Work producing reservoirs: Stochastic thermodynamics with generalized Gibbs ensembles

We develop a consistent stochastic thermodynamics for environments composed of thermodynamic reservoirs in an external conservative force field, that is, environments described by the generalized or Gibbs canonical ensemble. We demonstrate that small systems weakly coupled to such reservoirs exchang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Horowitz, Jordan M., Esposito, Massimiliano
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110395
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9139-0811