Geometrical Thermodynamic Field Theory

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2006-01-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601519v1

Int. Journal of Quantum Chemistry 107 (2006) 968

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

32 pages and 3 eps figures

Scientific paper

A manifestly covariant, coordinate independent reformulation of the Thermodynamic Field Theory (TFT) is presented. The TFT is a covariant field theory that describes the evolution of a thermodynamic system, extending the near-equilibrium theory established by Prigogine in 1954. We introduce the {\it Minimum Dissipation Principle}, which is conjectured to apply to any system relaxing towards a steady-state. We also derive the thermodynamic field equations, which in the case of alpha-alpha and beta-beta processes have already appeared in the literature. In more general cases the equations are notably simpler than those previously encountered and they are conjectured to hold beyond the weak-field regime. Finally we derive the equations that determine the steady-states as well as the critical values of the control parameters beyond which a steady-state becomes unstable.

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