In contrast to the classical concept of a Carnot engine that alternates contact between heat baths different temperatures, naturally occurring processes usually harvest energy from anisotropy, being exposed simultaneously chemical and thermal fluctuations intensities. these cases, enabling mechanism responsible for transduction is typically presence non-equilibrium steady state (NESS). A suitab...

Within Tsallis’ nonextensive statistics, a model is elaborated to address self-similar time series as a thermodynamic system. Thermodynamic-type characteristics relevant to temperature, pressure, entropy, internal and free energies are introduced and tested. Stability conditions of time series analysis are discussed in details on the basis of Van der Waals model.

The relationship between damage spreading and static thermodynamic properties in the Ising model developed by Coniglio et al. is here extended to include time-dependent thermodynamic quantities. We exploit this new result to measure the time-dependent spin correlation function from damage spreading in the Ising model with heat bath and Glauber dynamics. Until now, only static thermodynamic quan...

We propose a general framework for approximating the potential of mean force (PMF) along a reaction coordinate in conformational space. This framework, based on the method of weighted residuals, can be viewed as a generalization of thermodynamic integration and direct histogram methods. Using weighted residuals allows for higher-order approximations to the PMF in the form of a global spectral m...

Full-thermodynamic device simulation solves drift-diffusion (DD), energy balance, and lattice self-heating equations simultaneously and the solution time is extensive. An algorithm to reduce the solution time is presented. The method uses a single lattice temperature to describe the self-heating in the whole semiconductor device. It is shown that the solution time is reduced by 20% and little e...

Rolling tachyon backgrounds, arising from open strings on unstable branes in bosonic string theory, can be related to a simple statistical mechanical model Coulomb gas of point charges in two dimensions confined to a circle, the Dyson gas. In this letter we describe a statistical system that is dual to non-BPS branes in superstring theory. We argue that even though the concept of time is absent...

A scheme is presented which allows for the computation of the topological pressure and power spectra associated with equilibrium measures from a given time series. Its convergence properties are demonstrated on numerical data sets obtained from the Lozi and the Henon map. Numerical evidence for sharp peaks in the power spectrum of the non{hyperbolic phase is given and supported by estimates usi...

In this paper, we present a method for characterizing the evolution of time-varying complex networks by adopting a thermodynamic representation of network structure computed from a polynomial (or algebraic) characterization of graph structure. Commencing from a representation of graph structure based on a characteristic polynomial computed from the normalized Laplacian matrix, we show how the p...

We introduce an one-dimensional thermodynamical particle model which is efficient in predictions about a microscopical structure of animal/human groups. For such a model we present analytical calculations leading to formulae for time clearance distribution as well as for time spectral rigidity. Furthermore, the results obtained are reformulated in terms of vehicular traffic theory and consecuti...