What decides the direction of a current?

DOI10.2140/MEMOCS.2016.4.275MaRDI QIDQ506031zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Maes

Publication date 30 January 2017

Published in Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01265

zbMATH Keywords

nonequilibrium statistical mechanicsdirection current

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C03)

Abstract: Nonequilibria show currents that are maintained as the result of a steady driving. We ask here what decides their direction. It is not only the second law, or the positivity of the entropy production that decides; also non-dissipative aspects often matter and sometimes completely decide.

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