Thermodynamics of the General Diffusion Process: Time-Reversibility and Entropy Production |
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| Authors: | Hong Qian Min Qian Xiang Tang |
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| Affiliation: | (1) School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China;(2) Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195-2420;(3) Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720-3840 |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
We introduce an axiomatic thermodynamic theory for the general diffusion process and prove a theorem concerning entropy and irreversibility: the equivalence among time-reversibility, zero entropy production, symmetricity of the stationary diffusion process, and a potential condition. |
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| Keywords: | elliptic equation entropy production invariant measure macromolecular mechanics thermodynamics |
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