{
  "id": "cond-mat/0106464",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2001-06-22T13:39:21.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-07-09T13:14:12.000Z",
  "title": "Statistical Mechanics of Entropy Production: Gibbsian hypothesis and local fluctuations",
  "authors": [
    "C. Maes"
  ],
  "comment": "Corrected typos and some minor additional comments",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "nlin.CD"
  ],
  "abstract": "It is argued that a Gibbsian formula for the space-time distribution of microscopic trajectories of a nonequilibrium system provides a unifying framework for recent results on the fluctuations of the entropy production. The variable entropy production is naturally expressed as the time-reversal symmetry breaking part of the space-time action functional. Its mean is always positive. This is both supported by a Boltzmann type analysis by counting the change in phase space extension corresponding to the macrostate as by various examples of nonequilibrium models. As the Gibbsian set-up allows for non-Markovian dynamics, we also get a local fluctuation theorem for the entropy production in globally Markovian models. In order to study the response of the system to perturbations, we can apply the standard Gibbs formalism.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2001-07-09T13:14:12.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "entropy production",
      "gibbsian hypothesis",
      "statistical mechanics",
      "standard gibbs formalism",
      "boltzmann type analysis"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2001cond.mat..6464M"
    }
  }
}