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Entropy production is arguably the most universally applicable measure of non-equilibrium behavior, particularly for systems coupled to a heat bath. This setting encompasses driven soft matter as well as biomolecular, biochemical, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Udo Seifert

In this paper, we study the small noise behaviour of solutions of a non-linear second order Langevin equation $\ddot x^\varepsilon_t +|\dot x^\varepsilon_t|^\beta=\dot Z^\varepsilon_{\varepsilon t}$, $\beta\in\mathbb R$, driven by symmetric…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Alexei Kulik , Ilya Pavlyukevich

We study irreversible processes for nonlinear oscillators networks described by complex-valued Langevin equations that account for coupling to different thermo-chemical baths. Dissipation is introduced via non-Hermitian terms in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Simone Borlenghi , Stefano Iubini , Stefano Lepri , Jonas Fransson

We study a fairly general class of time-homogeneous stochastic evolutions driven by noises that are not white in time. As a consequence, the resulting processes do not have the Markov property. In this setting, we obtain constructive…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-12 M. Hairer

Stochastic thermodynamics and the associated fluctuation relations provide the means to extend the fundamental laws of thermodynamics to small scales and systems out of equilibrium. The fluctuating thermodynamic variables are usually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-29 Aki Kutvonen , Tapio Ala-Nissilä , Jukka P. Pekola

The total entropy production and its three constituent components are described both as fluctuating trajectory-dependent quantities and as averaged contributions in the context of the continuous Markovian dynamics, described by stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Richard E. Spinney , Ian J. Ford

This paper studies time-inhomogeneous nonequilibrium diffusion processes, including both Brownian dynamics and Langevin dynamics. We derive upper bounds of the relative entropy production of the time-inhomogeneous process with respect to…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Wei Zhang

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 analyze the stochastic thermodynamics of systems with continuous space of states. The evolution equation, the rate of entropy production, and other results are obtained by a continuous time limit of a discrete time formulation. We point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-27 Mário J. de Oliveira

The entropy production of a nonequilibrium system with broken detailed balance is a random variable whose mean value is nonnegative. Among the total entropy production, the housekeeping entropy production is associated with the heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-30 Hyun-Myung Chun , Jae Dong Noh

We investigate the total stochastic entropy production of a two-level bosonic open quantum system under protocols of time dependent coupling to a harmonic environment. These processes are intended to represent the measurement of a system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 D. Matos , L. Kantorovich , I. J. Ford

For a Markov process the detailed balance condition is equivalent to the time-reversibility of the process. For stochastic differential equations (SDE's) time discretization numerical schemes usually destroy the property of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Markos Katsoulakis , Yannis Pantazis , Luc Rey-Bellet

The act of measuring a system has profound consequences of dynamical and thermodynamic nature. In particular, the degree of irreversibility ensuing from a non-equilibrium process is strongly affected by measurements aimed at acquiring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Alessio Belenchia , Mauro Paternostro , Gabriel T. Landi

Non-reciprocal interactions are present in many systems out of equilibrium. The rate of entropy production is a measure that quantifies the time irreversibility of a system, and thus how far it is from equilibrium. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-28 Ziluo Zhang , Rosalba Garcia-Millan

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

There are only a very few known relations in statistical dynamics that are valid for systems driven arbitrarily far-from-equilibrium. One of these is the fluctuation theorem, which places conditions on the entropy production probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-25 Gavin E. Crooks

The entropy production rate is a central quantity in non-equilibrium statistical physics, scoring how far a stochastic process is from being time-reversible. In this paper, we compute the entropy production of diffusion processes at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-19 Lancelot Da Costa , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

A positive rate of entropy production at steady state is a distinctive feature of truly non-equilibrium processes. Exact results, while being often limited to simple models, offer a unique opportunity to explore the thermodynamic features…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-29 Henry Alston , Luca Cocconi , Thibault Bertrand

A generalization of the entropy production rate is proposed $\Pi_q$ in non-equilibrium systems by extending the formalism of classical stochastic thermodynamics to regimes with non-Gaussian fluctuations. Through the R\'enyi entropy $S_q$ ,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-02 J. M. Nieto-Villar , R. Mansilla , I. Santamaria-Holek

We characterize the possible moments of entropy production for general overdamped Markovian systems. We find a general formulation of the problem, and derive a new necessary condition between the second and third moment. We determine all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-02 Jean-Charles Delvenne , Léopold Van Brandt