Dissipation: The phase-space perspective

Details Dissipation: The phase-space perspective Dissipation: The phase-space perspective

2007-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701397v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007), 080602

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 3 figures (4 figure files), accepted for PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.080602

We show, through a refinement of the work theorem, that the average dissipation, upon perturbing a Hamiltonian system arbitrarily far out of equilibrium in a transition between two canonical equilibrium states, is exactly given by $ = < W > -\Delta F =kT D(\rho\|\widetilde{\rho})= kT < \ln (\rho/\widetilde{\rho})>$, where $\rho$ and $\widetilde{\rho}$ are the phase space density of the system measured at the same intermediate but otherwise arbitrary point in time, for the forward and backward process. $D(\rho\|\widetilde{\rho})$ is the relative entropy of $\rho$ versus $\widetilde{\rho}$. This result also implies general inequalities, which are significantly more accurate than the second law and include, as a special case, the celebrated Landauer principle on the dissipation involved in irreversible computations.

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