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Entropy production in systems with unidirectional transitions
Physical Review Research, 2020 The entropy production is one of the most essential features for systems operating out of equilibrium. The formulation for discrete-state systems goes back to the celebrated Schnakenberg's work and hitherto can be carried out when for each transition ...
D. M. Busiello, D. Gupta, A. Maritan
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The maximum entropy ansatz in the absence of a time arrow: fractional pole models
, 2006 The maximum entropy ansatz, as it is often invoked in the context of time-series analysis, suggests the selection of a power spectrum which is consistent with autocorrelation data and corresponds to a random process least predictable from past ...
Georgiou, Tryphon T.
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Arrow of time: Metaphorical construals of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
, 2012 Various features of scientific discourse have been characterized in the science education literature, and challenges students face in appropriating these features have been explored.
Tamer G. Amin +3 more
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Arrow(s) of Time without a Past Hypothesis [PDF]
, 2019 The paper discusses recent proposals by Carroll and Chen, as well as Barbour, Koslowski, and Mercati to explain the (thermodynamic) arrow of time without a Past Hypothesis, i.e., the assumption of a special (low-entropy) initial state of the universe ...
Lazarovici, Dustin, Reichert, Paula
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Thermodynamics of quantum measurement and Maxwell's demon's arrow of time [PDF]
Physical Review A, 2022 We discuss the thermodynamic aspects of a single qubit based device, powered by weak quantum measurements, and feedback controlled by a quantum Maxwell’s demon.
Kagan Yanik +3 more
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Is Time’s Asymmetry Related to Irreversible Processes and the Second Law?
Entropy, 2023 In this article, we start by describing one of the most characteristic properties of time: “time can never decrease”. From this property, numerous authors have concluded that irreversible processes, that always proceed in one direction, must be related ...
Arieh Ben-Naim
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Decomposing the Local Arrow of Time in Interacting Systems. [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2021 We show that the evidence for a local arrow of time, which is equivalent to the entropy production in thermodynamic systems, can be decomposed. In a system with many degrees of freedom, there is a term that arises from the irreversible dynamics of the ...
Christopher W. Lynn +3 more
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Entropy, 2020 The idea that entropy is associated with the “arrow of time” has its roots in Clausius’s statement on the Second Law: “Entropy of the Universe always increases.” However, the explicit association of the entropy with time’s arrow arises from Eddington. In
Arieh Ben-Naim
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Entropy, 2021 Causality follows the thermodynamic arrow of time, where the latter is defined by the direction of entropy increase. After a brief review of an earlier version of this article, rooted in classical mechanics, we give a quantum generalization of the ...
Lawrence S. Schulman
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Entropy, 2022 Quantum physics, despite its intrinsically probabilistic nature, lacks a definition of entropy fully accounting for the randomness of a quantum state. For example, von Neumann entropy quantifies only the incomplete specification of a quantum state and ...
Davi Geiger, Zvi M. Kedem
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