Reference : Fact-Checking Ziegler’s Maximum Entropy Production Principle beyond the Linear Regime...
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http://hdl.handle.net/10993/10300
Fact-Checking Ziegler’s Maximum Entropy Production Principle beyond the Linear Regime and towards Steady States
English
Polettini, Matteo mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit >]
21-Jun-2013
Entropy
MDPI
15
7
Maximum Entropy Production
2570-2584
Yes
International
Switzerland
[en] maximum and minimum entropy production ; reciprocal relations ; thermodynamic orthogonality
[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.
Researchers
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/10300
10.3390/e15072570
http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/7/2570

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