Steady state thermodynamics

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DOI10.1007/S10955-005-9021-7zbMATH Open1111.82043arXivcond-mat/0411052OpenAlexW1970330006MaRDI QIDQ863500FDOQ863500


Authors: Shin-ichi Sasa, Hal Tasaki Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 January 2007

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The present paper reports our attempt to search for a new universal framework in nonequilibrium physics. We propose a thermodynamic formalism that is expected to apply to a large class of nonequilibrium steady states including a heat conducting fluid, a sheared fluid, and an electrically conducting fluid. We call our theory steady state thermodynamics (SST) after Oono and Paniconi's original proposal. The construction of SST is based on a careful examination of how the basic notions in thermodynamics should be modified in nonequilibrium steady states. We define all thermodynamic quantities through operational procedures which can be (in principle) realized experimentally. Based on SST thus constructed, we make some nontrivial predictions, including an extension of Einstein's formula on density fluctuation, an extension of the minimum work principle, the existence of a new osmotic pressure of a purely nonequilibrium origin, and a shift of coexistence temperature. All these predictions may be checked experimentally to test SST for its quantitative validity.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411052




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