scholarly journals On the fundamental equation of nonequilibrium statistical physics—Nonequilibrium entropy evolution equation and the formula for entropy production rate

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (12) ◽  
pp. 2194-2215 ◽  
Author(s):  
XiuSan Xing
1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 2005-2029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiu-San Xing

In this paper we proposed a new fundamental equation of statistical physics in place of the Liouville equation. That is the anomalous Langevin equation in Γ space or its equivalent Liouville diffusion equation of time-reversal asymmetry. This equation reflects that the form of motion of particles in statistical thermodynamic systems has the drift-diffusion duality and the law of motion of statistical thermodynamics is stochastic in essence, but not completely deterministic. Starting from this equation the BBGKY diffusion equation hierarchy, the law of entropy increase, the theorem of minimum entropy production, the balance equations of Gibbs and Boltzmann nonequilibrium entropy are derived and presented here. Furthermore we have derived a nonlinear evolution equation of Gibbs and Boltzmann nonequilibrium entropy density. To our knowledge, this is the first treatise on them. The evolution equation shows that the change of nonequilibrium entropy density originates together from drift, typical diffusion and complicated inherent source production. Contrary to conventional viewpoint, the entropy production density σ≥0 everywhere for any systems cannot be proved universally. Conversely, σ may be negative in some local space of some inhomogeneous systems far from equilibrium. The hydrodynamic equations, such as the generalized Navier–Stokes equation, the mass drift-diffusion equation and the thermal conductivity equation have been derived succinctly from the BBGKY diffusion equation hierarchy. The Liouville diffusion equation has the same equilibrium solution as that of the Liouville equation. All these derivations and results are unified and rigorous from the new fundamental equation without adding any extra assumption.


2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (17n19) ◽  
pp. 2432-2440 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIU-SAN XING

Why the classical mechanics and quantum mechanics are reversible while the macroscopic thermodynamic processes are irreversible? Is it because both of the two are different fundamental laws? If yes, what is the difference between them? What is the fundamental equation of nonequilibrium statistical physics? Can it provide a unified framework of statistical physics including nonequilibrium states and equilibrium states? How can we derive rigorously the hydrodynamic equations from microscopic kinetics? Does nonequilibrium entropy obey any evolution equation? What is the form of this equation if it exist? What is the microscopic physical basis of entropy production rate namely the law of entropy increase? Can it be described by a quantitative concise formula? What mechanism is responsible for the processes of approach to equlibrium? How to quantitatively describe it? In this paper we try to solve all these problems from a new fundamental equation of statistical physics in a unified fasion.


2011 ◽  
Vol 02 (06) ◽  
pp. 615-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Izquierdo-Kulich ◽  
Esther Alonso-Becerra ◽  
José M Nieto-Villar

2006 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M Bandi ◽  
W. I Goldburg ◽  
J. R Cressman

Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Hoffmann ◽  
Kathrin Kulmus ◽  
Christopher Essex ◽  
Janett Prehl

The entropy production rate is a well established measure for the extent of irreversibility in a process. For irreversible processes, one thus usually expects that the entropy production rate approaches zero in the reversible limit. Fractional diffusion equations provide a fascinating testbed for that intuition in that they build a bridge connecting the fully irreversible diffusion equation with the fully reversible wave equation by a one-parameter family of processes. The entropy production paradox describes the very non-intuitive increase of the entropy production rate as that bridge is passed from irreversible diffusion to reversible waves. This paradox has been established for time- and space-fractional diffusion equations on one-dimensional continuous space and for the Shannon, Tsallis and Renyi entropies. After a brief review of the known results, we generalize it to time-fractional diffusion on a finite chain of points described by a fractional master equation.


Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 716
Author(s):  
Giorgio Viavattene ◽  
Giuseppe Consolini ◽  
Luca Giovannelli ◽  
Francesco Berrilli ◽  
Dario Del Moro ◽  
...  

The turbulent thermal convection on the Sun is an example of an irreversible non-equilibrium phenomenon in a quasi-steady state characterized by a continuous entropy production rate. Here, the statistical features of a proxy of the local entropy production rate, in solar quiet regions at different timescales, are investigated and compared with the symmetry conjecture of the steady-state fluctuation theorem by Gallavotti and Cohen. Our results show that solar turbulent convection satisfies the symmetries predicted by the fluctuation relation of the Gallavotti and Cohen theorem at a local level.


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