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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,416 Views
16 Pages

24 August 2021

In this study, we theoretically investigated a generalized stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE) driven by reversible Langevin dynamics in the context of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Using the ability of Loewner evolution, which enables encodi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,130 Views
12 Pages

Time, Irreversibility and Entropy Production in Nonequilibrium Systems

  • Umberto Lucia,
  • Giulia Grisolia and
  • Alexander L. Kuzemsky

13 August 2020

The aim of this review is to shed light on time and irreversibility, in order to link macroscopic to microscopic approaches to these complicated problems. After a brief summary of the standard notions of thermodynamics, we introduce some consideratio...

(This article belongs to the Section Entropy Reviews)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,901 Views
29 Pages

Chemical Reactions Using a Non-Equilibrium Wigner Function Approach

  • Ramón F. Álvarez-Estrada and
  • Gabriel F. Calvo

19 October 2016

A three-dimensional model of binary chemical reactions is studied. We consider an ab initio quantum two-particle system subjected to an attractive interaction potential and to a heat bath at thermal equilibrium at absolute temperature T > 0 ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Its Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,507 Views
32 Pages

2 March 2026

We develop a dual-time topological framework for the mathematical description of non-equilibrium systems, aimed at reconciling time-reversible microscopic dynamics with irreversible macroscopic behavior. The formulation introduces two independent but...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7,379 Views
31 Pages

17 May 2004

A concept of entropy production associated with continuous topological evolution is deduced (without statistics) from the fact that Cartan-Hilbert 1-form of Action defines a non-equilibrium symplectic system of Pfaff Topological dimension 2n+2. The d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,620 Views
17 Pages

17 December 2013

The well-known Noether theorem in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics associates symmetries in the evolution equations of a mechanical system with conserved quantities. In this work, we extend this classical idea to problems of non-equilibrium therm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Methods and Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
13,567 Views
19 Pages

Dissipative Structures, Organisms and Evolution

  • Dilip K Kondepudi,
  • Benjamin De Bari and
  • James A. Dixon

16 November 2020

Self-organization in nonequilibrium systems has been known for over 50 years. Under nonequilibrium conditions, the state of a system can become unstable and a transition to an organized structure can occur. Such structures include oscillating chemica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolution and Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,041 Views
32 Pages

15 February 2012

We consider non-equilibrium open statistical systems, subject to potentials and to external “heat baths” (hb) at thermal equilibrium at temperature T (either with ab initio dissipation or without it). Boltzmann’s classical equilibrium distributions g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Arrow of Time)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,832 Views
13 Pages

15 August 2017

Clearly understanding elementary growth processes that depend on surface reconstruction is essential to controlling vapor-phase epitaxy more precisely. In this study, ammonia chemical adsorption on GaN(0001) reconstructed surfaces under metalorganic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Light Emitting Diodes and Laser Diodes: Materials and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,592 Views
26 Pages

Diffusive Resettlement: Irreversible Urban Transitions in Closed Systems

  • Bohdan Slavko,
  • Mikhail Prokopenko and
  • Kirill S. Glavatskiy

2 January 2021

We propose a non-equilibrium framework for modelling the evolution of cities, which describes intra-urban migration as an irreversible diffusive process. We validate this framework using the actual migration data for the Australian capital cities. Wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Social Physics)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,674 Views
13 Pages

18 November 2019

It has been conjectured that the origin of the fundamental molecules of life, their proliferation over the surface of Earth, and their complexation through time, are examples of photochemical dissipative structuring, dissipative proliferation, and di...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 5th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
12,692 Views
12 Pages

29 April 2005

An ensemble of classical subsystems interacting with surrounding particles has been considered. In general case, a phase volume of the subsystems ensemble was shown to be a function of time. The evolutional equations of the ensemble are obtained as w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,403 Views
13 Pages

Thermodynamic Hamiltonian and Entropy Production

  • Umberto Lucia and
  • Giulia Grisolia

7 October 2025

The variational method holds considerable significance within mathematical and theoretical physics. Its importance stems from its capacity to characterise natural systems through physical quantities, irrespective of the chosen frame of reference. Thi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,056 Views
34 Pages

13 June 2023

Non-equilibrium evolution at absolute temperature T and approach to equilibrium of statistical systems in long-time (t) approximations, using both hierarchies and functional integrals, are reviewed. A classical non-relativistic particle in one spatia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,708 Views
24 Pages

Thermomass Theory in the Framework of GENERIC

  • Ben-Dian Nie,
  • Bing-Yang Cao,
  • Zeng-Yuan Guo and
  • Yu-Chao Hua

18 February 2020

Thermomass theory was developed to deal with the non-Fourier heat conduction phenomena involving the influence of heat inertia. However, its structure, derived from an analogy to fluid mechanics, requires further mathematical verification. In this pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropies: Between Information Geometry and Kinetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,111 Views
17 Pages

14 May 2022

The Markovian time evolution of the entropy production rate is studied as a measure of irreversibility generated in a bipartite quantum system consisting of two coupled bosonic modes immersed in a common thermal environment. The dynamics of the syste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics of Quantum Correlations in Open Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,169 Views
15 Pages

3 September 2025

We propose a universal framework for understanding system evolution based on structural complexity, offering a directional signature that applies across physical, chemical, and biological domains. Unlike entropy, which is constrained by its definitio...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,188 Views
27 Pages

10 February 2026

Enzyme performance parameters, including the turnover number and specificity constant, exhibit remarkable diversity due to biological evolution and natural selection. In some bacterial and human enzymes, catalytic efficiencies approach fundamental ph...

(This article belongs to the Collection Latest Review Papers in Molecular Biophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,304 Views
31 Pages

16 October 2013

In this study, the balance equation for local entropy density defined on each partition is obtained by the decomposition of the time-evolution operator for local entropy density, on the level of the master equation, by using symmetric and antisymmetr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Methods and Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,358 Views
16 Pages

25 January 2026

A living organism can be regarded as a dissipative, self-organizing physical system operating far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Such systems can be effectively described within the framework of Markov jump processes subjected to an external driving...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Alive or Not Alive: Entropy and Living Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,126 Views
21 Pages

23 November 2018

The study of dense gases and liquids requires consideration of the interactions between the particles and the correlations created by these interactions. In this article, the N-variable distribution function which maximizes the Uncertainty (Shannon&r...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
515 Views
28 Pages

8 June 2026

Hybrid carbon nanotube–fullerene architectures provide a controllable setting in which to study irreversibility and information flow in strongly structured quantum environments. We analyze entropy generation in a platform where paramagnetic end...