Gibbs entropy and irreversible thermodynamics

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/13/6/303MaRDI QIDQ4521387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lamberto Rondoni, E. G. D. Cohen

Publication date 20 September 2002

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9908367

zbMATH Keywords

Gibbs entropyirreversible thermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of statistical mechanics (37A60) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

Abstract: Recently a number of approaches has been developed to connect the microscopic dynamics of particle systems to the macroscopic properties of systems in nonequilibrium stationary states, via the theory of dynamical systems. This way a direct connection between dynamics and Irreversible Thermodynamics has been claimed to have been found. However, the main quantity used in these studies is a (coarse-grained) Gibbs entropy, which to us does not seem suitable, in its present form, to characterize nonequilibrium states. Various simplified models have also been devised to give explicit examples of how the coarse-grained approach may succeed in giving a full description of the Irreversible Thermodynamics. We analyze some of these models pointing out a number of difficulties which, in our opinion, need to be overcome in order to establish a physically relevant connection between these models and Irreversible Thermodynamics.

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