Contact topology and non-equilibrium thermodynamics

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/ACD1CEarXiv2101.03770OpenAlexW3118612860WikidataQ122962690 ScholiaQ122962690MaRDI QIDQ6097746FDOQ6097746

Authors: Michael Entov, Leonid Polterovich 

Publication date: 7 June 2023

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a method, based on "hard" contact topology, of showing the existence of semi-infinite trajectories of contact Hamiltonian flows which start on one Legendrian submanifold and asymptotically converge to another Legendrian submanifold. We discuss a mathematical model of non-equilibrium thermodynamics where such trajectories play a role of relaxation processes, and illustrate our results in the case of the Glauber dynamics for the mean field Ising model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03770

zbMATH Keywords

Ising modelHamiltonian flownon-equilibrium thermodynamicscontact manifoldLegendrian submanifoldcontact thermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37Jxx) Symplectic geometry, contact geometry (53Dxx) Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) (82Cxx)

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