Inequalities generalizing the second law of thermodynamics for transitions between non-stationary states

Details Inequalities generalizing the second law of thermodynamics for transitions between non-stationary states Inequalities generalizing the second law of thermodynamics for transitions between non-stationary states

2012-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/1202.1161v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 2 figures

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We discuss the consequences of a variant of the Hatano-Sasa relation in which a non-stationary distribution is used in place of the usual stationary one. We first show that this non-stationary distribution is related to a difference of traffic between the direct and dual dynamics. With this formalism, we extend the definition of the adiabatic and non-adiabatic entropies introduced by M. Esposito and C. Van den Broeck in Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090601 (2010) for the stationary case. We also obtain interesting second-law like inequalities for transitions between non-stationary states.

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