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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL
卷 36, 期 3, 页码 631-641出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/36/3/303
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Jaynes' information theory formalism of statistical mechanics is applied to the stationary states of open, non-equilibrium systems. First, it is shown that the probability distribution p(Gamma) of the underlying microscopic phase space trajectories Gamma over a time interval of length tau satisfies p(Gamma) alpha exp(tausigma(Gamma)/2kB) where sigma(Gamma), is the time-averaged rate of entropy production of Gamma. Three consequences of this result are then derived: (1) the fluctuation theorem, which describes the exponentially declining probability of deviations from the second law of thermodynamics as tau-->infinity; (2) the selection principle of maximum entropy production for non-equilibrium stationary states, empirical support for which has been found in studies of phenomena as diverse as the Earth's climate and crystal growth morphology; and (3) the emergence of self-organized criticality for flux-driven systems in the slowly-driven limit. The explanation of these results on general information theoretic grounds underlines their relevance to a broad class of stationary, non-equilibrium systems. In turn, the accumulating empirical evidence for these results lends support to Jaynes' formalism as a common predictive framework for equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
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