Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

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Onsager’s reciprocal relations are highlighted as a way to simplify ecological expectations, despite ecosystems involving uncountably many transformations across space and time scales.

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In a programmable neutral-atom quantum simulator with spin models up to 180 qubits, prethermal dynamical regimes show sharp resonant melting and a prethermally driven first-order dynamical phase transition in two dimensions.

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Optimal amendable decisions can be reached in finite average time with zero error probability, unlike irrevocable decisions, enabling perfect correction when new evidence emerges.

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Manipulating a superconducting vortex memory bit in a nanoscale double-well shows work for erasure at 4.2 K within an order of magnitude of Landauer’s limit (kBT ln 2).