Heat bounds and the blowtorch theorem
Mathematical Physics
2015-05-07 v2 Statistical Mechanics
math.MP
Abstract
We study driven systems with possible population inversion and we give optimal bounds on the relative occupations in terms of released heat. A precise meaning to Landauer's blowtorch theorem (1975) is obtained stating that nonequilibrium occupations are essentially modified by kinetic effects. Towards very low temperatures we apply a Freidlin-Wentzel type analysis for continuous time Markov jump processes. It leads to a definition of dominant states in terms of both heat and escape rates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1207.1122,
title = {Heat bounds and the blowtorch theorem},
author = {Christian Maes and Karel Netocny},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.1122},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages; v2: minor changes, 1 reference added