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By considering an explicit nonequilibrium model, we analyze the statistics of the irreversible work, $w_{\rm irr}$, and irreversible entropy production, $\Delta_i s$, within the stochastic energetics framework. Restating the second law of…

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In this paper we will give a short presentation of the quantum Levy-Khinchin formula and of the formulation of quantum continual measurements based on stochastic differential equations, matters which we had the pleasure to work on in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Barchielli , Giancarlo Lupieri

For general time-varying or switched (nonlinear) systems, converse Lyapunov theorems for stability are not available. In these cases, the integral input-to-state stability (iISS) property is not equivalent to the existence of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Hernan Haimovich , Jose L. Mancilla-Aguilar , Paula Cardone

This paper studies the existence of solutions and, in particular, the well-posedness of a class of boundary control systems. Our main result provides explicit and verifiable conditions on the system data that guarantee continuous dependence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Yassine El Gantouh , Jun Zheng , Guchuan Zhu

We address the emergence of entropy production in the non-equilibrium process of an open quantum system from the viewpoint of the environment. By making use of a dilation-based approach akin to Stinespring theorem, we derive an expression…

Open dynamical systems are mathematical models of machines that take input, change their internal state, and produce output. For example, one may model anything from neurons to robots in this way. Several open dynamical systems can be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-25 David I. Spivak

There are three ways to conceptualize entropy: entropy as an extensive thermodynamic quantity of physical systems (Clausius, Boltzmann, Gibbs), entropy as a measure for information production of ergodic sources (Shannon), and entropy as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-05 Stefan Thurner , Bernat Corominas-Murtra , Rudolf Hanel

A thermodynamic-like formalism is developed for superstatistical systems based on conditional entropies. This theory takes into account large-scale variations of intensive variables of systems in nonequilibrium stationary states. Ordinary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sumiyoshi Abe , Christian Beck , E. G. D. Cohen

Entropies are fundamental measures of uncertainty with central importance in information theory and statistics and applications across all the quantitative sciences. Under a natural set of operational axioms, the most general form of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Roberto Rubboli , Erkka Haapasalo , Marco Tomamichel

This paper studies input-to-state stability (ISS) of general nonlinear time-delay systems subject to delay-dependent impulse effects. Sufficient conditions for ISS are constructed by using the method of Lyapunov functionals. It is shown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Xinzhi Liu , Kexue Zhang

We investigate thermodynamics of feedback processes driven by measurement. Regarding system and memory device as a composite system, mutual information as a measure of correlation between the two constituents contributes to the entropy of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-12 Chulan Kwon

This paper presents a unification and a generalization of the small-gain theory subsuming a wide range of existing small-gain theorems. In particular, we introduce small-gain conditions that are necessary and sufficient to ensure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Navid Noroozi , Roman Geiselhart , Lars Grüne , Björn S. Rüffer , Fabian R. Wirth

The entropy production of an open system coupled to a reservoir initialized in a canonical state can be expressed as a sum of two microscopic information-theoretic contributions: the system-bath mutual information and the relative entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-18 Krzysztof Ptaszynski , Massimiliano Esposito

Irreversible processes accomplished in a fixed time involve nonlinearly coupled flows of matter, energy, and information. Here, using entropy production as an example, we show how thermodynamic uncertainty relations and speed limits on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Schuyler B. Nicholson , Jason R. Green

It has recently been emphasized again that the very existence of stationary stable localized structures with short range interactions might allow to store information in non-equilibrium media, opening new perspectives on information…

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The irreversible entropy increase described by the second law of thermodynamics is fundamentally tied to thermalization and the emergence of equilibrium. In the first part of our work (Ref: arXiv.2503.04152), we constructed an isolated gas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Xue-Yi Guo

The problems of causality, modeling, and control for chaotic, high-dimensional dynamical systems are formulated in the language of information theory. The central quantity of interest is the Shannon entropy, which measures the amount of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Adrián Lozano-Durán , Gonzalo Arranz

The second law of nonequilibrium thermodynamics within the open system paradigm (a small system coupled to one or multiple baths) is derived. This is done by showing positivity of entropy production for arbitrary Hamiltonian dynamics for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-28 Philipp Strasberg

A message of any sort can be regarded as a source of information. Claude. E. Shannon showed in the last century that information ("what we don't already know") is equivalent to the entropy as defined in statistical mechanics. A string of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-05 W. I. Goldburg , R. T. Cerbus

We show that systems driven by an external force and described by Nose-Hoover dynamics allow for a consistent nonequilibrium thermodynamics description when the thermostatted variable is initially assumed in a state of canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-11 Massimiliano Esposito , Takaaki Monnai