Universal criticality of entropy production in chemical reaction networks

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Auteurs principaux: Tamano, Kyota, Saito, Keiji
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author Tamano, Kyota
Saito, Keiji
author_facet Tamano, Kyota
Saito, Keiji
contents Stochastic thermodynamics gives universal relations for microscopic entropy production, yet its critical behavior at macroscopic nonequilibrium transitions remains unclassified. We study well-mixed reversible chemical reaction networks in the macroscopic-first limit, where transitions arise as local bifurcations of mass-action dynamics. Using linear-noise formulas, center-manifold normal forms, and Floquet theory, we obtain generic exponents for entropy-production fluctuations and responses at pitchfork, transcritical, saddle-node, and Hopf bifurcations. Beyond this low-order classification, a trajectory-space Cramér-Rao type bound yields the universal scaling inequality $α- 2β\geq 0$. Hence divergent responses require divergent fluctuations, but not conversely, making entropy-production fluctuations a sharper probe of nonequilibrium criticality.
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spellingShingle Universal criticality of entropy production in chemical reaction networks
Tamano, Kyota
Saito, Keiji
Statistical Mechanics
Stochastic thermodynamics gives universal relations for microscopic entropy production, yet its critical behavior at macroscopic nonequilibrium transitions remains unclassified. We study well-mixed reversible chemical reaction networks in the macroscopic-first limit, where transitions arise as local bifurcations of mass-action dynamics. Using linear-noise formulas, center-manifold normal forms, and Floquet theory, we obtain generic exponents for entropy-production fluctuations and responses at pitchfork, transcritical, saddle-node, and Hopf bifurcations. Beyond this low-order classification, a trajectory-space Cramér-Rao type bound yields the universal scaling inequality $α- 2β\geq 0$. Hence divergent responses require divergent fluctuations, but not conversely, making entropy-production fluctuations a sharper probe of nonequilibrium criticality.
title Universal criticality of entropy production in chemical reaction networks
topic Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03192