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Absence of Detailed Balance in Ecology
Jacopo Grilli, Sandro Azaele, Jayanth R. Banavar +1
Living systems are typically characterized by irreversible processes. A condition equivalent to the reversibility is the detailed balance, whose absence is an obstacle for analytic…
The second law, maximum entropy production and Liouville's theorem
Roderick C Dewar, Amos Maritan
In 1965 Jaynes provided an intuitively simple proof of the 2nd law of thermodynamics as a general requirement for any macroscopic transition to be experimentally reproducible. His…
Emergence of Secondary Motifs in Tube-Like Polymers in a Solvent
Chiara Poletto, Achille Giacometti, Antonio Trovato +2
We study the effects of two kinds of interactions in tube-like polymers and demonstrate that they result in the formation of secondary motifs. The first has an entropic origin and…
Symmetry, shape, and order
Antonio Trovato, Trinh X. Hoang, Jayanth R. Banavar +1
Packing problems have been of great interest in many diverse contexts for many centuries. The optimal packing of identical objects has been often invoked to understand the nature o…
The maximum relative entropy principle
Jayanth Banavar, Amos Maritan
We show that the naive application of the maximum entropy principle can yield answers which depend on the level of description, i.e. the result is not invariant under coarse-graini…
Unified perspective on proteins: A physics approach
Jayanth R. Banavar, Trinh Xuan Hoang, Amos Maritan +2
We study a physical system which, while devoid of the complexity one usually associates with proteins, nevertheless displays a remarkable array of protein-like properties. The cons…