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Heat transport in open quantum systems is particularly susceptible to the modeling of system-reservoir interactions. It thus requires to consistently treat the coupling between a quantum system and its environment. While perturbative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Thomas Motz , Joachim Ankerhold , Jürgen T. Stockburger

In this paper we present a self-contained macroscopic description of diffusive systems interacting with boundary reservoirs and under the action of external fields. The approach is based on simple postulates which are suggested by a wide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

We develop new variational principles to study stability and equilibrium of axisymmetric flows. We show that there is an infinite number of steady state solutions. We show that these steady states maximize a (non-universal) $H$-function. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Nicolas Leprovost , Bérengère Dubrulle , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Small thermodynamic systems exhibit peculiar behavior different from that observed in long-scale systems. Non-equilibrium processes taking place in those systems are strongly influenced by the presence of fluctuations which can be large.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Rubi

We present a stochastic approach for ion transport at the mesoscopic level. The description takes into account the self-consistent electric field generated by the fixed and mobile charges as well as the discrete nature of these latter. As…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 David Andrieux , Pierre Gaspard

A new method is proposed to numerically extract the diffusivity of a (typically nonlinear) diffusion equation from underlying stochastic particle systems. The proposed strategy requires the system to be in local equilibrium and have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-09 Peter Embacher , Nicolas Dirr , Johannes Zimmer , Celia Reina

In molecular dynamics simulations, nanochannel flows are usually driven by a constant force, that aims to represent a pressure difference between inlet and outlet, and periodic boundary conditions are applied in the streamwise direction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 Vicente Bitrián , Javier Principe

The thermodynamic approach to non-equilibrium dynamics describes the state of macroscopic systems by means of a collection of intensities or intensive variables. The latter are by definition the differentials of the entropy with respect to…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Z. Hens , X. de Hemptinne

The nature of particle and entropy flow between two superfluids is often understood in terms of reversible flow carried by an entropy-free, macroscopic wavefunction. While this wavefunction is responsible for many intriguing properties of…

We investigate the non-equilibrium large deviations function of the particle densities in two steady-state driven systems exchanging particles at a vanishing rate. We first derive through a systematic multi-scale analysis the coarse-grained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jules Guioth , Éric Bertin

We consider a one-dimensional XX spin chain in a nonequilibrium setting with a Lindblad-type boundary driving. By calculating large deviation rate function in the thermodynamic limit, being a generalization of free energy to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-31 Marko Znidaric

One-dimensional non-equilibrium models of particles subjected to a coagulation-diffusion process are important in understanding non-equilibrium dynamics, and fluctuation-dissipation relation. We consider in this paper transport properties…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jean-Yves Fortin

We present a field theory for the statistics of charge and current fluctuations in diffusive systems. The cumulant generating function is given by the saddle-point solution for the action of this field theory. The action depends on two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugene V. Sukhorukov , Andrew N. Jordan , Sebastian Pilgram

The large deviation properties of equilibrium (reversible) lattice gases are mathematically reasonably well understood. Much less is known in non--equilibrium, namely for non reversible systems. In this paper we consider a simple example of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

We conjecture that the current fluctuations in one-dimensional driven transport systems obey an upper bound determined by the mean current and the driving force. This inequality originates from repulsive interactions between transporting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-13 Jiayin Gu , Fan Zhang

Based on a simple model, we theoretically show that asymmetric transportation is possible in nanoscale systems experiencing thermal noise without the presence of external fluctuations. The key to this theoretical advance is that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-30 Rongzheng Wan , Jun Hu , Haiping Fang

Characterizing current fluctuations in a steady state is of fundamental interest and has attracted considerable attention in the recent past. However, the bulk of the studies are limited to systems that either do not exhibit a phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-05 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Punyabrata Pradhan , Kavita Jain

Hydrodynamics provides a universal description of the emergent collective dynamics of vastly different many-body systems, based solely on their symmetries and conservation laws. Here we harness this universality, encoded in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 P. I. Hurtado , J. J. del Pozo , P. L. Garrido

Understanding heat transport in low-dimensional and nano-architectured materials remains a central challenge in nonequilibrium statistical physics due to persistent deviations from Fourier's law. These deviations are driven by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 R. A. C. Correa , K. N. M. Sharma , P. Lolur , J. van Velzen

The existence of net flux across the nanochannels under the asymmetrical static electric fields obtained at room temperature from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations [Nat. Nanotechnol. 2, 709 (2007); Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 064502 (2008)] has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-17 Haiping Fang , Rongzheng Wan