Monotonic return to steady nonequilibrium

0361348 - FZÚ 2012 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Maes, C. - Netočný, Karel - Wynants, B.
Monotonic return to steady nonequilibrium.
Physical Review Letters. Roč. 107, č. 1 (2011), "010601-1"-"010601-4". ISSN 0031-9007. E-ISSN 1079-7114
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100520
Keywords : nonequilibrium steady state * Lyapunov function * entropy production
Subject RIV: BE - Theoretical Physics
Impact factor: 7.370, year: 2011
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.010601

We propose a new candidate Lyapunov function for relaxation towards general nonequilibrium steady states which is is obtained from the large-time asymptotics of time-symmetric fluctuations. We show that it significantly improves on the behavior of approximate Lyapunov functions based on the entropy production.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0198679