Statistical mechanics of thermal diffusion

DOI10.1016/0378-4371(84)90113-4MaRDI QIDQ1079884zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryoichi Kikuchi, Takuma Ishikawa, Hiroshi Sato

Publication date 1984

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(84)90113-4

zbMATH Keywords

atomic migrationOnsager reciprocal relationspath probability methodstatistical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

Review text

Expressions of the flows of atoms A and B of a binary system in a crystal are derived as the response to the imposed gradients of temperature and chemical potentials. The formulation is done using the pair approximation of the path probability method of irreversible statistical mechanics and atomic migration is assumed to be via the vacancy mechanism. The energy carried by phonons (and electrons) under the temperature gradient is assumed to be independent of the atomic flux. For the case near equilibrium, linear relations are derived among the atomic fluxes, the energy flux (associated with atomic flux), and the gradients. The Onsager reciprocal relations are proved to hold among the coefficients, including those related to energy flows. The heat of transport (energy carried by a diffusing atom) and the heat conduction due to atomic flux are thus unambiguously derived.

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Cites work

• Reciprocal Relations in Irreversible Processes. II.

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