Heat bounds and the blowtorch theorem

DOI10.1007/S00023-012-0214-8MaRDI QIDQ2377323zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karel Netočný, Christian Maes

Publication date 28 June 2013

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1122

zbMATH Keywords

Blowtorch theoremGibbs formalismstochastic network

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

Abstract: We study driven systems with possible population inversion and we give optimal bounds on the relative occupations in terms of released heat. A precise meaning to Landauer's blowtorch theorem (1975) is obtained stating that nonequilibrium occupations are essentially modified by kinetic effects. Towards very low temperatures we apply a Freidlin-Wentzel type analysis for continuous time Markov jump processes. It leads to a definition of dominant states in terms of both heat and escape rates.

Review text

The author claims that, in statistical mechanics, a non-equilibrium theory should refer to extensions of the Gibbs formalism which deal not only with heat and energy, but also with other kinetic features which are of importance for the evaluation of state occupations. With this purpose in mind, one gives bounds on the relative stationary occupations for the Markov jump process in terms of the released heat over paths in the Kirchoff graph. The prospect of these results would be in the theory of strongly non-equilibrium processes under low-temperature conditions.

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