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SUBMITTER: Seara DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7810704 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20210115 1
Living and non-living active matter consumes energy at the microscopic scale to drive emergent, macroscopic behavior including traveling waves and coherent oscillations. Recent work has characterized non-equilibrium systems by their total energy dissipation, but little has been said about how dissipation manifests in distinct spatiotemporal patterns. We introduce a measure of irreversibility we term the entropy production factor to quantify how time reversal symmetry is broken in field theories ...[more]