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In this paper, we identify a class of time-varying port-Hamiltonian systems that is suitable for studying problems at the intersection of statistical mechanics and control of physical systems. Those port-Hamiltonian systems are able to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jean-Charles Delvenne , Henrik Sandberg

We consider damped stochastic systems in a controlled (time-varying) quadratic potential and study their transition between specified Gibbs-equilibria states in finite time. By the second law of thermodynamics, the minimum amount of work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-23 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

The study of stochastic thermodynamic machines is one of the main topics in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In this study, within the framework of Fokker-Planck equation, and using the method of characteristics of partial differential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-03 Yunxin Zhang

Thermal management is a major challenge in next-generation high-performance computing systems, particularly for heterogeneous multi-chip packages such as the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip. In this work, a physics-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Michael Acquah , Zheng Liu

Parallel tempering, also known as replica exchange sampling, is an important method for simulating complex systems. In this algorithm simulations are conducted in parallel at a series of temperatures, and the key feature of the algorithm is…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-14 Paul Dupuis , Yufei Liu , Nuria Plattner , J. D. Doll

We look into the minimisation of the connection time between non-equilibrium steady states. As a prototypical example of an intrinsically non-equilibrium system, a driven granular gas is considered. For time-independent driving, its natural…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-26 A. Prados

In this paper we proposed two new quasi-boundary value methods for regularizing the ill-posed backward heat conduction problems. With a standard finite difference discretization in space and time, the obtained all-at-once nonsymmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Jun Liu

We study the problem of state transition on a finite time interval with minimal energy supply for linear port-Hamiltonian systems. While the cost functional of minimal energy supply is intrinsic to the port-Hamiltonian structure, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Timm Faulwasser , Jonas Kirchhoff , Volker Mehrmann , Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

The in vitro transcription (IVT) process is a critical step in RNA production. To ensure the efficiency of RNA manufacturing, it is essential to optimize and identify its key influencing factors. In this study, multiple Gaussian Process…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-01 Min Tao , Adithya Nair , Ioanna Kalospyrou , Robert A Milton , Mabrouka Maamra , Zoltan Kis , Joan Cordiner , Solomon F Brown

Equalities are generally more suitable for experimental verification than inequalities. In this work, I derive valid equalities from the Euler-Lagrange equation for the optimization of macroscopic thermodynamic averages in weakly driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-06 Pierre Nazé

We review several parallel tempering schemes and examine their main ingredients for accuracy and efficiency. The present study covers two selection methods of temperatures and several choices for the exchange of replicas, including a recent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Malakis , T. Papakonstantinou

Fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities become non-negligible and play an important role when the system size is small. We develop finite-time thermodynamics of fluctuations in microscopic heat engines whose environmental temperature and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-16 Gentaro Watanabe , Yuki Minami

A fundamental result of thermodynamic geometry is that the optimal, minimal-work protocol that drives a nonequilibrium system between two thermodynamic states in the slow-driving limit is given by a geodesic of the friction tensor, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-24 Adrianne Zhong , Michael R. DeWeese

Fine-tuning flow matching models is a central challenge in settings with limited data, evolving distributions, or strict efficiency demands, where unconstrained fine-tuning can erode the accuracy and efficiency gains learned during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Gudrun Thorkelsdottir , Arindam Banerjee

This paper presents a novel space-time topology optimisation framework for time-dependent thermal conduction problems, aiming to significantly reduce the time-to-solution. By treating time as an additional spatial dimension, we discretise…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Joe Alexandersen , Magnus Appel

We study the thermodynamic cost associated with driving systems between different non-equilibrium steady states. In particular, we combine a linear-response framework for non-equilibrium Markov systems with Lagrangian techniques to minimize…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-18 Dana Kamp , Karel Proesmans

We study the applicability of the {\it parallel tempering method} (PT) in the investigation of first- order phase transitions. In this method, replicas of the same system are simulated simultaneously at different temperatures and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carlos E. Fiore

The objective of designing a control system is to steer a dynamical system with a control signal, guiding it to exhibit the desired behavior. The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equation offers a framework for optimal…

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The parallel dynamics of the fully connected Blume-Emery-Griffiths neural network model is studied for arbitrary temperature. By employing a probabilistic signal-to-noise approach, a recursive scheme is found determining the time evolution…

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