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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 9: Statistical Physics 2 - organized by Barbara Drossel (Darmstadt), Sabine Klapp (Berlin) und Thomas Speck (Mainz)
DY 9.4: Talk
Monday, March 22, 2021, 12:00–12:20, DYb
Quantifying configurational information for a stochastic particle in a flow-field — •Evelyn Tang1 and Ramin Golestanian1,2 — 1Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), 37077 Göttingen, Germany — 2Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
Flow-fields are ubiquitous systems that are able to transport vital signaling molecules necessary for system function. While information regarding the location and transport of such particles is often crucial, it is not well-understood how to quantify the information in such stochastic systems. Using the framework of nonequilibrium statistical physics, we develop theoretical tools to address this question. We observe that rotation in a flow-field does not explicitly appear in the generalized potential that governs the rate of system entropy production. Specifically, in the neighborhood of a flow-field, rotation contributes to the information content only in the presence of strain -- and then with a comparatively weaker contribution than strain and at higher orders in time. Indeed, strain and especially the flow divergence, contribute most strongly to transport properties such as particle residence time and the rate of information change. These results shed light on how information can be analyzed and controlled in complex artificial and living flow-based systems.