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Generalized relation between the relative entropy and dissipation for nonequilibrium systems

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-20 v1

Abstract

Recently, Kawai, Parrondo, and Van den Broeck have related dissipation to time-reversal asymmetry. We generalized the result by considering a protocol where the physical system is driven away from an initial thermal equilibrium state with temperature β0\beta_0 to a final thermal equilibrium state at a different temperature. We illustrate the result using a model with an exact solution, i.e., a particle in a moving one-dimensional harmonic well.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4797,
  title  = {Generalized relation between the relative entropy and dissipation for nonequilibrium systems},
  author = {Pegah Zolfaghari and Somayeh Zare and Behrouz Mirza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4797},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages

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