Venue
Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden
Scope
The second law of thermodynamics is a fundamental (but phenomenological) bound
constraining the behavior of systems that transition between equilibrium states. Equilibrium
statistical physics provides an extremely powerful and universal formalism
for describing the behavior of many-particle systems in thermal equilibrium, which
obey the second law. Out of equilibrium, the second law in its formulation of nonnegative
entropy changes is generally not valid, but current research indicates that
there are comparably fundamental thermodynamic bounds constraining the behavior
in non-equilibrium system. Such bounds have been formulated within the theoretical
framework of stochastic thermodynamics. Indeed the large interest in the field of
stochastic thermodynamics stems from the fact that, under certain restrictions and
assumptions, it provides a general theory for small out-of-equilibrium systems which
generalizes fundamental equilibrium concepts such as the fluctuation-dissipation theorem,
current fluctuations and linear response to the non-equilibrium domain.
Currently, there is a large interest in the statistical physics community in finding
inference tools to estimate entropy production in non-equilibrium systems (often in
a non-equilibrium steady state), in understanding how a finite entropy production
constrains dynamical properties (through bounds or trade-offs), and what such fundamental
thermodynamic constraints imply for living systems. Since most systems
and processes found in nature are out of equilibrium, such a theory, if it can be formulated,
will have an enormous impact. In this program we aim to discuss these
topics which we think will be in the very forefront of the research field by 2027.
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