Cubic Relation between Thermodynamic Functions and Natural Variables for Chemical Thermodynamic Systems

Thermodynamic Systems and State Functions

Natural networks as thermodynamic systems

Natural networks are considered as thermodynamic systems that evolve from one state to another by consuming free energy. The least-time consumption of free energy is found to result in ubiquitous scale-free characteristics. The network evolution will yield the scale-independent qualities because the least-time imperative will prefer attachment of nodes that contribute most to the free-energy co...

Axiomatic Relation between Thermodynamic and Information-Theoretic Entropies.

Thermodynamic entropy, as defined by Clausius, characterizes macroscopic observations of a system based on phenomenological quantities such as temperature and heat. In contrast, information-theoretic entropy, introduced by Shannon, is a measure of uncertainty. In this Letter, we connect these two notions of entropy, using an axiomatic framework for thermodynamics [E. H. Lieb and J. Yngvason Pro...

Relation between the psychological and thermodynamic arrows of time.

In this paper we lay out an argument that generically the psychological arrow of time should align with the thermodynamic arrow of time where that arrow is well defined. This argument applies to any physical system that can act as a memory, in the sense of preserving a record of the state of some other system. This result follows from two principles: the robustness of the thermodynamic arrow of...

On the relation between the Langmuir and thermodynamic flux equations

*Correspondence: Signe Kjelstrup, Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, 7941 Trondheim, Norway e-mail: [email protected] Despite its approximative nature, the Langmuir theory has shown to be a very successful approach to describe experimental adsorption isotherms. Langmuir kinetics is based on systems of non-interacting particles that c...