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Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation in Interacting Many-Body Systems
1II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany.
Abstract:
The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) has been well studied for systems with few degrees of freedom. While, in principle, the TUR holds for more complex systems with many interacting degrees of freedom as well, little is known so far about its behavior in such systems. We analyze the TUR in the thermodynamic limit for mixtures of driven particles with short-range interactions. Our main result is an explicit expression for the optimal estimate of the total entropy production in terms of single-particle currents and correlations between two-particle currents. Quantitative results for various versions of a driven lattice gas demonstrate the practical implementation of this approach.
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