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A theory for non-equilibrium systems is derived from a maximum entropy approach similar in spirit to the equilibrium theory given by Gibbs. Requiring Hamilton's principle of stationary action to be satisfied on average during a trajectory,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-04 David M. Rogers , Susan B. Rempe

We study aging dynamics in two non-disordered spin models with multi-spin interactions, following a sudden quench to low temperature. The models are relevant to the physics of supercooled liquids. Their low temperature dynamics resemble…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert L. Jack , Ludovic Berthier , Juan P. Garrahan

Dissipative quantum systems are frequently described within the framework of the so-called "system-plus-reservoir" approach. In this work we assign their description to the Maximum Entropy Formalism and compare the resulting thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lisan M. M. Durão , Amir O. Caldeira

A nonequilibrium distribution function of microscopic thermal current is studied by a direct numerical simulation in a thermal conducting steady state of particle systems. Two characteristic temperatures of the thermal current are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-01 Satoshi Yukawa , Takashi Shimada , Fumiko Ogushi , Nobuyasu Ito

We review recent progress in developing effective field theories (EFTs) for non-equilibrium processes at finite temperature, including a new formulation of fluctuating hydrodynamics, and a new proof of the second law of thermodynamics.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-25 Paolo Glorioso , Hong Liu

In non-equilibrium steady states (NESS) far from equilibrium, it is known that the Einstein relation is violated. Then, the ratio of the diffusion coefficient to the mobility is called an effective temperature, and the physical relevance of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-26 Kumiko Hayashi , Mitsunori Takano

We review a series of experimental studies of the thermodynamics of nonequilibrium processes at the microscale. In particular, in these experiments we studied the fluctuations of the thermodynamic properties of a single optically-trapped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 L. Dinis , I. A. Martínez , É. Roldán , J. M. R. Parrondo , R. A. Rica

We study full counting statistics for transferred heat and entropy production between multi-terminal systems in absence of a finite junction. The systems are modelled as collections of coupled harmonic oscillators which are kept at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Huanan Li , Baowen Li , Jian-Sheng Wang

The time sequences of the molecular dynamics simulation for the folding process of a protein is analyzed with the inherent structure landscape which focuses on configurational dynamics of the system. Time dependent energy and entropy for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-13 Naoko Nakagawa

We analyse the statistics of the shear stress in a one dimensional \emph{model fluid}, that exhibits a rich phase behaviour akin to real complex fluids under shear. We show that the energy flux satisfies the Gallavotti-Cohen FT across all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-06 Pritha Dolai , Aditi Simha

We develop a theory of the effective disorder temperature in glass-forming materials driven away from thermodynamic equilibrium by external forces. Our basic premise is that the slow configurational degrees of freedom of such materials are…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Eran Bouchbinder , J. S. Langer

The Boltzmann distribution predicts the collective behavior of systems at thermodynamic equilibrium as a function of their constituent parts. Yet most systems in nature are not at equilibrium, and a unified theory of their behavior does not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-16 Milo M. Lin

Using the stochastic thermodynamics, we determine the entropy production and the dynamic heat capacity of systems subject to a sinusoidally time dependent temperature, in which case the systems are permanently out of thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Carlos E. Fiore , Mário J. de Oliveira

Non-equilibrium processes in Schottky systems generate by projection onto the equilibrium subspace reversible accompanying processes for which the non-equilibrium variables are functions of the equilibrium ones. The embedding theorem which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-21 Wolfgang Muschik

We give a decomposition expression for dissipative heat using the instantaneous diffusion coefficient in a nonequilibrium steady state. The dissipative heat can be expressed using three diffusion coefficients: instantaneous, equilibrium,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-09 Soya Shinkai

A systematic expansion of the many-body master equation for active matter, in which motors power configurational changes as in the cytoskeleton, is shown to yield a description of the steady state and responses in terms of an effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-08 Shenshen Wang , Peter G. Wolynes

We study by means of numerical simulations the model of dissipative particle dynamics with energy conservation for the simple case of thermal conduction. It is shown that the model displays correct equilibrium fluctuations and reproduces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Marisol Ripoll , Pep Español , Matthieu H. Ernst

We use trajectory averaging to show that the energy dissipated in the nonequilibrium energy-state transitions of a driven two-state system satisfies a fluctuation-dissipation relation. This connection between the average energy dissipation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Tuomas Pyhäranta , Luca Peliti , Jukka P. Pekola

We study thermalization and non-equilibrium dynamics in a dissipative quantum many-body system -- a chain of ions with two points of the chain driven by thermal bath under different temperature. Instead of a simple linear temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-01 G. -D. Lin , L. -M. Duan

We consider a stochastic heat conduction model for solids composed by N interacting atoms. The system is in contact with two heat baths at different temperature $T_\ell$ and $T_r$. The bulk dynamics conserve two quantities: the energy and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cedric Bernardin