Statistical mechanical theory of an oscillating isolated system: The relaxation to equilibrium

DOI10.1063/1.2800165MaRDI QIDQ3544476zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Pérez-Madrid

Publication date 8 December 2008

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1214, http://hdl.handle.net/2445/24584

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

Abstract: In this contribution we show that a suitably defined nonequilibrium entropy of an N-body isolated system is not a constant of the motion in general and its variation is bounded, the bounds determined by the thermodynamic entropy, i.e., the equilibrium entropy. We define the nonequilibrium entropy as a convex functional of the set of n-particle reduced distribution functions (n=0,......., N) generalizing the Gibbs fine-grained entropy formula. Additionally, as a consequence of our microscopic analysis we find that this nonequilibrium entropy behaves as a free entropic oscillator. In the approach to the equilibrium regime we find relaxation equations of the Fokker-Planck type, particularly for the one-particle distribution function.

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