English
Related papers

Related papers: On the validity of entropy production principles f…

200 papers

We address the emergence of entropy production in the non-equilibrium process of an open quantum system from the viewpoint of the environment. By making use of a dilation-based approach akin to Stinespring theorem, we derive an expression…

We consider the problem of estimating the mean entropy production rate in a nonequilibrium process from the measurements of first-passage quantities associated with a single current. For first-passage processes with large thresholds, Refs.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-05 Izaak Neri

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

Fluctuation theorems establish that thermodynamic processes at the microscale can occasionally result in negative entropy production. At the microscale, another distinct possibility becomes more likely: processes in which no entropy is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-11 Abhaya S. Hegde , André M. Timpanaro , Gabriel T. Landi

Glansdorff and Prigogine (1970) proposed a decomposition of the entropy production rate, which today is mostly known for Markov processes as the Hatano-Sasa approach. Their context was irreversible thermodynamics which, while ignoring…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-03 Christian Maes , Karel Netocny

Entropy production is a key quantity in any finite-time thermodynamic process. It is intimately tied with the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, embodying a tool to extend thermodynamic considerations all the way to non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Gabriel T. Landi , Mauro Paternostro

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

Identifying the full entropy production of active particles is a challenging task. We introduce a microscopic, thermodynamically consistent model, which leads to active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck statistics in the continuum limit. Our minimal model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-15 Jonas H. Fritz , Udo Seifert

We consider a system of two Brownian particles (say A and B), coupled to each other via harmonic potential of stiffness constant $k$. Particle-A is connected to two heat baths of constant temperatures $T_1$ and $T_2$, and particle-B is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-04 Deepak Gupta , Sanjib Sabhapandit

We illustrate the mathematical theory of entropy production in repeated quantum measurement processes developed in a previous work by studying examples of quantum instruments displaying various interesting phenomena and singularities. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Tristan Benoist , Noé Cuneo , Vojkan Jakšić , Claude-Alain Pillet

It is argued that a Gibbsian formula for the space-time distribution of microscopic trajectories of a nonequilibrium system provides a unifying framework for recent results on the fluctuations of the entropy production. The variable entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Maes

The entropy production rate is a central quantity in non-equilibrium statistical physics, scoring how far a stochastic process is from being time-reversible. In this paper, we compute the entropy production of diffusion processes at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-19 Lancelot Da Costa , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

We investigate the total stochastic entropy production of a two-level bosonic open quantum system under protocols of time dependent coupling to a harmonic environment. These processes are intended to represent the measurement of a system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 D. Matos , L. Kantorovich , I. J. Ford

Systems coupled to multiple thermodynamic reservoirs can exhibit nonequilibrium dynamics, breaking detailed balance to generate currents. To power these currents, the entropy of the reservoirs increases. The rate of entropy production, or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-16 Junang Li , Jordan M. Horowitz , Todd R. Gingrich , Nikta Fakhri

The paper is concerned with a dissipativity theory and robust performance analysis of discrete-time stochastic systems driven by a statistically uncertain random noise. The uncertainty is quantified by the conditional relative entropy of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen

The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy production cannot be negative. Recent developments concerning uncertainty relations in stochastic thermodynamics, such as thermodynamic uncertainty relations and speed limits, have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-09 Tomohiro Nishiyama , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy production in macroscopic systems is non-negative, reaching zero only at thermodynamic equilibrium. As a corollary, this implies that the state trajectory of macroscopic systems is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-30 O. Politano , Alejandro L. Garcia , F. Baras , M. Malek Mansour

The thermodynamic behavior of Markovian open quantum systems can be described at the level of fluctuations by using continuous monitoring approaches. However, practical applications require assessing imperfect detection schemes, where the…

We provide a strategy for an exact inference of the average as well as the fluctuations of the entropy production in non-equilibrium systems in the steady state, from the measurements of arbitrary current fluctuations. Our results are built…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-24 Sreekanth K Manikandan , Deepak Gupta , Supriya Krishnamurthy

Stochastic thermodynamics provides the framework to analyze thermodynamic laws and quantities along individual trajectories of small but fully observable systems. If the observable level fails to capture all relevant degrees of freedom,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-01 Julius Degünther , Jann van der Meer , Udo Seifert