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Recently, we have derived a generalization of the known canonical fluctuation relation $k_{B}C=\beta^{2}< \delta U^{2} >$ between heat capacity $C$ and energy fluctuations, which can account for the existence of macrostates with negative…
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Previously, we have derived a generalization of the canonical fluctuation relation between heat capacity and energy fluctuations $C=\beta^{2}<\delta U^{2}>$, which is able to describe the existence of macrostates with negative heat…
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A thermodynamic expression for the analog of the canonical ensemble for nonequilibrium systems is described based on a purely information theoretical interpretation of entropy. As an application, it is shown that this nonequilibrium…