Abstract According to the free energy principle, life is an “inevitable and emergent property of any (ergodic) random dynamical system at non-equilibrium steady state that possesses a Markov blanket” (Friston in J R Soc Interface 10(86):20130475, 2013). Formulating principle for sciences terms concepts from statistical physics, such as , ergodicity places substantial constraints on theoretical ...

We present a guide to compute the phase-boundaries of classical systems using dynamic Clausius–Clapeyron integration (dCCI) method within LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) code. The advantage dCCI is because it provides coexistence curves spanning wide range thermodynamic states relatively short single non-equilibrium simulations. describe state-of-the-art free-...

The equilibration of electronic carriers in metals after excitation by an ultra-short laser pulse provides important class non-equilibrium phenomena and allows measuring the effective electron-phonon coupling parameter. Since observed decay distribution is governed interplay both electron-electron scattering, interpretation experimental data must rely on models that ideally should be easy to ha...

We calculate the effective action of a superconductor, without assuming that either the electron-electron potential or the Fermi surface obey rotational invariance. This approach leads to the same gap equation and equilibrium free energy as more conventional methods. The results are used to obtain the Gell-Mann Low renormalization group equations for the electron-electron potential. Research su...

Studies of molecular structures at or near their equilibrium configurations have long provided information on their geometry in terms of bond distances and angles. Far-from-equilibrium structures are relatively unknown-especially for complex systems-and generally, neither their dynamics nor their average geometries can be extrapolated from equilibrium values. For such nonequilibrium structures,...