Roman Belousov

How to drive a microcanonical ensemble out of equilibrium? While statistical mechanics explains macroscopic physical laws from the atomistic point of view, nonequilibrium thermodynamics has largely remained a phenomenological discipline. Here we extend the microcanonical method beyond equilibrium.

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A new framework reveals the role of dissipative timescales and nonequilibrium thermodynamics in shaping complex biological structures. The collective properties of active systems depend not only on the accessible energy states, but also on the transient dynamics. A new framework for dynamical discrete-state systems—a Poissonian extension of the Cellular Potts model widely used in cancer research and development biology–now permits studying thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of biological tissues.

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Excited to present soon in Trieste our novel approach to cellular Potts models

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