There is little doubt that life’s origin followed from the known physical and chemical laws of Nature. The most general scientific framework incorporating Nature applicable to processes good approximation, thermodynamics its extensions treat out-of-equilibrium phenomena. event life should therefore also be amenable such an analysis. In this review paper, I describe non-equilibrium thermodynamic...

We review a coherent mesoscopic presentation of thermodynamics and fluctuations far from and near equilibrium, applicable to chemical reactions, energy transfer and transport processes, and electrochemical systems. Both uniform and spatially dependent systems are considered. The focus is on processes leading to and in non-equilibrium stationary states; on systems with multiple stationary states...

Singularities of thermodynamic quantities in equilibrium critical phenomena are characterized by well defined critical exponents. The set of critical exponents determine the universality class of a system in the thermodynamic limit. In numerical simulations, the results are very often limited by the finite system size L. There is rounding and shifting of critical singularities in finite systems...

Liquid-liquid equilibrium (LLE) problems such as phase stability analysis, phase equilibrium calculations, chemical equilibrium calculations, binary interaction parameter identification of thermodynamic models and other problems of fluid characterization have been the core subject of many recent studies. This study introduces Cuckoo Search (CS), Firefly Algorithms (FA) and its variants as p...

The thermodynamic interaction of a free Fermion system is alternatively described by the coupling of particles with the vacuum of a scalar pseudo boson which features a self-interaction. The proper temperature is shown as a Lorentz scalar in a Lorentz invariant framework. At thermodynamic equilibrium, the Lorentz transformation of temperature is investigated based on the conceptions of the rela...

We have studied scattering states and thermodynamic properties of electron-hole systems. Starting from the constituent electrons and holes and Coulomb interactions, we have used quantum Monte Carlo simulation techniques to sample properties of wavefunctions and thermal density matrices. We have studied three types of systems: (1) the scattering of two excitons, with full-quantum treatment of th...