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Information theory explanation of the fluctuation theorem, maximum entropy production and self-organized criticality in non-equilibrium stationary states

Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General · 2003 · Vol. 36(3) · pp. 631–641

Roderick C. Dewar✉(Biologie du Fruit et Pathologie)

Abstract

Jaynes' information theory formalism of statistical mechanics is applied to the stationary states of open, non-equilibrium systems. First, it is shown that the probability distribution pΓ of the underlying microscopic phase space trajectories Γ over a t

Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Statistical Mechanics and Entropy Phase Equilibria and ThermodynamicsEntropy productionStatistical physicsStatistical mechanicsFluctuation theoremCriticalityNon-equilibrium thermodynamicsMaximum entropy thermodynamicsEntropy (arrow of time)H-theoremPhase space

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