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most citedSecond Law of Thermodynamics without Einstein Relation

11 citations · 23 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Brownian motion with geometry-dependent hydrodynamic memory

Benjamin Sorkin, Günther Turk, Howard A. Stone

Micron-sized particles moving through a fluid are subject to viscous resistance and thermal fluctuations. Beyond steady Stokes friction, colloids also exhibit hydrodynamic memory e…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Hydrodynamic memory in overdamped colloidal dynamics

Benjamin Sorkin, Günther Turk, Howard A. Stone

Micron-sized colloid particles diffusing through a fluid experience hydrodynamic inertial and memory effects, the latter causing velocity autocorrelation to decay as a power law. A…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Bridging Control, Inference, Transport, and Thermodynamics: From Theory to Applications in Learning

Emmy Blumenthal, Nikolas Claussen, Benjamin Eysenbach +4

The last decade has seen the development of powerful methods for learning complex structure from high-dimensional data. These advances have brought to the foreground fundamental co…

cond-mat.soft2026

Propelling catalytic structures using active biomolecular condensates

Benjamin Sorkin, Ned S. Wingreen

Living systems routinely consume energy to achieve motility, often using intricate biomolecular machinery. In this work, we demonstrate that active biomolecular condensates enable…

cond-mat.soft2026

Polymer-Residue Accessibility Shapes Sequence Dependence of Critical Temperatures for Phase Separation

J. Pedro de Souza, Benjamin Sorkin, Amala Akkiraju +2

Biological polymers, such as intrinsically disordered proteins, play a central role in cellular biology, including mediating phase separation and controlling activity of biological…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Consistent thermodynamics reconstructed from transitions between nonequilibrium steady-states

Rémi Goerlich, Benjamin Sorkin, Dima Boriskovsky +4

Constructing a thermodynamic framework for nonequilibrium systems remains a major challenge, as quantities such as temperature and free energy often become ambiguous when inferred…

physics.bio-ph2025★ 8 cited

Accelerated Ostwald ripening by chemical activity

Benjamin Sorkin, Ned S. Wingreen

Phase separation of biomolecular condensates promotes membrane-free compartmentalization in cells. The dynamics of these biocondensates is routinely regulated by energy-consuming p…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Effective synchronization amid noise-induced chaos

Benjamin Sorkin, Thomas A. Witten

Two remote agents with synchronized clocks may use them to act in concert and communicate. This necessitates some means of creating and maintaining synchrony. One method, not requi…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 11 cited

Second Law of Thermodynamics without Einstein Relation

Benjamin Sorkin, Haim Diamant, Gil Ariel +1

Materials that are constantly driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium, such as active and living systems, typically violate the Einstein relation. This may arise from active contri…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Consistent expansion of the Langevin propagator with application to entropy production

Benjamin Sorkin, Gil Ariel, Tomer Markovich

Stochastic thermodynamics is a developing theory for systems out of thermal equilibrium. It allows to formulate a wealth of nontrivial relations among thermodynamic quantities such…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 4 cited

Uphill drift in the absence of current in single-file diffusion

Benjamin Sorkin, David S. Dean

Single-file diffusion is a paradigmatic model for the transport of Brownian colloidal particles in narrow one-dimensional channels, such as those found in certain porous media, whe…