Recent Developments in Dissipative Phenomena

Dear Colleagues,

Out of equilibrium phenomena imply some kind of coupling between the system of interest and an environment. Through the exchange implied by this coupling, the environment steadily or cyclically drives the system, dissipating a certain amount of energy that, by definition, cannot be transformed back into work.

Dissipation has acquired a central role for the description of nonequilibrium phenomena, which are ubiquitous in nature. For instance, this is the case in the study of the symmetries of nonequilibrium fluctuations, of minimal dissipation processes and of quantum measurement, among a host of many other problems.

In recent years, large developments have been achieved towards a mathematical description of dissipative processes, from small scales where nonequilibrium fluctuations dominate the fate of the system, to macroscopic scales where maximizing the thermodynamical efficiency is a must. Dissipation has been proposed as the nonequilibrium counterpart of the thermodynamic potentials, which pave the road to the investigation of non thermodynamic phenomena.

The aim of this Special Issue is to overview the current status of research in this field, from stochastic to deterministic and quantum systems.

Prof. Lamberto Rondoni
Prof. Carlos Mejía-Monasterio
Guest Editors

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