{ "id": "1103.1954", "version": "v2", "published": "2011-03-10T07:26:29.000Z", "updated": "2011-03-30T03:34:37.000Z", "title": "Irreversibility and Entropy Production in Transport Phenomena I", "authors": [ "Masuo Suzuki" ], "comment": "Physica A (2011) in press", "doi": "10.1016/j.physa.2011.01.008", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech" ], "abstract": "*First-principles derivation of the entropy production in erectric static conduction. *The second-order (symmetric) density matrix contributes to the entropy production. *New schemes of steady states formulated using a relaxation-type von Neumann equation. *Stationary temperature is introduced to characterize steady states. *The mechanism of the entropy production in steady states is also clarified.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2011-03-30T03:34:37.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "entropy production", "transport phenomena", "irreversibility", "relaxation-type von neumann equation", "density matrix contributes" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "journal": "Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications", "year": 2011, "month": "Jun", "volume": 390, "number": 11, "pages": 1904 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011PhyA..390.1904S" } } }