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We study a simple transport model driven out of equilibrium by reservoirs at the boundaries, corresponding to the hydrodynamic limit of the symmetric simple exclusion process. We show that a nonlocal transformation of densities and currents…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-03 Julien Tailleur , Jorge Kurchan , Vivien Lecomte

Using the large-deviation formalism, we study the statistics of current fluctuations in a diffusive nonequilibrium quantum spin chain. The boundary-driven XX chain with dephasing consists of a coherent bulk hopping and a local dissipative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-25 Marko Znidaric

In many experimental situations, a physical system undergoes stochastic evolution which may be described via random maps between two compact spaces. In the current work, we study the applicability of large deviations theory to time-averaged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vladimir Y. Chernyak , Michael Chertkov , Sergey V. Malinin , Razvan Teodorescu

These notes are a written version of lectures given in the 2024 Les Houches Summer School on {\it Large deviations and applications}. They are are based on a series of works published over the last 25 years on steady properties of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Bernard Derrida

The evolution of the interface separating a conduit of light, viscous fluid rising buoyantly through a heavy, more viscous, exterior fluid at small Reynolds numbers is governed by the interplay between nonlinearity and dispersion. Previous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nicholas K. Lowman , Mark A. Hoefer

The description of electron-electron interactions in transport problems is both analytically and numerically difficult. Here we show that a much simpler description of electron transport in the presence of interactions can be achieved in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberto D'Agosta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We employ the macroscopic fluctuation theory to study fluctuations of integrated current in one-dimensional lattice gases with a step-like initial density profile. We analytically determine the variance of the current fluctuations for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. L. Krapivsky , Baruch Meerson

We study large deviations for the current of one-dimensional stochastic particle systems with periodic boundary conditions. Following a recent approach based on an earlier result by Jensen and Varadhan, we compare several candidates for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-02 Paul Chleboun , Stefan Grosskinsky , Andrea Pizzoferrato

Fluctuations of dynamical quantities are fundamental and inevitable. For the booming research in nanotechnology, huge relative fluctuation comes with the reduction of system size, leading to large uncertainty for the estimates of dynamical…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-01 Zhi Xu , Han Li , Ming Ma

We consider fluctuations of the dissipated energy in nonlinear driven diffusive systems subject to bulk dissipation and boundary driving. With this aim, we extend the recently-introduced macroscopic fluctuation theory to nonlinear driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 P. I. Hurtado , A. Lasanta , A. Prados

We describe a method for computing transport coefficients from the direct evaluation of large deviation function. This method is general, relying on only equilibrium fluctuations, and is statistically efficient, employing trajectory based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Chloe Ya Gao , David T. Limmer

While Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory (MFT) has been highly successful in analyzing non-equilibrium steady states, its application to non-steady-state processes remains limited. In this study, we apply MFT to the relaxation process of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Daisuke Suzuki , Tomohiro Sasamoto

Current is a characteristic feature of nonequilibrium systems. In stochastic systems, these currents exhibit fluctuations constrained by the rate of dissipation in accordance with the recently discovered thermodynamic uncertainty relation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-30 Todd R. Gingrich , Jordan M. Horowitz

Two-dimensional turbulent flows, and to some extent, geophysical flows, are systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, which, albeit fluctuating, exhibit some degree of organization: coherent structures emerge spontaneously at large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-21 Corentin Herbert

This paper introduces the fundamental continuum theory governing momentum transport in isotropic nanofluidic flows. The theory is an extension to the classical Navier-Stokes equation, which includes coupling between translational and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-04 J. S. Hansen , Jeppe C. Dyre , Peter J. Daivis , B. D. Todd , Henrik Bruus

How condensed-matter simulations depend on the number of molecules being simulated ($N$) is sometimes itself a valuable piece of information. Liquid crystals provide a case in point. Light scattering and $2d$-IR experiments on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-20 Eleftherios Mainas , Richard M. Stratt

In this paper, we study the stationary states of diffusive dynamics driven out of equilibrium by reservoirs. For a small forcing, the system remains close to equilibrium and the large deviation functional of the density can be computed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-19 Thierry Bodineau , Bernard Derrida

Understanding the physics of nonequilibrium systems remains as one of the major challenges of theoretical physics. This problem can be cracked in part by investigating the macroscopic fluctuations of the currents characterizing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-18 Pablo I. Hurtado , Carlos P. Espigares , Jesus J. del Pozo , Pedro L. Garrido

Thermodynamics of trajectories promises to make possible the thorough analysis of the dynamical properties of an open quantum system, a sought-after goal in modern physics. Unfortunately, calculation of the relevant quantities presents…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Simon Pigeon , André Xuereb

We present an efficient approach, based on a number-conditioned master equation, for large-deviation analysis in mesoscopic transports. Beyond the conventional full-counting-statistics study, the large-deviation approach encodes complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-30 Jun Li , Yu Liu , Jing Ping , Shu-Shen Li , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan