Coarse-grained entropy production with multiple reservoirs: Unraveling the role of time scales and detailed balance in biology-inspired systems
A general framework to describe a vast majority of biology-inspired systems is to model them as stochastic processes in which multiple couplings are in play at the same time. Molecular motors, chemical reaction networks, catalytic enzymes, and particles exchanging heat with different baths, constitu...
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| description | A general framework to describe a vast majority of biology-inspired systems is to model them as stochastic processes in which multiple couplings are in play at the same time. Molecular motors, chemical reaction networks, catalytic enzymes, and particles exchanging heat with different baths, constitute some interesting examples of such a modelization. Moreover, they usually operate out of equilibrium, being characterized by a net production of entropy, which entails a constrained efficiency. Hitherto, in order to investigate multiple processes simultaneously driving a system, all theoretical approaches deal with them independently, at a coarse-grained level, or employing a separation of time scales. Here, we explicitly take in consideration the interplay among time scales of different processes and whether or not their own evolution eventually relaxes toward an equilibrium state in a given subspace. We propose a general framework for multiple coupling, from which the well-known formulas for the entropy production can be derived, depending on the available information about each single process. Furthermore, when one of the processes does not equilibrate in its subspace, even if much faster than all the others, it introduces a finite correction to the entropy production. We employ our framework in various simple and pedagogical examples, for which such a corrective term can be related to a typical scaling of physical quantities in play. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9d21619a4f5d445f827a3e77671960b62024-04-12T17:04:08ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Research2643-15642020-11-012404325710.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043257Coarse-grained entropy production with multiple reservoirs: Unraveling the role of time scales and detailed balance in biology-inspired systemsDaniel M. BusielloDeepak GuptaAmos MaritanA general framework to describe a vast majority of biology-inspired systems is to model them as stochastic processes in which multiple couplings are in play at the same time. Molecular motors, chemical reaction networks, catalytic enzymes, and particles exchanging heat with different baths, constitute some interesting examples of such a modelization. Moreover, they usually operate out of equilibrium, being characterized by a net production of entropy, which entails a constrained efficiency. Hitherto, in order to investigate multiple processes simultaneously driving a system, all theoretical approaches deal with them independently, at a coarse-grained level, or employing a separation of time scales. Here, we explicitly take in consideration the interplay among time scales of different processes and whether or not their own evolution eventually relaxes toward an equilibrium state in a given subspace. We propose a general framework for multiple coupling, from which the well-known formulas for the entropy production can be derived, depending on the available information about each single process. Furthermore, when one of the processes does not equilibrate in its subspace, even if much faster than all the others, it introduces a finite correction to the entropy production. We employ our framework in various simple and pedagogical examples, for which such a corrective term can be related to a typical scaling of physical quantities in play.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043257 |
| spellingShingle | Daniel M. Busiello Deepak Gupta Amos Maritan Coarse-grained entropy production with multiple reservoirs: Unraveling the role of time scales and detailed balance in biology-inspired systems Physical Review Research |
| title | Coarse-grained entropy production with multiple reservoirs: Unraveling the role of time scales and detailed balance in biology-inspired systems |
| title_full | Coarse-grained entropy production with multiple reservoirs: Unraveling the role of time scales and detailed balance in biology-inspired systems |
| title_fullStr | Coarse-grained entropy production with multiple reservoirs: Unraveling the role of time scales and detailed balance in biology-inspired systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coarse-grained entropy production with multiple reservoirs: Unraveling the role of time scales and detailed balance in biology-inspired systems |
| title_short | Coarse-grained entropy production with multiple reservoirs: Unraveling the role of time scales and detailed balance in biology-inspired systems |
| title_sort | coarse grained entropy production with multiple reservoirs unraveling the role of time scales and detailed balance in biology inspired systems |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043257 |
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