Comments on the Entropy of Nonequilibrium Steady States |
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Authors: | Denis J. Evans Lamberto Rondoni |
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Affiliation: | (1) Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia;(2) Physical and Chemical Properties Division, NIST, Boulder, Colorado, 80305;(3) Mathematics Dept., Politecnico di Torino, C. Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy |
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Abstract: | We discuss the entropy of nonequilibrium steady states. We analyze the so-called spontaneous production of entropy in certain reversible deterministic nonequilibrium system, and its link with the collapse of such systems towards an attractor that is of lower dimension than the dimension of phase space. This means that in the steady state limit, the Gibbs entropy diverges to negative infinity. We argue that if the Gibbs entropy is expanded in a series involving 1, 2,... body terms, the divergence of the Gibbs entropy is manifest only in terms involving integrals whose dimension is higher than, approximately, the Kaplan–Yorke dimension of the steady state attractor. All the low order terms are finite and sum in the weak field limit to the local equilibrium entropy of linear irreversible thermodynamics. |
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Keywords: | Chaos fractal entropy nonequilibrium steady state |
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