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A quadratic optimal transport metric on the set of probability measure over $\R^2$ is introduced. The quadratic cost is given by the euclidean norm on $\R^2$ associated to some well chosen symmetric positive matrix, which makes the metric…

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Efficient control schemes that enable fast, high-fidelity operations are essential for any practical quantum computation. However, current optimization protocols are intractable due to stringent requirements imposed by the microscopic…

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For a small system like a colloidal particle or a single biomolecule embedded in a heat bath, the optimal protocol of an external control parameter minimizes the mean work required to drive the system from one given equilibrium state to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tim Schmiedl , Udo Seifert

We derive a geometrical expression of the excess entropy production for quasi-static transitions between nonequilibrium steady states of Markovian jump processes, which can be exactly applied to nonlinear and nonequilibrium situations. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Takahiro Sagawa , Hisao Hayakawa

Thermodynamic computing exploits fluctuations and dissipation in physical systems to efficiently solve various mathematical problems. For example, it was recently shown that certain linear algebra problems can be solved thermodynamically,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-08 Samuel Duffield , Maxwell Aifer , Gavin Crooks , Thomas Ahle , Patrick J. Coles

The length of the geodesic between two data points along a Riemannian manifold, induced by a deep generative model, yields a principled measure of similarity. Current approaches are limited to low-dimensional latent spaces, due to the…

We consider optimization of the average entropy production in inhomogeneous temperature environments within the framework of stochastic thermodynamics. For systems modeled by Langevin equations (e.g. a colloidal particle in a heat bath) it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-14 Stefano Bo , Erik Aurell , Ralf Eichhorn , Antonio Celani

Linear response theory serves as a fundamental tool in the study of quantum transport, extensively employed to elucidate fundamental mechanisms related to the nature of the particles involved and the underlying symmetries. This framework…

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Geometrization of dynamics consists of representing trajectories by geodesics on a configuration space with a suitably defined metric. Previously, efforts were made to show that the analysis of dynamical stability can also be carried out…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-14 Eduardo Cuervo-Reyes , Ramis Movassagh

In this article, we investigate the convergence behavior of two classes of gathering protocols with fixed circulant topologies using tools from dynamical systems. Given a fixed number of mobile entities moving in the Euclidean plane, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Raphael Gerlach , Sören von der Gracht , Michael Dellnitz

Optimal transport is a geometrically intuitive, robust and flexible metric for sample comparison in data analysis and machine learning. Its formal Riemannian structure allows for a local linearization via a tangent space approximation. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Clément Sarrazin , Bernhard Schmitzer

In these lecture notes, partly based on a course taught at the Karpacz Winter School in March 2014, we explore the close connections between non-adiabatic response of a system with respect to macroscopic parameters and the geometry of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-12 Michael Kolodrubetz , Dries Sels , Pankaj Mehta , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Optimal transportation provides a means of lifting distances between points on a geometric domain to distances between signals over the domain, expressed as probability distributions. On a graph, transportation problems can be used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Montacer Essid , Justin Solomon

We consider the problem of optimizing heat transport through an incompressible fluid layer. Modeling passive scalar transport by advection-diffusion, we maximize the mean rate of total transport by a divergence-free velocity field. Subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Charles R. Doering , Ian Tobasco

We consider the optimal transport problem over convex costs arising from optimal control of linear time-invariant(LTI) systems when the initial and target measures are assumed to be supported on the set of equilibrium points of the LTI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Matt Jacobs

Deriving macroscopic phenomenological laws of irreversible thermodynamics from simple microscopic models is one of the tasks of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We consider stationary energy transport in crystals with reference to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Stefano Lepri , Roberto Livi , Antonio Politi

It has been shown that contact geometry is the proper framework underlying classical thermodynamics and that thermodynamic fluctuations are captured by an additional metric structure related to Fisher's Information Matrix. In this work we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 A. Bravetti , C. S. Lopez-Monsalvo , F. Nettel

In this letter, we first redefine our formalism of the thermodynamic geometry introduced in [1,2] by changing coordinates of the thermodynamic space by means of Jacobian matrices. We then show that the geometrothermodynamics (GTD) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-17 Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori , Behrouz Mirza

Optimal transport and information geometry both study geometric structures on spaces of probability distributions. Optimal transport characterizes the cost-minimizing movement from one distribution to another, while information geometry…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Ting-Kam Leonard Wong , Jiaowen Yang

Local thermal equilibrium generally implies the absence of heat flux within a fluid. We find the relations between a set of thermodynamic variables of a fluid on a general spacetime and those defined on a conformally connected spacetime,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-09 Bhera Ram , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi