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Dieball C, Godec A. Thermodynamic Bounds on Generalized Transport: From Single-Molecule to Bulk Observables. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 133:067101. [PMID: 39178466 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.067101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 07/11/2024] [Indexed: 08/25/2024]
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We prove that the transport of any differentiable scalar observable in d-dimensional nonequilibrium systems is bounded from above by the total entropy production scaled by the amount the observation "stretches" microscopic coordinates. The result-a time-integrated generalized speed limit-reflects the thermodynamic cost of transport of observables, and places underdamped and overdamped stochastic dynamics on equal footing with deterministic motion. Our work allows for stochastic thermodynamics to make contact with bulk experiments, and fills an important gap in thermodynamic inference, since microscopic dynamics is, at least for short times, underdamped. Requiring only averages but not sample-to-sample fluctuations, the proven transport bound is practical and applicable not only to single-molecule but also bulk experiments where only averages are observed, which we demonstrate by examples. Our results may facilitate thermodynamic inference on molecular machines without an obvious directionality from bulk observations of transients probed, e.g., in time-resolved x-ray scattering.
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Harunari PE. Uncovering nonequilibrium from unresolved events. Phys Rev E 2024; 110:024122. [PMID: 39294962 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.110.024122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 07/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/21/2024]
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Closely related to the laws of thermodynamics, the detection and quantification of disequilibria are crucial in unraveling the complexities of nature, particularly those beneath observable layers. Theoretical developments in nonequilibrium thermodynamics employ coarse-graining methods to consider a diversity of partial information scenarios that mimic experimental limitations, allowing the inference of properties such as the entropy production rate. A ubiquitous but rather unexplored scenario involves observing events that can possibly arise from many transitions in the underlying Markov process-which we dub multifilar events-as in the cases of exchanges measured at particle reservoirs, hidden Markov models, mixed chemical and mechanical transformations in biological function, composite systems, and more. We relax one of the main assumptions in a previously developed framework, based on first-passage problems, to assess the non-Markovian statistics of multifilar events. By using the asymmetry of event distributions and their waiting times, we put forward model-free tools to detect nonequilibrium behavior and estimate entropy production, while discussing their suitability for different classes of systems and regimes where they provide no new information, evidence of nonequilibrium, a lower bound for entropy production, or even its exact value. The results are illustrated in reference models through analytics and numerics.
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Park JM, Park H, Lee JS. Stochastic differential equation for a system coupled to a thermostatic bath via an arbitrary interaction Hamiltonian. Phys Rev E 2024; 110:014143. [PMID: 39160900 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.110.014143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2024] [Indexed: 08/21/2024]
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The conventional Langevin equation offers a mathematically convenient framework for investigating open stochastic systems interacting with their environment or a bath. However, it is not suitable for a wide variety of systems whose dynamics rely on the nature of the environmental interaction, as the equation does not incorporate any specific information regarding that interaction. Here, we present a stochastic differential equation (SDE) for an open system coupled to a thermostatic bath via an arbitrary interaction Hamiltonian. This SDE encodes the interaction information to a fictitious potential (mean force) and a position-dependent damping coefficient. Surprisingly, we find that the conventional Langevin equation can be recovered in the presence of arbitrary strong interactions given two conditions: translational invariance of the potential and mutual independence of baths. Our results provide a comprehensive framework for studying open stochastic systems with an arbitrary interaction Hamiltonian and yield deeper insight into why various experiments fit the conventional Langevin description regardless of the strength or type of interaction.
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Das S, Green JR. Maximum speed of dissipation. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:L052104. [PMID: 38907451 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.l052104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 06/24/2024]
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We derive statistical-mechanical speed limits on dissipation from the classical, chaotic dynamics of many-particle systems. In one, the rate of irreversible entropy production in the environment is the maximum speed of a deterministic system out of equilibrium, S[over ¯]_{e}/k_{B}≥1/2Δt, and its inverse is the minimum time to execute the process, Δt≥k_{B}/2S[over ¯]_{e}. Starting with deterministic fluctuation theorems, we show there is a corresponding class of speed limits for physical observables measuring dissipation rates. For example, in many-particle systems interacting with a deterministic thermostat, there is a trade-off between the time to evolve between states and the heat flux, Q[over ¯]Δt≥k_{B}T/2. These bounds constrain the relationship between dissipation and time during nonstationary processes, including transient excursions from steady states.
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- Swetamber Das
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA and Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA and Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
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Rose M, Manikandan SK. Role of interactions in nonequilibrium transformations. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:044136. [PMID: 38755940 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.044136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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For arbitrary nonequilibrium transformations in complex systems, we show that the distance between the current state and a target state can be decomposed into two terms: one corresponding to an independent estimate of the distance, and another corresponding to interactions, quantified using the relative mutual information between the variables. This decomposition is a special case of a more general decomposition involving successive orders of correlation or interactions among the degrees of freedom of the system. To illustrate its practical significance, we study the thermal relaxation of two interacting, optically trapped colloidal particles, where increasing pairwise interaction strength is shown to prolong the longevity of the time-dependent nonequilibrium state. Additionally, we study a system with both pairwise and triplet interactions, where our approach identifies their distinct contributions to the transformation. In more general setups where it is possible to control the strength of different orders of interactions, our findings provide a way to disentangle their effects and identify interactions that facilitate the transformation.
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- Maria Rose
- School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, 686560 Kottayam, India
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- NORDITA, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Roslagstullsbacken 23, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Aslyamov T, Esposito M. Nonequilibrium Response for Markov Jump Processes: Exact Results and Tight Bounds. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:037101. [PMID: 38307069 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.037101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Revised: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
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Generalizing response theory of open systems far from equilibrium is a central quest of nonequilibrium statistical physics. Using stochastic thermodynamics, we develop an algebraic method to study the static response of nonequilibrium steady state to arbitrary perturbations. This allows us to derive explicit expressions for the response of edge currents as well as traffic to perturbations in kinetic barriers and driving forces. We also show that these responses satisfy very simple bounds. For the response to energy perturbations, we straightforwardly recover results obtained using nontrivial graph-theoretical methods.
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- Timur Aslyamov
- Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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Leighton MP, Sivak DA. Jensen bound for the entropy production rate in stochastic thermodynamics. Phys Rev E 2024; 109:L012101. [PMID: 38366465 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.l012101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2024]
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Bounding and estimating entropy production has long been an important goal of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. We recently derived a lower bound on the total and subsystem entropy production rates of continuous stochastic systems. This "Jensen bound" has led to fundamental limits on the performance of collective transport systems and permitted thermodynamic inference of free-energy transduction between components of bipartite molecular machines. Our original derivation relied on a number of assumptions, which restricted the bound's regime of applicability. Here we derive the Jensen bound far more generally for multipartite overdamped Langevin dynamics. We then consider several extensions, allowing for position-dependent diffusion coefficients, underdamped dynamics, and non-multipartite overdamped dynamics. Our results extend the Jensen bound to a far broader class of systems.
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- Matthew P Leighton
- Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
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- Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
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Bebon R, Godec A. Controlling Uncertainty of Empirical First-Passage Times in the Small-Sample Regime. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:237101. [PMID: 38134782 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.237101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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We derive general bounds on the probability that the empirical first-passage time τ[over ¯]_{n}≡∑_{i=1}^{n}τ_{i}/n of a reversible ergodic Markov process inferred from a sample of n independent realizations deviates from the true mean first-passage time by more than any given amount in either direction. We construct nonasymptotic confidence intervals that hold in the elusive small-sample regime and thus fill the gap between asymptotic methods and the Bayesian approach that is known to be sensitive to prior belief and tends to underestimate uncertainty in the small-sample setting. We prove sharp bounds on extreme first-passage times that control uncertainty even in cases where the mean alone does not sufficiently characterize the statistics. Our concentration-of-measure-based results allow for model-free error control and reliable error estimation in kinetic inference, and are thus important for the analysis of experimental and simulation data in the presence of limited sampling.
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- Rick Bebon
- Mathematical bioPhysics Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Mathematical bioPhysics Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Hohm U, Schiller C. Testing the Minimum System Entropy and the Quantum of Entropy. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 25:1511. [PMID: 37998203 PMCID: PMC10670145 DOI: 10.3390/e25111511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
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Experimental and theoretical results about entropy limits for macroscopic and single-particle systems are reviewed. All experiments confirm the minimum system entropy S⩾kln2. We clarify in which cases it is possible to speak about a minimum system entropykln2 and in which cases about a quantum of entropy. Conceptual tensions with the third law of thermodynamics, with the additivity of entropy, with statistical calculations, and with entropy production are resolved. Black hole entropy is surveyed. Claims for smaller system entropy values are shown to contradict the requirement of observability, which, as possibly argued for the first time here, also implies the minimum system entropy kln2. The uncertainty relations involving the Boltzmann constant and the possibility of deriving thermodynamics from the existence of minimum system entropy enable one to speak about a general principle that is valid across nature.
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- Uwe Hohm
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Gaußstr. 17, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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Gu J. Speed limit, dissipation bound, and dissipation-time trade-off in thermal relaxation processes. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:L052103. [PMID: 38115476 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.l052103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/15/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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We investigate bounds on speed, nonadiabatic entropy production, and the trade-off relation between them for classical stochastic processes with time-independent transition rates. Our results show that the time required to evolve from an initial to a desired target state is bounded from below by the information-theoretical ∞-Rényi divergence between these states, divided by the total rate. Furthermore, we conjecture and provide extensive numerical evidence for an information-theoretical bound on the nonadiabatic entropy production and a dissipation-time trade-off relation that outperforms previous bounds in some cases..
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- Jie Gu
- Chengdu Academy of Education Sciences, Chengdu 610036, China
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Dechant A, Garnier-Brun J, Sasa SI. Thermodynamic Bounds on Correlation Times. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:167101. [PMID: 37925711 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.167101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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We derive a variational expression for the correlation time of physical observables in steady-state diffusive systems. As a consequence of this variational expression, we obtain lower bounds on the correlation time, which provide speed limits on the self-averaging of observables. In equilibrium, the bound takes the form of a trade-off relation between the long- and short-time fluctuations of an observable. Out of equilibrium, the trade-off can be violated, leading to an acceleration of self-averaging. We relate this violation to the steady-state entropy production rate, as well as the geometric structure of the irreversible currents, giving rise to two complementary speed limits. One of these can be formulated as a lower estimate on the entropy production from the measurement of time-symmetric observables. Using an illustrating example, we show the intricate behavior of the correlation time out of equilibrium for different classes of observables and how this can be used to partially infer dissipation even if no time-reversal symmetry breaking can be observed in the trajectories of the observable.
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- Andreas Dechant
- Department of Physics #1, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Chair of Econophysics and Complex Systems, École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
- LadHyX, CNRS, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Department of Physics #1, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Pal PS, Pal A, Park H, Lee JS. Thermodynamic trade-off relation for first passage time in resetting processes. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:044117. [PMID: 37978646 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.044117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Resetting is a strategy for boosting the speed of a target-searching process. Since its introduction over a decade ago, most studies have been carried out under the assumption that resetting takes place instantaneously. However, due to its irreversible nature, resetting processes incur a thermodynamic cost, which becomes infinite in the case of instantaneous resetting. Here, we take into consideration both the cost and the first passage time (FPT) required for a resetting process, in which the reset or return to the initial location is implemented using a trapping potential over a finite but random time period. An iterative generating function and a counting functional method à la Feynman and Kac are employed to calculate the FPT and the average work for this process. From these results, we obtain an explicit form of the time-cost trade-off relation, which provides the lower bound of the mean FPT for a given work input when the trapping potential is linear. This trade-off relation clearly shows that instantaneous resetting is achievable only when an infinite amount of work is provided. More surprisingly, the trade-off relation derived from the linear potential seems to be valid for a wide range of trapping potentials. In addition, we have also shown that the fixed-time or sharp resetting can further enhance the trade-off relation compared to that of the stochastic resetting.
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- P S Pal
- School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea
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- The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- Quantum Universe Center, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea
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- School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea
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Guéry-Odelin D, Jarzynski C, Plata CA, Prados A, Trizac E. Driving rapidly while remaining in control: classical shortcuts from Hamiltonian to stochastic dynamics. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2023; 86:035902. [PMID: 36535018 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/acacad] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic systems. Remarkably, this approach, relying on stochastic equations of motion, introduces time into the description of thermodynamic processes-which opens the way to fine control them. As a result, the field of finite-time thermodynamics of mesoscopic systems has blossomed. In this article, after introducing a few concepts of control for isolated mechanical systems evolving according to deterministic equations of motion, we review the different strategies that have been developed to realize finite-time state-to-state transformations in both over and underdamped regimes, by the proper design of time-dependent control parameters/driving. The systems under study are stochastic, epitomized by a Brownian object immersed in a fluid; they are thus strongly coupled to their environment playing the role of a reservoir. Interestingly, a few of those methods (inverse engineering, counterdiabatic driving, fast-forward) are directly inspired by their counterpart in quantum control. The review also analyzes the control through reservoir engineering. Besides the reachability of a given target state from a known initial state, the question of the optimal path is discussed. Optimality is here defined with respect to a cost function, a subject intimately related to the field of information thermodynamics and the question of speed limit. Another natural extension discussed deals with the connection between arbitrary states or non-equilibrium steady states. This field of control in stochastic thermodynamics enjoys a wealth of applications, ranging from optimal mesoscopic heat engines to population control in biological systems.
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- David Guéry-Odelin
- Laboratoire Collisions, Agrégats, Réactivité, IRSAMC, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America
- Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America
- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America
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- Física Teórica, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado de Correos 1065, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain
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- Física Teórica, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado de Correos 1065, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain
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Bone RA, Green JR. Optimizing dynamical functions for speed with stochastic paths. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:224101. [PMID: 36546817 DOI: 10.1063/5.0125479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Living systems are built from microscopic components that function dynamically; they generate work with molecular motors, assemble and disassemble structures such as microtubules, keep time with circadian clocks, and catalyze the replication of DNA. How do we implement these functions in synthetic nanostructured materials to execute them before the onset of dissipative losses? Answering this question requires a quantitative understanding of when we can improve performance and speed while minimizing the dissipative losses associated with operating in a fluctuating environment. Here, we show that there are four modalities for optimizing dynamical functions that can guide the design of nanoscale systems. We analyze Markov models that span the design space: a clock, ratchet, replicator, and self-assembling system. Using stochastic thermodynamics and an exact expression for path probabilities, we classify these models of dynamical functions based on the correlation of speed with dissipation and with the chosen performance metric. We also analyze random networks to identify the model features that affect their classification and the optimization of their functionality. Overall, our results show that the possible nonequilibrium paths can determine our ability to optimize the performance of dynamical functions, despite ever-present dissipation, when there is a need for speed.
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- Rebecca A Bone
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
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Mondal S, Greenberg JS, Green JR. Dynamic scaling of stochastic thermodynamic observables for chemical reactions at and away from equilibrium. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:194105. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0106714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Physical kinetic roughening processes are well-known to exhibit universal scaling of observables that fluctuate in space and time. Are there analogous dynamic scaling laws that are unique to the chemical reaction mechanisms available synthetically and occurring naturally? Here, we formulate an approach to the dynamic scaling of stochastic fluctuations in thermodynamic observables at and away from equilibrium. Both analytical expressions and numerical simulations confirm our dynamic scaling ansatz with associated scaling exponents, function, and law. A survey of common chemical mechanisms reveals classes that organize according to the molecularity of the reactions involved, the nature of the reaction vessel and external reservoirs, (non)equilibrium conditions, and the extent of autocatalysis in the reaction network. Varying experimental parameters, such as temperature, can cause coupled reactions capable of chemical feedback to transition between these classes. While path observables, such as the dynamical activity, have scaling exponents that are time-independent, the variance in the entropy production and flow can have time-dependent scaling exponents and self-averaging properties as a result of temporal correlations that emerge during thermodynamically irreversible processes. Altogether, these results establish dynamic universality classes in the nonequilibrium fluctuations of thermodynamic observables for well-mixed chemical reactions.
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- Shrabani Mondal
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Section, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
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Bone RA, Sharpe DJ, Wales DJ, Green JR. Stochastic paths controlling speed and dissipation. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:054151. [PMID: 36559408 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.054151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Natural processes occur in a finite amount of time and dissipate energy, entropy, and matter. Near equilibrium, thermodynamic intuition suggests that fast irreversible processes will dissipate more energy and entropy than slow quasistatic processes connecting the same initial and final states. For small systems, recently discovered thermodynamic speed limits suggest that faster processes will dissipate more than slower processes. Here, we test the hypothesis that this relationship between speed and dissipation holds for stochastic paths far from equilibrium. To analyze stochastic paths on finite timescales, we derive an exact expression for the path probabilities of continuous-time Markov chains from the path summation solution to the master equation. We present a minimal model for a driven system in which relative energies of the initial and target states control the speed, and the nonequilibrium currents of a cycle control the dissipation. Although the hypothesis holds near equilibrium, we find that faster processes can dissipate less under far-from-equilibrium conditions because of strong currents. This model serves as a minimal prototype for designing kinetics to sculpt the nonequilibrium path space so that faster paths produce less dissipation.
