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Recently, a couple of investigations related to symmetry breaking phenomena, 'spontaneous stochasticity' and 'ergodicity breaking' have led to significant impacts in a variety of fields related to the stochastic processes such as economics…

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Dissipative phenomena manifest in multiple mechanical systems. In this dissertation, different geometric frameworks for modelling non-conservative dynamics are considered. The objective is to generalize several results from conservative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Asier López-Gordón

Entropy is one of the key thermodynamic variables reflecting changes in the state of matter. Unlike other thermodynamic variables, it is well-defined also for nonequilibrium steady states through its relation to information. Applying this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-15 Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

We establish a correspondence between two very general paradigms for systems that persist away from thermal equilibrium. In the first paradigm, a nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) is maintained by applying fixed thermodynamic forces that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-25 Oren Raz , Yigit Subasi , Christopher Jarzynski

A simple model of charge transport is provided by a classical particle in a smooth random potential and a dissipative coupling to the environment in the form of Markovian noise and friction. The corresponding Non-Equilibrium Steady State…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-16 Anton Kapustin

Active systems evade the rules of equilibrium thermodynamics by constantly dissipating energy at the level of their microscopic components. This energy flux stems from the conversion of a fuel, present in the environment, into sustained…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-15 Étienne Fodor , Robert L. Jack , Michael E. Cates

We consider the dynamics of a system of free fermions on a 1D lattice in the presence of a defect moving at constant velocity. The defect has the form of a localized time-dependent variation of the chemical potential and induces at long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-13 Alvise Bastianello , Andrea De Luca

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

Unlike equilibrium statistical mechanics, with its well-established foundations, a similar widely-accepted framework for non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM) remains elusive. Here, we review some of the many recent activities on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Chou , K. Mallick , R. K. P. Zia

We show that distribution functions of nonequilibrium steady states (NESS) evolving under a slowly varying protocol can be accurately obtained from limited data and the closest known detailed state of the system. In this manner, one needs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-26 Puneet Kumar Patra , Marc Meléndez , Baidurya Bhattacharya

The excess work required to drive a stochastic system out of thermodynamic equilibrium through a time-dependent external perturbation is directly related to the amount of entropy produced during the driving process, allowing excess work and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-15 Steven J Large , Jannik Ehrich , David A Sivak

In this note, we consider the highly nonconvex optimization problem associated with computing the rank decomposition of symmetric tensors. We formulate the invariance properties of the loss function and show that critical points detected by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Yossi Arjevani , Joan Bruna , Michael Field , Joe Kileel , Matthew Trager , Francis Williams

Active matter is rapidly becoming a key paradigm of out-of-equilibrium soft matter exhibiting complex collective phenomena, yet the thermodynamics of such systems remain poorly understood. In this letter we study the nonequilbrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-30 Emanuele Crosato , Mikhail Prokopenko , Richard E. Spinney

Life is commonly described as a self-organized, far-from-equilibrium process that maintains internal order by consuming free energy and exporting entropy. This thermodynamic view underlies diverse theoretical frameworks -- from autopoiesis…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Didier Sornette , Virgile Troude

We investigate the properties of the nonequilibrium steady state for the stochastic system driven by a nonlinear drift force and influenced by noises which are not identically and independently distributed. The nonequilibrium steady state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Chulan Kwon , Ping Ao

Overdamped stochastic systems maintained far from equilibrium can display sustained oscillations with fluctuations that decrease with the system size. The correlation time of such noisy limit cycles expressed in units of the cycle period is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-31 Davide Santolin , Gianmaria Falasco

In equilibrium, the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) expresses the response of an observable to a small perturbation by a correlation function of this variable with another one that is conjugate to the perturbation with respect to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-13 Udo Seifert , Thomas Speck

We show that coupling together two closed thermodynamic systems that independently attain equilibrium may give rise to a nonequilibrium stationary state (NESS) with a persistent, non-vanishing current. We study a simple example that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-23 Hernán Larralde , David P. Sanders

We continue the investigation of kinetic models of a system in contact via stochastic interactions with several spatially homogeneous thermal reservoirs at different temperatures. Considering models different from those investigated in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Eric A. Carlen , Raffaelle Esposito , Joel L. Lebowitz , Rossana Marra , Clement Mouhot

Nonequilibrium phase transition plays a pivotal role in a broad physical context from condensed matter to cosmology. Tracking the formation of non-equilibrium phases in condensed matter is challenging and requires a resolution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Faran Zhou , Joseph Williams , Christos D. Malliakas , Mercouri G. Kanatzidis , Alexander F. Kemper , Chong-Yu Ruan