Time evolution of thermodynamic entropy for conservative and dissipative chaotic maps

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Abstract: We consider several low--dimensional chaotic maps started in far-from-equilibrium initial conditions and we study the process of relaxation to equilibrium. In the case of conservative maps the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy S(t) increases linearly in time with a slope equal to the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy rate. The same result is obtained also for a simple case of dissipative system, the logistic map, when considered in the chaotic regime. A very interesting results is found at the chaos threshold. In this case, the usual Boltzmann-Gibbs is not appropriate and in order to have a linear increase, as for the chaotic case, we need to use the generalized q-dependent Tsallis entropy Sq(t) with a particular value of a q different from 1 (when q=1 the generalized entropy reduces to the Boltzmann-Gibbs). The entropic index q appears to be characteristic of the dynamical system.


The relationship between the Boltzmann equilibrium thermodynamic entropy and the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy is illustrated through several numerical examples for conservative and dissipative chaotic maps. At the chaos treshold, where the sensitivity to initial conditions is not exponential, but power-law like, the nonextensive entropic form introduced by Tsallis is adopted. A linear growth for the generalized entropy is obtained for the value of the exponent of the power-law that is different from 1 (for which the standard entropy is recovered). This entropic index appears to be characteristic of the dynamical system.











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