Entropy production and the arrow of time
Statistical Mechanics
2017-05-15 v1
Abstract
We present an exact relationship between the entropy production and the distinguishability of a process from its time-reverse, quantified by the relative entropy between forward and backward states. The relationship is shown to remain valid for a wide family of initial conditions, such as canonical, constrained canonical, multi-canonical and grand canonical distributions, as well as both for classical and quantum systems.
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@article{arxiv.0904.1573,
title = {Entropy production and the arrow of time},
author = {Juan M. R. Parrondo and Christian van den Broeck and Ryoichi Kawai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.1573},
year = {2017}
}
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15 pages, no figures