On the validity of entropy production principles for linear electrical circuits

DOI10.1007/S10955-007-9412-ZzbMATH Open1131.82029arXivcond-mat/0701035OpenAlexW1991760022MaRDI QIDQ2468280FDOQ2468280

Christian Maes, Karel Netočný, Stijn Bruers

Publication date: 22 January 2008

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

Abstract: We discuss the validity of close-to-equilibrium entropy production principles in the context of linear electrical circuits. Both the minimum and the maximum entropy production principle are understood within dynamical fluctuation theory. The starting point are Langevin equations obtained by combining Kirchoff's laws with a Johnson-Nyquist noise at each dissipative element in the circuit. The main observation is that the fluctuation functional for time averages, that can be read off from the path-space action, is in first order around equilibrium given by an entropy production rate. That allows to understand beyond the schemes of irreversible thermodynamics (1) the validity of the least dissipation, the minimum entropy production, and the maximum entropy production principles close to equilibrium; (2) the role of the observables' parity under time-reversal and, in particular, the origin of Landauer's counterexample (1975) from the fact that the fluctuating observable there is odd under time-reversal; (3) the critical remark of Jaynes (1980) concerning the apparent inappropriateness of entropy production principles in temperature-inhomogeneous circuits.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701035

zbMATH Keywords

variational principlesentropy productionnonequilibrium fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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