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Fact-Checking Ziegler’s Maximum Entropy Production Principle beyond the Linear Regime and towards Steady States
Polettini, Matteo
2013In Entropy, 15 (7), p. 2570-2584
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Keywords :
maximum and minimum entropy production; reciprocal relations; thermodynamic orthogonality
Abstract :
[en] We challenge claims that the principle of maximum entropy production produces physical phenomenological relations between conjugate currents and forces, even beyond the linear regime, and that currents in networks arrange themselves to maximize entropy production as the system approaches the steady state. In particular: (1) we show that Ziegler’s principle of thermodynamic orthogonality leads to stringent reciprocal relations for higher order response coefficients, and in the framework of stochastic thermodynamics, we exhibit a simple explicit model that does not satisfy them; (2) on a network, enforcing Kirchhoff’s current law, we show that maximization of the entropy production prescribes reciprocal relations between coarse-grained observables, but is not responsible for the onset of the steady state, which is, rather, due to the minimum entropy production principle.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Polettini, Matteo ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit
Language :
English
Title :
Fact-Checking Ziegler’s Maximum Entropy Production Principle beyond the Linear Regime and towards Steady States
Publication date :
21 June 2013
Journal title :
Entropy
Publisher :
MDPI, Switzerland
Special issue title :
Maximum Entropy Production
Volume :
15
Issue :
7
Pages :
2570-2584
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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