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- Rebecca A Bone
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA.,Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
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Lee JS, Lee S, Kwon H, Park H. Speed Limit for a Highly Irreversible Process and Tight Finite-Time Landauer's Bound. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:120603. [PMID: 36179191 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.120603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Landauer's bound is the minimum thermodynamic cost for erasing one bit of information. As this bound is achievable only for quasistatic processes, finite-time operation incurs additional energetic costs. We find a tight finite-time Landauer's bound by establishing a general form of the classical speed limit. This tight bound well captures the divergent behavior associated with the additional cost of a highly irreversible process, which scales differently from a nearly irreversible process. We also find an optimal dynamics which saturates the equality of the bound. We demonstrate the validity of this bound via discrete one-bit and coarse-grained bit systems. Our Letter implies that more heat dissipation than expected occurs during high-speed irreversible computation.
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- Jae Sung Lee
- School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea
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- School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea
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- School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea
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- School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea
- Quantum Universe Center, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea
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Reiche D, Hsiang JT, Hu BL. Quantum Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations, Generalized Current Fluctuations and Nonequilibrium Fluctuation–Dissipation Inequalities. ENTROPY 2022; 24:e24081016. [PMID: 35892996 PMCID: PMC9394344 DOI: 10.3390/e24081016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Revised: 07/16/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) represent one of the few broad-based and fundamental relations in our toolbox for tackling the thermodynamics of nonequilibrium systems. One form of TUR quantifies the minimal energetic cost of achieving a certain precision in determining a nonequilibrium current. In this initial stage of our research program, our goal is to provide the quantum theoretical basis of TURs using microphysics models of linear open quantum systems where it is possible to obtain exact solutions. In paper [Dong et al., Entropy 2022, 24, 870], we show how TURs are rooted in the quantum uncertainty principles and the fluctuation–dissipation inequalities (FDI) under fully nonequilibrium conditions. In this paper, we shift our attention from the quantum basis to the thermal manifests. Using a microscopic model for the bath’s spectral density in quantum Brownian motion studies, we formulate a “thermal” FDI in the quantum nonequilibrium dynamics which is valid at high temperatures. This brings the quantum TURs we derive here to the classical domain and can thus be compared with some popular forms of TURs. In the thermal-energy-dominated regimes, our FDIs provide better estimates on the uncertainty of thermodynamic quantities. Our treatment includes full back-action from the environment onto the system. As a concrete example of the generalized current, we examine the energy flux or power entering the Brownian particle and find an exact expression of the corresponding current–current correlations. In so doing, we show that the statistical properties of the bath and the causality of the system+bath interaction both enter into the TURs obeyed by the thermodynamic quantities.
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- Daniel Reiche
- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstraße15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- Correspondence:
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- Center for High Energy and High Field Physics, National Central University, Taoyuan 320317, Taiwan;
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics and Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA;
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Wolpert DH. Strengthened second law for multi-dimensional systems coupled to multiple thermodynamic reservoirs. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2022; 380:20200428. [PMID: 35599569 PMCID: PMC9125225 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The second law of thermodynamics can be formulated as a restriction on the evolution of the entropy of any system undergoing Markovian dynamics. Here I show that this form of the second law is strengthened for multi-dimensional, complex systems, coupled to multiple thermodynamic reservoirs, if we have a set of a priori constraints restricting how the dynamics of each coordinate can depend on the other coordinates. As an example, this strengthened second law (SSL) applies to complex systems composed of multiple physically separated, co-evolving subsystems, each identified as a coordinate of the overall system. In this example, the constraints concern how the dynamics of some subsystems are allowed to depend on the states of the other subsystems. Importantly, the SSL applies to such complex systems even if some of its subsystems can change state simultaneously, which is prohibited in a multipartite process. The SSL also strengthens previously derived bounds on how much work can be extracted from a system using feedback control, if the system is multi-dimensional. Importantly, the SSL does not require local detailed balance. So it potentially applies to complex systems ranging from interacting economic agents to co-evolving biological species. This article is part of the theme issue 'Emergent phenomena in complex physical and socio-technical systems: from cells to societies'.
