A second law for open Markov processes

DOI10.1142/S1230161216500062zbMATH Open1337.60221arXiv1410.6531WikidataQ114978427 ScholiaQ114978427MaRDI QIDQ2802239FDOQ2802239

Authors: Blake S. Pollard 

Publication date: 25 April 2016

Published in: Open Systems \& Information Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we define the notion of an open Markov process. An open Markov process is a generalization of an ordinary Markov process in which populations are allowed to flow in and out of the system at certain boundary states. We show that the rate of change of relative entropy in an open Markov process is less than or equal to the flow of relative entropy through its boundary states. This can be viewed as a generalization of the Second Law for open Markov processes. In the case of a Markov process whose equilibrium obeys detailed balance, this inequality puts an upper bound on the rate of change of the free energy for any non-equilibrium distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6531

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zbMATH Keywords

relative entropycompositionopen Markov processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes (60J99) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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