# gst: dissipation-coherence tradeoff for stochastic oscillations.

<< ️Autonomous noisy oscillations in biochemical and mesoscopic systems require nonequilibrium driving and therefore dissipation. A striking conjecture by Oberreiter, Barato, and Seifert (OBS) proposes a universal lower bound on the entropy produced per oscillation period in terms of the coherence number of the slowest oscillatory mode (L. Oberreiter et al. [Phys. Rev. E 106, 014106 (2022)]). >>

<< ️Here (AA) derive a weaker but rigorous lower bound that preserves the OBS structure while introducing a mode-uniformity factor that quantifies how evenly the oscillatory eigenmode is distributed across states in the steady-state inner product. The result makes explicit that an eigenvalue-only prefactor can fail when the dominant oscillatory mode is localized. >>

<< ️(They) also outline a proof-of-principle route for estimating this factor from low-dimensional data under single-mode dominance and sufficiently informative measurements, and derive an eigenvector-free corollary using only the smallest stationary probability. >>

<< ️Translation-invariant Markov jump processes on a ring provide a symmetry-protected class with 𝜂=1, so the refinement reduces to the OBS form; the drift-diffusion limit on a circle saturates the bound. >>

Jie Gu. Dissipation-coherence tradeoff for stochastic oscillations. Phys. Rev. E 113, 064130.  Jun 15, 2026.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/zxw1-zdb7

arXiv: 2606.05498v1 [cond-mat.stat-mech]. Jun 3, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05498

Also: noise, disorder, transition, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, noise, disorder, dissipation, entropy, stochasticity, stochastic processes, autonomous noisy oscillations, stochastic oscillations, disorder-induced localization, time series analysis, transitions.