Relative Entropy, Interaction Energy and the Nature of Dissipation

Relative Entropy, Interaction Energy and the Nature of Dissipation

Many thermodynamic relations involve inequalities, with equality if a process does not involve dissipation. In this article we provide equalities in which the dissipative contribution is shown to involve the relative entropy (a.k.a. Kullback-Leibler divergence). The processes considered are general...

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Main Authors: Bernard Gaveau, Léo Granger, Michel Moreau, Lawrence S. Schulman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-06-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
relative entropy
dissipation
thermodynamic inequalities
interaction energy
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/6/3173

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