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- David H. Wolpert
- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy
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Wolpert DH. Strengthened second law for multi-dimensional systems coupled to multiple thermodynamic reservoirs. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2022. [PMID: 35599569 DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5896494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The second law of thermodynamics can be formulated as a restriction on the evolution of the entropy of any system undergoing Markovian dynamics. Here I show that this form of the second law is strengthened for multi-dimensional, complex systems, coupled to multiple thermodynamic reservoirs, if we have a set of a priori constraints restricting how the dynamics of each coordinate can depend on the other coordinates. As an example, this strengthened second law (SSL) applies to complex systems composed of multiple physically separated, co-evolving subsystems, each identified as a coordinate of the overall system. In this example, the constraints concern how the dynamics of some subsystems are allowed to depend on the states of the other subsystems. Importantly, the SSL applies to such complex systems even if some of its subsystems can change state simultaneously, which is prohibited in a multipartite process. The SSL also strengthens previously derived bounds on how much work can be extracted from a system using feedback control, if the system is multi-dimensional. Importantly, the SSL does not require local detailed balance. So it potentially applies to complex systems ranging from interacting economic agents to co-evolving biological species. This article is part of the theme issue 'Emergent phenomena in complex physical and socio-technical systems: from cells to societies'.
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- David H Wolpert
- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy
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Verification of Information Thermodynamics in a Trapped Ion System. ENTROPY 2022; 24:e24060813. [PMID: 35741534 PMCID: PMC9222944 DOI: 10.3390/e24060813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Revised: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Information thermodynamics has developed rapidly over past years, and the trapped ions, as a controllable quantum system, have demonstrated feasibility to experimentally verify the theoretical predictions in the information thermodynamics. Here, we address some representative theories of information thermodynamics, such as the quantum Landauer principle, information equality based on the two-point measurement, information-theoretical bound of irreversibility, and speed limit restrained by the entropy production of system, and review their experimental demonstration in the trapped ion system. In these schemes, the typical physical processes, such as the entropy flow, energy transfer, and information flow, build the connection between thermodynamic processes and information variation. We then elucidate the concrete quantum control strategies to simulate these processes by using quantum operators and the decay paths in the trapped-ion system. Based on them, some significantly dynamical processes in the trapped ion system to realize the newly proposed information-thermodynamic models is reviewed. Although only some latest experimental results of information thermodynamics with a single trapped-ion quantum system are reviewed here, we expect to find more exploration in the future with more ions involved in the experimental systems.
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Yan LL, Zhang JW, Yun MR, Li JC, Ding GY, Wei JF, Bu JT, Wang B, Chen L, Su SL, Zhou F, Jia Y, Liang EJ, Feng M. Experimental Verification of Dissipation-Time Uncertainty Relation. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:050603. [PMID: 35179926 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.050603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Dissipation is vital to any cyclic process in realistic systems. Recent research focus on nonequilibrium processes in stochastic systems has revealed a fundamental trade-off, called dissipation-time uncertainty relation, that entropy production rate associated with dissipation bounds the evolution pace of physical processes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120604 (2020)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.125.120604]. Following the dissipative two-level model exemplified in the same Letter, we experimentally verify this fundamental trade-off in a single trapped ultracold ^{40}Ca^{+} ion using elaborately designed dissipative channels, along with a postprocessing method developed in the data analysis, to build the effective nonequilibrium stochastic evolutions for the energy transfer between two heat baths mediated by a qubit. Since the dissipation-time uncertainty relation imposes a constraint on the quantum speed regarding entropy flux, our observation provides the first experimental evidence confirming such a speed restriction from thermodynamics on quantum operations due to dissipation, which helps us further understand the role of thermodynamical characteristics played in quantum information processing.
