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Mathematical modeling of real-world physical systems requires the consistent combination of a multitude of physical laws and phenomenological models. This challenging task can be greatly simplified by hierarchically decomposing systems into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Markus Lohmayer , Owen Lynch , Sigrid Leyendecker

The theory of quantum thermodynamics investigates how the concepts of heat, work, and temperature can be carried over to the quantum realm, where fluctuations and randomness are fundamentally unavoidable. These lecture notes provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Patrick P. Potts

Building on parallels between geometric quantum mechanics and classical mechanics, we explore an alternative basis for quantum thermodynamics that exploits the differential geometry of the underlying state space. We develop both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Fabio Anza , James P. Crutchfield

In purely non-dissipative systems, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian reduction have proven to be powerful tools for deriving physical models with exact conservation laws. We have discovered a hint that an analogous reduction method exists also for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Eero Hirvijoki , Joshua W. Burby

At very small scales, thermodynamic energy exchanges like work and heat become comparable to thermal energy of the system, which leads to unusual phenomena like the transient violations of Second Law. We explore the generic characters of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-25 Sourabh Lahiri , Arun M Jayannavar

In this article we study multisymplectic geometry, i.e., the geometry of manifolds with a non-degenerate, closed differential form. First we describe the transition from Lagrangian to Hamiltonian classical field theories, and then we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Leonid Ryvkin , Tilmann Wurzbacher

Under the fluctuation of the electric charge and atomic mass, this paper considers the theory of the thin film depletion layer formation of an ensemble of finitely excited, non-empty $d/f$-orbital heavy materials, from the thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Bellucci , B. N. Tiwari

In this paper, we develop a Hamiltonian variational formulation for the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of simple adiabatically closed systems that is an extension of Hamilton's phase space principle in mechanics. We introduce the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Hiroaki Yoshimura , François Gay-Balmaz

The Lagrangian description of mechanical systems and the Legendre Transformation (considered as a passage from the Lagrangian to the Hamiltonian formulation of the dynamics) for point-like objects, for which the infinitesimal configuration…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Katarzyna Grabowska , Janusz Grabowski , Pawel Urbanski

The appeal of thermodynamics to problems outside physics is undeniable, as is the growing recognition of its apparent universality, yet in the absence of a rigorous formalism divorced from the peculiarities of molecular systems all attempts…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-06 Themis Matsoukas

On the basis of information theory, a new formalism of classical non-relativistic mechanics of a mass point is proposed. The particle trajectories of a general dynamical system defined on an (1+n)-dimensional smooth manifold are treated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Yoshimasa Kurihara , Khiem Hong Phan , Nhi My Uyen Quach

We develop inductive biases for the machine learning of complex physical systems based on the port-Hamiltonian formalism. To satisfy by construction the principles of thermodynamics in the learned physics (conservation of energy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Quercus Hernández , Alberto Badías , Francisco Chinesta , Elías Cueto

This paper contains a fully geometric formulation of the General Equation for Non-Equilibrium Reversible-Irreversible Coupling (GENERIC). Although GENERIC, which is the sum of Hamiltonian mechanics and gradient dynamics, is a framework…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-21 Ogul Esen , Miroslav Grmela , Michal Pavelka

In this paper we apply the method of Lagrangian descriptors to explore the geometrical structures in phase space that govern the dynamics of dissipative systems. We demonstrate through many classical examples taken from the nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-04 V. J. García-Garrido , J. García-Luengo

We construct a lagrangian geometric formulation for first-order field theories using the canonical structures of first-order jet bundles, which are taken as the phase spaces of the systems in consideration. First of all, we construct all…

Using information theory we derive a thermodynamics for systems evolving under a collective motion, i.e. under a time-odd constraint. An illustration within the Lattice gas Model is given for two model cases: a collision between two complex…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 F. Gulminelli , PH. Chomaz

In the jet bundle description of Field Theories (multisymplectic models, in particular), there are several choices for the multimomentum bundle where the covariant Hamiltonian formalism takes place. As a consequence, several proposals for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 A. Echeverrí a-Enrí quez , M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Román-Roy

After reviewing the Lagrangian-Hamiltonian unified formalism (i.e, the Skinner-Rusk formalism) for higher-order (non-autonomous) dynamical systems, we state a unified geometrical version of the Variational Principles which allows us to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-16 Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez , Narciso Román-Roy

Geometric mechanics is a branch of mathematical physics that studies classical mechanics of particles and fields from the point of view of geometry. In a geometric language, symmetries can be expressed in a natural manner as vector fields…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Asier López-Gordón

We can incorporate a "time" evolution into thermodynamics as a Hamilton-Jacobi dynamics. A set of the equations of states in thermodynamics is considered as the generalized eikonal equation, which is equivalent to Hamilton-Jacobi equation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Tatsuaki Wada , Antonio M. Scarfone , Hiroshi Matsuzoe