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We discuss the relevance of geometric concepts in the theory of stochastic differential equations for applications to the theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics of small systems. In particular, we show how the Eells-Elworthy-Malliavin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi

In this review we summarize theoretical progress in the field of active matter, placing it in the context of recent experiments. Our approach offers a unified framework for the mechanical and statistical properties of living matter:…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-13 M. C. Marchetti , J. -F. Joanny , S. Ramaswamy , T. B. Liverpool , J. Prost , Madan Rao , R. Aditi Simha

Active matter is a term encompassing particle-based assemblies with some form of self-propulsion, including certain biological systems as well as synthetic systems such as artificial colloidal swimmers, all of which can exhibit a remarkable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 C. Reichhardt , A. Libal , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Thermodynamic length is a metric distance between equilibrium thermodynamic states that asymptotically bounds the dissipation induced by a finite time transformation of a thermodynamic system. By means of thermodynamic length, we first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-27 Carlo Cafaro , Orlando Luongo , Stefano Mancini , Hernando Quevedo

Attention mechanisms are developing into a viable alternative to convolutional layers as elementary building block of NNs. Their main advantage is that they are not restricted to capture local dependencies in the input, but can draw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Thorben Frank , Stefan Chmiela

Thermal energy agitates all matter and its competition with ordering tendencies is one of the most fundamental organizing principles in the physical world. Thus, it is natural to enquire if an effective temperature could result when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-10 Ming Han , Jing Yan , Steve Granick , Erik Luijten

This paper proposes a novel paradigm for machine learning that moves beyond traditional parameter optimization. Unlike conventional approaches that search for optimal parameters within a fixed geometric space, our core idea is to treat the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Di Zhang

We propose a geometric theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, namely geometric thermodynamics, using our recent developments of differential-geometric aspects of entropy production rate in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. By revisiting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-14 Sosuke Ito

In addition to the Riemannian metricization of the thermodynamic state space, local relaxation times offer a natural time scale, too. Generalizing existing proposals, we relate {\it thermodynamic} time scale to the standard kinetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 L. Diosi , K. Kulacsy , B. Lukacs , A. Rácz

For many materials, a precise knowledge of their dispersion spectra is insufficient to predict their ordered phases and physical responses. Instead, these materials are classified by the geometrical and topological properties of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-16 Qiong Ma , Adolfo G. Grushin , Kenneth S. Burch

Active materials are capable of converting free energy into directional motion, giving rise to striking dynamical phenomena. Developing a general understanding of their structure in relation to the underlying non-equilibrium physics would…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-17 Nitin Kumar , Rui Zhang , Juan J. de Pablo , Margaret L. Gardel

This paper develops a mathematical framework that aims to control the temperature and rotational speed in the activation process of a gas turbine in an optimal way. These controls influence the deformation and the stress in the component…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Nicolai Friedlich , Hanno Gottschalk , Georg Vossen

The study of active matter has revealed novel non-equilibrium collective behaviors, illustrating their potential as a new materials platform. However, most works treat active matter as unregulated systems with uniform microscopic energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-08 Martin J Falk , Vahid Alizadehyazdi , Heinrich Jaeger , Arvind Murugan

Active matter consumes energy from the environment and transforms it into mechanical work. Notable examples from biology include cell division, bacterial swarms, and muscle contraction. In this work, we investigate the nature of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-28 Michael J. Landry

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

Despite decades of work in fast reactive planning and control, challenges remain in developing reactive motion policies on non-Euclidean manifolds and enforcing constraints while avoiding undesirable potential function local minima. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Andrew Bylard , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone

We illustrate how geometric gauge forces and topological phase effects emerge in quantum systems without employing assumptions that rely on adiabaticity. We show how geometric magnetism may be harnessed to engineer novel quantum devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Bernard Zygelman

We study the controlled dynamics of the {\it ensembles of points} of a Riemannian manifold $M$. Parameterized ensemble of points of $M$ is the image of a continuous map $\gamma:\Theta \to M$, where $\Theta$ is a compact set of parameters.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Andrei Agrachev , Andrey Sarychev

The metabolic processes complexity is at the heart of energy conversion in living organisms and forms a huge obstacle to develop tractable thermodynamic metabolism models. By raising our analysis to a higher level of abstraction, we develop…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-02 C. Goupil , H. Ouerdane , E. Herbert , Y. D'Angelo , C. Goupil

Thermodynamics provides a unified perspective of thermodynamic properties of various substances. To formulate thermodynamics in the language of sophisticated mathematics, thermodynamics is described by a variety of differential geometries,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Shin-itiro Goto
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