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SPHYNX
Statistical physics of equilibrium systems provides today a well-established framework for classical thermodynamics. However, most ‘real world’ systems found in condensed matter, biology, natural or industrial macrocosms are out-of-equilibrium, either because of the presence of external forcing or because they cannot relax back to equilibrium. These systems are often non-linear, disordered and/or complex and present emerging properties of their own.
The goal of SPHYNX is to gather researchers working on different objects but using common tools, those of the statistical physics to tackle the same challenge, that of complexity.
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New equation tracing human progress in energy use
Historical data on global energy consumption and economic activity is now increasingly detailed. This allows for a quantitative study of the increase in economic energy efficiency, defined as the ratio of global GDP to total final energy consumption by economic entities, machines, animals or humans, including their food. Over the last two centuries, this approach…

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