{
  "id": "2308.14497",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2023-08-28T11:17:54.000Z",
  "updated": "2023-08-28T11:17:54.000Z",
  "title": "Thermodynamic bounds on time-reversal asymmetry",
  "authors": [
    "Shiling Liang",
    "Simone Pigolotti"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 4 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "Quantifying irreversibility of a system using finite information constitutes a major challenge in stochastic thermodynamics. We introduce an observable that quantifies the time-reversal asymmetry between two states after a finite time lag. Our central result is a bound on the time-reversal asymmetry in terms of the total cycle affinity driving the system out of equilibrium. Our result leads to further thermodynamic bounds on the asymmetry of directed fluxes; on the asymmetry of finite-time cross-correlation; and on the cycle affinity of coarse-grained dynamics.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2023-08-28T11:17:54.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "time-reversal asymmetry",
      "thermodynamic bounds",
      "finite information constitutes",
      "finite time lag",
      "stochastic thermodynamics"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}