Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-02-06
Phys. Rev. E 77, 051119 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
1 figure ; v2: version accepted in Phys.Rev.E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.77.051119
We consider continuous time random walks (CTRW) for open systems that exchange energy and matter with multiple reservoirs. Each waiting time distribution (WTD) for times between steps is characterized by a positive parameter a, which is set to a=1 if it decays at least as fast as t^{-2} at long times and therefore has a finite first moment. A WTD with a<1 decays as t^{-a-1}. A fluctuation theorem for the trajectory quantity R, defined as the logarithm of the ratio of the probability of a trajectory and the probability of the time reversed trajectory, holds for any CTRW. However, R can be identified as a trajectory entropy change only if the WTDs have a=1 and satisfy separability (also called "direction time independence"). For nonseparable WTDs with a=1, R can only be identified as a trajectory entropy change at long times, and a fluctuation theorem for the entropy change then only holds at long times. For WTDs with 0
Esposito Massimiliano
Lindenberg Katja
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