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Physical systems that power motion and create structure in a fixed amount of time dissipate energy and produce entropy. Whether living or synthetic, systems performing these dynamic functions must balance dissipation and speed. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-18 Schuyler B. Nicholson , Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos , Adolfo del Campo , Jason R. Green

The entropy production rate is a key quantity in irreversible thermodynamics. In this work, we concentrate on the realization of entropy production rate in chemical reaction systems in terms of the experimentally measurable reaction rate.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Kinshuk Banerjee , Kamal Bhattacharyya

Entropy production characterizes irreversibility. This viewpoint allows us to consider the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, which states that a higher precision can be achieved at the cost of higher entropy production, as a relation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-09 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The rate of entropy production by a stochastic process quantifies how far it is from thermodynamic equilibrium. Equivalently, entropy production captures the degree to which detailed balance and time-reversal symmetry are broken. Despite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-02 Luca Cocconi , Rosalba Garcia-Millan , Zigan Zhen , Bianca Buturca , Gunnar Pruessner

Biological, artificial, and physical systems dissipate energy to accurately transmit information. While tools of information theory have been used to characterize information-processing capabilities, how reliably this information is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 Giorgio Nicoletti , Daniel M. Busiello

There is a relation between the irreversibility of thermodynamic processes as expressed by the breaking of time-reversal symmetry, and the entropy production in such processes. We explain on an elementary mathematical level the relations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Maes , K. Netocny

We provide a unified thermodynamic formalism describing information transfers in autonomous as well as nonautonomous systems described by stochastic thermodynamics. We demonstrate how information is continuously generated in an auxiliary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-06 Jordan M. Horowitz , Massimiliano Esposito

We establish that entropy production, which is crucial to the characterization of thermodynamic irreversibility, is obtained through a variational principle involving the Kulback-Leibler divergence. A simple application of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-11 Naoto Shiraishi , Keiji Saito

Spiking activity from populations of neurons display causal interactions and memory effects. Therefore, they are expected to show some degree of irreversibility in time. Motivated by the spike train statistics, in this paper we build a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Rodrigo Cofre , Cesar Maldonado

A trade-off between the precision of an arbitrary current and the dissipation, known as the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, has been investigated for various Markovian systems. Here, we study the thermodynamic uncertainty relation for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-23 Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We relate the information exchange between two stochastic systems to the nonequilibrium entropy production in the whole system. By deriving a general formula that decomposes the total entropy production into the thermodynamic and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Takahiro Sagawa , Masahito Ueda

We propose an expression for the production of entropy for system described by a stochastic dynamics which is appropriate for the case where the reverse transition rate vanishes but the forward transition is nonzero. The expression is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-22 Tânia Tome , Mário J. de Oliveira

In this work, we investigate the relation between the concept of ``information rate'', an information geometric method for measuring the speed of the time evolution of the statistical states of a stochastic process, and stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-29 Adrian-Josue Guel-Cortez , Eun-jin Kim

We present an exact relationship between the entropy production and the distinguishability of a process from its time-reverse, quantified by the relative entropy between forward and backward states. The relationship is shown to remain valid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-15 Juan M. R. Parrondo , Christian van den Broeck , Ryoichi Kawai

We investigate free-energy dissipation in a continuous-time birth-and-death dynamics in $\mathbb{R}^d$. For these Markov processes, the class of reversible measures coincides with the infinite-volume Gibbs point processes for some…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Benedikt Jahnel , Jonas Köppl , Yannic Steenbeck , Alexander Zass

We study irreversible processes for nonlinear oscillators networks described by complex-valued Langevin equations that account for coupling to different thermo-chemical baths. Dissipation is introduced via non-Hermitian terms in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Simone Borlenghi , Stefano Iubini , Stefano Lepri , Jonas Fransson

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

Asymptotically entropy of chaotic systems increases linearly and the sensitivity to initial conditions is exponential with time: these two behaviors are related. Such relationship is the analogous of and under specific conditions has been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-04 Roberto Tonelli , Giuseppe Mezzorani , Franco Meloni , Marcello Lissia , Massimo Coraddu

We derive a bound on generalized currents for Langevin systems in terms of the total entropy production in the system and its environment. For overdamped dynamics, any generalized current is bounded by the total rate of entropy production.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-06 Andreas Dechant , Shin-ichi Sasa

We analyze underdamped Brownian motion in non-isothermal media with quadratic, linear, and piecewise-constant temperature profiles. Exact identities for entropy production and entropy extraction are derived, addressing whether a vanishing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Mesfin Taye