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Conservation laws and symmetries in stochastic thermodynamics
Polettini, Matteo; Bulnes Cuetara, Gregory; Esposito, Massimiliano
2016In Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 94 (052117)
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Abstract :
[en] Phenomenological nonequilibrium thermodynamics describes how fluxes of conserved quantities, such as matter, energy, and charge, flow from outer reservoirs across a system and how they irreversibly degrade from one form to another. Stochastic thermodynamics is formulated in terms of probability fluxes circulating in the system’s configuration space. The consistency of the two frameworks is granted by the condition of local detailed balance, which specifies the amount of physical quantities exchanged with the reservoirs during single transitions between configurations. We demonstrate that the topology of the configuration space crucially determines the number of independent thermodynamic affinities (forces) that the reservoirs generate across the system and provides a general algorithm that produces the fundamental affinities and their conjugate currents contributing to the total dissipation, based on the interplay between macroscopic conservations laws for the currents and microscopic symmetries of the affinities.
Disciplines :
Physics
Author, co-author :
Polettini, Matteo ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit
Bulnes Cuetara, Gregory ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit
Esposito, Massimiliano  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Conservation laws and symmetries in stochastic thermodynamics
Publication date :
10 November 2016
Journal title :
Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
ISSN :
1550-2376
Publisher :
American Physical Society, College Park, United States - Maryland
Volume :
94
Issue :
052117
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Focus Area :
Physics and Materials Science
FnR Project :
FNR1165601 - A New Thermodynamic Theory For Small Fluctuating Systems: From Nanodevices To Cellular Biology, 2011 (01/01/2012-30/06/2017) - Massimiliano Esposito
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