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Phenomenological nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes how fluxes of conserved quantities such as matter, energy and charge flow from outer reservoirs across a system, and how they irreversibly degrade from one form to another. Stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-15 Matteo Polettini , Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito

Tensor network states provide an efficient class of states that faithfully capture strongly correlated quantum models and systems in classical statistical mechanics. While tensor networks can now be seen as becoming standard tools in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 A. Nietner , B. Vanhecke , F. Verstraete , J. Eisert , L. Vanderstraeten

Defects are a ubiquitous feature of ordered media. They have certain universal features, independent of the underlying physical system, reflecting their topological origins. While the topological properties of defects are robust, they…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-24 Chiqun Zhang , Amit Acharya , Alan C. Newell , Shankar C. Venkataramani

Networked dynamical systems are common throughout science in engineering; e.g., biological networks, reaction networks, power systems, and the like. For many such systems, nonlinearity drives populations of identical (or near-identical)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-10 James Koch , Zhao Chen , Aaron Tuor , Jan Drgona , Draguna Vrabie

Chemical and biological networks can describe a wide variety of processes, from gene regulatory networks to biochemical oscillations. Modeled by chemical master equations, these processes are inherently stochastic, as fluctuations dominate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Schuyler B. Nicholson , Luis Pedro García-Pintos

How biological networks achieve robust control despite relying on imperfect, local information remains an important open question. Here, we identify thermodynamic constraints that can curtail non-equilibrium steady-state responses so…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Carlos Floyd , Aaron R. Dinner , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Most recent advances in machine learning and analytics for process control pose the question of how to naturally integrate new data-driven methods with classical process models and control. We propose a process modeling framework enabling…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Michael R. Wartmann , B. Erik Ydstie

Tensor network (TN) methods are well established for computing partition functions in statistical mechanics, though this use has traditionally been limited to lattice models. We extend the scope of TN methodology to interacting particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 Gunhee Park , Tomislav Begušić , Si-Jing Du , Johnnie Gray , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

All current formulations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open chemical reaction networks rely on the assumption of non-interacting species. We develop a general theory which accounts for interactions between chemical species within a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-09 Francesco Avanzini , Emanuele Penocchio , Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

Following up on the recently published circuit theory for thermodynamic devices, we consider networks of Thermo-Electric Converters (TECs) in stationary non-equilibrium. Assuming constant thermoelectric properties, the integration over a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-30 Paul Raux , Christophe Goupil , Gatien Verley

We introduce a new class of time-continuous recurrent neural network models. Instead of declaring a learning system's dynamics by implicit nonlinearities, we construct networks of linear first-order dynamical systems modulated via nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Ramin Hasani , Mathias Lechner , Alexander Amini , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

Scale-free and non-computable characteristics of natural networks are found to result from the least-time dispersal of energy. To consider a network as a thermodynamic system is motivated since ultimately everything that exists can be…

General Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 Tuomo Hartonen , Arto Annila

Constructing a thermodynamic framework for nonequilibrium systems remains a major challenge, as quantities such as temperature and free energy often become ambiguous when inferred solely from steady-state properties. Here we take a…

We derive the nonequilibrium conductance matrix for open stationary Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs) described by a deterministic mass action kinetic equation. As an illustration, we determine the nonequilibrium conductance matrix of a CRN…

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Although individual neurons and neural populations exhibit the phenomenon of representational drift, perceptual and behavioral outputs of many neural circuits can remain stable across time scales over which representational drift is…

Stochastic thermodynamics as reviewed here systematically provides a framework for extending the notions of classical thermodynamics like work, heat and entropy production to the level of individual trajectories of well-defined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Udo Seifert

We study nonlinear dynamics on complex networks. Each vertex $i$ has a state $x_i$ which evolves according to a networked dynamics to a steady-state $x_i^*$. We develop fundamental tools to learn the true steady-state of a small part of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Chunheng Jiang , Jianxi Gao , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Reservoir Computing (RC) with physical systems requires an understanding of the underlying structure and internal dynamics of the specific physical reservoir. In this study, physical nano-electronic networks with neuromorphic dynamics are…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yinhao Xu , Georg A. Gottwald , Zdenka Kuncic

The thermodynamic approach to non-equilibrium dynamics describes the state of macroscopic systems by means of a collection of intensities or intensive variables. The latter are by definition the differentials of the entropy with respect to…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Z. Hens , X. de Hemptinne

Strand displacement and tile assembly systems are designed to follow prescribed kinetic rules (i.e., exhibit a specific time-evolution). However, the expected behavior in the limit of infinite time--known as thermodynamic equilibrium--is…

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