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Wolpert began investigating ways to apply ideas from nonequilibrium statistical physics to the theory of computation about a decade ago.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

Computers, he says, are a system out of equilibrium, and stochastic thermodynamics gives physicists a way to study nonequilibrium systems.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

In most applications, however, hard materials are subjected to nonequilibrium forces like irradiation, or even stirring.

From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023

The team used computational modeling to investigate precipitates formed at the domains between different crystals of the material, called grain boundaries, when subjected to irradiation, a nonequilibrium force.

From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023

Moving essentially randomly, B. subtilis bacteria provide what Hänggi describes as "a nonequilibrium source of random velocity kicks" to any obstacle in their way.

From Scientific American • Jan. 10, 2011