Entropy production and Kullback-Leibler divergence between stationary trajectories of discrete systems

Details Entropy production and Kullback-Leibler divergence between stationary trajectories of discrete systems Entropy production and Kullback-Leibler divergence between stationary trajectories of discrete systems

2012-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/1201.5613v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

14 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

The irreversibility of a stationary time series can be quantified using the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) between the probability to observe the series and the probability to observe the time-reversed series. Moreover, this KLD is a tool to estimate entropy production from stationary trajectories since it gives a lower bound to the entropy production of the physical process generating the series. In this paper we introduce analytical and numerical techniques to estimate the KLD between time series generated by several stochastic dynamics with a finite number of states. We examine the accuracy of our estimators for a specific example, a discrete flashing ratchet, and investigate how close is the KLD to the entropy production depending on the number of degrees of freedom of the system that are sampled in the trajectories.

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