Comment on an information theoretic approach to the study of non-equilibrium steady states

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/36/368001MaRDI QIDQ3173042zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Glenn C. Paquette

Publication date 10 October 2011

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3788

zbMATH Keywords

fluctuation theoremnon-equilibrium statesmaximum entropy production

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35) Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

Abstract: We argue that there is a fundamental problem regarding the analysis that serves as the foundation for the papers {it Information theory explanation of the fluctuation theorem, maximum entropy production and self-organized criticality in non-equilibrium stationary states} [R. Dewar, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. {�f 36} (2003), 631-641] and {it Maximum entropy production and the fluctuation theorem} [R. Dewar, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. {�f 38} (2005), L371-L381]. In particular, we demonstrate that this analysis is based on an assumption that is physically unrealistic and that, hence, the results obtained in those papers cannot be regarded as physically meaningful.

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