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We explore the consequences of a deterministic microscopic thermostat-reservoir contact mechanism. With different temperature reservoirs at each end of a two-dimensional system, a heat current is produced and the system has an anomalous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gary P. Morriss , Daniel P. Truant

Entropy is one of the key thermodynamic variables reflecting changes in the state of matter. Unlike other thermodynamic variables, it is well-defined also for nonequilibrium steady states through its relation to information. Applying this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) express a fundamental tradeoff between the precision (inverse scaled variance) of any thermodynamic current by functionals of the average entropy production. Relying on purely variational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-28 Kyle J. Ray , Alexander B. Boyd , Giacomo Guarnieri , James P. Crutchfield

Entropy production is a universal measure of irreversibility and energy dissipation in physical, chemical, and biological systems operating far from equilibrium. However, quantifying and spatiotemporally localising it in complex processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Biswajit Das , Sreekanth K Manikandan

Physical systems that power motion and create structure in a fixed amount of time dissipate energy and produce entropy. Whether living or synthetic, systems performing these dynamic functions must balance dissipation and speed. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-18 Schuyler B. Nicholson , Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos , Adolfo del Campo , Jason R. Green

Thermo-Kinetic relations bound thermodynamic quantities such as entropy production with statistics of dynamical observables. We introduce a Thermo-Kinetic Relation to bound the entropy production or the non-adiabatic (Hatano-Sasa, excess)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-06 Jean-Charles Delvenne , Gianmaria Falasco

Thermodynamic relations are derived from first principles of mechanics for non-equilibrium processes. Since the key role herein is played by the law of increase of entropy, the latter is analyzed at first. It is shown that its derivation…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Kumicak , X. de Hemptinne

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-30 Jordan M. Horowitz , Todd R. Gingrich

The total entropy production of stochastic systems can be divided into three quantities. The first corresponds to the excess heat, whilst the second two comprise the house-keeping heat. We denote these two components the transient and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Richard E. Spinney , Ian J. Ford

Recently, the theoretical framework of stochastic thermodynamics has been revealed to be useful for macroscopic systems. However, despite its conceptual and practical importance, the connection to hydrodynamics has yet to be explored. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-21 Kohei Yoshimura , Sosuke Ito

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) describes a trade-off relation between nonequilibrium currents and entropy production and serves as a fundamental principle of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. However, currently known TURs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-30 Kangqiao Liu , Zongping Gong , Masahito Ueda

We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) under quantum continuous measurement and feedback control. By incorporating the quantum-classical-transfer entropy, which quantifies the information gained by continuous measurement, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-20 Kaito Tojo , Takahiro Sagawa , Ken Funo

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) has been well studied for systems with few degrees of freedom. While, in principle, the TUR holds for more complex systems with many interacting degrees of freedom as well, little is known so far…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-22 Timur Koyuk , Udo Seifert

Several recent inequalities bound the precision of a current - counting net number of transitions in a system - by a thermodynamic measure of dissipation. However, while currents may be defined locally, dissipation is a global property.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-28 Matteo Polettini , Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

The problem of estimating entropy production from incomplete information in stochastic thermodynamics is essential for theory and experiments. Whereas a considerable amount of work has been done on this topic, arguably, most of it is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-17 Pedro E. Harunari , Carlos E. Fiore , Andre C. Barato

Thermodynamic force and irreversible current are the foundational concepts of classical nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Entropy production rate is provided by their product in classical systems, ranging from mesoscopic to macroscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-29 Kohei Yoshimura , Yoh Maekawa , Ryuna Nagayama , Sosuke Ito

The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy production cannot be negative. Recent developments concerning uncertainty relations in stochastic thermodynamics, such as thermodynamic uncertainty relations and speed limits, have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-09 Tomohiro Nishiyama , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The rate of entropy production by a stochastic process quantifies how far it is from thermodynamic equilibrium. Equivalently, entropy production captures the degree to which detailed balance and time-reversal symmetry are broken. Despite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-02 Luca Cocconi , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Zigan Zhen , Bianca Buturca , Gunnar Pruessner

We show that macroscopic irreversible thermodynamics for viscous fluids can be derived from exact information-theoretic thermodynamic identities valid at the microscale. Entropy production, in particular, is a measure of the loss of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-17 Danilo Forastiere , Francesco Avanzini , Massimiliano Esposito

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