Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Irreversibility in dynamical phases and transitions

  • Daniel S. Seara,
  • Benjamin B. Machta,
  • Michael P. Murrell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20281-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The degree of irreversibility of a dynamical system is commonly characterized by the total rate of entropy production. Seara et al. introduce a measure that quantifies irreversibility from data in broad classes of spatiotemporal non-equilibrium systems.