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We formulate nonequilibrium thermodynamics in which intensive variables acquire operational meaning through measurement protocols consistent with local reciprocity. Using physical equilibrium as a reference, conjugate observables are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-09 Akihisa Ichiki

We further develop a recently introduced variational principle of stationary action for problems in nonconservative classical mechanics and extend it to classical field theories. The variational calculus used is consistent with an initial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Chad R. Galley , David Tsang , Leo C. Stein

Non-reciprocal interactions fueled by local energy consumption can be found in biological and synthetic active matter at scales where viscoelastic forces are important. Such systems can be described by "odd" viscoelasticity, which assumes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Carlos Floyd , Aaron R. Dinner , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

In this paper, we develop a variational foundation for stochastic thermodynamics of finite-dimensional, continuous-time systems. Requiring the second law (non-negative average total entropy production) systematically yields a consistent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Héctor Vaquero del Pino , François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura , Lock Yue Chew

The formation of dynamical patterns is one of the most striking features of nonequilibrium physical systems. Recent work has shown that such patterns arise generically from forces that violate Newton's third law, known as nonreciprocal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-26 James Mason , Robert L. Jack , Maria Bruna

We derive the equations of nonlinear magnetoelastostatics using several variational formulations involving the mechanical deformation and an independent field representing the magnetic component. An equivalence is also discussed, modulo…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Basant Lal Sharma , Prashant Saxena

The dynamics of some non-conservative and dissipative systems can be derived by calculating the first variation of an action-dependent action, according to the variational principle of Herglotz. This is directly analogous to the variational…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Joseph Ryan

We propose a systematic formulation of the migration behaviors of a vesicle in a Poiseuille flow based on Onsager's variational principle. Our model is described by a combination of the phase field theory for the vesicle and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-03 Yutaka Oya , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

The standard lore in noncommutative physics is the use of first order variational description of a dynamical system to probe the space noncommutativity and its consequences in the dynamics in phase space. As the ultimate goal is to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ignacio Cortese , J. Antonio Garcia

This note presents an attempt to provide a conceptual framework for variational formulations of classical physics. Variational principles of physics have all a common source in the {\it principle of virtual work} well known in statics of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew

By considering a thermodynamic force as gauge field, we extend constitutive equations of Onsager's non-equilibrium thermodynamics to non-linear equations. In Onsager's non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the thermodynamic force corresponds to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-15 So Katagiri

A variational principle is proposed for obtaining the Jacobi equations in systems admitting a Lagrangian description. The variational principle gives simultaneously the Lagrange equations of motion and the Jacobi variational equations for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. N. Núñez-Yépez , A. L. Salas-Brito

Odd fluids are a class of fluids characterized by non-zero antisymmetric transport coefficient tensors induced by broken time-reversal symmetry. In our previous work, a mesoscale simulation model for two-dimensional isotropic odd fluids was…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-07 Yuxing Jiao , Mingcheng Yang

We investigate the statistical properties of fluctuations in active systems that are governed by non-symmetric responses. Both an underdamped Langevin system with an odd resistance tensor and an overdamped Langevin system with an odd…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-13 Kento Yasuda , Kenta Ishimoto , Akira Kobayashi , Li-Shing Lin , Isamu Sou , Yuto Hosaka , Shigeyuki Komura

We are describing relations between Schr\"odinger's variational problem and Onsager's approach to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. Although the second work on reciprocal relations and detailed balance has been published in the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-03 Qiao Huang , Jean-Claude Zambrini

We investigate emergent dynamics due to non-reciprocity in the $\mathcal{O}(2)$ model. The lattice XY model, where non-reciprocity stems from vision cone like couplings, can be described by a continuum description in which non-reciprocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Ylann Rouzaire , Daniel JG Pearce , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Demian Levis

This work is devoted to the study of dissipative fluid systems, through the lens of a geometric variational formulation. Building upon previous works extending Hamilton's principle to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the present method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Bastien Manach-Pérennou , François Gay-Balmaz

A formal methodology for developing variational principles corresponding to a given nonlinear PDE system is discussed. The scheme is demonstrated in the context of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, systems of first-order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Amit Acharya

In this note we propose a basic $L^2$-based approach for studying the global and local energy equalities of the incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes equations in the standard energy class on $\mathbb{T}^3 \times (0,T]$. Motivated by L. Onsager's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Hamid A. Said

We derive the second-order hydrodynamic equation for reactive multi-component systems from the relativistic Boltzmann equation. In the reactive system, particles can change their species under the restriction of the imposed conservation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-28 Yuta Kikuchi , Kyosuke Tsumura , Teiji Kunihiro