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Overview

Hugo Touchette is a researcher affiliated with Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Their primary field of study is Physics and Astronomy, with a strong focus on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Their work also spans subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Mathematical Physics, Statistics and Probability, and General Health Professions.

The main areas of research covered by Touchette include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, stochastic dynamics and bifurcation, Neural dynamics and brain function, Statistical Mechanics and Entropy, Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods, Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, and Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity.

Touchette has published extensively in various academic venues. The frequent publication outlets include:

  • Physical review. E
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SciPost Physics Lecture Notes

Notable recent papers by Touchette, including their year of publication and venue, are as follows:

  • Dynamical large deviations of reflected diffusions, 2020, Physical review. E
  • Learning nonequilibrium control forces to characterize dynamical phase transitions, 2022, Physical review. E
  • Dynamical large deviations of linear diffusions, 2023, Physical review. E
  • Role of current fluctuations in nonreversible samplers, 2021, Physical review. E
  • Large deviations of the stochastic area for linear diffusions, 2023, Physical review. E

Throughout their research career, Touchette has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Johan du Buisson
  • Francesco Coghi
  • Thamu D. P. Mnyulwa
  • Ivan N. Burenev
  • Daniël W. H. Cloete

The breadth of Touchette's work reflects an interdisciplinary approach, integrating statistical mechanics and stochastic processes with aspects of neural dynamics and cognitive neuroscience. Their research contributes to understanding complex dynamical systems and nonequilibrium phenomena.

Best Publications

  • The large deviation approach to statistical mechanics

    Hugo Touchette

  • Nonequilibrium Markov Processes Conditioned on Large Deviations

    Raphaël Chetrite;Hugo Touchette

  • Information-theoretic approach to the study of control systems

    Hugo Touchette;Seth Lloyd

  • Introduction to dynamical large deviations of Markov processes

    Hugo Touchette

  • Nonequilibrium microcanonical and canonical ensembles and their equivalence.

    Raphaël Chetrite;Hugo Touchette

  • Variational and optimal control representations of conditioned and driven processes

    Raphaël Chetrite;Hugo Touchette

  • Equivalence and Nonequivalence of Ensembles: Thermodynamic, Macrostate, and Measure Levels

    Hugo Touchette

  • An introduction to the thermodynamic and macrostate levels of nonequivalent ensembles

    Hugo Touchette;Richard S. Ellis;Bruce Turkington

  • Large deviations of the current for driven periodic diffusions.

    Pelerine Tsobgni Nyawo;Hugo Touchette

  • Complete analysis of phase transitions and ensemble equivalence for the Curie-Weiss-Potts model

    Marius Costeniuc;Richard S. Ellis;Hugo Touchette

  • A network theory analysis of football strategies

    Javier López Peña;Hugo Touchette

  • Large deviations for Markov processes with resetting.

    Janusz M. Meylahn;Janusz M. Meylahn;Sanjib Sabhapandit;Hugo Touchette

  • A minimal model of dynamical phase transition

    Pelerine Tsobgni Nyawo;Hugo Touchette

  • Asymptotics of superstatistics

    Hugo Touchette;Christian Beck

  • When is a quantity additive, and when is it extensive?

    Hugo Touchette

  • Large Deviation Approach to Nonequilibrium Systems

    Hugo Touchette;Rosemary J. Harris

  • Brownian motion with dry friction: Fokker–Planck approach

    Hugo Touchette;Erik Van der Straeten;Wolfram Just

  • Thermodynamic versus statistical nonequivalence of ensembles for the mean-field Blume–Emery–Griffiths model

    Richard S. Ellis;Hugo Touchette;Bruce Turkington

  • Spectral properties of simple classical and quantum reset processes.

    Dominic C. Rose;Hugo Touchette;Igor Lesanovsky;Juan P. Garrahan

  • Adaptive Sampling of Large Deviations

    Grégoire Ferré;Hugo Touchette

  • Fluctuation relation for a Lévy particle.

    H. Touchette;E. G. D. Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrice Abry
Patrice Abry École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Christian Beck
Christian Beck Queen Mary University of London
Satya N. Majumdar
Satya N. Majumdar University of Paris-Saclay
Stéphane Jaffard
Stéphane Jaffard Paris-Est Créteil University

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