Negative specific heats: where Clausius and Boltzmann entropies separate
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| author | Bogers, Lander Khodabandehlou, Faezeh Maes, Christian |
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| contents | Steady nonequilibria dissipate energy and, when changing external parameters, an extra or excess heat accompanies the relaxation to the new nonequilibrium condition. For nonequilibrium systems in contact with a thermal bath, the heat capacity is defined as that excess heat per degree temperature for a quasistatic change of the bath temperature. It is fairly common to find negative heat capacities for steady nonequilibrium systems, in contrast with the situation for systems in thermal equilibrium. We discuss and illustrate the origin of that negative thermal response using Markov models. We find that the negativity results from an anticorrelation between quasipotential and (a change in) pseudopotential, the first measuring (excess) heat (and Clausius entropy), and the latter being related to the Boltzmann entropy. It can be quantified via an appropriate choice of effective temperatures. |
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| spellingShingle | Negative specific heats: where Clausius and Boltzmann entropies separate Bogers, Lander Khodabandehlou, Faezeh Maes, Christian Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter Steady nonequilibria dissipate energy and, when changing external parameters, an extra or excess heat accompanies the relaxation to the new nonequilibrium condition. For nonequilibrium systems in contact with a thermal bath, the heat capacity is defined as that excess heat per degree temperature for a quasistatic change of the bath temperature. It is fairly common to find negative heat capacities for steady nonequilibrium systems, in contrast with the situation for systems in thermal equilibrium. We discuss and illustrate the origin of that negative thermal response using Markov models. We find that the negativity results from an anticorrelation between quasipotential and (a change in) pseudopotential, the first measuring (excess) heat (and Clausius entropy), and the latter being related to the Boltzmann entropy. It can be quantified via an appropriate choice of effective temperatures. |
| title | Negative specific heats: where Clausius and Boltzmann entropies separate |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15999 |