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- L-L Yan
- School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy of Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- School of Physics, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Research Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, Guangzhou Institute of Industry Technology, Guangzhou 511458, China
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- School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy of Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- School of Physics, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy of Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- School of Physics, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy of Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- School of Physics, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy of Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- School of Physics, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy of Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- Research Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, Guangzhou Institute of Industry Technology, Guangzhou 511458, China
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- School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy of Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- Research Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, Guangzhou Institute of Industry Technology, Guangzhou 511458, China
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- School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
- Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials of Ministry of Education, and School of Materials and Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China
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- School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy of Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- School of Physics, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Research Center for Quantum Precision Measurement, Guangzhou Institute of Industry Technology, Guangzhou 511458, China
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Zanin M, Papo D. Algorithmic Approaches for Assessing Irreversibility in Time Series: Review and Comparison. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 23:1474. [PMID: 34828172 PMCID: PMC8622570 DOI: 10.3390/e23111474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The assessment of time irreversibility, i.e., of the lack of invariance of the statistical properties of a system under the operation of time reversal, is a topic steadily gaining attention within the research community. Irreversible dynamics have been found in many real-world systems, with alterations being connected to, for instance, pathologies in the human brain, heart and gait, or to inefficiencies in financial markets. Assessing irreversibility in time series is not an easy task, due to its many aetiologies and to the different ways it manifests in data. It is thus not surprising that several numerical methods have been proposed in the last decades, based on different principles and with different applications in mind. In this contribution we review the most important algorithmic solutions that have been proposed to test the irreversibility of time series, their underlying hypotheses, computational and practical limitations, and their comparative performance. We further provide an open-source software library that includes all tests here considered. As a final point, we show that "one size does not fit all", as tests yield complementary, and sometimes conflicting views to the problem; and discuss some future research avenues.
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- Massimiliano Zanin
- Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, Section of Physiology, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy;
- Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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Van Vu T, Hasegawa Y. Lower Bound on Irreversibility in Thermal Relaxation of Open Quantum Systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:190601. [PMID: 34797124 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.190601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We consider the thermal relaxation process of a quantum system attached to single or multiple reservoirs. Quantifying the degree of irreversibility by entropy production, we prove that the irreversibility of the thermal relaxation is lower bounded by a relative entropy between the unitarily evolved state and the final state. The bound characterizes the state discrepancy induced by the nonunitary dynamics, and thus reflects the dissipative nature of irreversibility. Intriguingly, the bound can be evaluated solely in terms of the initial and final states and the system Hamiltonian, thereby providing a feasible way to estimate entropy production without prior knowledge of the underlying coupling structure. This finding refines the second law of thermodynamics and reveals a universal feature of thermal relaxation processes.
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- Tan Van Vu
- Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Yoshimura K, Ito S. Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation and Thermodynamic Speed Limit in Deterministic Chemical Reaction Networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:160601. [PMID: 34723601 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.160601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We generalize the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) and thermodynamic speed limit (TSL) for deterministic chemical reaction networks (CRNs). The scaled diffusion coefficient derived by considering the connection between macro- and mesoscopic CRNs plays an essential role in our results. The TUR shows that the product of the entropy production rate and the ratio of the scaled diffusion coefficient to the square of the rate of concentration change is bounded below by two. The TSL states a trade-off relation between speed and thermodynamic quantities, the entropy production, and the time-averaged scaled diffusion coefficient. The results are proved under the general setting of open and nonideal CRNs.
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- Kohei Yoshimura
- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0031, Japan
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- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0031, Japan
- JST, PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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Dissipation bounds the amplification of transition rates far from equilibrium. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2020863118. [PMID: 33593915 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2020863118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Complex systems can convert energy imparted by nonequilibrium forces to regulate how quickly they transition between long-lived states. While such behavior is ubiquitous in natural and synthetic systems, currently there is no general framework to relate the enhancement of a transition rate to the energy dissipated or to bound the enhancement achievable for a given energy expenditure. We employ recent advances in stochastic thermodynamics to build such a framework, which can be used to gain mechanistic insight into transitions far from equilibrium. We show that under general conditions, there is a basic speed limit relating the typical excess heat dissipated throughout a transition and the rate amplification achievable. We illustrate this tradeoff in canonical examples of diffusive barrier crossings in systems driven with autonomous and deterministic external forcing protocols. In both cases, we find that our speed limit tightly constrains the rate enhancement.
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Hiura K, Sasa SI. Kinetic uncertainty relation on first-passage time for accumulated current. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:L050103. [PMID: 34134276 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.l050103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The kinetic uncertainty relation (KUR) is a trade-off relation between the precision of an observable and the mean dynamical activity in a fixed time interval for a time-homogeneous and continuous-time Markov chain. In this Letter, we derive the KUR on the first passage time for the time-integrated current from the information inequality at stopping times. The relation shows that the precision of the first passage time is bounded from above by the mean number of jumps up to that time. We apply our result to simple systems and demonstrate that the activity constraint gives a tighter bound than the thermodynamic uncertainty relation in the regime far from equilibrium.
