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Stochastic thermodynamics of system with continuous space of states (2008.11224v1)

Published 25 Aug 2020 in cond-mat.stat-mech

Abstract: We analyze the stochastic thermodynamics of systems with continuous space of states. The evolution equation, the rate of entropy production, and other results are obtained by a continuous time limit of a discrete time formulation. We point out the role of time reversal and of the dissipation part of the probability current on the production of entropy. We show that the rate of entropy production is a bilinear form in the components of the dissipation probability current with coefficients being the components of the precision matrix related to the Gaussian noise. We have also analyzed a type of noise that makes the energy function to be strictly constant along the stochastic trajectory, being appropriate to describe an isolated system. This type of noise leads to nonzero entropy production and thus to an increase of entropy in the system. This result contrasts with the invariance of the entropy predicted by the Liouville equation, which also describes an isolated system.

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