Failure data-driven stochastic and probabilistic techniques that underlie reliability analysis of components and structures remain unchanged for decades. The present study relies on a science-based explanation of damage as the source of material failure, and develops an alternative approach to reliability assessment based on the second law of thermodynamics. The common definition of damage, whi...

We investigate a new research area: we are interested in the ultimate ther-modynamic cost of computing from x to y. Other than its fundamental importance , such research has potential implications in miniaturization of VLSI chips and applications in pattern recognition. It turns out that the theory of thermodynamic cost of computation can be axiomatically developed. Our fundamental theorem conn...

We prove a very general theorem on decoherence in the thermodynamic limit, widely extending the scope of our preceding results [Phys. Lett. A 308, 135 (2003)]. The concept of a singular limit in time is used in the proof. Recent experimental findings [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] in NMR with organic molecular crystals have shown that an intrinsic decoherence effect is present in a many-body system in the the...

This work extends the results of a recently developed theory of a rather complete thermodynamic formalism for discrete-state, continuous-time Markov processes with and without detailed balance. We investigate whether and in what way the thermodynamic structure is invariant in a multiscale stochastic system, that is, whether the relations between thermodynamic functions of state and process vari...

When applied to matter and antimatter states, the Pauli master equation (PME) may have two forms: time-symmetric, which is conventional, and time-antisymmetric, which is suggested in the present work. The symmetric and antisymmetric forms correspond to symmetric and antisymmetric extensions of thermodynamics from matter to antimatter - this is demonstrated by proving the corresponding H-theorem...

background and objectives: lipases are valuable biocatalysts which are widely used in the detergent, food, dairy and pharmaceutical industries. the aims of the present study included the isolation of a lipase-producer from industrial zones and the partial characterization of the enzyme. materials and methods: a number of bacteria were isolated from sites related to the oil industries. an isolat...