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Machine Learning H-theorem

Published: August 19, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.14003v1

By: Ruben Lier

Potential Business Impact:

Explains why things always get messy over time.

Business Areas:
Quantum Computing Science and Engineering

H-theorem provides a microscopic foundation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and is therefore essential to establishing statistical physics, but at the same time, H-theorem has been subject to controversy that in part persists till this day. To better understand H-theorem and its relation to the arrow of time, we study the equilibration of randomly oriented and positioned hard disks with periodic boundary conditions. Using a model based on the DeepSets architecture, which imposes permutation invariance of the particle labels, we train a model to capture the irreversibility of the H-functional.

Country of Origin
🇳🇱 Netherlands

Page Count
8 pages

Category
Condensed Matter:
Statistical Mechanics