No current without heat
Statistical Mechanics
2015-05-26 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We show for a large class of interacting particle systems that whenever the stationary measure is not reversible for the dynamics, then the mean entropy production in the steady state is strictly positive. This extends to the thermodynamic limit the equivalence between microscopic reversibility and zero mean entropy production: time-reversal invariance cannot be spontaneously broken.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111281,
title = {No current without heat},
author = {C. Maes and F. Redig and M. Verschuere},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111281},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in the Journal of Statistical Physics (2002)