Milestoning estimators of dissipation in systems observed at a coarse resolution

K Blom, K Song, E Vouga, A Godec… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Many nonequilibrium, active processes are observed at a coarse-grained level, where
different microscopic configurations are projected onto the same observable state. Such …

Direct route to thermodynamic uncertainty relations and their saturation

C Dieball, A Godec - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) bound the dissipation in nonequilibrium
systems from below by fluctuations of an observed current. Contrasting the elaborate …

Thermodynamic bounds on generalized transport: From single-molecule to bulk observables

C Dieball, A Godec - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We prove that the transport of any differentiable scalar observable in d-dimensional
nonequilibrium systems is bounded from above by the total entropy production scaled by the …

Mathematical, thermodynamical, and experimental necessity for coarse graining empirical densities and currents in continuous space

C Dieball, A Godec - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We present general results on fluctuations and spatial correlations of the coarse-grained
empirical density and current of Markovian diffusion in equilibrium or nonequilibrium steady …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamical and thermodynamical origins of motility-induced phase separation

J Su, Z Cao, J Wang, H Jiang, Z Hou - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2024 - cell.com
Active matter systems are inherently out of equilibrium and break the detailed balance (DB)
at the microscopic scale, exhibiting vital collective phenomena such as motility-induced …

Dance of odd-diffusive particles: A Fourier approach

A Langer, A Sharma, R Metzler, E Kalz - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Odd-diffusive systems are characterized by transverse responses and exhibit
unconventional behaviors in interacting systems. To address the dynamical interparticle …

Asymmetric thermal relaxation in driven systems: Rotations go opposite ways

C Dieball, G Wellecke, A Godec - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
It was predicted and recently experimentally confirmed that systems with microscopically
reversible dynamics in quadratic potentials warm up faster than they cool down. This thermal …

Entropy bound for time reversal markers

G Knotz, TM Muenker, T Betz, M Krüger - Frontiers in Physics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
We derive a bound for entropy production in terms of the mean of normalizable path-
antisymmetric observables. The optimal observable for this bound is shown to be the signum …

Mutual information as a measure of mixing efficiency in viscous fluids

Y Shi, R Golestanian, A Vilfan - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Because of the kinematic reversibility of the Stokes equation, fluid mixing at the microscale
requires an interplay between advection and diffusion. Here, we introduce mutual …

Precisely controlled colloids: A playground for path-wise non-equilibrium physics

C Dieball, YM Satalsari, AB Zuccolotto-Bernez… - Soft Matter, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate path-wise observables in experiments on driven colloids in a periodic light
field to dissect selected intricate transport features, kinetics, and transition-path time statistics …