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We give the explicit structure of the functional governing the dynamical density and current fluctuations for a mesoscopic system in a nonequilibrium steady state. Its canonical form determines a generalised Onsager-Machlup theory. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-07 Christian Maes , Karel Netočný

In this paper, we follow in the footsteps of Onsager and Machlup (OM) and consider diffusion-like paths that are explored by a particle moving via a conservative force while being in thermal equilibrium with its surroundings. Instead of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-03 P. J. Malsom , F. J. Pinski

We analytically describe the decay to equilibrium of generic observables of a non-integrable system after a perturbation in the form of a random matrix. We further obtain an analytic form for the time-averaged fluctuations of an observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Charlie Nation , Diego Porras

This work is devoted to deriving the Onsager-Machlup function for a class of stochastic dynamical systems under (non-Gaussian) Levy noise as well as (Gaussian) Brownian noise, and examining the corresponding most probable paths. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ying Chao , Jinqiao Duan

A principle is proposed according to which the dynamics of a quantum particle in a one-dimensional configuration space (OCS) is determined by a variational problem for two functionals: one is based on the mean value of the Hamilton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 N. L. Chuprikov

Using the scheme of mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics, we construct the one- and two- particle Fokker-Planck equations for a system of interacting Brownian particles. By means of these equations we derive the corresponding balance…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Mayorga , L. Romero-Salazar , J. M. Rubi

The paper presents a versatile framework for solids which undergo nonisothermal processes with irreversibly changing microstructure at large strains. It outlines rate-type and incremental variational principles for the full thermomechanical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Stephan Teichtmeister , Marc-Andre Keip

By using the Onsager variational principle as an approximation tool, we develop a new diffusion generated motion method for wetting problems. The method uses a signed distance function to represent the interface between the liquid and vapor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Song Lu , Xianmin Xu

In order to describe the dynamics of crowded ions (charged particles), we use an energetic variation approach to derive a modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) system which includes an extra dissipation due to the effective velocity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Chia-Yu Hsieh , YunKyong Hyon , Hijin Lee , Tai-Chia Lin , Chun Liu

In this work a generalization of Onsager-Machlup's theory of time-dependent thermal fluctuations of equilibrium systems is proposed, to the case in which the system relaxes irreversibly along a non-equilibrium trajectory that can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-05 M. Medina-Noyola

This work is devoted to deriving the Onsager-Machlup action functional for stochastic partial differential equations with (non-Gaussian) Levy process as well as Gaussian Brownian motion. This is achieved by applying the Girsanov…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Jianyu Hu , Jinqiao Duan

By using the Onsager principle as an approximation tool, we give a novel derivation for the moving finite element method for gradient flow equations. We show that the discretized problem has the same energy dissipation structure as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Xianmin Xu

In this work, a second order smoothed particle hydrodynamics is derived for the study of relativistic heavy ion collisions. The hydrodynamical equation of motion is formulated in terms of the variational principle. In order to describe the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Philipe Mota , Weixian Chen , Wei-Liang Qian

In this paper we formulate a dynamical fluctuation theory for stationary non equilibrium states (SNS) which covers situations in a nonlinear hydrodynamic regime and is verified explicitly in stochastic models of interacting particles. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-18 L. Bertini , A. De Sole , D. Gabrielli , G. Jona-Lasinio , C. Landim

The concept of entropy has been pivotal in the formulation of thermodynamics. For systems driven away from thermal equilibrium, a comparable role is played by entropy production and dissipation. Here we provide a comprehensive picture how…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-15 Robin Bebon , Joshua F. Robinson , Thomas Speck

The classical theory of Brownian dynamics follows from coarse-graining the underlying linearized fluctuating hydrodynamics of the solvent. We extend this procedure to globally non-isothermal conditions, requiring only a local thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-06 G. Falasco , K. Kroy

We establish an averaging principle for a structural multiscale stochastic nonlinear fractional Schr\"odinger system on the one-dimensional torus driven by a multiplicative Wiener noise. The slow component is governed by a fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Manil T. Mohan , Debopriya Mukherjee , Sandip Roy

We present a new approach to far-from-equilibrium statistical mechanics, based on the concept of generalized entropy, which is a microscopically-defined generalization of Onsager-Machlup functional. In the case when a set of slow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei V. Tkachenko

We propose score-based VAMP (SC-VAMP), a variant of vector approximate message passing (VAMP) in which the Onsager correction is expressed and computed via conditional Fisher information, thereby enabling a Jacobian-free implementation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tadashi Wadayama , Takumi Takahashi

The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process can be seen as a paradigm of a finite-variance and statistically stationary rough random walk. Furthermore, it is defined as the unique solution of a Markovian stochastic dynamics and shares the same local…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Laurent Chevillard , Marc Lagoin , Stephane G. Roux