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cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 29 cited
Emergence of local irreversibility in complex interacting systems
Christopher W. Lynn, Caroline M. Holmes, William Bialek +1
Living systems are fundamentally irreversible, breaking detailed balance and establishing an arrow of time. But how does the evident arrow of time for a whole system arise from the…
cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 63 cited
Decomposing the local arrow of time in interacting systems
Christopher W. Lynn, Caroline M. Holmes, William Bialek +1
We show that the evidence for a local arrow of time, which is equivalent to the entropy production in thermodynamic systems, can be decomposed. In a system with many degrees of fre…