Irreversibility time scale

DOI10.1063/1.2205387MaRDI QIDQ3531593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors G. Gallavotti

Publication date 3 November 2008

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601049

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

Abstract: Entropy creation rate is introduced for a system interacting with thermostats ({it i.e.}, in the usual language, for a system subject to internal conservative forces interacting with ``external thermostats via conservative forces) and a fluctuation theorem for it is proved. As an application a time scale is introduced, to be interpreted as the time over which irreversibility becomes manifest in a process leading from an initial to a final stationary state of a mechanical system in a general nonequilibrium context. The time scale is evaluated in a few examples, including the classical Joule-Thompson process (gas expansion in a vacuum). The new version (n.2) contains several comments on references pointed out to me after posting the version n.1.

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