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Due to its inherent intertwinement with irreversibility, entropy production is a prime observable to monitor in systems of active particles. In this numerical study, entropy production in the liquid, hexatic and solid phases of a…

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Entropy production during the process of thermal phase-separation of multiphase flows is investigated by means of a discrete Boltzmann kinetic model. The entropy production rate is found to increase during the spinodal decomposition stage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-18 Yudong Zhang , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yanbiao Gan , Zhihua Chen , Sauro Succi

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) are the inequalities which give lower bounds on the entropy production rate using only the mean and the variance of fluctuating currents. Since the TURs do not refer to the full details of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-25 Shun Otsubo , Sosuke Ito , Andreas Dechant , Takahiro Sagawa

Markedly increased computational power and data acquisition have led to growing interest in data-driven inverse dynamics problems. These seek to answer a fundamental question: What can we learn from time series measurements of a complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-29 Jinghao Lyu , Kyle J. Ray , James P. Crutchfield

Enstrophy is an averaged measure of fluid vorticity. This quantity is particularly important in {\em rotating} geophysical flows. We investigate the dynamical evolution of enstrophy for large-scale quasi-geostrophic flows under random wind…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-29 D. Blömker , Jinqiao Duan , T. Wanner

A typical strategy of realizing an adiabatic change of a many-particle system is to vary parameters very slowly on a time scale $t_\text{r}$ much larger than intrinsic equilibration time scales. In the ideal case of adiabatic state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-24 Philipp S. Weiß , Dennis Hardt , Achim Rosch

We study the multiple definitions of the entropy production for discrete-time Markov processes in single systems and composite systems. These definitions have been studied in single systems, but less so in composite systems. With a clear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-30 Masanao Igarashi

The time evolution of complex systems usually can be described through stochastic processes. These processes are measured at finite resolution, what necessarily reduces them to finite sequences of real numbers. In order to relate these data…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Tavares , L. S. Lucena

Far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics underpins the emergence of life, but how has been a long-outstanding puzzle. Best candidate theories based on the maximum entropy production principle could not be unequivocally proven, in part due to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-10 Robert G. Endres

A central task in stochastic thermodynamics is the estimation of entropy production for partially accessible Markov networks. We establish an effective transition-based description for such networks with transitions that are not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-20 Benjamin Ertel , Udo Seifert

Symbolic dynamics has proven to be an invaluable tool in analyzing the mechanisms that lead to unpredictability and random behavior in nonlinear dynamical systems. Surprisingly, a discrete partition of continuous state space can produce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christopher C. Strelioff , James P. Crutchfield

Entropy and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem are at the heart of statistical mechanics near equilibrium. Driving a system beyond the linear response regime leads to (i) the breakdown of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and (ii) a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-10 Thomas Speck

The interrelationships of the fundamental biological processes natural selection, mutation, and stochastic drift are quantified by the entropy rate of Moran processes with mutation, measuring the long-run variation of a Markov process. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Marc Harper

Estimating the dissipation, or the entropy production rate (EPR), can provide insights into the underlying mechanisms of nonequilibrium driven processes. Experimentally, however, only partial information can be accessed, and the ability to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-29 Uri Kapustin , Aishani Ghosal , Gili Bisker

We consider stochastic rotational dynamics of a macrospin at a constant temperature, in presence of an external magnetic field. Starting from the appropriate Langevin equation which contains multiplicative noise, we calculate entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-15 Swarnali Bandopadhyay , Debasish Chaudhuri , A. M. Jayannavar

We consider discrete stochastic processes, modeled by classical master equations, on networks. The temporal growth of the lack of information about the system is captured by its non-equilibrium entropy, defined via the transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-26 Oliver Muelken , Sarah Heinzelmann , Maxim Dolgushev

The information on a quantum process acquired through measurements plays a crucial role in the determination of its non-equilibrium thermodynamic properties. We report on the experimental inference of the stochastic entropy production rate…

Entropy rate is a real valued functional on the space of discrete random sources which lacks a closed formula even for subclasses of sources which have intuitive parameterizations. A good way to overcome this problem is to examine its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-14 Alexander Schönhuth

Fluctuation theorems specify the non-zero probability to observe negative entropy production, contrary to a naive expectation from the second law of thermodynamics. For closed particle trajectories in a fluid, Stokes theorem can be used to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-06 Benoît Mahault , Evelyn Tang , Ramin Golestanian

Entropy production is the crucial quantity characterizing irreversible phenomena and the second law of thermodynamics. Yet, a ubiquitous definition eludes consensus. Given that entropy production arises from incomplete access to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Adalberto D. Varizi , Pedro S. Correia