English
Related papers

Related papers: Non Equilibrium Transitions in a Polymer Replicati…

200 papers

A fundamental problem in protobiological dynamics is to understand how chemically generated polymers can form persistent sequence distributions before the emergence of replication. We study deterministic polymer growth in which each finite…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-06 J. Medina Diaz , F. Peña-Garcia , Irbin Llanqui

We introduce Equilibrium Matching (EqM), a generative modeling framework built from an equilibrium dynamics perspective. EqM discards the non-equilibrium, time-conditional dynamics in traditional diffusion and flow-based generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Runqian Wang , Yilun Du

We present a thermodynamic theory for a generic population of $M$ individuals distributed into $N$ groups (clusters). We construct the ensemble of all distributions with fixed $M$ and $N$, introduce a selection functional that embodies the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-19 Themis Matsoukas

Thermodynamic irreversibility is well characterized by the entropy production arising from non-equilibrium quantum processes. We show that the entropy production of a quantum system undergoing open-system dynamics can be formally split into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Jader P. Santos , Lucas C. Céleri , Gabriel T. Landi , Mauro Paternostro

In engineering, it is a common desire to couple existing simulation tools together into one big system by passing information from subsystems as parameters into the subsystems under influence. As executed at fixed time points, this data…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Thilo Moshagen

Non-equilibrium states of a thermodynamic statistical system are investigated using the thermodynamic parameter of the system lifetime, first-passage time, the time before degeneration of the system under influence of fluctuations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-19 V. V. Ryazanov

We consider an equilibrium single-species homogeneous Bose gas from which a proportion of the atoms are instantaneously and coherently transferred to a second species, thereby forming a binary Bose gas in a non-equilibrium initial state. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-22 R. W. Pattinson , N. P. Proukakis , N. G. Parker

We study the coupled dynamics of two populations of random replicators by means of statistical mechanics methods, and focus on the effects of relative population size, strategy correlations and heterogeneities in the respective co-operation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-11-02 Tobias Galla

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics has long been an area of substantial interest to ecologists because most fundamental biological processes, such as protein synthesis and respiration, are inherently energy-consuming. Microbial communities are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Jacob Cook , Samraat Pawar , Robert G. Endres

Entropy is a central concept in physics, but can be challenging to calculate even for systems that are easily simulated. This is exacerbated out of equilibrium, where generally little is known about the distribution characterizing simulated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-09 Samuel D. Gelman , Guy Cohen

Maximum-entropy ensembles are key primitives in statistical mechanics from which thermodynamic properties can be derived. Over the decades, several approaches have been put forward in order to justify from minimal assumptions the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-13 Paul Boes , Henrik Wilming , Jens Eisert , Rodrigo Gallego

We constructed a model that evolved from a non-equilibrium state to an equilibrium state. The model only needs two basic coefficients, including self-similar coefficients and non-equilibrium coefficients. The coefficients of the model can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-24 Zhifu Huang , Yuqing Wang

Mean field replica theory is employed to analyze the freezing transition of random heteropolymers comprised of an arbitrary number ($q$) of types of monomers. Our formalism assumes that interactions are short range and heterogeneity comes…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Vijay S. Pande , Alexander Yu. Grosberg , Toyoichi Tanaka

The characterization of collective behavior and nonequilibrium phase transitions in quantum systems is typically rooted in the analysis of suitable system observables, so-called order parameters. These observables might not be known a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Erik Fitzner , Francesco Carnazza , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

We propose a class of evolutionary models that involves an arbitrary exchangeable process as the breeding process and different selection schemes. In those models, a new genome is born according to the breeding process, and then a genome is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jüri Lember , Chris Watkins

We study the full out-of-thermal-equilibrium dynamics of a relativistic classical scalar field through a symmetry breaking phase transition. In these circumstances we determine the evolution of the ensemble averages of the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 N. D. Antunes , L. M. A. Bettencourt

In this paper, we deal with the equilibrium selection problem, which amounts to steering a population of individuals engaged in strategic game-theoretic interactions to a desired collective behavior. In the literature, this problem has been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Lorenzo Zino , Mengbin Ye , Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore , Alessandro Rizzo

A central problem in machine learning involves modeling complex data-sets using highly flexible families of probability distributions in which learning, sampling, inference, and evaluation are still analytically or computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Eric A. Weiss , Niru Maheswaranathan , Surya Ganguli

Open quantum systems that comply with the master equation and detailed balance decay in a non-oscillatory manner to thermal equilibrium. Beyond the weak coupling limit, systems that break microreversibility (e.g., in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Shay Blum , David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky

Understanding under what conditions it is possible to construct equivalent ensembles is key to advancing our ability to connect microscopic and macroscopic properties of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. In the case of fluid dynamical…