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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Non-Markovian Entropy Dynamics in Living Systems from the Keldysh Formalism.

Feiyi Liu, Min Guo, Hongwei Tan, Yang Wang

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Feiyi LiuSchool of Physics, Electrical and Energy Engineering, Chuxiong Normal University, Chuxiong 675000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2074-669X
Min GuoSchool of Physics, Electrical and Energy Engineering, Chuxiong Normal University, Chuxiong 675000, China.ORCID 0009-0004-9016-9615
Hongwei TanSchool of Science, Hunan Institute of Technology, Hengyang 421002, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9862-1643
Yang WangSchool of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Institute of Petroleum and Chemical Technology, Dongying 257061, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3217-5775

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2025 Self-funded Science and Technology Projects of Chuxiong Prefecture cxzc2025004, cxzc2025008, cxzc2025014Chuxiong Normal University Doctoral Research Initiation Fund Project BSQD2407, BSQD2507Dongying Science Development Fund DJB2023015Independent Research Fund of Yunnan Tin \& Indium Laboratory 202405AR340002-25BC01National Natural Science Foundation of China 12564032Yunnan Provincial Department of Education Science Research Fund Project 2025J0942, 2026J0977Yunnan Provincial Xiao Rui Expert Workstation 202605AF350031
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Abstract

Living systems are open nonequilibrium systems that continuously exchange energy, matter, and information with their environments, leading to stochastic dynamics with memory and active fluctuations. In this study, we derive a microscopic non-Markovian description of entropy dynamics in living systems using the Keldysh functional formalism, providing a quantitative foundation for the entropy bathtub picture. The approach naturally incorporates colored environmental noise, memory-dependent dissipation, and many-body interactions, yielding generalized Langevin dynamics and non-Markovian master equations. Within this framework we derive an exact frequency-domain expression for the entropy production rate and show that violations of the fluctuation-dissipation relation provide a direct thermodynamic signature of active biological fluctuations. We further demonstrate that environmental memory enhances low-frequency fluctuations and entropy production, leading to critical slowing down near dynamical instability. These results provide a microscopic physical foundation for the entropy "bathtub" picture of living systems and connect entropy evolution with development, aging, and death in nonequilibrium dynamics.

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biological thermodynamicscritical phenomenaenergy exchangeentropy bathtubfluctuation–dissipation theoremKeldysh formalismnon-Markovian dynamics

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