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Temporal Ordering of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations as a Corollary of the Second Law of Thermodynamics by Pierre Gaspard is a Physics and Astronomy article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Temporal Ordering of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations as a Corollary of the Second Law of Thermodynamics about?
In nonequilibrium steady states, the probabilities of the time-reversed paths differ in general from the path probabilities and they decrease at different rates given, respectively, by the time-reversed and standard entropies per unit time. These quantities characterize temporal disorder in the time-reversed paths and the paths themselves. The difference between these quantities gives the thermodynamic entropy production in units of Boltzmann's constant. Out of equilibrium, the temporal disorder of the timereversed paths turns out to be larger than the temporal disorder of the paths themselves. In this way, a theorem is obtained according to which the temporal order of the paths is greater than for the time-reversed paths. The temporal disorder or dynamical randomness of the paths and their time-reversal have large-deviation properties directly connected to the thermodynamic entropy production.
Who reads Temporal Ordering of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations as a Corollary of the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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- Author
- Pierre Gaspard
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Masson; Elsevier BV; Research Square; Cellule MathDoc/CEDRAM (ISSN 1631-0705)
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)