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Bacterial proliferation pattern formation
John S. Chuang, Riccardo Rao, Stanislas Leibler
Bacteria can form a great variety of spatially heterogeneous cell density patterns, ranging from simple concentric rings to dynamical spiral waves appearing in growing colonies. Th…
Linear Stochastic Thermodynamics
Danilo Forastiere, Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
We study the thermodynamics of open systems weakly driven out-of-equilibrium by nonconservative and time-dependent forces using the linear regime of stochastic thermodynamics. We m…
Free-Energy Transduction in Chemical Reaction Networks: from Enzymes to Metabolism
Artur Wachtel, Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
We provide a rigorous definition of free-energy transduction and its efficiency in arbitrary -- linear or nonlinear -- open chemical reaction networks (CRNs) operating at steady st…
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of light-induced reactions
Emanuele Penocchio, Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
Current formulations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open chemical reaction networks only consider chemostats as free-energy sources sustaining nonequilibrium behaviours. Here,…
Thermodynamic Efficiency in Dissipative Chemistry
Emanuele Penocchio, Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
Chemical processes in closed systems are poorly controllable since they always relax to equilibrium. Living systems avoid this fate and give rise to a much richer diversity of phen…
Detailed Fluctuation Theorems: A Unifying Perspective
Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
We present a general method to identify an arbitrary number of fluctuating quantities which satisfy a detailed fluctuation theorem for all times within the framework of time-inhomo…
Conservation Laws and Work Fluctuation Relations in Chemical Reaction Networks
Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
We formulate a nonequilibrium thermodynamic description for open chemical reaction networks (CRN) described by a chemical master equation. The topological properties of the CRN and…
Information Thermodynamics of Turing Patterns
Gianmaria Falasco, Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
We set up a rigorous thermodynamic description of reaction-diffusion systems driven out of equilibrium by time-dependent space-distributed chemostats. Building on the assumption of…
Thermodynamically Consistent Coarse Graining of Biocatalysts beyond Michaelis--Menten
Artur Wachtel, Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
Starting from the detailed catalytic mechanism of a biocatalyst we provide a coarse-graining procedure which, by construction, is thermodynamically consistent. This procedure provi…
Conservation Laws shape Dissipation
Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
Starting from the most general formulation of stochastic thermodynamics---i.e. a thermodynamically consistent nonautonomous stochastic dynamics describing systems in contact with s…
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks: Wisdom from Stochastic Thermodynamics
Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito
We build a rigorous nonequilibrium thermodynamic description for open chemical reaction networks of elementary reactions. Their dynamics is described by deterministic rate equation…
Glucans monomer-exchange dynamics as an open chemical network
Riccardo Rao, David Lacoste, Massimiliano Esposito
We describe the oligosaccharides-exchange dynamics performed by so-called D-enzymes on polysaccharides. To mimic physiological conditions, we treat this process as an open chemical…
Thermodynamics of accuracy in kinetic proofreading: Dissipation and efficiency trade-offs
Riccardo Rao, Luca Peliti
The high accuracy exhibited by biological information transcription processes is due to kinetic proofreading, i.e., by a mechanism which reduces the error rate of the information-h…