Macroscopic fluctuation theory

L Bertini, A De Sole, D Gabrielli, G Jona-Lasinio… - Reviews of Modern …, 2015 - APS
Stationary nonequilibrium states describe steady flows through macroscopic systems.
Although they represent the simplest generalization of equilibrium states, they exhibit a …

Fluctuation–dissipation: response theory in statistical physics

UMB Marconi, A Puglisi, L Rondoni, A Vulpiani - Physics reports, 2008 - Elsevier
General aspects of the Fluctuation–Dissipation Relation (FDR), and Response Theory are
considered. After analyzing the conceptual and historical relevance of fluctuations in …

Entropy production in field theories without time-reversal symmetry: quantifying the non-equilibrium character of active matter

C Nardini, É Fodor, E Tjhung, F Van Wijland, J Tailleur… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Active-matter systems operate far from equilibrium because of the continuous energy
injection at the scale of constituent particles. At larger scales, described by coarse-grained …

Non-equilibrium steady states: fluctuations and large deviations of the density and of the current

B Derrida - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
These lecture notes give a short review of methods such as the matrix ansatz, the additivity
principle or the macroscopic fluctuation theory, developed recently in the theory of non …

Current fluctuations and transport efficiency for general Langevin systems

A Dechant, S Sasa - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive a universal bound on generalized currents in Langevin systems in terms of the
mean-square fluctuations of the current and the total entropy production. This bound …

Inverse scattering method solves the problem of full statistics of nonstationary heat transfer in the Kipnis-Marchioro-Presutti model

E Bettelheim, NR Smith, B Meerson - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We determine the full statistics of nonstationary heat transfer in the Kipnis-Marchioro-Presutti
lattice gas model at long times by uncovering and exploiting complete integrability of the …

Direct evaluation of large-deviation functions

C Giardina, J Kurchan, L Peliti - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We introduce a numerical procedure to evaluate directly the probabilities of large deviations
of physical quantities, such as current or density, that are local in time. The large-deviation …

Distribution of current in nonequilibrium diffusive systems and phase transitions

T Bodineau, B Derrida - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2005 - APS
We consider diffusive lattice gases on a ring and analyze the stability of their density profiles
conditionally to a current deviation. Depending on the current, one observes a phase …

Optimizing active work: Dynamical phase transitions, collective motion, and jamming

T Nemoto, É Fodor, ME Cates, RL Jack, J Tailleur - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Active work measures how far the local self-forcing of active particles translates into real
motion. Using population Monte Carlo methods, we investigate large deviations in the active …

Hyperuniformity and phase separation in biased ensembles of trajectories for diffusive systems

RL Jack, IR Thompson, P Sollich - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We analyze biased ensembles of trajectories for diffusive systems. In trajectories biased
either by the total activity or the total current, we use fluctuating hydrodynamics to show that …