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1Haifa Research Center for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel.
Abstract:
A universal large N theory of nonequilibrium fluctuations emerges in the limit of fast jump rates and large occupancies. We use this theory to derive a set of coarse-grained thermodynamic uncertainty relations-one of them being an activity bound. Importantly, the activity serves as a tighter bound for the entropy production in 1D systems. These results are particularly useful in the many-body regime, where typically a coarse-grained approach is required to handle the large microscopic state space.
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