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- Ken Hiura
- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Physical bioenergetics: Energy fluxes, budgets, and constraints in cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2026786118. [PMID: 34140336 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2026786118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Cells are the basic units of all living matter which harness the flow of energy to drive the processes of life. While the biochemical networks involved in energy transduction are well-characterized, the energetic costs and constraints for specific cellular processes remain largely unknown. In particular, what are the energy budgets of cells? What are the constraints and limits energy flows impose on cellular processes? Do cells operate near these limits, and if so how do energetic constraints impact cellular functions? Physics has provided many tools to study nonequilibrium systems and to define physical limits, but applying these tools to cell biology remains a challenge. Physical bioenergetics, which resides at the interface of nonequilibrium physics, energy metabolism, and cell biology, seeks to understand how much energy cells are using, how they partition this energy between different cellular processes, and the associated energetic constraints. Here we review recent advances and discuss open questions and challenges in physical bioenergetics.
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Falasco G, Esposito M. Local detailed balance across scales: From diffusions to jump processes and beyond. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:042114. [PMID: 34005954 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.042114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Diffusive dynamics in presence of deep energy minima and weak nongradient forces can be coarse grained into a mesoscopic jump process over the various basins of attraction. Combining standard weak-noise results with a path integral expansion around equilibrium, we show that the emerging transition rates satisfy local detailed balance (LDB). Namely, the log ratio of the transition rates between nearby basins of attractions equals the free-energy variation appearing at equilibrium, supplemented by the work done by the nonconservative forces along the typical transition path. When the mesoscopic dynamics possesses a large-size deterministic limit, it can be further reduced to a jump process over macroscopic states satisfying LDB. The persistence of LDB under coarse graining of weakly nonequilibrium states is a generic consequence of the fact that only dissipative effects matter close to equilibrium.
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- Gianmaria Falasco
- Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics, Physics and Materials Science Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg
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- Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics, Physics and Materials Science Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg
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Frezzato D. Dissipation-recurrence inequalities at the steady state. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:032112. [PMID: 33862676 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.032112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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For Markov jump processes in out-of-equilibrium steady state, we present inequalities which link the average rate of entropy production with the timing of the site-to-site recurrences. Such inequalities are upper bounds on the average rate of entropy production. The combination with the finite-time thermodynamic uncertainty relation (a lower bound) yields inequalities of the pure kinetic kind for the relative precision of a dynamical output. After having derived the main relations for the discrete case, we sketch the possible extension to overdamped Markov dynamics on continuous degrees of freedom, treating explicitly the case of one-dimensional diffusion in tilted periodic potentials; an upper bound on the average velocity is derived, in terms of the average rate of entropy production and the microscopic diffusion coefficient, which corresponds to the finite-time thermodynamic uncertainty relation in the limit of vanishingly small observation time.
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- Diego Frezzato
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy
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Manzano G, Subero D, Maillet O, Fazio R, Pekola JP, Roldán É. Thermodynamics of Gambling Demons. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:080603. [PMID: 33709732 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.080603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We introduce and realize demons that follow a customary gambling strategy to stop a nonequilibrium process at stochastic times. We derive second-law-like inequalities for the average work done in the presence of gambling, and universal stopping-time fluctuation relations for classical and quantum nonstationary stochastic processes. We test experimentally our results in a single-electron box, where an electrostatic potential drives the dynamics of individual electrons tunneling into a metallic island. We also discuss the role of coherence in gambling demons measuring quantum jump trajectories.
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- Gonzalo Manzano
- International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy
- Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- PICO group, QTF Centre of Excellence, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, 00076 Aalto, Finland
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- PICO group, QTF Centre of Excellence, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, 00076 Aalto, Finland
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- International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli "Federico II," Monte S. Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- PICO group, QTF Centre of Excellence, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, 00076 Aalto, Finland
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- International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy
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Esposito M. Open questions on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of chemical reaction networks. Commun Chem 2020; 3:107. [PMID: 36703333 PMCID: PMC9814766 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-020-00344-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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- Massimiliano Esposito
- grid.16008.3f0000 0001 2295 9843Complex Systems and Statistical Mechanics, Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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