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

DOI10.3390/E15072570zbMATH Open1341.82058arXiv1307.2052OpenAlexW2135810406MaRDI QIDQ280441FDOQ280441

Authors: Matteo Polettini 

Publication date: 10 May 2016

Published in: Entropy (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

maximum and minimum entropy productionreciprocal relationssteady statesthermodynamic orthogonality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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