Dissipation induced transitions in two dimensional elastic membranes

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Stochastic thermodynamics provides a useful set of tools to analyze and constrain the behavior of far from equilibrium systems.

• In this paper, we report an application of ideas from stochastic thermodynamics to the problem of membrane growth.
• Non-equilibrium forcing of the membrane can cause it to buckle and undergo a morphological transformation.
• We show how ideas from stochastic thermodynamics, in particular the recently derived thermodynamic uncertainty relations, can be used to phenomenologically describe and constrain the parameters required to excite morphological changes during a non-equilibrium growth process.