Fact-checking Ziegler's maximum entropy production principle beyond the linear regime and towards steady states

DOI10.3390/E15072570MaRDI QIDQ280441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matteo Polettini

Publication date 10 May 2016

Published in Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2052

zbMATH Keywords

maximum and minimum entropy productionreciprocal relationssteady statesthermodynamic orthogonality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We challenge claims that the principle of maximum entropy production produces physical phenomenological relations between conjugate currents and forces, even beyond the linear regime, and that currents in networks arrange themselves to maximize entropy production as the system approaches the steady state. In particular: (1) we show that Ziegler's principle of thermodynamic orthogonality leads to stringent reciprocal relations for higher order response coefficients, and in the framework of stochastic thermodynamics, we exhibit a simple explicit model that does not satisfy them; (2) on a network, enforcing Kirchhoff's current law, we show that maximization of the entropy production prescribes reciprocal relations between coarse-grained observables, but is not responsible for the onset of the steady state, which is rather due to the minimum entropy production principle.

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