Entropy Production: Its Role in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
Entropy, 2011 It is unquestionable that the concept of entropy has played an essential role both in the physical and biological sciences. However, the entropy production, crucial to the second law, has also other features not clearly conceived.
Rosa Maria Velasco +2 more
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Far-off-equilibrium early-stage dynamics in high-energy nuclear collisions [PDF]
EPJ Web of ConferencesWe explore the far-off-equilibrium aspects of the (1+1)-dimensional early-stage evolution of a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma using kinetic theory and hydrodynamics.
Chattopadhyay Chandrodoy +2 more
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Nonlinear Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Based on the Ehrenfest–Klein Model
Entropy, 2020 Nonlinear non-equilibrium thermodynamic relations have been constructed based on the generalized Ehrenfest−Klein model. Using these relations, the behavior of the entropy and its production in time at arbitrary deviations from equilibrium has been ...
Gleb A. Zhernokleev +1 more
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The Second Entropy: A Variational Principle for Time-dependent Systems
Entropy, 2008 The fundamental optimization principle for non-equilibrium thermodynamics is given. The second entropy is introduced as the quantity that is maximised to determine the optimum state of a non-equilibrium system.
Phil Attard
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Coexistence of Different Scaling Laws for the Entanglement Entropy in a Periodically Driven System
Proceedings, 2019 The out-of-equilibrium dynamics of many body systems has recently received a burst of interest, also due to experimental implementations. The dynamics of observables, such as magnetization and susceptibilities, and quantum information related quantities,
Tony J. G. Apollaro, Salvatore Lorenzo
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Enhanced pion-to-proton ratio at the onset of the QCD phase transition
Physics Letters B, 2022 The pion-to-proton ratio is identified as a potential signal for a non-equilibrium first-order chiral phase transition in heavy-ion collisions, as the pion multiplicity is directly related to entropy production. To showcase this effect, a non-equilibrium
Thiranat Bumnedpan +4 more
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Open Markov Processes: A Compositional Perspective on Non-Equilibrium Steady States in Biology
Entropy, 2016 In recent work, Baez, Fong and the author introduced a framework for describing Markov processes equipped with a detailed balanced equilibrium as open systems of a certain type.
Blake S. Pollard
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The Shewanella oneidensis Fic enzyme SoFic targets the switch‐I region of EF‐Tu for AMPylation
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Fic enzymes mediate diverse post‐translational modifications across all domains of life, including AMPylation. Prokaryotic EF‐Tu can be AMPylated and deAMPylated by the conserved Fic enzyme SoFic. Structural and biochemical approaches were used to characterize the effect of AMPylation on EF‐Tu, SoFic's enzymatic activities, and the enzyme‐target ...
Svenja Runge +6 more
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Artificial molecular machines and motors—Design and control of nanoscale motion
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Molecules are constantly moving because of thermal fluctuations, but random motion alone cannot be exploited to perform directional tasks. Artificial molecular machines use chemical, electrical, or light energy to bias this motion. Molecular shuttles, rotary motors, and supramolecular pumps illustrate how nanoscale movement can be controlled and ...
Leonardo Andreoni, Alberto Credi
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Membrane composition and thermodynamic identity as boundaries of life for synthetic cell research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.What makes a cell a cell? The boundary of a living cell is not just a wall. Read as a Markov blanket, the membrane separates internal from external states, generating identity and non‐equilibrium order. Can this identity be rebuilt from scratch in a synthetic cell?
Caterina Presutti, Bert Poolman
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