2025.11.10. Gakuhen-B "Quantum Energy Innovation" Seminar Series (Andrea Auconi)

As part of our area’s seminar series, a seminar by Andrea Auconi will be held on Thursday, November 10, 2025, at The University of Tokyo.

Details are as follows:

Speaker: Andrea Auconi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2025, 13:00–
Place: Room 413, Faculty of Science Building No.1, The University of Tokyo

Title: Nonequilibrium relaxation inequality on short timescales
Abstract:
An integral relation is derived from the Fokker-Planck equation which connects the steady-state probability currents with the dynamics of relaxation on short timescales in the limit of small perturbation fields. As a consequence of this integral relation, a general lower bound on the steady-state entropy production is obtained. Two particular ensembles of perturbation fields are then considered, respectively constant gradients and density displacements, and correspondingly two different averaging-based thermodynamic bounds are derived from the integral relation. These provide feasible methods to estimate the steady-state entropy production from relaxation experiments.