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Delta-Function Kicks are Optimal for Rapidly Driven Inertial Stochastic Systems
Steven Blaber
Optimal control helps guide our understanding of stochastic thermodynamics, leading to universal properties and geometric formulations. Among the initially surprising properties of…
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Mechanical loss in amorphous solids: spatial correlations, interacting transitions, and annealed thermodynamic pathways
Steven Blaber, Jörg Rottler
The disordered and defect-rich structure of amorphous solids forms heterogeneous, high-dimensional energy landscapes. Such an energy landscape can be described by a discrete-state…