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Entropy production quantifies the amount of irreversibility of a physical process, leading to fundamental bounds for thermodynamic quantities. It captures the inability to run a physical system forward and then backward, bringing it to the…

Non-equilibrium stochastic dynamics of several active Brownian systems are modeled in terms of non-linear velocity dependent force. In general, this force may consist of both even and odd functions of velocity. We derive the expression for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Debasish Chaudhuri

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

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

We derive an exact (classical and quantum) expression for the entropy production of a finite system placed in contact with one or several finite reservoirs each of which is initially described by a canonical equilibrium distribution.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Massimiliano Esposito , Katja Lindenberg , Christian Van den Broeck

We illustrate the mathematical theory of entropy production in repeated quantum measurement processes developed in a previous work by studying examples of quantum instruments displaying various interesting phenomena and singularities. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Tristan Benoist , Noé Cuneo , Vojkan Jakšić , Claude-Alain Pillet

We derive the expression for the entropy production for stochastic dynamics defined on a continuous space of states containing unidirectional transitions. The expression is derived by taking the continuous limit of a stochastic dynamics on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-05 Mário J. de Oliveira

Active systems are characterized by a continuous production of entropy at steady state. We study the statistics of entropy production within a lattice-based model of interacting active particles that is capable of motility-induced phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-21 Tal Agranov , Michael E. Cates , Robert L. Jack

Entropy production of an active particle in an external potential is identified through a thermodynamically consistent minimal lattice model that includes the chemical reaction providing the propulsion and ordinary translational noise. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-01 Patrick Pietzonka , Udo Seifert

Entropy generation in a chemical reaction is analyzed without using the general formalism of non-equilibrium thermodynamics at a level adequate for advanced undergraduates. In a first approach to the problem, the phenomenological kinetic…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 E. N. Miranda

Nonequilibrium phase transitions can be typified in a similar way to equilibrium systems, for instance, by the use of the order parameter. However, this characterization hides the irreversible character of the dynamics as well as its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-10 C. E. Fernández Noa , Pedro E. Harunari , M. J. de Oliveira , C. E. Fiore

Partially observed stochastic systems can appear (almost) time-reversal symmetric while in fact operating far from equilibrium. The present work extends the perturbative framework introduced in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 198302 (2026)] to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jacob Knight , Gunnar Pruessner

We develop the stochastic approach to thermodynamics based on the stochastic dynamics, which can be discrete (master equation) continuous (Fokker-Planck equation), and on two assumptions concerning entropy. The first is the definition of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tânia Tomé , Mário J. de Oliveira

We analyze the dynamics of a simple but nontrivial classical Hamiltonian system of infinitely many coupled rotators. We assume that this infinite system is driven out of thermal equilibrium either because energy is injected by an external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 David Ruelle

For stochastic non-equilibrium dynamics like a Langevin equation for a colloidal particle or a master equation for discrete states, entropy production along a single trajectory is studied. It involves both genuine particle entropy and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-21 Udo Seifert

A run-and-tumble particle in a one dimensional box (infinite potential well) is studied. The steady state is analytically solved and analyzed, revealing the emergent length scale of the boundary layer where particles accumulate near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Nitzan Razin

Systems driven away from thermal equilibrium constantly deliver entropy to their environment. Determining this entropy production requires detailed information about the system's internal states and dynamics. However, in most practical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-03 Gili Bisker , Matteo Polettini , Todd R. Gingrich , Jordan M. Horowitz

For a system moving away from equilibrium, we express the entropy production via a two-point correlation function for any time and any distance from equilibrium. The long-time limit gives the sum of the Lyapunov exponents for a general…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory Falkovich , Alexander Fouxon

We consider a quantum spin system consisting of a finite subsystem connected to infinite reservoirs at different temperatures. In this setup we define nonequilibrium steady states and prove that the rate of entropy production in such states…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Ruelle

We propose a method for inferring entropy production (EP) in high-dimensional stochastic systems, including many-body systems and non-Markovian systems with long memory. Standard techniques for estimating EP become intractable in such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-20 Miguel Aguilera , Sosuke Ito , Artemy Kolchinsky