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Title: The vanishing of excess heat for nonequilibrium processes reaching zero ambient temperature
(Submitted on 18 Oct 2022 (v1), last revised 13 Apr 2023 (this version, v2))
Abstract: We present the mathematical ingredients for an extension of the Third Law of Thermodynamics (Nernst heat postulate) to nonequilibrium processes. The central quantity is the excess heat which measures the quasistatic addition to the steady dissipative power when a parameter in the dynamics is changed slowly. We prove for a class of driven Markov jump processes that it vanishes at zero environment temperature. Furthermore, the nonequilibrium heat capacity goes to zero with temperature as well. Main ingredients in the proof are the matrix-forest theorem for the relaxation behavior of the heat flux, and the matrix-tree theorem giving the low-temperature asymptotics of the stationary probability. The main new condition for the extended Third Law requires the absence of major (low-temperature induced) delays in the relaxation to the steady dissipative structure.
Submission history
From: Faezeh Khodabandehlou [view email][v1] Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:41:36 GMT (373kb,D)
[v2] Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:36:46 GMT (412kb,D)
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