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Strengthened second law for periodic processes
Jake Schaefer, Ben Ansbacher, Jan Korbel +1
We derive a lower bound on the entropy production of any physical system that evolves as a periodic process. Crucially, this lower bound is completely independent of the physical m…
Finite relaxation protocols with minimal dissipation
Ben Ansbacher, Harrison Hartle, Abhishek Yadav +2
Work extraction from nonequilibrium systems is a major challenge across biological, chemical, physical, and engineering systems. Idealized protocols generally require a quasistatic…
Foundations of entropy in complex systems
Jan Korbel
This chapter reviews the foundations of entropy and their extensions to complex systems. We first discuss the relation between Boltzmann's formula, multiplicity, coarse-graining, a…
Computational foundations of the human world
Marcus J. Hamilton, Abhishek Yadav, Harrison Hartle +10
Human societies continuously transform scattered information into collective judgments and coordinated action, whether through markets discovering prices, governments allocating re…
Quo vadis, stochastic thermodynamics?
Jan Korbel, Artemy Kolchinsky, Sarah A. M. Loos +4
Stochastic thermodynamics is a framework for describing non-equilibrium processes at the level of fluctuating trajectories, where the state of a system evolves as a stochastic time…
Empirical validation of the polarization transition in a double-random field model of elections
Jan Korbel, Remah Dahdoul, Stefan Thurner
We model bipartisan elections where voters are exposed to two forces: local homophilic interactions and external influence from two political campaigns. The model is mathematically…
What does it mean for a system to compute?
David H. Wolpert, Jan Korbel
Many real-world dynamic systems, both natural and artificial, are understood to be performing computations. For artificial dynamic systems, explicitly designed to perform computati…
Thermodynamics of driven systems with explicitly broken detailed balance
Markus Hofer, Jan Korbel, Rudolf Hanel +1
In systems with detailed balance, the stationary distribution and the equilibrium distribution are identical, creating a clear connection between energetic and entropic quantities.…
Is stochastic thermodynamics the key to understanding the energy costs of computation?
David Wolpert, Jan Korbel, Christopher Lynn +16
The relationship between the thermodynamic and computational characteristics of dynamical physical systems has been a major theoretical interest since at least the 19th century, an…
Thermodynamics of exponential Kolmogorov-Nagumo averages
Pablo A. Morales, Jan Korbel, Fernando E. Rosas
This paper investigates generalized thermodynamic relationships in physical systems where relevant macroscopic variables are determined by the exponential Kolmogorov-Nagumo average…
Homophily-based social group formation in a spin-glass self-assembly framework
Jan Korbel, Simon D. Lindner, Tuan Minh Pham +2
Homophily, the tendency of humans to attract each other when sharing similar features, traits, or opinions has been identified as one of the main driving forces behind the formatio…
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of uncertain stochastic processes
Jan Korbel, David H. Wolpert
Stochastic thermodynamics is formulated under the assumption of perfect knowledge of all thermodynamic parameters. However, in any real-world experiment, there is non-zero uncertai…
Specialization in Criminal Careers
Georg Heiler, Tuan Pham, Jan Korbel +2
We use a comprehensive longitudinal dataset on criminal acts over five years in a European country to study specialization in criminal careers. We cluster crime categories by their…
Geometric Structures Induced by Deformations of the Legendre Transform
Pablo A. Morales, Jan Korbel, Fernando E. Rosas
The recent link discovered between generalized Legendre transforms and non-dually flat statistical manifolds suggests a fundamental reason behind the ubiquity of Rényi's divergence…
Energy distribution of inelastic gas in a box is dominated by a power law -- a derivation in the framework of sample space reducing processes
S. Thurner, J. Korbel, R. Hanel
We use the framework of sample space reducing processes (SSR) as an alternative to Boltzmann equation based approaches, to derive the energy and velocity distribution functions of…