimensional system. The initial energy decay, the velocity distribution function, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ryo Kawahara , Hiizu Nakanishi

Microscopic particle separation plays vital role in various scientific and industrial domains. In this Letter, we propose a universal non-equilibrium thermodynamic approach, employing the concept of Shortcuts to Isothermality, to realize…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiu-Hua Zhao , Z. C. Tu , Yu-Han Ma

We develop a mathematical approach to the nonequilibrium work theorem which is traditionally referred to in statistical mechanics as Jarzynski's identity. We suggest a mathematically rigorous formulation and proof of the identity.

Probability · Mathematics 2008-03-31 Evelina Shamarova

We study thermodynamic operations which bring a nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) to another NESS in physical systems under nonequilibrium conditions. We model the system by a suitable Markov jump process, and treat thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-02 Teruhisa S. Komatsu , Naoko Nakagawa , Shin-ichi Sasa , Hal Tasaki

A single bit memory system is made with a brownian particle held by an optical tweezer in a double-well potential and the work necessary to erase the memory is measured. We show that the minimum of this work is close to the Landauer's bound…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Antoine Bérut , Artyom Petrosyan , Sergio Ciliberto

Systems out of equilibrium, in stationary as well as in nonstationary regimes, display a linear response to energy impulses simply expressed as the sum of two specific temporal correlation functions. There is a natural interpretation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-16 Marco Baiesi , Christian Maes , Bram Wynants

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics formalism is proposed to derive the flux of grainy (bubbles-containing) matter, emerging in a nucleation growth process. Some power and non-power limits, due to the applied potential as well as owing to basic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Rubi , A. Gadomski