Thermodynamics and Legendre Duality in Optimal Networks
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| author | Porporato, Amilcare Anand, Shashank Kumar Calabrese, Salvatore Ridolfi, Luca Rondoni, Lamberto |
| author_facet | Porporato, Amilcare Anand, Shashank Kumar Calabrese, Salvatore Ridolfi, Luca Rondoni, Lamberto |
| contents | Optimality principles in nonequilibrium transport networks are linked to a thermodynamic formalism based on generalized transport potentials endowed with Legendre duality and related contact structure. This allows quantifying the distance from non-equilibrium operating points, analogously to thermodynamic availability as well as to shed light on optimality principles in relation to different imposed constraints. Extremizations of generalized dissipation and entropy production appear as special cases that require power-law resistances and -- for entropy production -- also isothermal conditions. Changes in stability of multiple operating points are interpreted as phase transitions based on non-equilibrium equations of state, while cost-based optimization of transport properties reveals connections to the generalized dissipation in the case of power law costs and linear resistance law, but now with typically unstable operating points which give rise to branched optimal transport. |
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| spellingShingle | Thermodynamics and Legendre Duality in Optimal Networks Porporato, Amilcare Anand, Shashank Kumar Calabrese, Salvatore Ridolfi, Luca Rondoni, Lamberto Statistical Mechanics Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Applied Physics Optimality principles in nonequilibrium transport networks are linked to a thermodynamic formalism based on generalized transport potentials endowed with Legendre duality and related contact structure. This allows quantifying the distance from non-equilibrium operating points, analogously to thermodynamic availability as well as to shed light on optimality principles in relation to different imposed constraints. Extremizations of generalized dissipation and entropy production appear as special cases that require power-law resistances and -- for entropy production -- also isothermal conditions. Changes in stability of multiple operating points are interpreted as phase transitions based on non-equilibrium equations of state, while cost-based optimization of transport properties reveals connections to the generalized dissipation in the case of power law costs and linear resistance law, but now with typically unstable operating points which give rise to branched optimal transport. |
| title | Thermodynamics and Legendre Duality in Optimal Networks |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15727 |