Abstract
A thermodynamiclike formalism is developed for superstatistical systems based on conditional entropies. This theory takes into account large-scale variations of intensive variables of systems in nonequilibrium stationary states. Ordinary thermodynamics is recovered as a special case of the present theory, and corrections to it can systematically be evaluated. A generalization of Einstein’s relation for fluctuations is presented using a maximum entropy condition.
- Received 1 May 2007
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.76.031102
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