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Refined Second Law of Thermodynamics for fast random processes

Statistical Mechanics 2021-10-13 v1

Abstract

We establish a refined version of the Second Law of Thermodynamics for Langevin stochastic processes describing mesoscopic systems driven by conservative or non-conservative forces and interacting with thermal noise. The refinement is based on the Monge-Kantorovich optimal mass transport. General discussion is illustrated by numerical analysis of a model for micron-size particle manipulated by optical tweezers.

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@article{arxiv.1201.3207,
  title  = {Refined Second Law of Thermodynamics for fast random processes},
  author = {Erik Aurell and Krzysztof Gawȩdzki and Carlos Mejía-Monasterio and Roya Mohayaee and Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.3207},
  year   = {2021}
}

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17 pages

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