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This paper addresses fundamental aspects of statistical mechanics such as the motivation of a classical state space with spontaneous transitions, the meaning of non-equilibrium in the context of thermalization, and the justification of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-31 Haye Hinrichsen , Christian Gogolin , Peter Janotta

We provide a strategy for an exact inference of the average as well as the fluctuations of the entropy production in non-equilibrium systems in the steady state, from the measurements of arbitrary current fluctuations. Our results are built…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-24 Sreekanth K Manikandan , Deepak Gupta , Supriya Krishnamurthy

In the last few decades, some hypotheses for entropy production (EP) principles have been forwarded as possible candidates for organizational principles in non-linear non- equilibrium systems. Two important hypotheses will be studied: the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stijn Bruers

We introduce a natural way of visualizing the entropy production in heat transfer processes between a system and a thermal reservoir. This representation is particularly useful to highlight the asymmetric character of the heating and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-07 Andrés Vallejo

In this paper, we present a new model for heat transfer in compressible fluid flows. The model is derived from Hamilton's principle of stationary action in Eulerian coordinates, in a setting where the entropy conservation is recovered as an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Firas Dhaouadi , Sergey Gavrilyuk

Entropy of the cell fluid model with Curie-Weiss interaction is obtained in analytical form as a function of temperature and chemical potential. A parametric equation is derived representing the entropy as a function of density. Features of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 R. V. Romanik , O. A. Dobush , M. P. Kozlovskii , I. V. Pylyuk , M. A. Shpot

We provide a justification, via the thermodynamic limit, of the modular formula for entropy production in two-times measurement proposed in [Benoist, Bruneau, Jak\v{s}i\'c, Panati and Pillet: Lett. Math. Phys. 114:32, (2023)]. We consider…

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The systematics of bulk entropy production in experimental data on A+A, p+p and e+e- interactions at high energies and large mu_B is discussed. It is proposed that scenarios with very early thermalization, such as Landau's hydrodynamical…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Steinberg

The variational method is very important in mathematical and theoretical physics because it allows us to describe the natural systems by physical quantities independently from the frame of reference used. A global and statistical approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-10 Umberto Lucia

We derive a general lower bound on distributions of entropy production in interacting active matter systems. The bound is tight in the limit that interparticle correlations are small and short-ranged, which we explore in four canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Trevor GrandPre , Katherine Klymko , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , David T. Limmer

Using stochastic thermodynamics, the properties of interacting linear chains subject to periodic drivings are investigated. The systems are described by Fokker-Planck-Kramers equation and exact (explicit) solutions are obtained for periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-05 Bruno A. N. Akasaki , M. J. de Oliveira , Carlos E. Fiore

We consider the entropy production of a strongly coupled bipartite system. The total entropy production can be partitioned into various components, which we use to define local versions of the Second Law that are valid without the usual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-29 Gavin E. Crooks , Susanne E. Still

For continuous-space diffusion processes, there is a strong connection between conservative forces and entropy production. For a given time evolution of the system's state, the entropy production is minimized when the system is driven by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-04 Andreas Dechant , Jann van der Meer

After the justification of the maximum entropy principle for equilibrium mechanical system from the principle of virtual work, i.e., the virtual work of microscopic forces on the elements of a mechanical system vanishes in thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-09 Qiuping A. Wang

The energy shaping method, Controlled Lagrangian, is a well-known approach to stabilize the under-actuated Euler Lagrange (EL) systems. In this approach, to construct a control rule, some nonlinear, nonhomogeneous partial differential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Huseyin Alpaslan Yildiz , Leyla Goren-Sumer

A rigorous derivation of nonequilibrium entropy production via the path-integral formalism is presented. Entropy production is defined as the entropy change piled in a heat reservoir as a result of a nonequilibrium thermodynamic process. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-28 Chulan Kwon

The application of principles of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to economic systems is considered in a broad historical perspective, extending from prehistoric times to the present day. The hypothesis of maximum entropy production…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alastair D. Jenkins

Several approximations are made to study the microcanonical formalism that are valid in the thermodynamics limit. Usually it is assumed that: 1)Stirling approximation can be used to evaluate the number of microstates; 2) the surface entropy…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 E. N. Miranda , Dalia S. Bertoldi

Understanding the assembly of ecosystems to estimate the number of species at different spatial scales is a challenging problem. Until now, maximum entropy approaches have lacked the important feature of considering space in an explicit…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-10 Matteo Adorisio , Jacopo Grilli , Samir Suweis , Sandro Azaele , Jayanth R. Banavar , Amos Maritan