Local detailed balance
Statistical Mechanics
2021-07-07 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We review the physical meaning and mathematical implementation of the condition of local detailed balance for a class of nonequilibrium mesoscopic processes. A central concept is that of fluctuating entropy flux for which the steady average gives the mean entropy production rate. We repeat how local detailed balance is essentially equivalent to the widely discussed fluctuation relations for that entropy flux and hence is at most "only half of the story."
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.09200,
title = {Local detailed balance},
author = {Christian Maes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.09200},
year = {2021}
}