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Prog. Theor. Phys. Vol. 103 No. 1 (2000) pp. 1-52

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Invited Papers

Thermodynamic Irreversibility from High-Dimensional Hamiltonian Chaos

Shin-ichi Sasa*) and Teruhisa S. Komatsu**)

Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tokyo
Tokyo 153-8901, Japan

(Received November 9, 1999)

Abstract:

This paper discusses the thermodynamic irreversibility realized in high-dimensional Hamiltonian systems with a time-dependent parameter. A new quantity, the irreversible information loss, is defined from the Lyapunov analysis so as to characterize the thermodynamic irreversibility. It is proved that this new quantity satisfies an inequality associated with the second law of thermodynamics. Based on the assumption that these systems possess the mixing property and certain large deviation properties in the thermodynamic limit, it is argued reasonably that the most probable value of the irreversible information loss is equal to the change of the Boltzmann entropy in statistical mechanics, and that it is always a non-negative value. The consistency of our argument is confirmed by numerical experiments with the aid of the definition of a quantity we refer to as the excess information loss.


URL : http://ptp.ipap.jp/link?PTP/103/1/
DOI : 10.1143/PTP.103.1


*) E-mail: sasa@jiro.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
**)E-mail: komatsu@jiro.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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