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Entropy production in stochastic mechanical systems is examined here with strict bounds on its rate. Stochastic mechanical systems include pure diffusions in Euclidean space or on Lie groups, as well as systems evolving on phase space for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Gregory S. Chirikjian

We derive a general lower bound on distributions of entropy production in interacting active matter systems. The bound is tight in the limit that interparticle correlations are small and short-ranged, which we explore in four canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-03 Trevor GrandPre , Katherine Klymko , Kranthi K. Mandadapu , David T. Limmer

For a colloidal particle driven by a constant force across a periodic potential, we investigate the distribution of entropy production both experimentally and theoretically. For short trajectories, the fluctuation theorem holds…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Speck , V. Blickle , C. Bechinger , U. Seifert

In some non-equilibrium systems, the distribution of entropy production $p(\Sigma)$ satisfies the detailed fluctuation theorem (DFT), $p(\Sigma)/p(-\Sigma)=\exp(\Sigma)$. When the distribution $p(\Sigma)$ shows time-dependency, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-21 Domingos S. P. Salazar

Out-of-equilibrium systems continuously generate entropy, with its rate of production being a fingerprint of non-equilibrium conditions. In small-scale dissipative systems subject to thermal noise, fluctuations of entropy production are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-19 Prajwal Padmanabha , Daniel Maria Busiello , Amos Maritan , Deepak Gupta

This is a short review of the statistical mechanical definition of entropy production for systems composed of a large number of interacting components. Emphasis is on open systems driven away from equilibrium where the entropy production…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-02 Christian Maes

Entropy production is arguably the most universally applicable measure of non-equilibrium behavior, particularly for systems coupled to a heat bath. This setting encompasses driven soft matter as well as biomolecular, biochemical, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Udo Seifert

Based on trajectory dependent path probability formalism in state space, we derive generalized entropy production fluctuation relations for a quantum system in the presence of measurement and feedback. We have obtained these results for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shubhashis Rana , Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

We revisit the model of a Brownian particle in a heat bath submitted to an actively controlled force proportional to the velocity that leads to thermal noise reduction (cold damping). We investigate the influence of the continuous feedback…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Munakata , M. L. Rosinberg

Fluctuation theorems allow one to make generalised statements about the behaviour of thermodynamic quantities in systems that are driven far from thermal equilibrium. In this article we use Crooks' fluctuation theorem to understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 M. J. Kewming , S. Shrapnel

A generalization of the entropy production rate is proposed $\Pi_q$ in non-equilibrium systems by extending the formalism of classical stochastic thermodynamics to regimes with non-Gaussian fluctuations. Through the R\'enyi entropy $S_q$ ,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-02 J. M. Nieto-Villar , R. Mansilla , I. Santamaria-Holek

Fluctuation theorems are key to understanding both fundamental and applied aspects of non-equilibrium thermodynamics of small systems. We study the non-Markovian entropy production fluctuation theorem for the diffusion process of charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-06 K. S. Rodríguez-Vigil , M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

In thermodynamics, entropy production and work quantify irreversibility and the consumption of useful energy, respectively, when a system is driven out of equilibrium. For quantum systems, these quantities can be identified at the…

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 the general process of eliminating dynamic variables in Markovian models, there exists a difference in the irreversible entropy production between the original and reduced dynamics. We call this difference the hidden entropy production,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Kyogo Kawaguchi , Yohei Nakayama

Understanding stochastic thermodynamics of active Brownian particles (ABPs) system has been an important topic in very recent years. In this article we study a general model of active Brownian particle systems by introducing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zhiyu Cao , Jie Su , Huijun Jiang , Zhonghuai Hou

Employing the stochastic wave function method, we study quantum features of stochastic entropy production in nonequilibrium processes of open systems. It is demonstarted that continuous measurements on the environment introduce an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-16 B. Leggio , A. Napoli , A. Messina , H. -P. Breuer

It is argued that a Gibbsian formula for the space-time distribution of microscopic trajectories of a nonequilibrium system provides a unifying framework for recent results on the fluctuations of the entropy production. The variable entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Maes

We propose a method for inferring entropy production (EP) in high-dimensional stochastic systems, including many-body systems and non-Markovian systems with long memory. Standard techniques for estimating EP become intractable in such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-20 Miguel Aguilera , Sosuke Ito , Artemy Kolchinsky

A theory for non-equilibrium systems is derived from a maximum entropy approach similar in spirit to the equilibrium theory given by Gibbs. Requiring Hamilton's principle of stationary action to be satisfied on average during a trajectory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-04 David M. Rogers , Susan B. Rempe