Thermodynamics as a nonequilibrium path integral

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/24/245001MaRDI QIDQ3575071zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Poulomi Sadhukhan, Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

Publication date 7 July 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2874

zbMATH Keywords

Barkhausen-type nonequilibrium noiseeigenvalue equationferromagnetpath integralwork theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

Abstract: Thermodynamics is a well developed tool to study systems in equilibrium but no such general framework is available for non-equilibrium processes. Only hope for a quantitative description is to fall back upon the equilibrium language as often done in biology. This gap is bridged by the work theorem. By using this theorem we show that the Barkhausen-type non-equilibrium noise in a process, repeated many times, can be combined to construct a special matrix $calS$ whose principal eigenvector provides the equilibrium distribution. For an interacting system $calS$, and hence the equilibrium distribution, can be obtained from the free case without any requirement of equilibrium.

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