2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Thermoinformational State Construction: Generative Energies, Entropies, and H-Theorem Consistency
George-Rafael Domenikos, Lock Yue Chew, Victoria Leong
We introduce a constructive framework for assigning thermodynamic structure to an arbitrary data system from its measured microstates. Starting from an empirical distribution over…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Variational formulation of stochastic thermodynamics: Finite-dimensional systems
Héctor Vaquero del Pino, François Gay-Balmaz, Hiroaki Yoshimura +1
In this paper, we develop a variational foundation for stochastic thermodynamics of finite-dimensional, continuous-time systems. Requiring the second law (non-negative average tota…