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Entropy production in irreversible systems described by a Fokker-Planck equation

2010; American Physical Society; Volume: 82; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreve.82.021120

1550-2376

Tânia Tomé, Mário J. de Oliveira,

thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses

We analyze the irreversibility and the entropy production in nonequilibrium interacting particle systems described by a Fokker-Planck equation by the use of a suitable master equation representation. The irreversible character is provided either by nonconservative forces or by the contact with heat baths at distinct temperatures. The expression for the entropy production is deduced from a general definition, which is related to the probability of a trajectory in phase space and its time reversal, that makes no reference a priori to the dissipated power. Our formalism is applied to calculate the heat conductance in a simple system consisting of two Brownian particles each one in contact to a heat reservoir. We show also the connection between the definition of entropy production rate and the Jarzynski equality.