The 2004 Gibbs thermodynamic potential function of naturally abundant water ice is based on much more experimental data than its predecessors, is therefore significantly more accurate and reliable, and for the first time describes the entire temperature and pressure range of existence of this ice phase. It is expressed in the ITS-90 temperature scale and is consistent with the current scientifi...

Computing with biological macromolecules, such as DNA, is fundamentally a physical/chemical process. The DNA chemistry introduces a level of complexity that makes reliable, e cient, and scalable computations a challenge. All the chemical and thermodynamic factors have to be analyzed and controlled in order for the molecular algorithm to produce the intended result. For instance, a computation b...

We introduce a general network thermodynamic method for compartmental analysis which uses a compartmental model of sodium flows through frog skin as an illustrative example (Huf and Howell, 1974a). We use network thermodynamics (Mikulecky et al., 1977b) to formulate the problem, and a circuit simulation program (ASTEC 2, SPICE2, or PCAP) for computation. In this way, the compartment concentrati...

The application of thermodynamics is simple, even if the theory may appear intimidating. We describe tools, developed over recent years, which make it easy to estimate often elusive thermodynamic parameter values, generally (but not exclusively) for ionic materials, both solid and liquid, as well as for their solid hydrates and solvates. The tools are termed volume-based thermodynamics (VBT) an...

Nonequilibrium information thermodynamics determines the minimum energy dissipation to reliably erase memory under time-symmetric control protocols. We demonstrate that its bounds are tight and so show costs overwhelm those implied by Landauer's bound on erasure. Moreover, in limit of perfect computation, diverge. The conclusion is time-asymmetric protocols should be developed for efficient, ac...

The Wigner spiked model in a mismatched setting is studied with the finite temperature Statistical Mechanics approach through its representation as Sherrington-Kirkpatrick added Mattis interaction. exact solution of Ising spins rigorously proved to be given by variational principle on two order parameters, Parisi overlap distribution and magnetization. latter identified an ordinary turns out co...