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Modern methods of generative modelling and unpaired data translation based on Schr\"odinger bridges and stochastic optimal control theory aim to transform an initial density to a target one in an optimal way. In the present paper, we assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nikita Puchkin , Denis Suchkov , Alexey Naumov , Denis Belomestny

We study a relationship between optimal transport theory and stochastic thermodynamics for the Fokker-Planck equation. We show that the lower bound on the entropy production is the action measured by the path length of the $L^2$-Wasserstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-02 Muka Nakazato , Sosuke Ito

This archiving article consists of several short reports on the discussions between the two authors over the past two years at Oxford and Madrid, and their work carried out during that period on the upper bound of the Kullback-Leibler…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Min Chen , Mateu Sbert

We establish a connection between non-Markovianity and negative entropy production rate for various classes of quantum operations. We analyse several aspects of unital and thermal operations in connection with resource theories of purity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Bihalan Bhattacharya , A. S. Majumdar

In stochastic thermodynamics, the entropy production of a thermodynamic system is defined by the irreversibility measured by the logarithm of the ratio of the path probabilities in the forward and reverse processes. We derive the relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hyun-Myung Chun , Jae Dong Noh

An invariant state of a quantum Markov semigroup is an equilibrium state if it satisfies a quantum detailed balance condition. In this paper, we introduce a notion of entropy production for faithful normal invariant states of a quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Franco Fagnola , Rolando Rebolledo

Sampling in score-based diffusion models can be performed by solving either a reverse-time stochastic differential equation (SDE) parameterized by an arbitrary time-dependent stochasticity parameter or a probability flow ODE, corresponding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Bernardo P. Schaeffer , Ricardo M. S. Rosa , Glauco Valle

Nonequilibrium processes break time-reversal symmetry and generate entropy. Living systems are driven out-of-equilibrium at the microscopic level of molecular motors that exploit chemical potential gradients to transduce free energy to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-06 Eden Nitzan , Aishani Ghosal , Gili Bisker

Entropy production in stochastic mechanical systems is examined here with strict bounds on its rate. Stochastic mechanical systems include pure diffusions in Euclidean space or on Lie groups, as well as systems evolving on phase space for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Gregory S. Chirikjian

We show that under local detailed balance the expected entropy production rate is always bounded in terms of the dynamical activity. The activity refers to the time-symmetric contribution in the action functional for path-space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-25 Christian Maes

We establish a general lower bound for the entropy production rate (EPR) based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the Logarithmic-Sobolev constant that characterizes the time-scale of relaxation. This bound can be considered as an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-31 Ruicheng Bao , Chaoqun Du , Zhiyu Cao , Zhonghuai Hou

I consider multipartite processes in which there are constraints on each subsystem's rate matrix, restricting which other subsystems can directly affect its dynamics. I derive a strictly nonzero lower bound on the minimal achievable entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-14 David H Wolpert

Entropy production is one of the most important characteristics of non-equilibrium steady states. We study here the steady-state entropy production, both at short times as well as in the long-time limit, of two important classes of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sven Dorosz , Michel Pleimling

We study the entropy production of a system with a finite number of states connected by random transition rates. The stationary entropy production, driven out of equilibrium both by asymmetric transition rates and by an external probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-13 Daniel M. Busiello , Jorge Hidalgo , Amos Maritan

A formula for the transition density of a Markov process defined by an infinite-dimensional stochastic equation is given in terms of the Ornstein--Uhlenbeck bridge and a useful lower estimate on the density is provided. As a consequence,…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Goldys , B. Maslowski

Nonequilibrium steady-state currents, unlike their equilibrium counterparts, continuously dissipate energy into their physical surroundings leading to entropy production and time-reversal symmetry breaking. This letter discusses these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Pankaj Mehta , Natan Andrei

The second law of thermodynamics, which asserts the non-negativity of the average total entropy production of a combined system and its environment, is a direct consequence of applying Jensen's inequality to a fluctuation relation. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-22 Surachate Limkumnerd

Living systems operate far from thermal equilibrium by converting the chemical potential of ATP into mechanical work to achieve growth, replication or locomotion. Given time series observations of intra-, inter- or multicellular processes,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Dominic J. Skinner , Jörn Dunkel

In the general process of eliminating dynamic variables in Markovian models, there exists a difference in the irreversible entropy production between the original and reduced dynamics. We call this difference the hidden entropy production,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Kyogo Kawaguchi , Yohei Nakayama

We consider Pimsner algebras that arise from C*-correspondences of finite rank, as dynamical systems with their rotational action. We revisit the Laca-Neshveyev classification of their equilibrium states at positive inverse temperature…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Evgenios T. A. Kakariadis