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We consider stochastic rotational dynamics of a macrospin at a constant temperature, in presence of an external magnetic field. Starting from the appropriate Langevin equation which contains multiplicative noise, we calculate entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-15 Swarnali Bandopadhyay , Debasish Chaudhuri , A. M. Jayannavar

Entropy serves as a central observable in equilibrium thermodynamics. However, many biological and ecological systems operate far from thermal equilibrium. Here we show that entropy production can characterize the behavior of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Benjamin Andrae , Jonas Cremer , Tobias Reichenbach , Erwin Frey

For stochastic non-equilibrium dynamics like a Langevin equation for a colloidal particle or a master equation for discrete states, entropy production along a single trajectory is studied. It involves both genuine particle entropy and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-21 Udo Seifert

A typical strategy of realizing an adiabatic change of a many-particle system is to vary parameters very slowly on a time scale $t_\text{r}$ much larger than intrinsic equilibration time scales. In the ideal case of adiabatic state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-24 Philipp S. Weiß , Dennis Hardt , Achim Rosch

The expressions for entropy production, free energy, and entropy extraction rates are derived for a Brownian particle that walks in an underdamped medium. Our analysis indicates that as long as the system is driven out of equilibrium, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-18 Mesfin Asfaw Taye

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

Analyzing and controlling system entropy is a powerful tool for regulating predictability of control systems. Applications benefiting from such approaches range from reinforcement learning and data security to human-robot collaboration. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Menno van Zutphen , Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Duarte J. Antunes

Entropy and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem are at the heart of statistical mechanics near equilibrium. Driving a system beyond the linear response regime leads to (i) the breakdown of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and (ii) a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-10 Thomas Speck

In macroscopic systems, velocity-dependent phenomenological forces $F(v)$ are used to model friction, feedback devices or self-propulsion. Such forces usually include a dissipative component which conceals the fast energy exchanges with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-11 Luca Cerino , Andrea Puglisi

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

We investigate how to coherently define entropy production for a process of transient relaxation in the Quantum Brownian Motion model for harmonic potential. We compare a form, called "Poised" (P), which after non-Markovian transients…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lorenzo Pucci , Massimiliano Esposito , Luca Peliti

In finite-dimensional quantum systems, temperature cannot be uniquely defined. This, in turn, implies that there are several ways to define entropy production in finite-dimensional quantum systems, because the classical entropy production…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Tomohiro Nishiyama , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We propose a stochastic dynamics to be associated to a deterministic motion defined by a set of first order differential equation. The transitions that defined the stochastic dynamics are unidirectional and the rates are equal to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-13 Mário J. de Oliveira

An optimal finite-time process drives a given initial distribution to a given final one in a given time at the lowest cost as quantified by total entropy production. We prove that for system with discrete states this optimal process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-15 Benedikt Remlein , Udo Seifert

We analyze the probability distribution for entropy production rates of trajectories evolving on a class of out-of-equilibrium kinetic networks. These networks can serve as simple models for driven dynamical systems, which are of particular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-05 Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan , Todd R. Gingrich , Phillip L. Geissler

Entropy might be a not well defined concept if the system can undergo transformations involving stationary nonequilibria. It might be analogous to the heat content (once called ``caloric'') in transformations that are not isochoric (i.e.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Gallavotti

We present a general framework for deriving entropy production rates (EPRs) in active matter systems driven by non-Gaussian active fluctuations. Employing the probability-flow equivalence technique, we rigorously obtain an entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yuanfei Huang , Chengyu Liu , Bing Miao , Xiang Zhou

*First-principles derivation of the entropy production in erectric static conduction. *The second-order (symmetric) density matrix contributes to the entropy production. *New schemes of steady states formulated using a relaxation-type von…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-31 Masuo Suzuki

Transferring a physical system from an initial to a final state while minimizing energetic losses is an interdisciplinary control problem that bridges stochastic thermodynamics and optimal transport theory. Recent research typically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Jann van der Meer , Andreas Dechant

Applying the theory of self-adjoint extensions of Hermitian operators to Koopman von Neumann classical mechanics, the most general set of probability distributions is found for which entropy is conserved by Hamiltonian evolution. A new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-24 Gerard McCaul , Alexander Pechen , Denys I. Bondar