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pubmed:issue
2 Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-9-20
pubmed:abstractText
This paper presents an ab initio derivation of the expression given by irreversible thermodynamics for the rate of entropy production for different classes of diffusive processes. The first class is Lorentz gases, where noninteracting particles move on a spatially periodic lattice, and collide elastically with fixed scatterers. The second class is periodic systems, where N particles interact with each other, and one of them is a tracer particle that diffuses among the cells of the lattice. We assume that, in either case, the dynamics of the system are deterministic and hyperbolic, with positive Lyapunov exponents. This work extends methods originally developed for a chaotic two-dimensional model of diffusion, the multi-baker map, to higher-dimensional, continuous-time dynamical systems appropriate for systems with one or more moving particles. Here we express the rate of entropy production in terms of hydrodynamic measures that are determined by the fractal properties of microscopic hydrodynamic modes that describe the slowest decay of the system to an equilibrium state.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1539-3755
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
66
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
026110
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-3
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Entropy production of diffusion in spatially periodic deterministic systems.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. jrd@ipst.umd.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article