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Maxwell's demon

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The past decades have seen the advent of information theory in various fields, from quantum physics to cosmology. At an intermediary scale between atomic and cosmological scales are biological systems and in particular the cell, as a constitutive element o ...

EPFL2023

Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Alberto Bottino, Ben McMillan, Moahan Murugappan

Long global gyrokinetic turbulence simulations are particularly challenging in situations where the system deviates strongly from its initial state and when fluctuation levels are high, for example, in strong gradient regions. For particle-in-cell simulati ...

2022

Dissipation-driven selection of states in non-equilibrium chemical networks

Paolo De Los Rios, Daniel Maria Busiello, Shiling Liang, Francesco Piazza

Life has most likely originated as a consequence of processes taking place in non-equilibrium conditions (e.g. in the proximity of deep-sea thermal vents) selecting states of matter that would have been otherwise unfavorable at equilibrium. Here we present ...

2021

Negentropic linguistic evolution: A comparison of seven languages

Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx

The relationship between the entropy of language and its complexity has been the subject of much speculation – some seeing the increase of linguistic entropy as a sign of linguistic complexification or interpreting entropy drop as a marker of greater regul ...

Red de Humanidades Digitales A. C.2018

Optimal Search Strategies for Pollutant Source Localization

Auke Ijspeert, Mohammadreza Bayat

This paper is aimed at developing optimal motion planning for a single autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) equipped with an on-board pollutant sensor that will maximize the sensor-related information available for source seeking. The ASV uses a nonlinear diff ...

Ieee2016

Simplified Brillouin fiber slow light systems in loss regime using step current modulation

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

We propose a simple technique to realize Brillouin slow light in nearly transparent regime. A current-modulated semiconductor laser by a step function is used as Brillouin pump to generate a Brillouin loss doublet. ...

Optical Society of America2011