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Dissipative work, Clausius inequality, and microscopic reversibility for open Hamiltonian systems

Statistical Mechanics 2013-07-04 v1

Abstract

We derive a microscopic expression of the Clausius inequality for isothermal open systems within the fundamental Hamiltonian dynamics. We also show the positivity of the dissipative work, which is a path integral generalization of the so-called relative entropy for the probability functionals of time forward- and reversed- trajectories.

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@article{arxiv.1307.0944,
  title  = {Dissipative work, Clausius inequality, and microscopic reversibility for open Hamiltonian systems},
  author = {Takaaki Monnai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.0944},
  year   = {2013}
}

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4 pages