Second law and Landauer principle far from equilibrium

By Massimiliano Esposito, C. Broeck. 2011

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The amount of work that is needed to change the state of a system in contact with a heat bath between specified initial and final nonequilibrium states is at least equal to the corresponding equilibrium free energy difference plus (respectively, minus) temperature times the information of the final (respectively, the initial) state relative to the corresponding equilibrium distributions.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Civil and Structural Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Refined Second Law of Thermodynamics for Fast Random Processes (2012, background): “One circle concerns the stochastic version [30] of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, asserting the increase of total entropy, and the related Landauer Principle [8, 38], a reformulation of the Second Law in the framework of Thermodynamics of Computation that became a subject of recent renewed intere”
Quantum and Information Thermodynamics: A Unifying Framework based on Repeated Interactions (2016, result): “[54, 103] and are in agreement with our result and were also confirmed experimentally in Ref.”
Information Processing and the Second Law of Thermodynamics: An Inclusive Hamiltonian Approach. (2013, background): “(47) becomes equivalent to Landauer’s principle [8, 15, 17, 18, 22], placing a lower limit on the amount of work that must be expended in order to accomplish this erasure.”
Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems and molecular machines (2012, background): “Related inequalities have been discussed for transitions between specified initial and final states [272].”
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks: Wisdom from Stochastic Thermodynamics (2016, background): “It does for nonlinear chemical kinetics what Stochastic Thermodynamics has done for stochastic dynamics, namely build a systematic nonequilibrium thermodynamics on top of the dynamics.”
Quantum thermodynamics (2015, neutral): “…entropy change can be shown easily [105] to be bounded by Here, , is the concatenation of the maps := ◦ − ◦ ◦ We refer the reader to [70,105,119–121] for a discussion of the relationship between steady states and laws of thermodynamics and [122] for a discussion on limit cycles for quantum…”
The role of quantum coherence in non-equilibrium entropy production (2017, methodology): “Other approaches have also been used elsewhere [42, 43].”