Entropy production and the arrow of time

By Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo, C. Broeck, Ryoichi Kawai. 2009

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We present an exact relationship between the entropy production and the distinguishability of a process from its time-reverse, quantified by the relative entropy between forward and backward states. The relationship is shown to remain valid for a wide family of initial conditions, such as canonical, constrained canonical, multi-canonical and grand canonical distributions, as well as both for classical and quantum systems.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/167bc48c2ee046a7704f7643b69ef45f32a926af

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. U. Seifert
2. Karl J. Friston
3. Jordan M. Horowitz
4. Jukka P. Pekola
5. Felix Ritort
6. P. Hänggi
7. Sergio Ciliberto
8. Massimiliano Esposito

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. U. Seifert
2. Jordan M. Horowitz
3. Karl J. Friston
4. Massimiliano Esposito
5. Keiji Saito
6. R. Eichhorn
7. Lennart Dabelow
8. Stefano Bo

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• Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems and molecular machines (2012, methodology): “We present here the stochastic version of the basic idea first introduced using Hamiltonian dynamics [296, 297].”