No current without heat

DOI10.1023/A:1013706321846MaRDI QIDQ1600027zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Verschuere, Christian Maes, F. Redig

Publication date 11 June 2002

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111281

zbMATH Keywords

detailed balanceentropy productionstochastic interacting particle systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: We show for a large class of interacting particle systems that whenever the stationary measure is not reversible for the dynamics, then the mean entropy production in the steady state is strictly positive. This extends to the thermodynamic limit the equivalence between microscopic reversibility and zero mean entropy production: time-reversal invariance cannot be spontaneously broken.

Review text

In [Entropy production for interacting particle systems, Markov Proc. Rel. Fields 7, 119-134 (2001; Zbl 0987.60100)] the authors provided a mathematical introduction to the concept of entropy production as measuring the deviation of microscopic time reversibility. At the end they asked the question, whether vanishing mean entropy production implies reversibility. In this paper they affirm this. They prove for a large class of interacting particle systems the equivalence of detailed balance (microscopic reversibility) and zero mean entropy production. So there is no spontaneous breaking of time-reversal invariance for these systems. The authors also discuss the basic physical concepts of time-reversal, reversibility and entropy production.

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