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While invariant measures are widely employed to analyze physical systems when a direct study of pointwise trajectories is intractable, e.g., due to chaos or noise, they cannot uniquely identify the underlying dynamics. Our first result…

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A turbulent flow is maintained by an external supply of kinetic energy, which is eventually dissipated into heat at steep velocity gradients. The scale at which energy is supplied greatly differs from the scale at which energy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-30 Haitao Xu , Alain Pumir , Eberhard Bodenschatz

In this paper we have studied a generalized quantum theory and its consistent classical limit, which possess a well-defined arrow of time in their dynamics. The original quantum theory is defined as analytically dependent on complex time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Asadov , O. V. Kechkin

Strong shockwaves generate entropy quickly and locally. The Newton-Hamilton equations of motion, which underly the dynamics, are perfectly time-reversible. How do they generate the irreversible shock entropy? What are the symptoms of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-14 Wm. G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover

A novel data-driven method for formal verification is proposed to study complex systems operating in safety-critical domains. The proposed approach is able to formally verify discrete-time stochastic dynamical systems against temporal logic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Zhi Zhang , Chenyu Ma , Saleh Soudijani , Sadegh Soudjani

Is a spontaneous perpetual reversal of the arrow of time possible? The out-of-time-ordered correlator (OTOC) is a standard measure of irreversibility, quantum scrambling, and the arrow of time. The question may be thus formulated more…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-04 Berislav Buča

Non-Markovian dynamics detection is one of the most popular subjects in the quantum information science. In this paper, a linear-entropy-based non-Markovianity witness scheme is constructed. The positive definiteness of the Choi state will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Xiao Zheng , Shao-Qiang Ma , Guo-Feng Zhang

We report new results on classical nonrelativistic dipole conserving particles - fractons. These have been previously shown to exhibit "Machian" dynamics where the motion of one particle requires the presence of others in its proximity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Aryaman Babbar , Ylias Sadki , Abhishodh Prakash , S. L. Sondhi

The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy production in macroscopic systems is non-negative, reaching zero only at thermodynamic equilibrium. As a corollary, this implies that the state trajectory of macroscopic systems is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-30 O. Politano , Alejandro L. Garcia , F. Baras , M. Malek Mansour

The nature of time has beguiled philosophers for nearly three millennia. There are myriad types of time including cosmological time, biological time, psychological time, physical time, historical time, and even theological time. My brief…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Stephen Boughn

The only widely accepted explanation for the various arrows of time that everywhere and at all epochs point in the same direction is the `past hypothesis': the Universe had a very special low-entropy initial state. We present the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-11 Julian Barbour , Tim Koslowski , Flavio Mercati

We study the symmetry properties of the spectra of normalized Laplacians on signed graphs. We find a new machinery that generates symmetric spectra for signed graphs, which includes bipartiteness of unsigned graphs as a special case.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Fatihcan M. Atay , Bobo Hua

Time crystals are quantum many-body systems which are able to self-organize their motion in a periodic way in time. Discrete time crystals have been experimentally demonstrated in spin systems. However, the first idea of spontaneous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-16 Krzysztof Giergiel , Arkadiusz Kosior , Peter Hannaford , Krzysztof Sacha

For decades, researchers have sought to understand how the irreversibility of the surrounding world emerges from the seemingly time symmetric, fundamental laws of physics. Quantum mechanics conjectured a clue that final irreversibility is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 A. V. Lebedev , V. M. Vinokur

Many dynamical systems, including thermal, fluid, and multi-agent systems, can be represented as weighted graphs. In this paper we consider whether the unstable states of such systems can be observed from limited discrete-time measurement,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Uduak Inyang-Udoh , Michael Shanks , Neera Jain

This paper investigates the influence of extra dimensions on the nature of the arrow of time. We demonstrate that the observed arrow of time can be explained by the monotonic growth of the multidimensional manifold's volume. Unlike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Sergey G. Rubin

A stochastic process is at thermodynamic equilibrium if it obeys time-reversal symmetry; forward and reverse time are statistically indistinguishable at steady state. Non-equilibrium processes break time-reversal symmetry by maintaining…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Alexander Strang

The dynamics of time-reversible systems are statistically indistinguishable when observed forward or backward in time. A rich literature of statistical methods to distinguish irreversible dynamics from the reversible dynamics of linear,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-04-20 Teresa Dalle Nogare , Ben D. Fulcher

In order to understand the nonlinear stability of many types of time-periodic travelling waves on unbounded domains, one must overcome two main difficulties: the presence of embedded neutral eigenvalues and the time-dependence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Margaret Beck , Bjorn Sandstede , Kevin Zumbrun

This article proposes a novel methodology to learn a stable robot control law driven by dynamical systems. The methodology requires a single demonstration and can deduce a stable dynamics in arbitrary high dimensions. The method relies on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Sthithpragya Gupta , Aradhana Nayak , Aude Billard