Local thermodynamic equilibrium at three levels

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(14)60026-4MaRDI QIDQ2447103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Geoffrey L. Sewell

Publication date 24 April 2014

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1104

zbMATH Keywords

local equilibriummacro-, meso-, microscaleoperator algebrasthermodynamic completenesszeroth law

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

Abstract: We present coordinated formulations of local thermodynamical equilibrium conditions at three levels, namely the macroscopic one of classical thermodynamics, the mesoscopic one of hydrodynamical fluctuations and the microscopic one of quantum statistical mechanics. These conditions are all expressed in terms of the hydrodynamical variables of the macroscopic picture, and the quantum statistical ones are shown to imply a local version of the zeroth law.

Review text

The object of the paper is to formulate the concept of local thermodynamic equilibrium that coordinates three levels: macroscopic level of classical nonequilibrium thermodynamics, mesoscopic level of hydrodynamical fluctuations, and microscopic level of quantum statistical mechanics. It is shown that the microscopic component leads to a local version of the zeroth law. The description is based on the generic model of a nonrelativistic multi-particle quantum system. All conditions are expressed in terms of hydrodynamical variables. The results depend on scale invariance of the dynamics.

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