Abstract
Entropy increase is fundamentally related to the breaking of time-reversal symmetry. By adding the ‘extra dimension’ associated with thermodynamic forces, we extend that discrete symmetry to a continuous symmetry for the dynamical fluctuations around (nonlinear) gradient flow. The latter connects macroscopic equilibrium conditions upon introducing a quasistatic protocol of control parameters. The entropy state function becomes the Noether charge. As a result, and following ideas expressed by Shin-ichi Sasa and co-workers, the adiabatic invariance of the entropy, part of the Clausius heat theorem, gets connected with the Noether theorem.
Funding source: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Award Identifier / Grant number: 152725N
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Shin-ichi Sasa for private correspondence.
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Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Use of Large Language Models, AI and Machine Learning Tools: None declared.
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Conflict of interest: The authors state no conflict of interest.
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Research funding: Aaron Beyen is supported by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) doctoral fellowship 1152725N.
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Appendix
A. Curie-Weiss dynamics II
As a final illustration, we continue with the kinetic Ising model on the complete graph, [54], [55], with energy function
only depending on the magnetization (function),
where β represents the inverse temperature of the thermal bath,[5] and ν = ν(β) is a characteristic flip frequency possibly depending on β. These spin-flip rates satisfy detailed balance with respect to the potential (A1).
The backward generator
To simplify the algebra, we use the (a λ , b λ ) parameterization as long as possible, but we remain in the Curie-Weiss model at all times. Note in particular that a λ (m) > b λ (m) for all m.
The Hamiltonian equals
See e.g., p109 in [50]. For the Lagrangian
where we need the + sign to get a maximum since then
We have used that −1 ≤ m ≤ 1 and a
λ
(m) > b
λ
(m); in fact
Moreover, one readily checks that the functions
The macroscopic equation of motion is obtained from
which agrees with [56], [57]. The equilibrium solutions follow from
As in (40), for the free energy in (6), we have detailed balance
and
As in Section 5, we introduce a protocol λ → λ(ɛt) for
with Hamilton equations of motion
We denote the solutions to these equations as
Here, the leading order term O (ɛ
0) corresponds to the equilibrium state
with G
λ
from (A6) and we have used that
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- Frontmatter
- Original Research Articles
- Modeling high-pressure viscosities of fatty acid esters and biodiesel fuels based on modified rough hard-sphere-chain model and deep learning method
- Study on heat and mass transfer mechanism of unsaturated porous media under CW laser irradiation: with and without carrier gas
- Efficient ecological function optimization for endoreversible Carnot heat pumps
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- Numerical simulation of binary convection within the Soret regime in a tilted cylinder
- Is there a need for an extended phase definition for systems far from equilibrium?
- Existence of the Chapman–Enskog solution and its relation with first-order dissipative fluid theories
- Performance comparison of water towers and combined pumped hydro and compressed gas system and proposing a novel hybrid system to energy storage with a case study of a 50 MW wind farm
- Thermodynamic characterization of transient valve temperatures in diesel engines using probabilistic methods
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