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We present a new class of fluctuation relations, to which we will refer as Fluctuation Relations for Current Components (FRCCs). FRCCs can be used to estimate system parameters when complete information about nonequilibrium many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Sriram Ganeshan , N. A. Sinitsyn

Using a generalisation of the detailed balance for systems maintained out of equilibrium by contact with 2 reservoirs at unequal temperatures or at unequal densities, we recover the fluctuation theorem for the large deviation funtion of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Bodineau , B. Derrida

We consider fluctuations of the time-averaged current in the one-dimensional weakly-asymmetric exclusion process on a ring. The optimal density profile which sustains a given fluctuation exhibits an instability for low enough currents,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 Carlos P. Espigares , Pedro L. Garrido , Pablo I. Hurtado

We consider fluctuations of the dissipated energy in nonlinear driven diffusive systems subject to bulk dissipation and boundary driving. With this aim, we extend the recently-introduced macroscopic fluctuation theory to nonlinear driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-29 P. I. Hurtado , A. Lasanta , A. Prados

The coarse-graining approach to deriving the quantum Markovian master equation is revisited, with close attention given to the underlying approximations. It is further argued that the time interval over which the coarse-graining is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 J D Cresser , C Facer

In order to illuminate the properties of current fluctuations in more than one dimension, we use a lattice-based Markov process driven into a non-equilibrium steady state. Specifically, we perform a detailed study of the particle current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-21 Rodrigo Villavicencio-Sanchez , Rosemary J. Harris

Quantifying the flow of energy within and through fluctuating nanoscale systems poses a significant challenge to understanding microscopic biological machines. A common approach involves coarse-graining, which allows a simplified…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-12 Steven J Large , David A Sivak

We study fluctuations in diffusion-limited reaction systems driven out of their stationary state. Using a numerically exact method, we investigate fluctuation ratios in various systems which differ by their level of violation of microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven Dorosz , Michel Pleimling

The counting statistics of electron transport is theoretically studied in a system with two capacitively coupled parallel transport channels. Each channel is composed of a quantum dot connected by tunneling to two reservoirs. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito , Pierre Gaspard

Current fluctuations are a powerful tool to unravel the underlying physics of the observed transport process. This work discusses some general properties of the third and the fourth current cumulant (skewness and kurtosis) related to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

We discuss the fluctuation properties of equilibrium chaotic systems with constraints such as iso-kinetic and Nos\'e-Hoover thermostats. Although the dynamics of these systems does not typically preserve phase-space volumes, the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-29 T. Gilbert , J. R. Dorfman

Fluctuation relations are derived in systems where the spin degree of freedom and magnetic interactions play a crucial role. The form of the non-equilibrium fluctuation theorems relies in the assumption of a local balance condition. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-21 Rosa Lopez , Jong Soo Lim , David Sanchez

We present the application of a fluctuating hydrodynamic theory to study current fluctuations in diffusive systems on a semi-infinite line in contact with a reservoir with slow coupling. We show that the distribution of the time-integrated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-04 Soumyabrata Saha , Tridib Sadhu

This article traces the development of fluctuation theory and its deep connection to irreversibility, from equilibrium to near-equilibrium, and finally to far-from-equilibrium systems. Classical fluctuation theorems, which capture the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Sounak Bandyopadhyay , Arnab Ghosh

In this note we discuss a paradigmatic example of interacting particles subject to non conservative external forces and to the action of thermostats consisting of external (finite) reservoirs of particles. We then consider a model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Bonetto , G. Gallavotti , A. Giuliani , F. Zamponi

Macroscopic equations arising out of stochastic particle systems in detailed balance (called dissipative systems or gradient flows) have a natural variational structure, which can be derived from the large-deviation rate functional for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Robert I. A. Patterson , D. R. Michiel Renger , Upanshu Sharma

Understanding the physics of non-equilibrium systems remains as one of the major open questions in statistical physics. This problem can be partially handled by investigating macroscopic fluctuations of key magnitudes that characterise the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-17 A. Lasanta , Pablo I. Hurtado , A. Prados

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

We study large fluctuations of the current in a Dyson gas, a 1D system of particles interacting through a logarithmic potential and subjected to random noise. We adapt the macroscopic fluctuation theory to the Dyson gas and derive two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-03 Rahul Dandekar , P. L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick

We consider a driven Brownian particle, subject to both conservative and non-conservative applied forces, whose probability evolves according to the Kramers equation. We derive a general fluctuation relation, expressing the ratio of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Imparato , L. Peliti