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20222026
most citedA Nernst heat theorem for nonequilibrium jump processes

27 citations · 107 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Local Detailed Balance in the Lorenz Model: Replaces the Butterfly with Frenetic Bursting

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes

The Lorenz system is the canonical low-order model of convective instability, yet its dissipative and driving terms have never been checked against, nor constructed from, an explic…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Critical behavior of the driven Curie-Weiss model

Ruohan Xu, Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes

We complete the phase diagram of the macroscopic Curie-Weiss magnet in a time-periodic external field, as a function of temperature and driving parameters. There is a regime (large…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Specific heat of thermally driven chains

Michiel Gautama, Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes +1

We investigate the thermal responses of a harmonic oscillator chain coupled at its boundaries to heat baths held at different temperatures. This setup sustains a steady energy flux…

physics.bio-ph2026

Bringing calorimetry (back) to life

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes, Édgar Roldán

Micro-calorimetry offers significant potential as a quantitative method for studying the structure and function of biological systems, for instance, by probing the excess heat rele…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Quasistatic response for nonequilibrium processes: evaluating the Berry potential and curvature

Aaron Beyen, Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes

We investigate how introducing slow, time-dependent perturbations to a steady, nonequilibrium process alters the expected (excess) values of important observables, such as the dyna…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 2 cited

Negative specific heats: where Clausius and Boltzmann entropies separate

Lander Bogers, Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes

Steady nonequilibria dissipate energy and, when changing external parameters, an extra or excess heat accompanies the relaxation to the new nonequilibrium condition. For nonequilib…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 8 cited

Affine relationships between steady currents

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes, Karel Netočný

Perturbing transition rates in a steady nonequilibrium system, e.g. modelled by a Markov jump process, causes a change in the local currents. Their susceptibility is usually expres…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 4 cited

Local detailed balance for active particle models

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes

Starting from a Huxley-type model for an agitated vibrational mode, we propose an embedding of standard active particle models in terms of two-temperature processes. One temperatur…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Nonequilibrium Third Law of Thermodynamics

Faezeh Khodabandehlou

The extended Third Law of thermodynamics for nonequilibrium jump processes is studied in previous collaborative papers (Kh et al.,2023) [1,2], where the nonequilibrium heat capacit…

math.PR2023★ 8 cited

On the Poisson equation for nonreversible Markov jump processes

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes, Karel Netočný

We study the solution of the Poisson equation where is the backward generator of an irreducible (finite) Markov jump process and is a given centered state fu…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023

The Sun within: active processes from two-temperature models

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes

We propose an embedding of standard active particle models in terms of two-temperature processes. One temperature refers to an ambient thermal bath, and the other temperature effec…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023★ 3 cited

Close-to-equilibrium heat capacity

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes

Close to equilibrium, the excess heat governs the static fluctuations. We study the heat capacity in that McLennan regime, i.e., in linear order around equilibrium, using an expres…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 11 cited

The vanishing of excess heat for nonequilibrium processes reaching zero ambient temperature

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes, Irene Maes +1

We present the mathematical ingredients for an extension of the Third Law of Thermodynamics (Nernst heat postulate) to nonequilibrium processes. The central quantity is the excess…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 19 cited

Exact computation of heat capacities for active particles on a graph

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Simon Krekels, Irene Maes

The notion of a nonequilibrium heat capacity is important for bio-energetics and for calorimetry of active materials more generally. It centers around the notion of excess heat or…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 27 cited

A Nernst heat theorem for nonequilibrium jump processes

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes, Karel Netočný

We discuss via general arguments and examples when and why the steady nonequilibrium heat capacity vanishes with temperature. The framework is the one of Markov jump processes on f…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 20 cited

Trees and forests for nonequilibrium purposes: an introduction to graphical representations

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Christian Maes, Karel Netočný

Using local detailed balance we rewrite the Kirchhoff formula for stationary distribution of Markov jump processes in terms of a physically interpretable tree-ensemble. We use that…

math.PR2022★ 5 cited

Drazin-Inverse and heat capacity for driven random walks on the ring

Faezeh Khodabandehlou, Irene Maes

We apply single and double tree-like representations of Markov jump processes on for obtaining their nonequilibrium heat capacity and for taking the diffusion limit…