Model study on steady heat capacity in driven stochastic systems

Central European Journal of Physics - Tập 10 - Trang 692-701 - 2012
Jiří Pešek1, Eliran Boksenbojm2, Karel Netočný3
1Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, K.U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;
3Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Tóm tắt

We explore two- and three-state Markov models driven out of thermal equilibrium by non-potential forces, to demonstrate basic properties of the steady heat capacity based on the concept of quasistatic excess heat. It is shown that large enough driving forces can make the steady heat capacity negative. For both the low- and high-temperature regimes we propose an approximative thermodynamic scheme in terms of “dynamically renormalized” effective energy levels.

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