Equilibrium microstates which generate second law violating steady states

Denis J. Evans and Debra J. Searles
Phys. Rev. E 50, 1645 – Published 1 August 1994
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Abstract

For reversible deterministic N-particle thermostatted systems, we examine the question of why it is so difficult to find initial microstates that will, at long times under the influence of an external dissipative field and a thermostat, lead to second law violating nonequilibrium steady states. We prove that the measure of those phases that generate second law violating phase space trajectories vanishes exponentially with time.

  • Received 8 November 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.50.1645

©1994 American Physical Society

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Denis J. Evans and Debra J. Searles

  • Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia

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Vol. 50, Iss. 2 — August 1994

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