Thermodynamic Laws and Equipartition Theorem in Relativistic Brownian Motion
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-05-24 v2 Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We extend the stochastic energetics to a relativistic system. The thermodynamic laws and equipartition theorem are discussed for a relativistic Brownian particle and the first and the second law of thermodynamics in this formalism are derived. The relation between the relativistic equipartition relation and the rate of heat transfer is discussed in the relativistic case together with the nature of the noise term.
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@article{arxiv.1102.3385,
title = {Thermodynamic Laws and Equipartition Theorem in Relativistic Brownian Motion},
author = {T. Koide and T. Kodama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3385},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
19 pages, 2 figures, Phys. Rev. E in press