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Stochastic thermodynamics (ST) for delayed Langevin systems are discussed. By using the general principles of ST, the first-law-like energy balance and trajectory-dependent entropy s(t) can be well-defined in a similar way as that in a…

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The thermodynamic uncertainty relation offers a universal energetic constraint on the relative magnitude of current fluctuations in nonequilibrium steady states. However, it has only been derived for long observation times. Here, we prove a…

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Biochemical reactions are fundamentally noisy at a molecular scale. This limits the precision of reaction networks, but also allows fluctuation measurements which may reveal the structure and dynamics of the underlying biochemical network.…

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The classical theory of linear response applies to statistical mechanics close to equilibrium. Away from equilibrium, one may describe the microscopic time evolution by a general differentiable dynamical system, identify nonequilibrium…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Ruelle

We present a theoretical framework to understand a modified fluctuation-dissipation theorem valid for systems close to non-equilibrium steady-states and obeying markovian dynamics. We discuss the interpretation of this result in terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Verley , K. Mallick , D. Lacoste

We connect the rare fluctuations of an Equilibrium (EQ) process and the typical fluctuations of a nonequilibrium (NE) stationary process. In the framework of large deviation theory, this observation allows us to introduce NE thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Gatien Verley

The use of linear response theory for forced dissipative stochastic dynamical systems through the fluctuation dissipation theorem is an attractive way to study climate change systematically among other applications. Here, a mathematically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Martin Hairer , Andrew J Majda

For fluctuating currents in non-equilibrium steady states, the recently discovered thermodynamic uncertainty relation expresses a fundamental relation between their variance and the overall entropic cost associated with the driving. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-12 Patrick Pietzonka , Felix Ritort , Udo Seifert

The synchronization of power generators is an important condition for the proper functioning of a power system, in which the fluctuations in frequency and the phase angle differences between the generators are sufficiently small when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Zhen Wang , Kaihua Xi , Aijie Cheng , Hai Xiang Lin , André C. M. Ran , Jan H. van Schuppen , Chenghui Zhang

Phase transitions, sharp in the thermodynamic limit, get smeared in finite systems where macroscopic order-parameter fluctuations dominate. Achieving a coherent and complete theoretical description of these fluctuations is a central…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-06 Rupak Majumder , Julien Barré , Shamik Gupta

Biological machines like molecular motors and enzymes operate in dynamic cycles representable as stochastic flows on networks. Current stochastic dynamics describes such flows on fixed networks. Here, we develop a scalable approach to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-02 Ying-Jen Yang , Ken A. Dill

We extend the work of Kurchan on the Gallavotti-Cohen fluctuation theorem, which yields a symmetry property of the large deviation function, to general Markov processes. These include jump processes describing the evolution of stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Joel. L. Lebowitz , Herbert Spohn

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

Fluctuation theorems make use of time reversal to make predictions about entropy production in many-body systems far from thermal equilibrium. Here we review the wide variety of distinct, but interconnected, relations that have been derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-08-02 R. J. Harris , G. M. Schütz

We study a large deviation functional of density fluctuation by analyzing stochastic non-linear diffusion equations driven by the difference between the densities fixed at the boundaries. By using a fundamental equality that yields the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shin-ichi Sasa

This paper studies the impacts of stochastic load fluctuations, namely the fluctuation intensity and the load power variation speed, on power system dynamic voltage stability. Additionally, the trade-off relationship between the two…

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Stochastic thermodynamics is a framework for describing non-equilibrium processes at the level of fluctuating trajectories, where the state of a system evolves as a stochastic time series, allowing thermodynamic quantities such as work,…

Stochastic differential equations are ubiquitous modelling tools in physics and the sciences. In most modelling scenarios, random fluctuations driving dynamics or motion have some non-trivial temporal correlation structure, which renders…

Fluctuation theorems are a generalization of thermodynamics on small scales and provide the tools to characterize the fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities in non-equilibrium nanoscale systems. They are particularly important for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 Jan Gieseler , Romain Quidant , Christoph Dellago , Lukas Novotny

For non-equilibrium systems described by finite Markov processes, we consider the number of times that a system traverses a cyclic sequence of states (a cycle). The joint distribution of the number of forward and backward instances of any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-11 Patrick Pietzonka , Jules Guioth , Robert L. Jack
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