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The Three Faces of the Second Law: II. Fokker-Planck Formulation

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-18 v1

Abstract

The total entropy production is the sum of two contributions, the so-called adiabatic and nonadiabatic entropy production, each of which is non-negative. We derive their explicit expressions for continuous Markov processes, discuss their properties and illustrate their behavior on two exactly solvable models.

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@article{arxiv.1005.1686,
  title  = {The Three Faces of the Second Law: II. Fokker-Planck Formulation},
  author = {Christian Van den Broeck and Massimiliano Esposito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.1686},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 1 figure