Entropy Production, Fractals, and Relaxation to Equilibrium
Entropy Production, Fractals, and Relaxation to Equilibrium
The theory of entropy production in nonequilibrium, Hamiltonian systems, previously described for steady states using partitions of phase space, is here extended to time dependent systems relaxing to equilibrium. We illustrate the main ideas by using a simple multibaker model, with some nonequilibrium initial state, and we study its progress …