Thermal contact through a diathermal wall: a solvable toy model

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/10/P10009zbMATH Open1456.82582arXiv1302.4540MaRDI QIDQ3301418FDOQ3301418

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Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A diathermal wall between two heat baths at different temperatures can be mimicked by a layer of independent spin pairs with some internal energy and where each spin $sigm{a}_a$ is flipped by thermostat $a$ ($a=1,2$). The transition rates are determined from the modified detailed balance discussed in Ref.[1]. Generalized heat capacities, excess heats, the housekeeping entropy flow and the thermal conductivity in the steady state are calculated. The joint probability distribution of the heat cumulated exchanges at any time is computed explicitly. We obtain the large deviation function of heat transfer via a variety of approaches. In particular, by a saddle-point method performed accurately, we obtain the explicit expressions not only of the large deviation function, but also of the amplitude prefactor, in the long-time probability density for the heat current. The following physical properties are discussed : the effects of typical time scales of the mesoscopic dynamics which do not appear in equilibrium statistical averages and the limit of strict energy dissipation towards a thermostat when its temperature goes to zero. We also derive some properties of the fluctuations in the two-spin system viewed as a thermal machine performing cycles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4540

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer, heat flow (80A19)

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• Glaubers Ising chain between two thermostats
• Thermal contact through a two-temperature kinetic Ising chain

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