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Thermodynamics of non-elementary chemical reaction networks
New Journal of Physics, 2020 We develop a thermodynamic framework for closed and open chemical networks applicable to non-elementary reactions that do not need to obey mass action kinetics.
Francesco Avanzini +2 more
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Stochastic thermodynamics of all-to-all interacting many-body systems
New Journal of Physics, 2020 We provide a stochastic thermodynamic description across scales for N identical units with all-to-all interactions that are driven away from equilibrium by different reservoirs and external forces.
Tim Herpich +3 more
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Thermodynamic efficiency in dissipative chemistry
Nature Communications, 2019 Open chemical systems operate out of equilibrium, providing more opportunities than closed systems, but a theoretical framework to describe their performance is lacking. Here, the authors assess the efficiency of two classes of dissipative processes with
Emanuele Penocchio +2 more
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Negative differential response in chemical reactions
New Journal of Physics, 2019 Reaction currents in chemical networks usually increase when increasing their driving affinities. But far from equilibrium the opposite can also happen. We find that such negative differential response (NDR) occurs in reaction schemes of major biological
Gianmaria Falasco +3 more
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The statistical mechanics of membranes [PDF]
Physics Reports, 2001 The fluctuations of two-dimensional extended objects membranes is a rich and exciting field with many solid results and a wide range of open issues. We review the distinct universality classes of membranes, determined by the local order, and the associated phase diagrams.
Bowick, Mark, Travesset, Alex
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Some speculations about local thermalization of nonequilibrium extended quantum systems
Condensed Matter Physics, 2023 We discuss the possibility of defining an emergent local temperature in extended quantum many-body systems evolving out of equilibrium. For the most simple case of free-fermionic systems, we give an explicit formula for the effective temperature in the ...
M. Coppola, D. Karevski
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Statistical mechanics of the neocortex
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2009 We analyze neocortical dynamics using field theoretic methods for non-equilibrium statistical processes. Assuming the dynamics is Markovian, we introduce a model that describes both neural fluctuations and responses to stimuli. We show that at low spiking rates, neocortical activity exhibits a dynamical phase transition which is in the universality ...
Michael A, Buice, Jack D, Cowan
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Statistical Mechanics of Voting [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 1998 Decision procedures aggregating the preferences of multiple agents can produce cycles and hence outcomes which have been described heuristically as `chaotic'. We make this description precise by constructing an explicit dynamical system from the agents' preferences and a voting rule. The dynamics form a one dimensional statistical mechanics model; this
Meyer, David A., Brown, Thad A.
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Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
Entropy, 2017 The proper definition of thermodynamics and the thermodynamic entropy is discussed in the light of recent developments. The postulates for thermodynamics are examined critically, and some modifications are suggested to allow for the inclusion of long ...
Robert H. Swendsen
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Entropy and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Entropy, 2020 The present Special Issue, ‘Entropy and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics’, consists of seven original research papers [...]
Róbert Kovács +2 more
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