In nonequilibrium statistical physics, the entropy production and the irreversibility (nondetailed balance) play very important roles. For the simple case of the Markov chains, it is shown that a stationary Markov cha...In nonequilibrium statistical physics, the entropy production and the irreversibility (nondetailed balance) play very important roles. For the simple case of the Markov chains, it is shown that a stationary Markov chain is reversible iff its entropy production vanishes, and entropy production characterizes how far from reversibility展开更多
文摘In nonequilibrium statistical physics, the entropy production and the irreversibility (nondetailed balance) play very important roles. For the simple case of the Markov chains, it is shown that a stationary Markov chain is reversible iff its entropy production vanishes, and entropy production characterizes how far from reversibility