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A run-and-tumble particle in a one dimensional box (infinite potential well) is studied. The steady state is analytically solved and analyzed, revealing the emergent length scale of the boundary layer where particles accumulate near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Nitzan Razin

Partially observed stochastic systems can appear (almost) time-reversal symmetric while in fact operating far from equilibrium. The present work extends the perturbative framework introduced in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 198302 (2026)] to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jacob Knight , Gunnar Pruessner

We analyze the entropy production in run-and-tumble models. After presenting the general formalism in the framework of the Fokker-Planck equations in one space dimension, we derive some known exact results in simple physical situations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-27 Matteo Paoluzzi , Andrea Puglisi , Luca Angelani

Nonreciprocal interactions are commonplace in continuum-level descriptions of both biological and synthetic active matter, yet studies addressing their implications for time-reversibility have so far been limited to microscopic models.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-19 Henry Alston , Luca Cocconi , Thibault Bertrand

We analyse a non-equilibrium exclusion process in which particles are created and annihilated in pairs and hop to the the right or to the left with different transition rates, $p$ and $q$, respectively. We have studied the dynamics of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 M. O. Hase , T. Tomé , M. J. de Oliveira

We explore the consequences of a deterministic microscopic thermostat-reservoir contact mechanism. With different temperature reservoirs at each end of a two-dimensional system, a heat current is produced and the system has an anomalous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gary P. Morriss , Daniel P. Truant

We derive an exact (classical and quantum) expression for the entropy production of a finite system placed in contact with one or several finite reservoirs each of which is initially described by a canonical equilibrium distribution.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Massimiliano Esposito , Katja Lindenberg , Christian Van den Broeck

We study the entropy production rate in systems described by linear Langevin equations, containing mixed even and odd variables under time reversal. Exact formulas are derived for several important quantities in terms only of the means and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-02 Gabriel T. Landi , Tânia Tomé , Mario J. de Oliveira

Entropy production quantifies the amount of irreversibility of a physical process, leading to fundamental bounds for thermodynamic quantities. It captures the inability to run a physical system forward and then backward, bringing it to the…

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

Active biological systems reside far from equilibrium, dissipating heat even in their steady state, thus requiring an extension of conventional equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. In this Letter, we have extended the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-22 Dibyendu Mandal , Katherine Klymko , Michael R. DeWeese

Nonequilibrium phase transitions can be typified in a similar way to equilibrium systems, for instance, by the use of the order parameter. However, this characterization hides the irreversible character of the dynamics as well as its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-10 C. E. Fernández Noa , Pedro E. Harunari , M. J. de Oliveira , C. E. Fiore

We define the entropy operator as the negative of the logarithm of the density matrix, give a prescription for extracting its thermodynamically measurable part, and discuss its dynamics. For an isolated system we derive the first, second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-06 E. Solano-Carrillo , A. J. Millis

We investigate entropy production for an expanding system of particles and resonances with isospin symmetry -- in our case pions and $\rho$ mesons -- within the framework of relativistic kinetic theory. A cascade code to simulate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Ochs , Ulrich Heinz

Entropy serves as a central observable in equilibrium thermodynamics. However, many biological and ecological systems operate far from thermal equilibrium. Here we show that entropy production can characterize the behavior of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Benjamin Andrae , Jonas Cremer , Tobias Reichenbach , Erwin Frey

We study the convergence to equilibrium of a class of nonlinear recombination models. In analogy with Boltzmann's H theorem from kinetic theory, and in contrast with previous analysis of these models, convergence is measured in terms of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Pietro Caputo , Alistair Sinclair

Anisotropy of temperature fields, chemical potentials and ion concentration gradients provide the fuel that feeds dynamical processes that sustain life. Dynamical flows in respective environments incur losses manifested as entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-04 Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We derive a bound for entropy production in terms of the mean of normalizable path-antisymmetric observables. The optimal observable for this bound is shown to be the signum of entropy production, which is often easier determined or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-07 Gabriel Knotz , Till M. Muenker , Timo Betz , Matthias Krüger

Entropy production is one of the most important characteristics of non-equilibrium steady states. We study here the steady-state entropy production, both at short times as well as in the long-time limit, of two important classes of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sven Dorosz , Michel Pleimling

The rate of entropy production provides a useful quantitative measure of a non-equilibrium system and estimating it directly from time-series data from experiments is highly desirable. Several approaches have been considered for stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-21 Shun Otsubo , Sreekanth K Manikandan , Takahiro Sagawa , Supriya Krishnamurthy