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Derivation of irreversibility of thermodynamic processes from microscopic reversibility

R. L. Stratonovich


Abstract: Under the assumption that the random internal thermodynamic parameters $B_\alpha(t)$ are the components of a reversible Markov process it is shown that the change in the free energy $\Psi(A)$, where $A_\alpha=\langle B_\alpha\rangle$ are nonequilibrium mean values, is irreversible. The methods of Markovian nonlinear nonequilibrium thermodynamics are used.

Received: 25.05.1977

 English version: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 1978, 36:1, 607–616

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