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Various lower bounds are established for the entropy of sums, products and their combinations. First, we derive a prime-field analogue of a version of the entropy power inequality established by Tao over torsion-free groups. Next, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Lampros Gavalakis , Marcel K. Goh , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Time-reversal symmetry breaking and entropy production are universal features of nonequilibrium phenomena. Despite its importance in the physics of active and living systems, the entropy production of systems with many degrees of freedom…

Entropy production is the crucial quantity characterizing irreversible phenomena and the second law of thermodynamics. Yet, a ubiquitous definition eludes consensus. Given that entropy production arises from incomplete access to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Adalberto D. Varizi , Pedro S. Correia

Starting from the entropy production being invariant under time reversal, one can (i) easily proof, and understand, many aspects of the linear Onsager relations and (ii) deduce the result that all quadratic Onsager coefficients for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Liu

A general framework to describe a vast majority of biology-inspired systems is to model them as stochastic processes in which multiple couplings are in play at the same time. Molecular motors, chemical reaction networks, catalytic enzymes,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Daniel M. Busiello , Deepak Gupta , Amos Maritan

A rigorous derivation of nonequilibrium entropy production via the path-integral formalism is presented. Entropy production is defined as the entropy change piled in a heat reservoir as a result of a nonequilibrium thermodynamic process. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-28 Chulan Kwon

In finite-dimensional quantum systems, temperature cannot be uniquely defined. This, in turn, implies that there are several ways to define entropy production in finite-dimensional quantum systems, because the classical entropy production…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Tomohiro Nishiyama , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

A quantum statistical expression for the entropy of a nonequilibrium system is defined so as to be consistent with Gibbs' relation, and is shown to corresponds to dynamical variable by introducing analogous to the Heisenberg picture in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Hiroki Majima , Akira Suzuki

Entropy production is often interpreted as a proxy for microscopic disorder or environmental roughness in stochastic systems. We test this interpretation using controlled simulations of overdamped stochastic dynamics on curved surfaces in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Patrick Romanescu

Starting out with an entropy identity, the entropy flux, the entropy production and the corresponding Gibbs and Gibbs-Duhem equations of general-covariant conti\-nuum thermodynamics are established. Non-dissipative materials and equilibria…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 Wolfgang Muschik , Horst-Heino v. Borzeszkowski

We consider conservative quantum evolutions possibly interrupted by macroscopic measurements. When started in a nonequilibrium state, the resulting path-space measure is not time-reversal invariant and the weight of time-reversal breaking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Callens , W. De Roeck , T. Jacobs , C. Maes , K. Netocny

The entropy production is one of the most essential features for systems operating out of equilibrium. The formulation for discrete-state systems goes back to the celebrated Schnakenberg's work and hitherto can be carried out when for each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-15 D. M. Busiello , D. Gupta , A. Maritan

We develop a martingale theory to describe fluctuations of entropy production for open quantum systems in nonequilbrium steady states. Using the formalism of quantum jump trajectories, we identify a decomposition of entropy production into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gonzalo Manzano , Rosario Fazio , Édgar Roldán

This chapter concerns "control volume analysis", the standard engineering tool for the analysis of flow systems, and its application to entropy balance calculations. Firstly, the principles of control volume analysis are enunciated and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-22 Robert K. Niven , Bernd R. Noack

We study the entropy production of Gibbs (equilibrium) measures for chaotic dynamical systems with folding of the phase space. The dynamical chaotic model is that generated by a hyperbolic non-invertible map $f$ on a general basic (possibly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-04-14 Eugen Mihailescu

The stochastic entropy generated during the evolution of a system interacting with an environment may be separated into three components, but only two of these have a non-negative mean. The third component of entropy production is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ian J. Ford , Richard E. Spinney

Entropy production quantifies the breaking of time-reversal symmetry in non-equilibrium systems. Here, we develop a direct method to obtain closed, tractable expressions for entropy production in a broad class of dynamical density…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Antonin Brossollet , Giulio Biroli

We propose an alternative method to compute the entropy production of a classical underdamped nonequilibrium system in a continuous phase space. This approach has the advantage that it is not necessary to distinguish between even and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-23 David Luposchainsky , Haye Hinrichsen

Non-reciprocal interactions are present in many systems out of equilibrium. The rate of entropy production is a measure that quantifies the time irreversibility of a system, and thus how far it is from equilibrium. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-28 Ziluo Zhang , Rosalba Garcia-Millan

Several implications of well-known fluctuation theorems, on the statistical properties of the entropy production, are studied using various approaches. We begin by deriving a tight lower bound on the variance of the entropy production for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Neri Merhav , Yariv Kafri